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chris95040 · 16-02-2021, 16:50

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Originally Posted by jmschmidt

How about "Feet/Pound" or "Feets/Pound or even Feets/Pounds for torque. Since the word "feet" is plural none of these make any sense at all. Torque (for 200 years) is measured in "foot/pounds" you morons who mostly write ads for car manufacturers.

Well, if you don’t understand the basic premise of compound units it’s best you don’t wade into this topic, particularly with words like ‘moron’.

The unit you are referring to is the Foot*Pound, “foot/pound” as you put it would be foot PER pound which is a nonsense unit for discussions of torque.

LittleWing77 · 16-02-2021, 17:23

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Originally Posted by Montanan

“My favorite state has not yet been invented. It will be called Montana, and it will be perfect.”

Nah - no ocean.

Montanan · 16-02-2021, 17:32

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Originally Posted by StuM

Steinbeck beat you to it

That was the name he gave his campervan as described in his "NYT#1 Best Seller" book "Travels With Charley".

Here is his Rocinante.

Montanan · 16-02-2021, 17:36

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Originally Posted by LittleWing77

Nah - no ocean.

Yes, I wish the Idaho border was the Pacific Ocean so as to have a long coast line and beaches so as avail larger voyages.

But then that is a reason to leave the State in the winter and go to the tropics or New Zealand and charter a boat.

And during winter we remind ourselves that during summer we don't have hurricanes.

BillKny · 16-02-2021, 17:41

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Originally Posted by billgewater

As for average and median intelligence, you should only accept comments from chaps called "Norm". Or guys with two names as in "bi-nomial".

Since intelligence is supposed to be a normally distributed bell curve** the median, mean, and "average" all should be the same.

But since the majority of people have no idea what the difference between "mean" and "median" actually is, to make the original quote understandable to the most people, I used the ambiguous, but in this case, adequate, word "average."

**Didn't some guys get into a lot of trouble for pointing this out in a book?

**StuM** · 16-02-2021, 18:48

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Originally Posted by jmschmidt

How about "Feet/Pound" or "Feets/Pound or even Feets/Pounds for torque. Since the word "feet" is plural none of these make any sense at all. Torque (for 200 years) is measured in "foot/pounds" you morons who mostly write ads for car manufacturers.

Pot, meet kettle.
FWIW, my BMI is approximately 0.03 foot/pounds

(6ft, 200 lbs = 6/200 = 0.03 ft/lb)

BillKny · 16-02-2021, 19:29

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Originally Posted by StuM

Pot, meet kettle.
FWIW, my BMI is approximately 0.03 foot/pounds

(6ft, 200 lbs = 6/200 = 0.03 ft/lb)

If they are pots and kettles, I don't know what you might be, since BMI is actually body mass (in kg) divided by height in meters squared....

So a real BMI is actually kg/m^2

Of course with a made-up unit like BMI, I guess you are free to make-up your own definition...

Factor · 16-02-2021, 20:21

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Originally Posted by jmschmidt

How about "Feet/Pound" or "Feets/Pound or even Feets/Pounds for torque. Since the word "feet" is plural none of these make any sense at all. Torque (for 200 years) is measured in "foot/pounds" you morons who mostly write ads for car manufacturers.

Except where its measured in newton metres, which is like most of the world

requiem · 16-02-2021, 20:22

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Originally Posted by BillKny

If they are pots and kettles, I don't know what you might be, since BMI is actually body mass (in kg) divided by height in meters squared....

But... in three-dimensional Euclidean space I just use regular meters to measure my height!

**StuM** · 16-02-2021, 21:35

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Originally Posted by BillKny

If they are pots and kettles, I don't know what you might be, since BMI is actually body mass (in kg) divided by height in meters squared....

"metres squared" is not a unit of height, it is a unit of area

SeanPatrick · 16-02-2021, 22:08

I use Disconnect and Ad Blocker Ultimate with Firefox and I see almost no ads ever.

And I measure my generator output in pirate-ninjas.

silkie · 16-02-2021, 23:57

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Originally Posted by Sand crab

My popups all say ch*#ks with d*#ks. I have no idea why they are targeting me with these ads.

You're a poultry farmer?

skipgundlach · 17-02-2021, 11:25

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Originally Posted by captlloyd

Not to hijack this thread, but how does that work and what does it cost ? I wouldn’t imagine it works on YouTube also ? I’m sick of ads to.

My son wrote it, and sold it, now about 5 years ago.

Free, or feel free to make a donation.

Good on virtually every browser, nearly all phones, too.

If you do FB, it will allow you to block segments you don't want, even if they're not really advertising.

Got a page you really want to see ads on? Whitelist it (disable AB on a given url)

getadblock.com to find it... No leading www needed...