(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 05 2015, @12:36PM
by Anonymous Coward
on Tuesday May 05 2015, @12:36PM (#179065)
You know what mile the article was referring to, the standardized mile. Roman, Italian and Chinese miles along with just about every other mile are dead units.
Of course there is the nautical mile which is standardized but it is never used for general measurement by anyone. Not once has anyone ever said "I live 5 miles from the nearest train station" follow by someone asking "nautical or regular?"
Not once has anyone ever said "I live 5 miles from the nearest train station" follow by someone asking "nautical or regular?"
That depends if that conversation happened on a boat somewhere in the open sea after months of adventures...
Dont be a douche.
I'm just following in the long tradition of nitpickers and nitpickeresses of such polls. Just imagine smiling irony tags hovering around my post, take it easy and you can become a pollpicker too. ;)
(Score: 4, Touché) by Geotti on Thursday April 30 2015, @07:39PM
You saw that one coming... Anyway,
do you mean nautical miles, Roman miles, US miles, Italian miles, Chinese miles?
I travel around 50-100k kilometers and I don't know which option to choose, especially, if you meant Li [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 3, Disagree) by LoRdTAW on Friday May 01 2015, @02:14AM
Just ... stop.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday May 01 2015, @06:28PM
I think they mean the ones on your odometer.
(Score: 4, Informative) by maxwell demon on Friday May 01 2015, @07:49PM
I don't have an odometer. And if I had one, it wouldn't show miles.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Tuesday May 05 2015, @03:36PM
Really? How od.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 05 2015, @12:36PM
You know what mile the article was referring to, the standardized mile. Roman, Italian and Chinese miles along with just about every other mile are dead units.
Of course there is the nautical mile which is standardized but it is never used for general measurement by anyone. Not once has anyone ever said "I live 5 miles from the nearest train station" follow by someone asking "nautical or regular?"
Dont be a douche.
(Score: 2) by Geotti on Tuesday May 05 2015, @02:32PM
Not once has anyone ever said "I live 5 miles from the nearest train station" follow by someone asking "nautical or regular?"
That depends if that conversation happened on a boat somewhere in the open sea after months of adventures...
Dont be a douche.
I'm just following in the long tradition of nitpickers and nitpickeresses of such polls. Just imagine smiling irony tags hovering around my post, take it easy and you can become a pollpicker too. ;)