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Or one of the GODS of typo's will get you.

The damage done by ID theft is double on the victim. The victim loses credit and possibly money but they also lose after the initial damage is done because it can take ages and a lot of frustration trying to repair things and the time lost is gone forever. I have no sympathy for a thief, even if his victims are fools. It didn't happen to him gosh, he precipitated the outcome on himself. I'm just glad that you are here. DL

I might be able to dish out a few more but I don't think anyone here is a DOLT.

Easy one. I won't look a GIFT horse in the mouth. DL

I didn't think I would see a time WHEN there would be such a long list of four letter words.

Temps in the 85-95F.(32C~) range during the day, 70's at night. Humidity in the 60's. Saturday night (August 11) it started up with a very light drizzle. Didn't think much of it. 1:30 in the morning, I wake up to a howling gale beating the house. I went to the front door and looked out. No wind at all. It was just a wall of water. By 8:00 a.m., a 5" rainmeter, which was dry the day before had now overflowed.

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Welcome aboard Vennz. Well we have a couple of hard heads and several eggheads but I don't recollect seeing any others of your ilk around. DL

When all this starts to get a little hard to digest, put a bit of BRAN in your diet.

@dirtwarrior- Would it be possible for you to post a link to a picture of the inside of your monitor? puntoMX might find it useful and I am very curious as to what it looks like in there. DL

@Zxian-That tells you how much time someone spends inside the guts of a comp when they keep a flashlight at the ready.

Hi Welcome to MSFN Cti. DL

I had heard good reviews before. Yours' cinches it. I'm going to the theater. First time in a long time. Yes, purity and cleanliness. I remember enjoying the fight sequences in the first two movies. Very real. I watched them and thought that that is a believable fight. I never noticed if there was no music. In fact it is now probably going to be a small distraction when I watch the movie and listen for where the music is played. Great, thanks. DL

Ok, I'll fill the next SLOT. Now don't go talking about girlfriend next. DL

True and unless you want to count any donations you make, this site is free also which takes us back to what Zxian said. You will find or you have already found that the 'free spirit' is quite strong here. But there has got to be that yin yang thing. All in balance. DL

Hi Rob, Welcome to MSFN. DL

A whole hearted welcome to MSFN Halfdan. DL

Hello Serdar. Welcome to MSFN. DL Mark

Oh, don't be so cynical with yourself. I'm sure you have room to make more mistakes if necessary. Welcome to MSFN thyde337 DL

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Oooo, so you want to LORD it over us, huh? DL

I'm fully aware that the more technical fields use metric and why. And why should it be otherwise? For you metrics is the 'lingua franca'. Yes, that's true. <deleted blithering nonsense> I think my main point is that even though standard measures (phrased that way for a little needling ) is more difficult to learn and remember is that it revolves around us and our tangible world. Even when someone is describing a new chip and the circuits are xx nanometers wide, they will say 'that is about 1/100th the width of a human hair' and they are not talking to only us standard people. It is fully understandable as to why metrics came about as the definitive scale in the sciences. Different people, different countries, they all had different methods and who's was the most important? Not going to get a consensus that way. It's just unfortunate that it wasn't worked a** backwards and made to fit human scale so to speak. "How long is a foot?" "Oh, you know. About this long [holds up hands to show the distance], ya know? Like a big foot" "How long is 304.8mm?" "Oh, you know. About this long [holds up hands to show distance], ya know? Like a big foot"Another unfortunate thing is the name Imperial. I could well imagine a lot of people would be put off that system just by it's name. Ok, I'll let you have that one without any fig Newton jokes. And my jokes don't seem to come out the way I thought they did. I have a propensity for 'yanking on someone's chain'. No offenses intended. Heh. Last but not least. Congratulations. Mark

FORM FORK DORK DARK BARK PARK PART FART FAST VAST VASE BASE CASE CAST CART DART DARE CARE FARE MARE MALE TALE SALE SOLE SOLD MOLD TOLD GOLD FOLD FOLK FILK MILK MILE MALE MATE MAZE DAZE DOZE DONE NONE NOSE POSE POLE PORE MORE SORE SURE PURE PARE RARE RACE FACE FACT TACT PACT PAST FAST CAST CASE BASE VASE VISE VISA VESA VEST BEST JEST TEST TEAT MEAT NEAT SEAT SEAR FEAR NEAR DEAR BEER BEEP PEEP PEER LEER LEEK LEAK LEAP LEAN Hungry? Let's go eat a BEAN. DL

I've read bits and pieces of info over the years and one bit I remember is that the original average temperature for an adult is 98.6 degrees and that was measured on someone's assistant who happened to be ill at the time. I have family in England and when I visit, rarely does anyone use metric other than retailers. And a pint doesn't taste anywhere near as good when ordered in any other form. Prior to my most recent visit, a retailer used Imperial per his customers' request. I bureaucratic weenie fined him 500 Pounds. That's enough to drive a really small business under. Isn't history interesting? I like farmers. They make things I like. Human and the duodecimal system. It's just unfortunate that we only have ten fingers because that is apparently what we use to count with. (only half kidding!)Ummm, not to insult the French, but Paris has nothing to do with the natural world around us. The vibrations per second of some element does. Not all of us. I do prefer the square drive for general applications but the Philips is intended to strip so as not to overtorque something like when installing drywall. Unfortunately, it is used in places it shouldn't be. The only information I ever found on the dimensions on square drives mentioned using wire guage for the width of the drives. Anybody got anything specific? The reason that the Philips drive is more common here is that Robertson refused to lease his patent.My Dad was doing some work for a German company that produced a machine with almost all metric components. They went on and on about metric. My Dad asked them about the connections on some of the lines used for liquids. They were using Whitworth. It was the profile that would provide the seal needed. I'm biased because I use standard measures day to day. I can use metric but it just doesn't feel right. I also use hours, minutes, seconds...degrees, minutes and seconds. How about you Zxian? I can understand the need for a standard system of measures but the metric system has starched underwear. @prx984-what jcarle and Zxian said. DL

FORM FORK DORK DARK BARK PARK PART FART FAST VAST VASE BASE CASE CAST CART DART DARE CARE FARE MARE MALE TALE SALE SOLE SOLD MOLD TOLD GOLD FOLD FOLK FILK MILK MILE MALE MATE MAZE DAZE DOZE DONE NONE NOSE POSE POLE PORE MORE SORE SURE PURE PARE RARE RACE FACE FACT TACT PACT PAST FAST CAST CASE BASE VASE VISE VISA VESA VEST BEST JEST TEST TEAT MEAT NEAT SEAT Pass. It's the hot seat. I don't need to SEAR my tush.