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ringo Member (Idle past 411 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: |
Cat Sci writes:
It told you there's a problem.
If I flip a light switch and nothing happens, did the switch really do anything?
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ringo Member (Idle past 411 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined:
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Cat Sci writes:
But if there's no feedback, you don't know what, if anything, it's doing. It could be uploading your personal information to me.
It's really more of a Do Nothing Box, since it's not really an actual button that I can press.
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ringo Member (Idle past 411 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: |
Lammy writes:
There's also the converse: We did X and Y didn't happen, so it's a good thing we did X. A classic example is, "We prayed for rain and it rained, so prayer works." Are you guys really serious that there isn't a name for this fallacy yet? Like strawman and such? I see people inadvertently use this fallacy all the time.And our geese will blot out the sun.
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ringo Member (Idle past 411 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: |
When in doubt, Shakespeare wrote it down first - and he probably heard it in the streets.
All that are in Hell, choose it. -- CS Lewis That's just egregiously stupid. -- ringo
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ringo Member (Idle past 411 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: |
In Canada we use kilometers for highways and liters for gasoline and milk. Coffee is sold in 907 gram cans and butter is sold in 454 gram packages. I've never met anybody who knew how tall they were in metric.
Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing. -- Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves
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ringo Member (Idle past 411 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined:
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dwise1 writes:
In Canada we have been "converting to metric" for more than forty years and, generally, nobody uses it. Recently, in a discussion about the metric system, I asked a 22-year-old how tall he was. He answered, "Six feet." But whenever I see a cursive capital "L", am I supposed to always interpret that as centiliters? And in which countries would that apply and not apply? We buy gasoline by the liter because that's how it's taxed. We buy milk by the liter because it's supply-managed (remember NAFTA?) But we by liquor in 26-ounce and 40-ounce bottles (even if the metric equivalent is also marked on them). We buy meat and butter by the pound. We buy coffee by the 2-pound can. We weigh ourselves in pounds and measure ourselves in feet and inches. The first time I ever heard the term "centiliters" was in your post. (I have heard that beer is sold wholesale by the hectoliter, which is about a keg.) Our beer bottles are labelled in ounces and milliliters. I doubt if you could find one Canadian in a thousand who could tell you the metric size of a shot glass."If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you...." -- Rudyard Kipling
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ringo Member (Idle past 411 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: |
dwise1 writes:
In Canada, we "switched to metric" in the 1970s and we still don't use it. Ask a 20-year-old how tall he is and he'll tell you in feet and inches. Wouldn't everything just be so much better if everybody just switched to metric?"I've been to Moose Jaw, now I can die." -- John Wing
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ringo Member (Idle past 411 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: |
dwise1 writes:
I don't use recipes so I can't say for sure. But I don't know anybody who has a kitchen scale. Everybody has cups. What is the recipe convention in Canada?"I've been to Moose Jaw, now I can die." -- John Wing
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ringo Member (Idle past 411 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: |
A funny story from the late 1970's. During that time, the rising cost of oil was causing the price of gasoline to increase, rapidly approaching a dollar a gallon. The reason why this was such a big problem was because most gas stations still used mechanical pumps in which you could change the price per gallon but the upper limit was 99.99 cents. When they were designed, the possibility of gas costing a dollar or more per gallon was inconceivable.
Been there, done that. 1977. Boston Bar, British Columbia, in the Fraser Canyon. They were selling gas by the half-gallon, for 50.9 cents. In Canada, we solved the problem by switching to liters. Today the price is just over a dollar per liter, so the electronic pumps were a good idea too."I've been to Moose Jaw, now I can die." -- John Wing
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ringo Member (Idle past 411 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: |
dwise1 writes:
I never saw it anywhere else before or since. I was used to the Saskatchewan prices, Alberta's were a little bit lower than ours and BC's were a little bit higher than ours. Was selling it by the half-gallon the standard convention in Canada established decades before?"I've been to Moose Jaw, now I can die." -- John Wing
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