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Ha...
I just realized why Ars Techina had no interesting policy articles for today. . .
Government is closed... not much more to report than that. . .
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@tim_g said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
We can switch to Spanish, too.
Why? Less than 14% of the U.S. population speaks spanish... and only 3 countries in the world don't use the Metric system.
I'm not saying one instead of the other, I'm saying both.
You used mixed logic. To say Spanish doesn't make sense, is based on what the US already does, metric based on what the rest of the world does.
Reverse that and what do you get?
Almost no Americans use metric, but seventeen other New World countries use Spanish included our most populace neighbour.
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@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@tim_g said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
We can switch to Spanish, too.
Why? Less than 14% of the U.S. population speaks spanish... and only 3 countries in the world don't use the Metric system.
I'm not saying one instead of the other, I'm saying both.
You used mixed logic. To say Spanish doesn't make sense, is based on what the US already does, metric based on what the rest of the world does.
Reverse that and what do you get?
Almost no Americans use metric, but seventeen other New World countries use Spanish included our most populace neighbour.
Canada?
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@dustinb3403 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@tim_g said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
We can switch to Spanish, too.
Why? Less than 14% of the U.S. population speaks spanish... and only 3 countries in the world don't use the Metric system.
I'm not saying one instead of the other, I'm saying both.
You used mixed logic. To say Spanish doesn't make sense, is based on what the US already does, metric based on what the rest of the world does.
Reverse that and what do you get?
Almost no Americans use metric, but seventeen other New World countries use Spanish included our most populace neighbour.
Canada?
You think Canada is our most populace neighbour? It's like 20% the size of Mexico.
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@dustinb3403 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@tim_g said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
We can switch to Spanish, too.
Why? Less than 14% of the U.S. population speaks spanish... and only 3 countries in the world don't use the Metric system.
I'm not saying one instead of the other, I'm saying both.
You used mixed logic. To say Spanish doesn't make sense, is based on what the US already does, metric based on what the rest of the world does.
Reverse that and what do you get?
Almost no Americans use metric, but seventeen other New World countries use Spanish included our most populace neighbour.
Canada?
I think that's french.
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@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@dustinb3403 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@tim_g said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
We can switch to Spanish, too.
Why? Less than 14% of the U.S. population speaks spanish... and only 3 countries in the world don't use the Metric system.
I'm not saying one instead of the other, I'm saying both.
You used mixed logic. To say Spanish doesn't make sense, is based on what the US already does, metric based on what the rest of the world does.
Reverse that and what do you get?
Almost no Americans use metric, but seventeen other New World countries use Spanish included our most populace neighbour.
Canada?
You think Canada is our most populace neighbour? It's like 20% the size of Mexico.
Sorry
Canada?
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Population of Canada: 36 million
Population of Mexico: 127.5 million -
It was supposed to be sarcasm but it went over Scott's head.
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@dustinb3403 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@dustinb3403 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@tim_g said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
We can switch to Spanish, too.
Why? Less than 14% of the U.S. population speaks spanish... and only 3 countries in the world don't use the Metric system.
I'm not saying one instead of the other, I'm saying both.
You used mixed logic. To say Spanish doesn't make sense, is based on what the US already does, metric based on what the rest of the world does.
Reverse that and what do you get?
Almost no Americans use metric, but seventeen other New World countries use Spanish included our most populace neighbour.
Canada?
You think Canada is our most populace neighbour? It's like 20% the size of Mexico.
Sorry
Canada?
Oh... wow. I get what you did there... I'm slightly disappointed I didn't think of it first.
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Oh, now I get it.
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@scottalanmiller since Trump wants to wall off all of Mexico, we Americans can dickfully not include Mexico as "neighbors".
IE only Canada might be a neighbor based on Trump-View (racist vision that he has).
The joke being that in much of Canada, they speak French (not Spanish) and of course, that they aren't being walled off from us.
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@dustinb3403 Not being walled off YET anyways. He's going for the small project before he goes with the big one on this one.
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@nerdydad said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@dustinb3403 Not being walled off YET anyways. He's going for the small project before he goes with the big one on this one.
In this presidencies mind, it is already walled off.
I'm surprised he hasn't came out with a plan to make the Texas Mexico Canal a thing and forgo the Panama Canal.
(Which I had the idea for a long time ago as there is no way a wall would stop what he is thinking it'll stop).
IE: Planes fly over walls!
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@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
I'm not saying one instead of the other, I'm saying both.
That's not how I took it. It seemed like you meant for the U.S. to stop speaking English and to speak Spanish instead.
If that was the case, then we would be switching to something that is NON-majority. With the metric system, we would be switching to something that IS majority.
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@dustinb3403 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@nerdydad said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@dustinb3403 Not being walled off YET anyways. He's going for the small project before he goes with the big one on this one.
In this presidencies mind, it is already walled off.
I'm surprised he hasn't came out with a plan to make the Texas Mexico Canal a thing and forgo the Panama Canal.
(Which I had the idea for a long time ago as there is no way a wall would stop what he is thinking it'll stop).
IE: Planes fly over walls!
But the Rio Grande doesn't go all the way to the Pacific. Somewhere between Laredo and the Big Ben area, the river flows north. The rest was just negotiated between the US and Mexico. If there was a way of canalling all of the way through, that would have been easier to pass than a wall. He could have showed so much cost savings in getting ships to pass through instead of just being an isolationist.
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@nerdydad said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@dustinb3403 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@nerdydad said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@dustinb3403 Not being walled off YET anyways. He's going for the small project before he goes with the big one on this one.
In this presidencies mind, it is already walled off.
I'm surprised he hasn't came out with a plan to make the Texas Mexico Canal a thing and forgo the Panama Canal.
(Which I had the idea for a long time ago as there is no way a wall would stop what he is thinking it'll stop).
IE: Planes fly over walls!
But the Rio Grande doesn't go all the way to the Pacific. Somewhere between Laredo and the Big Ben area, the river flows north. The rest was just negotiated between the US and Mexico. If there was a way of canalling all of the way through, that would have been easier to pass than a wall. He could have showed so much cost savings in getting ships to pass through instead of just being an isolationist.
My idea is about literally cutting Mexico and the United states at the border, put in a massive canal and make all of that sweet transport profit screwing the Panamanians (since we gave them the Panama Canal a short while ago).
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@dustinb3403 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@nerdydad said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@dustinb3403 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@nerdydad said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@dustinb3403 Not being walled off YET anyways. He's going for the small project before he goes with the big one on this one.
In this presidencies mind, it is already walled off.
I'm surprised he hasn't came out with a plan to make the Texas Mexico Canal a thing and forgo the Panama Canal.
(Which I had the idea for a long time ago as there is no way a wall would stop what he is thinking it'll stop).
IE: Planes fly over walls!
But the Rio Grande doesn't go all the way to the Pacific. Somewhere between Laredo and the Big Ben area, the river flows north. The rest was just negotiated between the US and Mexico. If there was a way of canalling all of the way through, that would have been easier to pass than a wall. He could have showed so much cost savings in getting ships to pass through instead of just being an isolationist.
My idea is about literally cutting Mexico and the United states at the border, put in a massive canal and make all of that sweet transport profit screwing the Panamanians (since we gave them the Panama Canal a short while ago).
Would have to have some kind of treaty with Mexico with some revenue going to both countries for that to happen, but it could.
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@nerdydad said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@dustinb3403 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@nerdydad said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@dustinb3403 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@nerdydad said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@dustinb3403 Not being walled off YET anyways. He's going for the small project before he goes with the big one on this one.
In this presidencies mind, it is already walled off.
I'm surprised he hasn't came out with a plan to make the Texas Mexico Canal a thing and forgo the Panama Canal.
(Which I had the idea for a long time ago as there is no way a wall would stop what he is thinking it'll stop).
IE: Planes fly over walls!
But the Rio Grande doesn't go all the way to the Pacific. Somewhere between Laredo and the Big Ben area, the river flows north. The rest was just negotiated between the US and Mexico. If there was a way of canalling all of the way through, that would have been easier to pass than a wall. He could have showed so much cost savings in getting ships to pass through instead of just being an isolationist.
My idea is about literally cutting Mexico and the United states at the border, put in a massive canal and make all of that sweet transport profit screwing the Panamanians (since we gave them the Panama Canal a short while ago).
Would have to have some kind of treaty with Mexico with some revenue going to both countries for that to happen, but it could.
Not if we just cut off the lower 100 miles of Texas to do it. (sorry people that live in both Mexico and Texas), you're now Mexican.
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@dustinb3403 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@nerdydad said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@dustinb3403 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@nerdydad said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@dustinb3403 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@nerdydad said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@dustinb3403 Not being walled off YET anyways. He's going for the small project before he goes with the big one on this one.
In this presidencies mind, it is already walled off.
I'm surprised he hasn't came out with a plan to make the Texas Mexico Canal a thing and forgo the Panama Canal.
(Which I had the idea for a long time ago as there is no way a wall would stop what he is thinking it'll stop).
IE: Planes fly over walls!
But the Rio Grande doesn't go all the way to the Pacific. Somewhere between Laredo and the Big Ben area, the river flows north. The rest was just negotiated between the US and Mexico. If there was a way of canalling all of the way through, that would have been easier to pass than a wall. He could have showed so much cost savings in getting ships to pass through instead of just being an isolationist.
My idea is about literally cutting Mexico and the United states at the border, put in a massive canal and make all of that sweet transport profit screwing the Panamanians (since we gave them the Panama Canal a short while ago).
Would have to have some kind of treaty with Mexico with some revenue going to both countries for that to happen, but it could.
Not if we just cut off the lower 100 miles of Texas to do it. (sorry people that live in both Mexico and Texas), you're now Mexican.
I really didn't like them anyways.
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Call it the US Texan Canal.
Ships coming from northern Europe currently have to go all the way down to Panama to get to China / Japan etc.
If we did this (like 2000 miles insane but plausible) we would be saving them the days of south to north travel, literally create 10's of thousands of jobs and then produce a permanent stream of money for the US and lower Texas as a whole.
