[Info-vax] Where is EISNER:: and who funds it?

[alanfe...@gmail.com]

On Friday, December 24, 2021 at 1:19:15 AM UTC-5, Steven Schweda wrote:
> > Nitpicking. Nit-, nit-, nitpicking. Fine. [...] 
> 
> It's really not. Mass and weight are different concepts. 
> 
> > [...] be prepared to adjust your scale [...] 
> 
> Why? _I_'m measuring _mass_ using a balance, so I don't need to 
> adjust anything. Only someone who actually measures _weight_ needs to 
> worry. 

Hmmm. I didn't know you were using a balance scale. Most people don't. I actually have a beam balance, like the ones you see in doctors offices. But most don't. I suppose to p[ay a compliment to someone who lost weight you'd say, "Hey, I see you lost some mass there! Lookin' good!" Really? Is that how you'd put it, and you'd give people s*** if they said weight instead of mass?

It's still nitpicking.

> 
> The once-ubiquitous phrase, "No Springs -- Honest Weight", should, of 
> course, have read, "No Springs -- Honest Mass", because that's what was 
> actually measured. Of course, with pound (mass) and poundal (force), or 
> pound (force) and slug (mass), it's clear why SI might cause less 
> confusion among the easily confused. 
> 
> > You're really nitpicking here. [...] 

Have you ever checked out onlineconversion.com? Talk about lots of units!

> 
> Real nit-picking would have been complaining that "the positron as 
> the unit of charge" was wrong because "the positron" is a particle, not 
> a "unit of charge". Note: "the magnitude of the charge on an electron", 
> not "the electron". 
> 
> Precise language might look like nit-picking to a sloppy mind, but 
> it's really not.

No, nitpicking looks like irrelevant time-wasting criticism to people who aren't interested in wasting time on things that don't matter. We're humans, not computers. Most of us don't need every blasted last detail expounded to us. That's why computers are so bad at common sense. Of course I'm writing this post anyway. (^_^) 

Ever been on quora.com? We've got some classic nitpickers there. It's often obvious what questioner means by a poorly worded question. Some will go on and on about how color is really a perception of the mind blah blah blah, when it's damn obvious what the question was. "Why is the grass green?" gets answered with a multi-paragraph explanation about how color is really just a perception of the mind. Shutup and answer the damn question, for Chrissakes. Sheesh. 

Or the time isn't real bit, or the am/pm/noon/midnight bit. You'd have a ball!

I could go on, but time's-a-wasting! (And I'm sure interest would be waning!)

AEF