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« Reply #89700 on: November 10, 2015, 02:58:45 pm »

What about using planck units? it makes everything simpler because you're incorporating physical constants into all your input values anyway.

The average human male is approximately 3.2*10^9 planck masses.

We already measure people in 10^3 grams, using gigaplancks wouldn't be *that* far off.  Well, a factor of 10 ish...  A lot of things would be in decigigaplancks.
And I would be happy with that
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« Reply #89701 on: November 10, 2015, 03:08:40 pm »

But how would you convert decigigaplancks into American? :P
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« Reply #89702 on: November 10, 2015, 03:10:56 pm »

I was thinking more alongside "change the system of measurements where speed of light equals 1" and so on...
See the thing is that we do do this, and that's why the measurements are so funky. :P In this case our '1' unit for avogadro's number are the kilogram and the atom, thus resulting in the current value for avogadro's. Since so many scientific constants are related by ratios/etc., you have to make a choice where you only get to set so many of the value to 1, because you then reach a point where all other values are determined from the chose '1' values. In our case we chose things like the Joule, the Coulomb, the Watt, the kilogram, the meter, the atom; those were our '1's we decided to use. Since everything else is than derived from those measurements, we then end up with the funky numbers we use today.
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« Reply #89703 on: November 10, 2015, 03:12:56 pm »

But how would you convert decigigaplancks into American? :P
Some funky conversion factor.
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« Reply #89704 on: November 10, 2015, 03:43:58 pm »

But how would you convert decigigaplancks into American? :P
Some funky conversion factor.
It's actually a fairly simple process. First you punch the person trying to weigh people in decigigaplancks in the face, and then you weigh whoever you're measuring in pounds.
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« Reply #89705 on: November 10, 2015, 03:47:22 pm »

But how would you convert decigigaplancks into American? :P
You compare a person to the mass of wooden planks.

Alternatively you petition the US government to change the official metric to scale bananas.
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« Reply #89706 on: November 10, 2015, 03:49:13 pm »

It's actually a fairly simple process. First you punch pound the person trying to weigh people in decigigaplancks in the face
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« Reply #89707 on: November 10, 2015, 03:50:16 pm »

But how would you convert decigigaplancks into American? :P
You compare a person to the mass of wooden planks.

Alternatively you petition the US government to change the official metric to scale bananas.
What if someone lobbies for it to be a specific kind of wood instead?
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« Reply #89708 on: November 10, 2015, 03:58:42 pm »

It's actually a fairly simple process. First you punch pound stone the person trying to weigh people in decigigaplancks in the face
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« Reply #89709 on: November 10, 2015, 04:27:36 pm »

But how would you convert decigigaplancks into American? :P
You compare a person to the mass of wooden planks.

Alternatively you petition the US government to change the official metric to scale bananas.
What if someone lobbies for it to be a specific kind of wood instead?
Consistency, in the United States?

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« Reply #89710 on: November 10, 2015, 05:47:49 pm »

Ended up paying $6(plus tax) for one of those coin-shaped batteries. And it looks like any other battery of the same shape I could have gotten from a dollar store(probably because it is) for less.


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« Reply #89711 on: November 10, 2015, 06:40:31 pm »

But that is country music. It's your view of country music that is cliched/wrong, not your mother. Little Big Town aren't really any different to the Dixie Chicks or other girl/country groups. Little Big Town are a Nashville band, signed to a country music label, and their music is pretty much straight country ballad / girl group stuff. Remember this is the music from your mother's generation, so you should sort of assume she has more knowledge about such things.
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« Reply #89712 on: November 10, 2015, 07:48:15 pm »

So apparently my sociology teacher managed to finish "correcting" the stuff we sent him after the time for teachers to submit grades to the system was over, resulting in no one having grades for the subject. It'll probably end up with it being fixed in a few days, but I'd rather know if I passed before it's time for inscriptions.
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« Reply #89713 on: November 10, 2015, 08:20:39 pm »

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« Reply #89714 on: November 10, 2015, 08:25:58 pm »

Why the hell does it have to be so hard to find proper drivers? The installer for the drivers says no Intel adapter is installed. I'm looking right in the case, right at the thing my network cable is plugged into, it clearly says "Inteltm Gigabit Ethernet".
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