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  • To add to this, it’s widely used in Brazil who copied it from surf culture.

    China also uses it as part of their one hand counting system. To them it’s the number 6 (pronounced ‘leo’). The use of it in western culture has allowed them to adopt it as a way of saying something is cool. They will say 666 (pronounced “leo leo leo”) while making the hand gesture to say something is cool. This fact was very fun to explain to my ultra conservative family back in the states.

    Source: I taught in China for nine years in an international school with a very large Brazilian community.








  • Because 1 Drakon is 1000 Cubic 100tholians, which takes 1000 Vornies to raise 100 degrees on the Flugar scale to boiling point.

    Metric is very scientific, but it was made through arbitrary means. They chose to make it easier than imperial by using divisions of 10. But it’s all based on a single measurement that they made up through arbitrary means.

    “We have this length called a meter. How do we define it? Let’s use it to measue something in nature and then use that measurement to define it.”












  • Look man, i get that you’re probably a diehard Apple fanboy, but you’re really missing the point.

    Fact 1 - Microsoft openly supported a multi-button mouse and offered it to you. PCs that were budled with Microsoft windows came with a 2 button mouse. They trusted their users to understand how it worked.

    Fact 2 - Apple supported mutli-button mice but refused to bundle it with their computers until 2005 because they didn’t trust that users were smart enough to use it.

    These 2 facts lead back to the original point. That PC makers trusted their users were smart enough, and Apple didn’t. That Apple only relented when they were proven wrong that people could very easily use and understand a multi-button mouse. That they were late to the party to bundle it with their computers.

    Prove me wrong on either if the 2 facts.

    And the “walled garden” is an ethos which has dictated all of Apples choices. They want to have full control over what us done on their hardware and software. It has merit to our conversation.

    And honestly, your arguments will never change the fact that Apple’s approach to hardware and software has been a deterrent to user for decades.


  • I already admitted that you were correct about Apple supporting a multi-button mouse. What you’re missing us the fact that they didn’t want you to have one until 2005. They made you buy a non brand mouse to do the job.

    Microsoft made their first mouse in 1983 to go with Word, and it had 2 buttons. Go back even further and Xerox had one with 3 buttons in 1981.

    The point stands that Apple purposefully chose to not bundle a multi-button mouse until 2005 becasue they didn’t respect their user base. Their walled garden approach to computers and software is great for people who are just need a PC or a Phone. But historically their not for developers or power users.