This may have been the wrong subject to enforce your NO EARLY RETURN clause on.
…and respond on I will!
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...Canada is metric maybe they are not as backward as the country south of them reckons...The engine manual was a pretty funny book as it was translated from english to Italian and then back to English.
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I can paddle a canoe (or could 20 years ago) to the borders, but can truthfully say that the feelings of all the Americans I have ever known is one of honest fondness and respect for our Canadian brothers (and especially the sisters
). The only backward consideration for a Canadian I have is while looking up the skirt of the pontificator on my soapbox. Our SugerFreeCandy makes it sound as though they are having a time of kicking the crap off their boots as well. But they are at least trying! [piss me off No.1, -10 points] WE’RE NOT!
Your engine manual must have been like reading the Rosetta Stone or playing the old Telegraph game where each person repeats a sentence down the line until it has no resemblance to the original.
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A least your Redneck/English dialect is your own evolved folly. [PMO No.2, -10 points] WE ADOPTED THIS STUPID SYSTEM FROM SOMEBODY ELSE IN AN OFFICIAL ACT OF THE US CONGRESS, even after we knew of the far better system.
And so you all know that I am using OldFarts SOAPBOX and not a LEMMON CRATE…..
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...observing Americans sounding off about their own...
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All the silky wet spots have a sweet taste to me. After I peek up all the skirts here at Pixies, I peek in a book or two and have found it a mistake to stamp the people with the same mark as their governments and the powers they live under. Seems to be the case all threw out history, from the Incas and Egyptians to the German history books. NOBODY, ANYWHERE, has the monopoly on a government full of corruption, abuse and ignorance. My thing is, as an American, I can do something about it, without fear, if only to start by hollering and pointing. Even if it’s something I contributed to. First one American points, and another looks, then another, and another…….. We Found slavery, the Teapot Dome, McCarthy, Watergate and many more including Vietnam this way. Sometimes rocking the canoe is not all bad and I can do it. Only really bad thing about the world is it’s full of people, and I’m one of them. Just working with that the best way I can and where I have the best chance to do something regardless of how small it is. [BEING AN AMERICAN, +100 pts]
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no serious problems with US feet and inches
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!WRONG! Add up 2 miles, 3 chains, 4 yards, 2 feet and 7-1/2 inches without a calculator that has algebraic functions, if you have the time to spare. Then ask a 3rd grader to add 2 kilometers, 3 meters, 4 centimeters, and 5 millimeters. SEE HOW LONG IT TAKES. [PMO No.3, –10 pts.]
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Why the heck did they let vinyl records start from the outer groove
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Just my thoughts- It was a carryover from the first phonograph media that was a cylinder and of course started from the outside edge. JUST STUPID MIND SET. [PMO No.4, -3 pts.]
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...Gear pitch is count of teeth per inch, about same is tap pitch...
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!RIGHT! We have to make template type gages or count by hand or with a scriber point within a known distance. VERY AWKARD AND SUBJECT TO ERROR [PMO No.5, -5pts]
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measure wire thickness by the weight
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!RIGHT! And don’t forget sheet metal gages, related to nothing else size wise. Supposedly based on the yield of the product based on a know quantity of raw material. Different material specific gravity create different gage systems for the same type products. BACK ASSWARD APPROCH AND THINKING. [PMO No.6, -10 pts]
*Interesting notes*
Shotgun Bore Gages- An equal portion, of a pound of lead, formed into a sphere, determines the diameter of the bore and the portion number is the gage size. So a 12 gage shotgun bore has no reference to the size of the bore what so ever, but totally to the size of the lead ball made from 1/12 of pound of lead.
Pipe Sizes- Pipe is concerned with the volume of matter it is capable of containing. The I.D. is the functional size of a pipe but in order to make fittings it was necessary to standardize the O.D.. After this was done, different wall thickness was required for different applications, particularly when steam was the primary source of power which happened to be at the same point in the industrial revolution that standards were trying to be developed. So they changed the wall to meet the increasing pressure demands. This changes the I.D. which is the reference size of the product, so you have pipe sizes that have no relationship to the size designation.
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What amazes me are those folks drawing electronic circuits using ASCII characters
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Still undergoing development and modification. And it’s happening. [PMO No.7, -1 pt]
My whole point here is not just to grumble about any method or system, but to change it when it has proven to be no longer functional. I am VERY cautious about revolution but very supportive of evolution. Sometimes evolution moves forward with a jerking lung and then stabilizes for a period of time. When you do not move with it you become extinct.
Now let me get back under this soapbox and look up at the rewards of this life struggle. Get back up here SugarFreeCandy