In article ,
Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:

Twelve rules!!

Somewhat useful, but I believe the Aztecs did pretty well with base 60.
16's a good compromise, particularly considering where we are right now.

But there are only 10 types of people:
Those that understand binary and those that don't.

--
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"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote

Oh please.

The Vikings discovered America. The Vikings discovered Central
America. The Vikings discovered South America. The Vikings
discovered Hawaii. The Vikings discovered New Zealand. The Vikings
discovered Minnesota and the Chinese are really funny looking Vikings.

What's next - the Vikings landed on the Moon and established a colony
on Mars?


And they did it all while eating nothing but Lutefisk! :-)

--
Glenn Ashmore

I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack
there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com
Shameless Commercial Division: http://www.spade-anchor-us.com

Machine tool wise the metric system is a bad joke. All the lead and
pitch profiles are much less strong than the US system or even the old
Whitworth system.... remember that when youre flying in a EU built
aircraft, etc. Then again, think about how much its costing your
wallet for a non-EU manufacturer to be compliant to the EU "CE" or
"ISO" standards ... all in the name of bureacratic BS. If this all
wasnt just solely a means of one-ups-manship and overt unfair trade
control then it could be funny.



In article . com,
basskisser wrote:

Rich Hampel wrote:
It wont be long until the EU 'resets' the prime meridian through the
administrative capital of Brussels .... just like the French tried to
do a short time after the French Revolution ..... and then defined the
meter as ~ 1/10.000,000 of the circumference of the earth.

Just remember this is what you get when you install authoritarian
socialism .... nothing make 'sense' and you HAVE to blindly follow the
'rules' .... ask Microsoft how they feel about the EU.

Yeah, all measuration in units of 10, just like our numbering system.
How could anything make less sense? Hmm, I guess you could have the
Imperial system, where an there are twelve inches in a foot, 3 feet in
a yard, 5280 feet in a mile which was derived from 8 furlongs.

Glenn Ashmore wrote:
And they did it all while eating nothing but Lutefisk! :-)


O' GOSH!

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 17:17:44 -0500, chuck wrote:

withheld wrote:
Has everyone forgotten that the statndard inch is actually
1/5e8 of the earth's diameter pole to pole?

KLC Lewis wrote:
"Glenn Ashmore" wrote in message
...

I'll bet it really galls the ISO that the Earth's circumference
doesn't fit nicely into the metric system.

40,066 KM divided by 100 degrees divided by 100 minutes divided by
100 seconds = 40.066 meters. A messy little number that just doesn't
fit.

--
Glenn Ashmore

I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or
lack there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com
Shameless Commercial Division: http://www.spade-anchor-us.com

"Rich Hampel" wrote in message
...

It wont be long until the EU 'resets' the prime meridian through the
administrative capital of Brussels .... just like the French tried to
do a short time after the French Revolution ..... and then defined
the
meter as ~ 1/10.000,000 of the circumference of the earth.

Just remember this is what you get when you install authoritarian
socialism .... nothing make 'sense' and you HAVE to blindly follow
the
'rules' .... ask Microsoft how they feel about the EU.



All such arbitrary measurement systems are silly. We should base all
measurements on the half-life of Cesium, as the good Lord intended.


May I suggest that the following link will illuminate this thread with
particular emphasis on navigational units?

http://www.celticnz.co.nz/VikingNavigation.htm
Viking Navigation and Ancient Swedish Measurements

Oh please.

The Vikings discovered America. The Vikings discovered Central
America. The Vikings discovered South America. The Vikings
discovered Hawaii. The Vikings discovered New Zealand. The Vikings
discovered Minnesota and the Chinese are really funny looking Vikings.

What's next - the Vikings landed on the Moon and established a colony
on Mars?

~~ sheesh ~~ :)

They were my relatives. They were very good. They heard the raping and
pilaging was good in all those places. Why else go?

"Glenn Ashmore" wrote in message
...

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote

Oh please.

The Vikings discovered America. The Vikings discovered Central
America. The Vikings discovered South America. The Vikings
discovered Hawaii. The Vikings discovered New Zealand. The Vikings
discovered Minnesota and the Chinese are really funny looking Vikings.

What's next - the Vikings landed on the Moon and established a colony
on Mars?


And they did it all while eating nothing but Lutefisk! :-)

--
Glenn Ashmore

I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack
there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com
Shameless Commercial Division: http://www.spade-anchor-us.com



At a party on Saturday, some lady where wearing a "Legalize Lutefisk"
button. Was afraid to ask the reason.

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
Viking Navigation and Ancient Swedish Measurements

Oh please.
The Vikings
discovered Minnesota and the Chinese are really funny looking Vikings.


Yes, and we refer to our Chinese cousins as
"smoked Sweeds"

And they did it all while eating nothing but Lutefisk! :-)

Just how ****ed up was the fish that turning it into Lutefisk was an
*improvement*?

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 05:25:52 GMT, "Calif Bill"
wrote:


"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
. ..
On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 17:17:44 -0500, chuck wrote:

withheld wrote:
Has everyone forgotten that the statndard inch is actually
1/5e8 of the earth's diameter pole to pole?

KLC Lewis wrote:
"Glenn Ashmore" wrote in message
...

I'll bet it really galls the ISO that the Earth's circumference
doesn't fit nicely into the metric system.

40,066 KM divided by 100 degrees divided by 100 minutes divided by
100 seconds = 40.066 meters. A messy little number that just
doesn't
fit.

--
Glenn Ashmore

I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or
lack there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com
Shameless Commercial Division: http://www.spade-anchor-us.com

"Rich Hampel" wrote in message
...

It wont be long until the EU 'resets' the prime meridian through
the
administrative capital of Brussels .... just like the French tried
to
do a short time after the French Revolution ..... and then defined
the
meter as ~ 1/10.000,000 of the circumference of the earth.

Just remember this is what you get when you install authoritarian
socialism .... nothing make 'sense' and you HAVE to blindly follow
the
'rules' .... ask Microsoft how they feel about the EU.

All such arbitrary measurement systems are silly. We should base all
measurements on the half-life of Cesium, as the good Lord intended.


May I suggest that the following link will illuminate this thread with
particular emphasis on navigational units?

http://www.celticnz.co.nz/VikingNavigation.htm
Viking Navigation and Ancient Swedish Measurements

Oh please.

The Vikings discovered America. The Vikings discovered Central
America. The Vikings discovered South America. The Vikings
discovered Hawaii. The Vikings discovered New Zealand. The Vikings
discovered Minnesota and the Chinese are really funny looking Vikings.

What's next - the Vikings landed on the Moon and established a colony
on Mars?

~~ sheesh ~~ :)

They were my relatives.

Which explains a lot.

They were very good.

At what?

They heard the raping and pilaging was good in all those places. Why else
go?

Ah...well then...

Boating, raping ad pillaging.

In article ,
Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:

On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 09:48:12 -0600, "KLC Lewis"
wrote:

All such arbitrary measurement systems are silly. We should base all
measurements on the half-life of Cesium, as the good Lord intended.

Crap - now I've got Pepsi all over the monitor!!! :)

ROTFL!!!!

I found that Diest Mug Rootbeer and BlueTooth Keyboards Don't mix well
at all..... Hope yours likes Pepsi better than mine liked Rootbear....

Bruce in alaska
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