OT: UK to move back to imperial units?

[John Larkin]

On Sat, 27 Jul 2019 17:28:39 -0700 (PDT), Phil Allison
<pallison49@gmail.com> wrote:

John Larkin Massive Autistic Prick wrote:


I can't say. I never watch television.



** That says it all really.

Many autistics cannot enjoy watching TV or films cos nearly all of it passes right over their pointed little heads.

No, my problem with TV is that the content is usually trash and
especially the data rate, the effective bandwidth, is way too low. I
read about 400 wpm and nobody talks that fast.

And when I'm reading, I can scan a paragraph, or a chapter, and
usually determine if it has worthwhile content, and skip ahead to
something more interesting. I can't very well do that with a TV show.
It just drones along. Commercials don't help any. Even PBS here now
has endless ads.

In general, the first paragraph, the "lede" of a newspaper or magazine
article, is blather and can be skipped. A really good novel begins
with a great first line.

I'm a tad austic in that I don't appreciate most art or poetry or
music and have no interest in Facebook type stuff. No big loss; those
are mainly fluff anyhow. I love to read great novels and history and
of course electronics.

Near total lack of insight, empathy and an ability to quickly form intelligent "theories of thought" are the reasons.

Electronic design, especially design that interfaces with physics and
optics and mechanical systems, requires some wide-ranging thinking.


What's your favorite novel? Favorite movie? Favorite history book?


--

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc

lunatic fringe electronics

 

Jan Panteltje <pNaOnStPeAlMtje@yahoo.com> wrote in
news:qhhggl$bl2$1@dont-email.me:

UK to move back to imperial units?
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/26/the-comma-touch-j
acob-rees-mogg-sends-language-rules-to-staff

Now all we need is Pi = 3 (or 4)
How very sad when clueless politicians dictate science,
hope UK leaves EU today.

Absolutely unacceptable, and shows the ongoing chaos,
got to be a sign of an IQ equal to apes.
Ask yourself what is the future for UK now,
this sort of dictatorship seems unacceptable to any sane person,
those lot are hopefully still a majority in the UK.
I am not pleased to learn about this folly.

duh

They were obviously talked into it by Donald J. Trump, the other
anti-smart human on the globe.

 

[John Larkin]

On Sat, 27 Jul 2019 18:31:17 -0700 (PDT), Phil Allison
<pallison49@gmail.com> wrote:

John Larkin is an Autistic Psychopath wrote:

John Larkin Massive Autistic Prick wrote:


I can't say. I never watch television.



** That says it all really.

Many autistics cannot enjoy watching TV or films cos nearly all of it passes right over their pointed little heads.


No, my problem with TV is that the content is usually trash and
especially the data rate, the effective bandwidth, is way too low. I
read about 400 wpm and nobody talks that fast.


** What absolute lunacy.



And when I'm reading, I can scan a paragraph, or a chapter, and
usually determine if it has worthwhile content, and skip ahead to
something more interesting. I can't very well do that with a TV show.
It just drones along. Commercials don't help any. Even PBS here now
has endless ads.



** How does this narcissistic prick hold a conversation with anyone who is not autistic ??

The answer is *very badly* and with nil comprehension.


I'm a tad austic in that I don't appreciate most art or poetry or
music


** That is not a little bit, that is MASSIVE autism.



Near total lack of insight, empathy and an ability to quickly
form intelligent "theories of thought" are the reasons.

Electronic design, especially design that interfaces with physics and
optics and mechanical systems, requires some wide-ranging thinking.


** Larkin simply has no idea what I am alluding to.

Agreed, I don't.

He only rationalises and bullshits to hide his disability from himself.

I'm pretty happy and pretty successful. I have a beautiful smart wife
and two dynamite daughters. They can be social for me while I design
stuff. What's wrong with that? The world needs good electronics.

Totally evil person.

Not at all. I've done a lot of good. Most engineers make the world
better. We reduce disorder. We make things work.

Where are the links to the lateral mosfets? To great novels and
movies?

You snip the things that you don't want to deal with. That's a kind of
disability itself.



--

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc

lunatic fringe electronics

 

[Tom Gardner]

On 28/07/19 02:21, John Larkin wrote:

On Sat, 27 Jul 2019 12:36:27 GMT, Jan Panteltje
pNaOnStPeAlMtje@yahoo.com> wrote:


UK to move back to imperial units?
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/26/the-comma-touch-jacob-rees-mogg-sends-language-rules-to-staff

Now all we need is Pi = 3 (or 4)


2pi = 6 is usually close enough.

It's a game in our place to do math in our heads, standing at the
whiteboard.

Does that RC time constant affect the loop? Think for three or four
seconds and decide.

Newbies and visitors are impressed.

When I was a kid pi*pi = g = 10, and that was allowed
in physics and chemistry exams.

Time to resurrect my slipstick

 

[Tom Gardner]

On 28/07/19 00:12, John Larkin wrote:

On Sat, 27 Jul 2019 20:23:57 +0300, Tauno Voipio
tauno.voipio@notused.fi.invalid> wrote:

On 27.7.19 15:36, Jan Panteltje wrote:

UK to move back to imperial units?
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/26/the-comma-touch-jacob-rees-mogg-sends-language-rules-to-staff

Now all we need is Pi = 3 (or 4)
How very sad when clueless politicians dictate science,
hope UK leaves EU today.

Absolutely unacceptable, and shows the ongoing chaos,
got to be a sign of an IQ equal to apes.
Ask yourself what is the future for UK now,
this sort of dictatorship seems unacceptable to any sane person,
those lot are hopefully still a majority in the UK.
I am not pleased to learn about this folly.

duh

Including guineas, pounds, shillings and pence?

Why was there a guinea? Maybe a pound made of better grade gold?

So "professionals" such as lawyers and doctors could
charge in Guineas, thus upping their fees 5%

I expect you will find it goes back to common coinage,
especially before national coins became the norm.

 

[Tom Gardner]

On 27/07/19 20:18, Dimiter_Popoff wrote:

On 7/27/2019 21:55, Cursitor Doom wrote:
On Sat, 27 Jul 2019 20:23:57 +0300, Tauno Voipio wrote:

Including guineas, pounds, shillings and pence?

Served us perfectly well for centuries. I for one would love to see them
re-introduced. In fact I might even move back if that happened.



And you will found the "back into the cavesit" party, yeah.

Reminds me of a little-known French film from the
early 70s, "Themroc".

 

[Phil Allison]

John Larkin Autistic Psychopath wrote:

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Phil Allison

John Larkin is an Autistic Psychopath wrote:

John Larkin Massive Autistic Prick wrote:


I can't say. I never watch television.



** That says it all really.

Many autistics cannot enjoy watching TV or films cos nearly all of it passes right over their pointed little heads.


No, my problem with TV is that the content is usually trash and
especially the data rate, the effective bandwidth, is way too low. I
read about 400 wpm and nobody talks that fast.


** What absolute lunacy.



And when I'm reading, I can scan a paragraph, or a chapter, and
usually determine if it has worthwhile content, and skip ahead to
something more interesting. I can't very well do that with a TV show.
It just drones along. Commercials don't help any. Even PBS here now
has endless ads.



** How does this narcissistic prick hold a conversation with anyone who is not autistic ??

The answer is *very badly* and with nil comprehension.


I'm a tad austic in that I don't appreciate most art or poetry or
music


** That is not a little bit, that is MASSIVE autism.



Near total lack of insight, empathy and an ability to quickly
form intelligent "theories of thought" are the reasons.

Electronic design, especially design that interfaces with physics and
optics and mechanical systems, requires some wide-ranging thinking.


** Larkin simply has no idea what I am alluding to.

Agreed, I don't.

** Go right to the top of the ASD spectrum.

He only rationalises and bullshits to hide his disability from himself.

I'm pretty happy and pretty successful.

** So are most psychopaths - that is what makes them incurable.

I have a beautiful smart wife and two dynamite daughters.

** All of them autistic too - I bet.

Autistic, narcisstic woman = BITCH

They can be social for me while I design
stuff.

** Larkin finally admits to being socially awkward.

Bet he makes Sheldon Cooper look like a party animal.

Guaranteed he has no idea who that is.

Totally evil person.

Not at all.

** Autistics are all evil, to varying degrees.

Those that acquire authority over others turn into monsters.

Especially true of autistic parents.



> Where are the links to the lateral mosfets?

** FFS you can do you own bloody Googling.

You lazy fucking shit.

You snip the things that you don't want to deal with.

** Don't try to trap me with loaded, irrelevant questions.

You only post them order to piss on the answers.




...... Phil

 

[Robert Baer]

Jan Panteltje wrote:

UK to move back to imperial units?
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/26/the-comma-touch-jacob-rees-mogg-sends-language-rules-to-staff

Now all we need is Pi = 3 (or 4)
How very sad when clueless politicians dictate science,
hope UK leaves EU today.

Absolutely unacceptable, and shows the ongoing chaos,
got to be a sign of an IQ equal to apes.
Ask yourself what is the future for UK now,
this sort of dictatorship seems unacceptable to any sane person,
those lot are hopefully still a majority in the UK.
I am not pleased to learn about this folly.

duh



WHERE in the F did 4 come from?

 

[Bill Sloman]

On Sunday, July 28, 2019 at 4:27:40 PM UTC+10, Phil Allison wrote:
> John Larkin Autistic Psychopath wrote:

Phil Allison has some fairly serious misconceptions about autism.

I've snipped most of them

Autism is all about not being able to detect social cues.

> ** Autistics are all evil, to varying degrees.

Evil doesn't come into it at all.

If you don't understand what's going on in a social situation you may say or do quite the wrong thing, but there are unlikely to be any evil intentions involved.

For what it's worth, John Larkin strikes me as very unlikely to be autistic. His problems looks more like vanity, and an unreasonable overconfidence in his abilities. I don't approve of him, but calling him autistic doesn't capture any of his defects.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney

 

On Sat, 27 Jul 2019 18:52:19 -0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom
<curd@notformail.com> wrote:

On Sat, 27 Jul 2019 18:30:49 +0300, upsidedown wrote:

This would also solve the N.I. border issues.

There are no "N.I border issues" - this is a contrivance thrown up by the
Remain brigade to block Brexit. They want it to prove an insurmountable
obstacle which is nonsense - but it's the best they could think of. :-D

Sure it solvable, but may lead to bizarre solutions, like the Ĺland
island case.

The self ruled Ĺland islands are part of Finland, which is an EU
member state. However Ĺland is not part of EU customs union.

The very strong ferry industry lobbied to stay out of the EU customs
union, so that ferries going between Sweden and Finland could make a
stop-over at Ĺland and sell tax-free alcohol and tobacco all the way
between Sweden and Finland.

The down side for small business is that if they want to sell
something to continental Finland, this is export with all the
paperwork involved.

 

[Cursitor Doom]

On Sat, 27 Jul 2019 16:12:42 -0700, John Larkin wrote:

> Why was there a guinea? Maybe a pound made of better grade gold?

Built-in commission. I think it began with the auction houses. So say you
sold your Gainsborough masterpiece for a million guineas, the auction
house passes on a million *pounds* to you and keeps the rest. One guinea
is/was 21 shillings; a pound was 20.



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[Cursitor Doom]

On Sat, 27 Jul 2019 16:10:16 -0700, John Larkin wrote:

Next time you're out west, we'll take you to have what is officially the
best burrito in the USA, about a mile from here.

I hope Phil's in no rush to take you up on that. I'm still waiting
patiently for my burger and fries from the previous millennium.



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[Martin Brown]

On 28/07/2019 01:19, Phil Allison wrote:

Jan Panteltje Wog Idiot twrote:

UK to move back to imperial units?

** Idiotic false news.

Fact is, in everyday matters the UK never left imperial units.

You would be hard pressed to find anyone in the UK under 30 who knew
what a pound or ounce was these days. Even back in 1980 all engineering
design software was metric - I recall we had to adopt it to function
with Imperial units when the company was taken over by a US venture
capitalist (arcane units support essential to enter the US market).

Miles, yards, feet, pounds, ounces, gallons and pints are in regular
use as is of course their currency - UK pound.

Miles, pints and gallons are still very much in daily use here.

Most other lengths, volumes and weights now are in m, L and kg. Some of
them are slightly weird metric numbers that correspond to some previous
imperial size give or take woodworking tolerances so 25mm vs 1" and
2.272L aka 4 pint milk containers for example.

Pints are really only used today for domestic beer and milk (and the
metric equivalent is clearly displayed). Soft drinks come in metric
0.33L, 0.5L and 1.5L sizes. Continental beers are fully metric.

The UK pound was metricated in 1971. It wouldn't surprise me if this
government legislated to go back to using guineas and groats.

FYI;

Australia adopted dollars and cents along with metric measures for
damn near everything decades ago.



... Phil

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[Cursitor Doom]

On Sun, 28 Jul 2019 10:10:17 +0300, upsidedown wrote:

Sure it solvable, but may lead to bizarre solutions, like the Åland
island case.

It doesn't require a solution because there's no problem in the first
place! The whole "Irish Backstop" issue (the prevention of a hard border
arising between N. Ireland and the Republic) is a non-issue. Both parties
have stated unequivocally that they don't want any border infrastructure
erected and they are the only two parties who *could* put it up; there's
no one else involved.
The whole thing is an invention dreamed up by the EU in an attempt to
thwart Brexit. May was happy to give the concept credence, because the
conniving bitch was a Remainer and like all politicians, thought she
somehow knew better than the 'plebs' who voted in the Referendum. She was
in cahoots with the EU. Thank god she's out of it now.




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[Cursitor Doom]

On Sat, 27 Jul 2019 18:15:47 -0700, John Larkin wrote:

> What's your favorite novel? Favorite movie? Favorite history book?

Alison? I'd guess the answer to all three would be Charlie and the
Chocolate Factory.



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[Cursitor Doom]

On Sat, 27 Jul 2019 23:42:59 -0800, Robert Baer wrote:

> WHERE in the F did 4 come from?

I think Jan is taking a swipe at some American schools whose "teachers"
tell the kids that 2 plus 2 can equal 5 if they really want it to.



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[TTman]

On 27/07/2019 13:36, Jan Panteltje wrote:

UK to move back to imperial units?
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/26/the-comma-touch-jacob-rees-mogg-sends-language-rules-to-staff

Now all we need is Pi = 3 (or 4)
How very sad when clueless politicians dictate science,
hope UK leaves EU today.

Absolutely unacceptable, and shows the ongoing chaos,
got to be a sign of an IQ equal to apes.
Ask yourself what is the future for UK now,
this sort of dictatorship seems unacceptable to any sane person,
those lot are hopefully still a majority in the UK.
I am not pleased to learn about this folly.

duh

It's all bullshit.... youy just have to look at the guy's name...
Imperial / metric ??? How long is that thing over there...? Some will
say 4 yards, some will say 4 Metres. Just depends in which environment
one works. Metric (mostly) is here to stay in the UK even for us oldies
that grew up not knowing what a millimeter was.
Basically the bloke is a knob, like most of those in politics.
What I hate most is ' let me be clear on this. They're never clear on
anything!

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[TTman]

They seem really desperate to find ways to distract as larger part
of the public as possible from the ongoing brexit nonsense. Imperial
units, "we are an emprie", LOL. Then these tanker conflicts etc.,
it will be interesting to watch if/how they are going to get it
their way. Johnson at no 10 wants to look as ballsy as he can, too
bad he is not as brainy as necessary.... I expect things in the UK to
literally fall apart - to the delight of the Kremlin.

Dimiter

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Boris appears to be a buffon a la Benny Hill but he's actually a smart
thinker. It's his mouth that lets him down.'Engage brain before opening
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[Phil Allison]

Bill Sloman wrote:

Phil Allison has some fairly serious misconceptions about autism.

** No he does not.

Someone high on the ASD spectrum has no right to any such opinion.

Like you.

Autism is all about not being able to detect social cues.

* Major characteristic.

** Autistics are all evil, to varying degrees.

Evil doesn't come into it at all.

** Course it does, serious lack of empathy = evil.

If you don't understand what's going on in a social situation you may
say or do quite the wrong thing, but there are unlikely to be any
evil intentions involved.

** Intention, good or bad, is not the issue.

Psychopaths feel completely justified while carrying out the most vile acts.

Charles Manson for example.

For what it's worth, John Larkin strikes me as very unlikely to be autistic.

** Figures - cos you are even worse them him.

Larkin has never threatened me personally, like you have.


FYI my phone number is 9799 8242.

Call me if you like, I promise to be fair and polite.




..... Phil

 

On Sun, 28 Jul 2019 09:28:07 -0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom
<curd@notformail.com> wrote:

On Sun, 28 Jul 2019 10:10:17 +0300, upsidedown wrote:


Sure it solvable, but may lead to bizarre solutions, like the Ĺland
island case.

It doesn't require a solution because there's no problem in the first
place! The whole "Irish Backstop" issue (the prevention of a hard border
arising between N. Ireland and the Republic) is a non-issue. Both parties
have stated unequivocally that they don't want any border infrastructure
erected and they are the only two parties who *could* put it up; there's
no one else involved.
The whole thing is an invention dreamed up by the EU in an attempt to
thwart Brexit. May was happy to give the concept credence, because the
conniving bitch was a Remainer and like all politicians, thought she
somehow knew better than the 'plebs' who voted in the Referendum. She was
in cahoots with the EU. Thank god she's out of it now.

There needs to be a customs border somewhere, otherwise the Brit tons
will be trucking toll-free their goods from England across to Northern
Ireland, then into Republic of Ireland and then to the continental
EU.

There would be several places for this border.

1.) Between Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland. This would be
the most logical place. Unfortunately this would be the hardest to
implement. Building a 6 m high border fence along the country side
would hard to implement, ask Mr. Trump about the difficulties. Then
put only a few border crossings between the areas.

2.) Put the customs border on ferries across the Irish Sea. N.I. would
be part of EU customs zone. This would be the easiest to implement.

3.) If neither of those alternatives are possible to implement, the
border would have to be between the Republic of Ireland and the
continental EU countries. The EU countries would never allow this to
happen to fellow EU country Ireland.

Pick your favorite.