which is the greater ongoing threat to safety in the US?

[ulysses]

I'm voting #2.

[bryant69]

1. But

How do either of these menaces stack up against Killer Mosquitos? Or Mecha-Godzilla?

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[ulysses]

2. poorly!

I got bitten by the first mosquito of the season last night. Fucking Georgia...

[buddhamama]

5. HAH!

i got bit by a mosquito Monday night and it is still offically winter here with snow falling to prove it. Fucking Maine... :-)

[ulysses]

8. sure, but are they

the B-52-sized things we have down here? Do they wear little skeeter sweaters? :D

:hi: 'mama!

[buddhamama]

13. today they're sportin green skeeter sweaters

with little leprechaun pins. :D

they're not big like GA skeeters but damn are they a hardy bunch, never seen anything like it.

good to see ya Uly. :hi:

[Renew Deal]

3. Wingnut militias can't do anything.

Of course, they may be on the other side when the civil war starts.

[ulysses]

9. I wouldn't bet on it.

And they're already here.

[slackmaster]

4. Ongoing failure to fully adopt the Metric System

I've been saying this since the 1960s and still nobody listens to me.

Sooner or later you'll all see I've been right all along.

:smoke:

[NewJeffCT]

6. true

How much manufacturing have we lost because our guys use inches and feet while the rest of the world uses centimeters & meters?

[slackmaster]

16. Probably significant

I do machine work as a hobby. The moving parts on most lathes, milling machines, etc. and English System measuring tools are graduated in thousandths of an inch (.001").

Most metric machine tools and instruments are graduated in hundredths of a millimeter. .01 mm = .00003937", a much finer degree of precision. And the ease of determining tap drill sizes and so on totally blows away the English measurements. The formulas are the same but because Metric drills are mostly in whole numbers of mm the calculations are much simpler.

The only non-Metric measure I would keep is the Farenheit temperature scale. It's in finer gradations than the Centigrade system, and well suited for measurements that predict human comfort.

[iverglas]

18. almost right

Rejecting metric is a biggie (it's so much easier to correlate an individual's personal highway speed limit to his/her IQ in metric, remember). The real problem is your failure to adopt the Robertson screwdriver.




http://www.workshopsupply.com/screws16.shtml: "The square head (Robertson) is vastly superior to any other screwdriver head. It just makes sense! A square peg into a square hole. Concentrate on turning the screw rather than trying to hold the screwdriver in the right spot so it doesn't slip out of the slot on the head of the screw. Once you use a square head (Robertson} ... you'll never use slotted again! "

Like insulin and basketball, another of those amazing Canadian inventions. ;)

We gave a set and a supply of screws to a Detroit in-law (a pipefitter by trade) a few years ago, and next thing you know he was planning cross-border raids to restock ...

.

[slackmaster]

19. I used Robertson screws as a security measure once

A taillight assembly got "midnight auto supply'd" from my then brand-new 1985 Nissan pickup. After spending almost $200 to replace it, I replaced the standard hex capscrews with square-drive screws and a little Locktite 242 to discourage a repeat.

I agree it's a vastly superior system.

Like insulin and basketball, another of those amazing Canadian inventions. ;)

Too bad only whores and hockey players live in Canada.

:evilgrin:

[ulysses]

7. heh!

Mars lander, anyone? :D

[ncrainbowgrrl]

10. No "other" option?

Oh- greater, not greatest. D'oh.

I would have said Ashcroft.

[ulysses]

11. yeah, just meant the comparison

The Calico Kid would definitely stand up well to these two, though.

[bpilgrim]

12. neoCONS

handsdown

peace

[ulysses]

14. kick

:kick:

[DinahMoeHum]

15. "Happy Birthday, Trisha. . ."

"...I'm in the Michigan Militia..."

- Moxy Fruvous "Michigan Militia"


:evilgrin:

[Wapsie B]

17. Other.

The republican party.