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Invisible wrote:
> But then, where I work, you're not allowed to write "03/05/08". (Or even
> "03/05/2008".) There's no way of knowing which date that actually means...
That's why the invasion of Normandy was scheduled for November 11.
> One more thing to thank America for.
Cause date processing wasn't confusing enough already. ;-)
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Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
"That's pretty. Where's that?"
"It's the Age of Channelwood."
"We should go there on vacation some time."
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scott wrote:
> Sorry, I don't accept complaints about gas prices from people living in
> the US :-) Your prices are ridiculously low no matter how expensive you
> say they are.
In truth, the gas prices are comparable. It's the tax on the gas that's
wildly different. We generally have <$0.50 tax on a gallon of gas.
Of course, if more US cities had public transit comparable to what I've
seen in European cities, I'd be happy to fund that with higher taxes. :-)
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Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
"That's pretty. Where's that?"
"It's the Age of Channelwood."
"We should go there on vacation some time."
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scott wrote:
>
> Yeh I was thinking of just on the multi-lane-per-direction roads, as
> they are the ones mostly used for long distances where a higher speed
> limit might be an incentive for people to buy greener cars.
>
Well yes, in some countries. Germany's highways are pretty great
infrastructure, for example, but ie. in Finland there's rarely over
200km of highway/multi-lane on 500km trip.
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>> One more thing to thank America for.
>
> Cause date processing wasn't confusing enough already. ;-)
I say there, is 2000 a leap year?
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Darren New wrote:
> Of course, if more US cities had public transit comparable to what I've
> seen in European cities, I'd be happy to fund that with higher taxes. :-)
Now that would depend on *which* cities.
In Manchester, I was amazed to discover that if you just *stand* by a
random bus stop, it is _virtually guaranteed_ that an actual bus will
appear in LESS THAN TEN MINUTES. (!!)
In Milton Keynes, you might stand by a particular bus stop for a few
days before you see a bus. It depends on which bus stop, what day of the
week it is, when the last bank holiday was, etc.
In summary: In Manchester, you can actually *use* busses to go to
places. In Milton Keynes, while theoretically you can do the same
thing... no, seriously, you can't. Not IRL. It just doesn't work.
It also depends on which country. In the UK, it's rare for trains to be
on time, and they're 1 or maybe 2 per hour. In Switzerland, they're both
much more frequent, and [as far as I can tell] dramatically more
reliable. They also don't smell of old people inside...
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>> One more thing to thank America for.
>>
>> Cause date processing wasn't confusing enough already. ;-)
>
> I say there, is 2000 a leap year?
Depends if it's daylight savings time.
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Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
"That's pretty. Where's that?"
"It's the Age of Channelwood."
"We should go there on vacation some time."
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On Wed, 21 May 2008 19:41:44 +0100, Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull>
wrote:
>>> One more thing to thank America for.
>>
>> Cause date processing wasn't confusing enough already. ;-)
>
>I say there, is 2000 a leap year?
No and its was
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Stephen
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On Wed, 21 May 2008 11:01:29 -0700, Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom>
wrote:
> Listing all these things and
>saying imperial measurement is thus confusing is like complaining there
>are fortnights *and* weeks.
You probably know that fortnight is a contraction of fourteen night,
and you can still find "fourteen night" in 19th cent literature. Seven
days/nights was originally a "sennight or sevennight" and a week is a
unit of time longer than a day and shorter than a month.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Week
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Stephen
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On Wed, 21 May 2008 11:07:22 -0700, Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom>
wrote:
>Invisible wrote:
>> You mean "because America says so"? [Why don't *they* just change to the
>> correct way?]
>
>So what would a trillion be?
>
>In the US, every third power of 10 has its own word. Makes sense to me.
A hundred is ten times ten.
A thousand is a hundred times ten.
A million is a thousand times a thousand.
A billion is a million times a million.
Makes sense to me :)
BTW a myriad is ten thousand .
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Stephen
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Stephen wrote:
> A million is a thousand times a thousand.
> A billion is a million times a million.
You still stopped before "trillion". What's a trillion in the UK, then?
> BTW a myriad is ten thousand .
It's sometimes funny here. In chinese, there are distinct words (like
myriad or milliard) for other powers of 10 also, so she often has to
stop and think for some time to figure out what something like "a
hundred and six thousand" is in digits.
I was talking more
one, thousand, million, billion, trillion, quadrillion, ....
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Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
"That's pretty. Where's that?"
"It's the Age of Channelwood."
"We should go there on vacation some time."
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