The Great Right North?

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Sorry, too young to have gone through this. I hate working in imperial units. Too many conversion ratios.

Funny thing is, I still work with Imperial Units. I've installed carpet by the square yard, and vinyl flooring by the square yard, and now I only install ceramic tile by the square foot. Yes I have to buy glue in metric, but I bill in Imperial Units. If I do a concrete floor, I order by cubic yards. If I do drywall, I do it by the board foot. Who knows what a board foot is??? Roofs are shingled by the square, meaning 100 square feet. Housing is calculated by the square foot. Real estate companies sell by the square foot.

I still drive by MPH, and read temperature by degrees F not C. Weight by lbs and height by ft. and inches. Distance by feet or miles.

Metric has allowed consumers to be ripped off. CTC advertised that they sold oil by the litre, but the container was actually only 946ml.

 

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The stock car, by contrast, corresponds to the rule of common law. One takes an existing vehicle- one that ordinary people actually own and drive in day-to-day life, QUOTE]

Your theory used to work, but it too has conformed to rules and regulations.

Stock car racing used to be an "off the showroom floor" car, modified for a race on a track. Ask Ned Jarret, or Richard Petty, Junior Johnson The list could go on for ever. They raced with "stock" cars, modified, but not like today's Nascar.

When have you seen a V8 powered, rear wheel drive Ford Taurus, Chevy Monte Carlo, or previous models like Chevy Lumina, Dodge Intrepid, or Pontiac.

Today, NASCAR race cars have very little in common with street cars as they had in the past. Almost every detail of a NASCAR car is handmade to improve, speed, power to weight ratio, fuel economy and performance. Every detail on a NASCAR car is checked, modified and improved right down to the tires they drive on, to the design of the bumpers. The bodies are built from flat light weight sheet metal. The engines are assembled from a bare block, with special emphasis on producing, torque, power and performance. The frame is constructed from strong, lightweight steel tubing which is strong and durable in case of a crash at high speeds to protect the driver. All of these modifications and more are made to make the car faster, lighter, performance enhancing and safer then their competitions.

 

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Mind if I ask what you do for living?

Given the, umm, "sensitive" nature of this particular forum, I'm afraid to say that I do

I find that many resident Bushphiliacs on this board are caricatures lifted straight from the show Simple Life, whose sophomoric understanding of politics and political theory emasculates their minds too much to engage in any decent dialogue beyond screaming the dreaded word "lefties" and "liberals," but you, my friend, you actually show some signs of intelligence, which is a rare commodity among the flag-waving, foaming-in-the-mouth, Bible-thumping Bush supporters. Certainly this is the first time that I've come across a confessed Bushphiliac who actually knows that Foucault is not an automobile brand.

I find that many Bush supporters (and Canadian Conservatives) internalize a sort of anti-intellectualism as part of their personal identity, and thus either hold back on saying what they know or keep quiet entirely. Myself, I originate as a guy from a blue-collar, Simple-Life background who was too dumb to fix things and got good at reading and writing as a result.

We both know, of course, that Dubya himself could hardly make any sense of your posts, let alone grasp a single paragraph of Derrida.

Maybe not- but he's the most powerful man in the the world. He must know something...

 

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Your theory used to work, but it too has conformed to rules and regulations.

Stock car racing used to be an "off the showroom floor" car, modified for a race on a track. Ask Ned Jarret, or Richard Petty, Junior Johnson The list could go on for ever. They raced with "stock" cars, modified, but not like today's Nascar.

When have you seen a V8 powered, rear wheel drive Ford Taurus, Chevy Monte Carlo, or previous models like Chevy Lumina, Dodge Intrepid, or Pontiac.

Today, NASCAR race cars have very little in common with street cars as they had in the past. Almost every detail of a NASCAR car is handmade to improve, speed, power to weight ratio, fuel economy and performance. Every detail on a NASCAR car is checked, modified and improved right down to the tires they drive on, to the design of the bumpers. The bodies are built from flat light weight sheet metal. The engines are assembled from a bare block, with special emphasis on producing, torque, power and performance. The frame is constructed from strong, lightweight steel tubing which is strong and durable in case of a crash at high speeds to protect the driver. All of these modifications and more are made to make the car faster, lighter, performance enhancing and safer then their competitions.

Over time, I guess (I'm not an expert), they become more and more different from a street car. But it's still based on a street car, at least loosely, and they don't have to build it according to some formula rigorously specified by a governing body.