PS: I still favor metric, ‘cause my closest computer is free: 10 fingers. Next closest: as many toes. Decimal numeration and all, why bother with dodeca-pranks? If anything, I’d go binary. We’d all look like billionaires and that would solve the “stupid economy” glitch.
who said:“The MCO contract with Lockheed-Martin specified metric units”.and here’s the news of that day:http://articles.cnn.com/1999-09-30/tech/9909_30_mars.metric.02_1_climate-orbiter-spacecraft-team-metric-system?_s=PM:TECH
who in ~6th from top said:“Remember the NASA cockup when part of the team used metric and part didn’t?”.on September 23, 1999, communication with the spacecraft was lost as the spacecraft went into orbital insertion, due to ground based computer software which produced output in Imperial units of pound-seconds (lbf×s) instead of the metric units of newton-seconds (N×s) specified in the contract between NASA and Lockheed. The spacecraft encountered Mars at an improperly low altitude, causing it to incorrectly enter the upper atmosphere and disintegrate.(see details at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter)When it happened the news said about the NASA tech who entered Imperial instead of Metric units. Now they blame it on the computer …
[re ~32nd from top] May the Living God Bless you for being awake here today. I hope everyone who posted here and then some have opened at least one of the links you posted. Whatever GT’s strip today stands for, mass manipulation is the routine of our times. The mark of the beast tomorrow? Unless we the people wake up.
Q: is [aka]Y__e[Walden] College only living by street smarts, or also teaching the skills? Zip seems fully educated on SkidRow, yet here he says otherwise. How is it that the two educational entities have so much in common?
@imbaldeagle who said:“Delta gives us the answer on http://www.gocomics.com/luann/2012/08/07”.Thanks for finding the strips I was alluding to (they go all the way to2012/08/10) — when I asked “why isn’t Gunther ever seen with Delta?”. If they were friends there’d be nobody to pressure them into sex. They’d study together and feel heavenly. Everything in it’s own time.
@aicarrie1 who said:“I think something weird is going on with Greg Evans.” .Ditto!Multiple personality?If you look back you will find other weird moments. This here’s mild in comparison.
@Mikeyj &@drewder who said:“I wonder how everyone’s statements would change if Gunther were a girl being pressured by her boyfriend to have a more physical relationship that she didn’t feel ready for.”.Ditto! [That’s what I was beating about the bush re: Leslie better for Rosa.]
@montessoriteacher who said: “Voting needs to change. In US … We need, perhaps, an election week, rather than day.” . Aye!.Because the present state of things is outrageous, and been disgusting for years, yet nothing had been done to correct it: look at the military: the votes of many of them are not even taken into account! “Arrived too late!” If the postal service can’t handle it, then give it a month to receive all the absentee ballots and get them counted. With the present state of things convicts are more likely to vote and get their votes counted than our military. We ought to make sure that every military vote be taken into account!
@UncaJim who said, 25 years of “taking care of mother” until she finally kicks the bucket, leaving daughter alone as a 60 year-old social cripple.. Got one right here in the neighborhood. Sad case.
.So, uncle, why do you say “social” when you mean sexual?
What looks cripple to you may be wisdom to the few.
PS: I still favor metric, ‘cause my closest computer is free: 10 fingers. Next closest: as many toes. Decimal numeration and all, why bother with dodeca-pranks? If anything, I’d go binary. We’d all look like billionaires and that would solve the “stupid economy” glitch.