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Feb 18th, 2002, 12:24 PM
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PowerPoster
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Feb 18th, 2002, 12:26 PM
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Feb 18th, 2002, 12:27 PM
#3
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PowerPoster
Right, every american remember this from now on
14 lbs = 1 stone
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Feb 18th, 2002, 12:31 PM
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Metric system = teh r0xors 
Oh wait, Pix will find me...um...the Metric system rocks
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Feb 18th, 2002, 12:31 PM
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Monday Morning Lunatic
For comparison, I'm 12 stone and I'm fairly average for my height (5 foot 11.5 )
I refuse to tie my hands behind my back and hear somebody say "Bend Over, Boy, Because You Have It Coming To You".
-- Linus Torvalds
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Feb 18th, 2002, 12:34 PM
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PowerPoster
stone is not metric 
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Feb 18th, 2002, 12:37 PM
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transcendental analytic
metric is the standard SI unit
Use  
writing software in C++ is like driving rivets into steel beam with a toothpick.
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Feb 18th, 2002, 12:39 PM
#8
Monday Morning Lunatic
Metric is a class, not a unit 
I refuse to tie my hands behind my back and hear somebody say "Bend Over, Boy, Because You Have It Coming To You".
-- Linus Torvalds
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Feb 18th, 2002, 12:41 PM
#9
transcendental analytic
Originally posted by parksie
Metric is a class, not a unit
eh 
Use
writing software in C++ is like driving rivets into steel beam with a toothpick.
writing haskell makes your life easier:
reverse (p (6*9)) where p x|x==0=""|True=chr (48+z): p y where (y,z)=divMod x 13
To throw away OOP for low level languages is myopia, to keep OOP is hyperopia. To throw away OOP for a high level language is insight.
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Feb 18th, 2002, 12:42 PM
#10
transcendental analytic
ah, meter is the unit, metric is length measurement btw it's called dimension, not class
Use
writing software in C++ is like driving rivets into steel beam with a toothpick.
writing haskell makes your life easier:
reverse (p (6*9)) where p x|x==0=""|True=chr (48+z): p y where (y,z)=divMod x 13
To throw away OOP for low level languages is myopia, to keep OOP is hyperopia. To throw away OOP for a high level language is insight.
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Feb 18th, 2002, 12:43 PM
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Frenzied Member
Originally posted by kedaman
metric is the standard SI unit
i always thought SI was an abbreviation for metric...
Government is another way to say better…than…you.
It’s like ice but no pick, a murder charge that won’t stick,
it’s like a whole other world where you can smell the food,
but you can’t touch the silverware.
Huh, what luck. Fascism you can vote for.
Humph, isn’t that sweet?
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Feb 18th, 2002, 12:44 PM
#12
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Originally posted by kedaman
meter
bad boy, now spell it properly
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Feb 18th, 2002, 12:44 PM
#13
I always thought it was an abbreviation for Sports Illustrated.
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Feb 18th, 2002, 12:45 PM
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Originally posted by Skitchen8
i always thought SI was an abbreviation for metric...
it is i think, stands for Système International
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Feb 18th, 2002, 12:45 PM
#15
transcendental analytic
it's Systeme International
Use
writing software in C++ is like driving rivets into steel beam with a toothpick.
writing haskell makes your life easier:
reverse (p (6*9)) where p x|x==0=""|True=chr (48+z): p y where (y,z)=divMod x 13
To throw away OOP for low level languages is myopia, to keep OOP is hyperopia. To throw away OOP for a high level language is insight.
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Feb 18th, 2002, 12:46 PM
#16
Fanatic Member
Mr Bisad has avoided using the Underground
No, really?
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Feb 18th, 2002, 12:46 PM
#17
transcendental analytic
Use
writing software in C++ is like driving rivets into steel beam with a toothpick.
writing haskell makes your life easier:
reverse (p (6*9)) where p x|x==0=""|True=chr (48+z): p y where (y,z)=divMod x 13
To throw away OOP for low level languages is myopia, to keep OOP is hyperopia. To throw away OOP for a high level language is insight.
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Feb 18th, 2002, 12:47 PM
#18
Frenzied Member
don't argue about the accent mark children
Government is another way to say better…than…you.
It’s like ice but no pick, a murder charge that won’t stick,
it’s like a whole other world where you can smell the food,
but you can’t touch the silverware.
Huh, what luck. Fascism you can vote for.
Humph, isn’t that sweet?
And we’re all gonna die some day, because that’s the American way
-Stone Sour
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Feb 18th, 2002, 12:47 PM
#19
Fanatic Member
Originally posted by chrisjk
stone is not metric
You tell 'em, Chris. 'Tis Imperial.
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Feb 18th, 2002, 02:36 PM
#20
Hyperactive Member
Originally posted by filburt1
Metric system = teh r0xors
Oh wait, Pix will find me...um...the Metric system rocks
thought I wouldn't notice?
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Feb 18th, 2002, 02:46 PM
#21
Frenzied Member
All this talk about the metric system, and no one has actually done the conversion.
33 Stones = 462 Pounds (lbs) = 209.560 Kilograms (kgs)
Travis, Kung Foo Journeyman
As always, RTFM.
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Feb 18th, 2002, 04:11 PM
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Frenzied Member
Hmmmm.......the chap looks very tall. Yet the focus is seems to be on his weight? Since I didn't read the article.........how many stones tall is he?
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Feb 18th, 2002, 04:46 PM
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Originally posted by Bloodeye
Hmmmm.......the chap looks very tall. Yet the focus is seems to be on his weight? Since I didn't read the article.........how many stones tall is he?
stones is a measurement of weight, fool!
He's 7 foot 9, which was indeed the onus of this thread.
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Feb 18th, 2002, 05:07 PM
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Frenzied Member
Again...
7'9" = 236cm = and just over 23 Hand (if I remember that correctly)
Travis, Kung Foo Journeyman
As always, RTFM.
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YBMS, but Mozilla doesn't.
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Feb 18th, 2002, 05:25 PM
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Good Ol' Platypus
People that tall always die young (think of the world's tallest man & woman, Waldow and someone else, I can't remember, they died 23 & 18). That's because of the tumour mentioned in that article.
All contents of the above post that aren't somebody elses are mine, not the property of some media corporation. 
(Just a heads-up)
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Feb 18th, 2002, 05:41 PM
#26
Frenzied Member
Originally posted by CiberTHuG
Again...
7'9" = 236cm = and just over 23 Hand (if I remember that correctly)
23Hands.....that doesn't sound like it's enough. Now before I stick my foot in my mouth, how many hands are in a foot?
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Feb 18th, 2002, 06:14 PM
#27
Frenzied Member
As far as I know, a hand is four inches, so there are three hands in a foot.
1 foot = 3 hands = 12 inches
You could also say he is about two and a half yards tall, or nearly half a rod, but yards and rods are usually used for distance, not height.
3 foot = 1 yard
16 foot = 1 rod
(40 rod is a furlong, and I think 40 rod by 4 rod is an acre)
Travis, Kung Foo Journeyman
As always, RTFM.
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YBMS, but Mozilla doesn't.
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Feb 18th, 2002, 06:15 PM
#28
As long as we're on the subject of measurement units, when military guys say 'half a click', how far is that?
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Feb 18th, 2002, 06:23 PM
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Originally posted by crptcblade
As long as we're on the subject of measurement units, when military guys say 'half a click', how far is that?
Right between 0 and 1 click.
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Feb 18th, 2002, 06:23 PM
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A click is a kilometre, I think.
Harry.
"From one thing, know ten thousand things."
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Feb 18th, 2002, 06:24 PM
#31
Originally posted by sail3005
Right between 0 and 1 click.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...oh, my side hurts...
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Feb 18th, 2002, 08:59 PM
#32
Frenzied Member
I'm not sure if the US military ever made the conversion to the metric system. I think a click simply is a mile (or nautical mile, depending on the setting).
I don't remember how a mile is derived, but I just found this site:
http://www.convert-me.com/en/convert/length
1 mi. = 8 furlong = 80 chains (new to me) = 320 rod = 1760 yards = 5280 feet = 15840 hands = 63360 inches
Travis, Kung Foo Journeyman
As always, RTFM.
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Feb 18th, 2002, 09:04 PM
#33
Thread Starter
PowerPoster
mile is named after the latin(?) for a thousand (one thousand foot steps)
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Feb 18th, 2002, 09:09 PM
#34
Wasn't it French a minute ago?
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Feb 18th, 2002, 09:16 PM
#35
Thread Starter
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it was but I changed my mind. Since the romans used latin, not French 
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Feb 18th, 2002, 09:35 PM
#36
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me main man Dave, 'e reckuns 'e is nowin dis geezer ooh is 9 feet big, 'e sed 'e met 'im down da 'orse an' 'ound
i fink 'e is bin da batty boy
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Feb 19th, 2002, 04:05 AM
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Jst to confirm harry's post, a click is most definatley 1 km (Kilometer)
Yeah, well I'm gonna build my own lunar space lander! With blackjack aaaaannd Hookers! Actually, forget the space lander, and the blackjack. Ahhhh forget the whole thing!
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Feb 19th, 2002, 04:11 AM
#38
Lively Member
I think I'll stick with the metre & gramme scales.
Don't really fancy mucking about with body parts 
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Feb 19th, 2002, 04:25 AM
#39
it's not meter,
it's metre !
I expect you all to remember this in future
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