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| (...) Can you point out some statistics that support this - I know that the British hold this view, but I wonder about Canadians, Aussies, Indians, etc. (...) Hey, it's our shuttle. and, BTW, 'Ugly American' syndrome is much more than simple word (...) (26 years ago, 15-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) A shining example of this is the market capitalization value for a company traded on the NYSE. If you look this up (online, newspaper, etc), you will find it is expressed in millions. AOL, for example, has a market cap. of $42,149.43 (mil) . - (...) (26 years ago, 15-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Actually, although the British hold this view, Her Majesty's Government sold out and declared a billion to be a thousand million. As a result, I've boycotted the term :-) A trillion was even more radically devalued. Oh, and for the person who (...) (26 years ago, 15-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) All this proves is that the NYSE recognizes that there are some poor, misguided people buying stocks in America. :-> (26 years ago, 15-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| To be honest I still have no idea what anyone is talking about, but: If English is the unofficial language of the Internet, then perhaps the unofficial flavor of English should be American. After all, they invented the Internet. --Denz (a Saudi) (...) (26 years ago, 15-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Why isn't a trillion a million million? :) Tim ObLego: um... (26 years ago, 15-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| In article <F40zJI.Gqr@lugnet.com>, Denzel Beachnut <lugnet.robotics@lugnet.com> writes (...) Therefore as Tim Berners-Lee invented the world wide web, web pages should use British English. (26 years ago, 16-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Well, at least the Americans are moving towards the metric system now. Inch by inch... :) //Harri Manni - 070-5850517 -o) -"Do not take life too seriously.You will never get out alive." /\\ 11.00100100001111110...0011010011 _\_V (26 years ago, 16-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Won't help....I'm certain that LEGO bricks are not convenient multiples of metric units.... (26 years ago, 16-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) That makes no sense--a trillion should be a billion billion. This is the what happens when you don't let the US take care of things. Steve (26 years ago, 16-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) I guess it depends on how you define "convenient" :-). LEGO was, after all, founded in Denmark and they use the metric system there afaik. From (URL) : 4.9152 cm3 is the volume of an 8-stud LEGO brick. It measures 9.6 x 32 x 16 mm. /Christer (26 years ago, 16-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Actually No! * The Packet Switching technology that underlies the Internet was developed at the National Physics Laboratory in England. * The HyperText Transfer Protocol that underlies the World Wide Web was invented by an Englishman at CERN (...) (26 years ago, 16-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Fred Read writes: > 'Nuff Said? Yes. Please stop posting on this off-topic topic, otherwise I will be forced to moderate the mailing list. (26 years ago, 16-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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