These guys still don’t understand the metric system. A million microphones is a phone, because a microphone is one millionth of a phone. A megaphone would be a million million microphone. That is to say, a trillion microphones, or a peta-microphone.

There is no adequate defense against idiots. They greatly out number us and seem tireless in their efforts. It’s best just to keep them busy doing something harmless. In Mississippi we elect them to office.

A Deutche Grammophone (Grammophon?), like an Imperial gallon, is a little bigger and more pretentious. [heh-heh, he said Tefunken (Telefunken), heh-heh!]

Sorry circuitsmith; I meant to say Telefunken. “Grammophone” has different acceptable spellings, such as Grammophon and Gramophone, according to the New German Dictionnary by Cassels. “Grammophone” is not acceptable. And a Gramophoneplatte is a … record. In another post I related to a summer job I…

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The unit of air pressure on mechanical European (German) tire pressure gages is the bar, usually from 0 to 4 bars (≈ 60 psi), in increments of 0.1 bar.

“Bars make a lot of sense” They do, especially at the end of a long, hard day. However, I prefer to bring my own (Johnny Walker Black), rather than pay inflated drink prices at bars. That was what you meant–right? ;-))

Docnick — "Bars make a lot of sense, but some countries use kilopascals.Bars and kPa are used interchangeably in Europe. 1 bar = 100 kPa. (1 Pascal (Pa) = 1 Newton/meter²) So the 225 kPa factory recommended air pressure would simply convert to 2.25 bars (or 32.6 psi for the Luddites).

To my knowledge, the Whitworth thread was a British screw thread that was gradually phased out as the industry went metric. It was very popular in the car business there. At that time we had here Unified National Coarse (UNC) and Unified National Fine (UNF). Europe had metric D.I.N., originally from…

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Bars make a lot of sense, but some countries use kilopascals. Typically a car might have 225kpa as the factory recommended air pressure.

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