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Two out of your three examples have nothing to do with the Metric system. Gauge, as in shotguns, is defined as the number of lead balls the same diameter as the bore it takes to make a pound. Not a kilogram, a pound. A 12 gauge fowling piece requires 12 of the aforementioned lead balls to make a...

Please describe, exactly, why it is easier or more difficult to explain one arbitrary system as opposed to another. You think that the metric system is easier of description because you have 10 fingers. What if your alien subject has 12? Or a prime number, say 13? Use simple declarative...

A meter might be handy but a centimeter is too small. Humans have a hard time visualizing one part in ten and a measurement is hundreds of something might be accurate but it's functionally incomprehensible. The only thing you can do with the metric system is multiply and divide bu 10. Handy...

Good, keep it out. The English system, while admittedly confusing to perhaps a moderately retarded elementary school student is functionally superior to the metric system. The English system has evolved over the millennia to be convenient for people. Not all proper and scientific, but...

The ounce rating of banner material is how much a square yard of the material weighs. 10 Oz material weighs 10 ounces per square yard, likewise for 13 Oz, 18 Oz, or whatever. It has absolutely nothing to do with how thick it is or how sturdy it might be. Just how heavy it is.

Exactly so. Perhaps Godwin's Law might be extended beyond merely Nazis to cover 'hate', 'this-ism', 'that-a-phobia', and any other of the plethora of mindless denouncements uttered by the mentally indisposed when they have no other cogent argument.

You don't seem to understand how all of this works sport... When it's your turn to post you get to post whatever it might please you to post. When and if someone might choose to respond they get to post whatever it might please them to post. Whether or not you find a response useful...

I've been plying these waters for some years now and my lack of interest in Making It A better Place or Succoring Those Less Informed or any other Pollyannaesque nonsense approaches total. The particular site is run for-profit by a coven of folk who give every appearance of those that could not...

Really? Is anyone sufficiently stupid as to provide check cashing and banking services for anyone? If this were me, and it's not, I'd inform the specimen hawking these services that they can pay their own help because I'm sure as hell not going to do it. Moreover here in this sandbox, checks...

An obscure tenet of Usenet, back before the most of you were born, states that whoever gets in the last word loses.

Just wait a while and then follow your nose. It's location will become more obvious as time passes.

Hard to adequately express oneself in monosyllabic snorts and grunts. Nonetheless, in the spirit of beneficence, which words or passages didn't you comprehend? Perhaps these could be restated in more primitive terms.

Just like any other FAQ, no one would actually read it. Everyone thinks that they are special and by extension that their problems are special. Being so special how could they possibly find a solution to their particular and special dilemma in some compendium of generic, and thereby mundane...

Assuming you're using Flexi... Instead of using the Type 2 marks, select the first, if memory serves, option for '4 Point' marks. this will print 4 small marks consisting of a cross hair and a couple of concentric circles. Each mark will be labelled 1 through 4 and they will be very close in...

If you don't have one of these in your pocket or you just need to mark a pair of points level with each other that are some distance from each other all you need is a length of clear plastic tubing. Fill the tube, any length even miles, with water. Then hold the water in one end where you want...

When was the last time you removed the dust cover on your cutter's tool carriage and blew out all the dust and crap. Especially the tool up/down mechanism? The tiniest bit of crud can alter the up/down timing resulting in incomplete cuts and other weirdness.

Not a typeface. The 'e's are different. Someone hand lettered this.

If you mean by 'stud mount' that you're putting some sort of projection on the back of the sign and then fitting these projections into holes punched into the surface then fine, the projections take the weight. But if you're not doing something like this then the sign still weighs what it...