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Presidential Metrics: Lincoln Chafee and le Système International

posted by takyon on Saturday June 06 2015, @02:18PM   Printer-friendly
from the 2016-lbs-in-a-ton dept.

hemocyanin writes:

The most recent candidate under the DNC banner is Lincoln Chafee who interestingly, besides being the lone Republican (he switched parties) to vote against the Iraq war, is vehemently pro-metric system. I remember when I was a kid, the freeway signs for distance and speed were printed in both English and metric. Converting all those signs from miles to km (again) would cost money, but then, using the English measurement system costs money too, forever -- according to a random guy I googled up without putting any real effort into it because I'm not that interested in proving myself wrong (Paul Naughtin), somewhere between six billion and a trillion. There are without a doubt, critics who might call that somewhat of a wide margin but as one witty commenter noted: "It is probably impossible to give an upper bound on that, however I can give you a lower bound: 500 Million Dollars for the loss of the Mars Climate Orbiter by NASA".

Now, I'm neither a firm GOP nor DNC voter... but I'm tempted.

takyon: Former Governor of Rhode Island Lincoln Chafee joins a number of other candidates seeking a 2016 U.S. presidential nomination.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 06 2015, @03:19PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 06 2015, @03:19PM (#192900)

    Is the Metric System causing the SoylentNews website failures that are happening more and more?

    Fuck, I think I've seen this message at least 5 times today:

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    Please contact the server administrator, admin@soylentnews.org and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

    More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

    What the fuck is going on here? This never happened before. So why the fuck is it happening all of a sudden?

    What the fuck changed?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 06 2015, @03:21PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 06 2015, @03:21PM (#192901)

    I shit you not, when I just posted that comment, this is what the goddamn result page showed:

    Submitted Comment

    Comment Submitted. There will be a delay before the comment becomes part of the static page. What you submitted appears below. If there is a mistake...well, you should have used the 'Preview' button!

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    More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

    What in the name of fuck is going on here?

    What the fuck kind of error is happening in the back end?

    Is the daemon crashing? Is the goddamn daemon process crashing?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 06 2015, @08:30PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 06 2015, @08:30PM (#192992)

    Trying to read this thread (page) without &highlightthresh=n in the URL will show no comments.

    I noticed this flaw several days ago but it cleared up quickly.
    Now, today, it's back.
    I can see this screwing up my use of old bookmarks.
    I can see someone clicking a link at e.g. Google will also get an essentially-blank page and saying "What a useless site".

    -- gewg_