I love how if jack doesn't understand/ doesn't agree with something he simply says it sucks without having any proof whatsoever (like not acknowledging humans are mostly have water)
Burnie doesn't seem to really know the whole Late Night deal. He seems to think Conan is the one being canned, but it's really Jay Leno who is doing so poorly, that NBC wants to put him into Conan's time slot. And Conan wants nothing to do with that so he's threatening to leave altogether. It bugs me when they talk about these things and don't have the all the facts, but still form such strong opinions about them while acknowledging they don't know what's going on. to quote jordan
I'll tell why celcius is usable, especially if you live in a colder country like me. You want to know when it will freeze outside! It's really important to know if the road will be slippery, if it will snow instead of rain and so on. And if the system is based around water that's easy to know. I know that if it's below 0 degrees celcius, all water will be forzen. Also it's easier to use if you're cooking, since you want to know when the water will be boiling. Enough said
In podcast 45 talking about JayOrDan, Burnie talks about Dana Carvey's heart problems. In podcast 147, with JayOrDan, Burnie talks about Dana Carvey's heart problems.
That's in efficient compared to Fahrenheit. You have to say 3 numbers and a "point" in there. That's double the amount of words I want to hear when figuring out what I need to put on before I go outside...
Celsius is much better than Fahrenheit for judging the whether because 0 degrees is the freezing point, meaning if the temperature outside is below 0, it will be cold and snow is a possibility. If the temperature is above 0 then it won't snow. If the temperature is anywhere near the 30's, it'll be hot.
The Fahrenheit system is not nearly as useful in judging the whether, the freezing point is 32, which is a fairly arbitrary placement.
The justification given by Burnie for the use of Fahrenheit seemed to be that it tells people when they have a fever, which is a far less practical basis for measuring temperature.
Other than that Burnie seemed to claim Fahrenheit was more precise, but that too makes little sense considering the decimal system has been around for a very, very long time.
The RT guys seem to be stuck in a bubble, impervious to outside reason.
Technically Rankine serves as Fahrenheit's Kelvin equivalent, where 0*R equals absolute zero, and the degree intervals are the same as in Fahrenheit. So, we can manage fine. Though as I said before, even though I like Fahrenheit for common everyday uses, I overwhelmingly prefer metric for Scien...
Technically Rankine serves as Fahrenheit's Kelvin equivalent, where 0*R equals absolute zero, and the degree intervals are the same as in Fahrenheit. So, we can manage fine. Though as I said before, even though I like Fahrenheit for common everyday uses, I overwhelmingly prefer metric for Scientific and Engineering applications, so although I understand the viewpoints from both sides, I may have internal biases that prevent me from truly being representative of either side. I just am trying defend that our choice is equally valid in terms of temperature scale, even if it means I don't know certain relations off the top of my head for working between American scales, like for example, in metric I know things like 1ccm of water at 1 AU = 1mL of water = 1g, and that the energy required to raise that mass 1*C in temp = 1cal = .001Cal(food calorie). I don't have to think, I just know, and to be honest, if I had to do something like that in American scales, I would just cheat and quickly convert to metric to do the math, then back to whatever for the answer. The main point though, is whether or not we should be forced to change our preference because most of the world uses something else. I can easily say that even though you're a native Norwegian, you write in English better than most of the Americans on this thread, so I can only assume you're very comfortable using it. Also, English, and i'm sure soon Chinese Mandarin, are taught around the world as kind of the unofficial language of global business. But even so, just because a lot of people use English around the world, including you, it doesn't mean Norway should drop using Norsk for English, should it?
Thank you for understanding, you seem to be quite reflected on the world around you. I love it when people know what they are talking about. (haha) ;-) I think we should drop using Norsk (Bokmål & Nynorsk), because everything we learned at school was in International English (EST - English for Sc...
Thank you for understanding, you seem to be quite reflected on the world around you. I love it when people know what they are talking about. (haha) ;-) I think we should drop using Norsk (Bokmål & Nynorsk), because everything we learned at school was in International English (EST - English for Science and Technology). Everyone in Norway start learning english in pre school, that means that our 2nd language is English ;-)
On another note; A colleague of mine had to learn mandarin as an official job requirement, that shows how wide spead that language is. ;-)
100 fahrenheit livable fahrenheit? In some scandinavian countries like in mine we use saunas, and in saunas its pretty casual for some people to be in a sauna in around 200 fahrenheit. When I go to sauna its around 176 fahrenheit.
A sauna is a controlled environment. What Burnie is referring to, is that when your internal body temperature reaches 106 degrees, your internal organs begin to become damaged, most notably the brain. When the outdoor temperature is over 100 F, many individuals, are prone to suffer heat exhaustion. ...
A sauna is a controlled environment. What Burnie is referring to, is that when your internal body temperature reaches 106 degrees, your internal organs begin to become damaged, most notably the brain. When the outdoor temperature is over 100 F, many individuals, are prone to suffer heat exhaustion. We are warmblooded, so our bodies naturally produce heat, just by breathing. We need that heat to dissipate from our bodies to maintain a normal body temperature. When the environment makes that difficult, certain age groups are susceptible to organ failure.
I don't think it's hard concept to understand that 0 is cold and 100 is hot when talking about weather conditions.
Just to let you guys know, the reporter stroke wasn't actually a stroke. It was caused by an atypical migraine. My sister had this once, and basically you lose your ability to speak resembles a stroke.
to quote jordan
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WHO'S THAT AT THE DOOR!!!
The Fahrenheit system is not nearly as useful in judging the whether, the freezing point is 32, which is a fairly arbitrary placement.
The justification given by Burnie for the use of Fahrenheit seemed to be that it tells people when they have a fever, which is a far less practical basis for measuring temperature.
Other than that Burnie seemed to claim Fahrenheit was more precise, but that too makes little sense considering the decimal system has been around for a very, very long time.
The RT guys seem to be stuck in a bubble, impervious to outside reason.
I think we should drop using Norsk (Bokmål & Nynorsk), because everything we learned at school was in International English (EST - English for Sc...
In some scandinavian countries like in mine we use saunas, and in saunas its pretty casual for some people to be in a sauna in around 200 fahrenheit.
When I go to sauna its around 176 fahrenheit.
We use celcius though so I just googlelated that.
pd.- I noticed because i was listening to that one