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Well they also send me mugs and stickers, so I figure if I'm doing my part it tends to zero out. If it doesn't, i just have to step up my coding game. 
I'd rather send money to CP than some site I know nothing about. CP has been good to me.
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Email sean@codeproject.com with your mailing address and size.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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You do realise how many people are going to read that and think ... 
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Yep 
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Chris Maunder
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cool
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Add 2 to your size - I asked for XL and got M... However it's all good, wife is M...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: it's all good, wife is M...
I'll probably go with a medium then. I was going to say small if mens, medium if women's because that's usually what fits me in tee shirt sizes.
I'm a smol lil monster.
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What I found amusing was the ad for ad blockers. 
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actually, that's pretty effective: "Tired of seeing me? Click here!"
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In the cat hunting thread, below, I realized as I typed in she "inches forward[^]" that it would sound dumb if she "centimetered forward" or "metered forward".
What a lack-luster system of measurements. No romance. No poetry. Just easier to count on your fingers.
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Efficiency does not rhyme with poetry.
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Efficiency - yeah - like spending all of 30 seconds with your lover before your done? Saves time and sweat. Definitely a metric-system way of doing things!
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good example.
However, if efficiency is not a key consideration of a measurement system then why bother having a system at all?
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Accuracy.
And, after all, how else could you settle the question if "size matters?"
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How accurate is a system with the smallest unit being an inch? 
I need 2 mm of that thing or I need 0.0787402"?
You can't even measure the latter on a ruler!
A friend of mine who made furniture and had to work with imperial units complained about it.
If I leave out all the bad words he didn't say anything
I think he's back in happy metric land now
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Your description of "smallest unit being an inch" as relevant to accuracy displays a misunderstanding of the terms accuracy (do you really think we only measure in whole inches?) and your own system.
By your reasoning, the English system's much more accurate since your smallest unit is the meter !
A mm is a thousandth part of a meter - not a unit in itself, except by your familiarity with using it. So why is it difficult for you to comprehend that the English system also can use fractional parts of any unit? For that matter, in the English system, we allow them to be REAL UNITS, like this[^]. One could use "mili-inch", but that has its very own unit - and it's much more accurate (in your way of thinking) than your "mm".
Time for you to drop that "made in france" atrocity, the metric system, and return to reality.
Basically, you've been brainwashed into thinking the metric system is the be-all, end-all when, in fact, it's just like it is so you can count on your fingers.
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In human interaction, expression is foremost, and not all expression requires or is suited to precision.
Having access to precision is fine when it is required, but can be an obstacle when it is not.
Precision is cold and lacks humanity.
Imprecision leads to warmth and humor.
"DROMIO OF SYRACUSE. Nell, sir; but her name and three-quarters, that is an ell and three quarters, will not measure her from hip to hip." -- Shakespeare, "A Comedy of errors", Act 3, Scene 2
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: No romance. No poetry
Arts like Romance and Poetry are not considered engineering. Engineering needs precision, which needs to be in millimetres and micrometers, not in inches!
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Amarnath S wrote: Engineering needs precision, which needs to be in millimetres and micrometers, not in inches!
I don't disagree with your conclusion, but precision is not one of the problems with the imperial system. I mean, we could easily have micro-inches if we needed to. In fact, a quick Google suggest we already do have them!
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musefan wrote: micro-inches
Isn't this definition itself a combination of imperial and metric units? An oxymoron, isn't it?
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It's just an example to show that imperial can be as precise as you need it to be.
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The problem with imperial is that everything needs to be converted into a common unit before you can start using your measurements together. Quick, what's three quarters of a mile, plus 17 yards, plus 63 feet, plus half an inch, plus 3/8th, plus 57/64th?
With metric, conversion of your units (km/m/cm/mm) is just a matter of moving the decimal and lining up the columns to do the addition. You may be able to do it all in your head. That first step with the imperial system provides plenty of opportunity for errors.
How would you report that total anyway with imperial? Fractions of a mile? 64ths of an inch? Somewhere in-between?
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Imperial units simply require you use your head before you blurt out requirements.
Anyone who'd request a measurement of the sort you suggested deserves to be answered according to their folly. And even in silly metrics units - what value would such nonsense be? It makes it too easy to react without thinking. Dulls the mind; dulls the populace - making them easier to control . . .
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Okay, granted, it's silly to include nanoscale measurements along with lightyears. But my point still remains, even if you're sticking with a small (or large) scale - if you want to total up a bunch of measurements together, you first have to convert everything to a common denominator first.
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