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11-18-2017, 07:24 AM
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But, there are more people currently enslaved worldwide than ever in human history, which is a definite wet blanket.
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11-18-2017, 12:33 PM
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We actually live in the healthiest time in human history. People live longer and have a lower infant mortality rate than ever. There are less people being killed in wars percentage wise than ever before.
But, there are more people currently enslaved worldwide than ever in human history, which is a definite wet blanket.
But, there are more people currently enslaved worldwide than ever in human history, which is a definite wet blanket.
Humanity, as a whole, has never* had it better in terms of prosperity, liberty, leisure time, lifespan, etc.
By definition, there must always be someone at the very bottom of the totem pole. And as he pole rises higher, the width of its base must increase. Basic materials science there.
* = for those who believe in a literal interpretation of the Christian bible, I'll accept that humanity did have it a little better during the brief period between the creation of humankind and Eve talking to the snake. Let's assume that the clock starts after the First World War**.
** = This would, of course, be Cain v. Able, in which 25% of the recorded population of the world was killed. This is more than all of the wars of the past thousand years combined. Pretty impressive.
** = This would, of course, be Cain v. Able, in which 25% of the recorded population of the world was killed. This is more than all of the wars of the past thousand years combined. Pretty impressive.
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11-18-2017, 03:44 PM
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11-18-2017, 04:15 PM
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A partial list of examples:
- Being forced to work as a prostitute.
- Being forced to be eaten by a bear as a form of public entertainment.
- Chief legal counsel to Internet Brands™.
- Being forced to work in an environment containing toxic chemicals, caustic materials, or imminent risk of immolation / mutilation / exposure to spallation elements, etc.
- Anything involving the belief that you deserve (x) amount of compensation, despite the fact that the market has determined that the value of your labor is (x/y), and being of a mindset which sees no alternative to continuing upon this path as a means of primary sustinance.
- Being one of those kids who lives in a little town in eastern China where the loads of electronic waste that was listed as "recycled" from the US or Europe gets dumped, and you wade through loads of transformer oil and beryllium to find the little bits of copper and iron worth saving, and then burn the rest.
- K-Mart (I speak to this as a former employee from my college days.)
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11-20-2017, 06:07 AM
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I laughed so hard.
Looks like forgot to take his meds before going the free style rap battle or maybe he suffered a stroke from smoking super concentrated crack.
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11-20-2017, 12:37 PM
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Like, "I need one size larger than 7/16, so that's obviously 8/16."
I'd never noticed this little guy before. He's perched over the entrance to the restroom at the back of my barber shop:
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11-20-2017, 01:30 PM
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Because mixing denominators in fractions makes math hard. This is why I despise the way that SAE wrenches are labeled, and find the metric measurements much easier.
Like, "I need one size larger than 7/16, so that's obviously 8/16."
I'd never noticed this little guy before. He's perched over the entrance to the restroom at the back of my barber shop:
Like, "I need one size larger than 7/16, so that's obviously 8/16."
I'd never noticed this little guy before. He's perched over the entrance to the restroom at the back of my barber shop:
I reject your reasoning. If that were the case, why wouldn't the fractions be written out in whole numbers. Ex. 0.500"
This is the first print I've seen like this. I am not the engineer, but I will not hesitate to question.
... This engineering firm also charged our company $1200 to do dye testing. I posted about this earlier.
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11-20-2017, 01:48 PM
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Drawings should be with decimals. I would see fractions to be acceptable to call out a specific drill bit or tap size, but otherwise decimals for all measurements. If it is with fractions, I have not seen them like 8/16" before.
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11-20-2017, 02:01 PM
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We make instruments. Have used decimal inches for at least 40 years, for everything except material thicknesses, which can be fractional or Gauge; as old methods die slowly. I welcome the shift to metric which has occurred on some of our more recent, international products. But realistically, as we rarely have dimensions that need to be feet, rather than inches, our decimal inches are as easy, or easier to use than ISO (never any confusion between mm and cm).
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