Re: CHAT: browsers

John Cowan wrote:
> 1 kg is an awkward amount of food, I think; it makes some sense to have
> an informal unit for 500 g.
That depends on if you're used to counting food in hundreds of grams or
not, I'd think. (I think it'd be much more useful to use hectograms than
  metric pounds, personally. Really, whoever decided it would be best to
use multiples of 1000 (kilo-, mega-, milli- etc.) more often than the
others was a fool. (Yet we use hectopascals when kilopascals would give
nicer numbers... I hear this is because hPa used to be called bars, but
what bars have to do with the price of fish I don't know.))

>>This Commonwealth thing seems to make things quite complicated .
>
> Actually, to belong to the Commonwealth, you merely have to recognize
> QE2 as the head of the Commonwealth.  It includes quite a few countries
> that are republics (e.g. India and Pakistan), some that have their own
> monarchs, and even some (e.g. Mozambique) that were never British colonies
> at all.
And then you get to have fun acronyms like CHOGM /tSOg@m/ pop up in the
paper every so often! (Commonwealth Heads of Government Meating or
something like that, for those who wondered.)

> In principle, France could join tomorrow.  And Hell will freeze over
> the day after.
:)

Tristan.

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