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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 06 2015, @03:21PM
I shit you not, when I just posted that comment, this is what the goddamn result page showed:
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: 2) by janrinok on Sunday June 07 2015, @11:24AM
So, what did you say when you reported the bug? You did report it, didn't you? You know, with all the relevant details so that it can be traced and identified. You did, didn't you?
Alternatively, you could try reading this story from a few hours earlier [soylentnews.org].