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I never quite understood why people from other countries don't first think of the hypocracy of insulting the US via an Internet connection.

As annoying as working in imperial is usually; it's okay for this week's question, because all the units (except inches) cancel each other out anyways. You don't have to do any conversion.

The Internet was invented by Tim Berners-Lee, who is British. He has just received a knighthood for it.

That's not true.

The internet was invented in 1968 by a company called Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN) which was hired by the United States Defense Department to develop it, they developed what is now called ARPAnet, and the first email was sent about 1971.

Tim Berners-Lee, in the late 80's/early 90's invented the World Wide Web, defining HTML (hypertext markup language), HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) and URLs (Universal Resource Locators).

The internet != World Wide Web. The WWW is a subgroup of the internet, it just happens to be a rather large part of it.

The internet's been around since the late 60's. The WWW came into large use around the mid 90's.

At last check there were 3 countries that had not officially converted to the metric system: Liberia, Myanmar and -guess who?- the United States of My-Way-Or-The-Highwamerica.

Insulting an entire country because you find something on a web site to be biased? You are not at all biased are you?

If we all went with what was easiest and best for everyone involved, we'd all be speaking Esperanto wouldn't we?

This was LC #99 - english units

Let's look at some in the past, these are only the LC having to do with math quantity equations, not ciphers or other types of logic puzzles:
LC #98 - miles (english)
LC #97 - metric
LC #88 - lb (english)
LC #86 - metric
LC #81 - miles, because the 'explore' map key is in miles (english)
LC #77 - meters (metric)
LC #73 - cubic inches/volume (english)
LC #72 - cubic inches/calories (this LC and #73 were a two-part problem)
LC #69 - feet (english)
LC #65 - inches (english)
LC #60 - "neopian sound units"
LC #46 - metric
LC #35 - metric
LC #34 - metric
LC #33 - metric
LC #28 - metric
LC #24 - metric
LC #23 - english
LC #21 - metric
LC #2 - english
Ten in english units, ten in metric. Looks pretty equally split, although to me it seems that they've been alternating between the two recently, which seems fair.

We use centimeters, meters, grams and kilograms in the UK, not feet, inches, ounces and pounds

Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 11:28 pm    Post subject: Lenny Conundrum Biased
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I think its high time that Neopets stopped doing things because they're convenient for the United States and ignoring the rest of the world.

Let's look at the new LC, shall we?

Quote:
There was a steel beam 50 feet long. The entire Skeith construction crew (total weight: 6000 pounds) was standing at the center of the beam. Assume the modulus of elasticity is 29,000,000 pounds per square inch, the moment of inertia is 850 inches^4, the beam has simple pin connections at either end, and all loads other than the weight of the crew are disregarded.

Most of you probably see where I'm going with this.

At last check there were 3 countries that had not officially converted to the metric system: Liberia, Myanmar and -guess who?- the United States of My-Way-Or-The-Highwamerica.

Now, I'm may be a little rusty on the real stats, but I don't think that there were many Myanmarian or Liberians on Neopets, so I think its safe to assume that we're mostly being influenced by the other guy.

We can all see that in real life, other countries don't always get a fair shake. But hey, you didn't really want to buy that merchandise anyways, did you? The fact is, the US isn't the only country participating in this game and unless Neopets stops ostracizing every single country and starts building solid fanbases there, they are going to find themselves in the "dumb fad" column before too long.