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What the Fark???

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Stop me if you've heard this one before

Two Ebola patients, who died of the virus in separate communities in Nimba County have reportedly resurrected in the county. The victims, both females, believed to be in their 60s and 40s respectively, died of the Ebola virus recently in Hope Village Community and the Catholic Community in Ganta, Nimba.

But to the amazement of residents and onlookers on Monday, the deceased reportedly regained life in total disbelief. The NewDawn Nimba County correspondent said the late Dorris Quoi of Hope Village Community and the second victim only identified as Ma Kebeh, said to be in her late 60s, were about to be taken for burial when they resurrected.

Ma Kebeh had reportedly been in door for two nights without food and medication before her alleged death. Nimba County has had bazaar news of Ebola cases with a native doctor from the county, who claimed that he could cure infected victims, dying of the virus himself last week.

News of the resurrection of the two victims has reportedly created panic in residents of Hope Village Community and Ganta at large, with some citizens describing Dorris Quoi as a ghost, who shouldn't live among them. Since the Ebola outbreak in Nimba County, this is the first incident of dead victims resurrecting.
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bigblue_dl said:
Anyone who doesn't know that a 2x4 is actually 1.5x3.5 is a moron
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I'm not sure if I'm supporting your point, but I had no idea until this story came out a couple weeks ago. I doubt more than 10% of women and 10% of American city dwellers know either. It's not a real relevant life skill for a lot of us.
 
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Kepler said:
I'm not sure if I'm supporting your point, but I had no idea until this story came out a couple weeks ago. I doubt more than 10% of women and 10% of American city dwellers know either. It's not a real relevant life skill for a lot of us.
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That's probably true of any specialty field. Anyone with even the slightest experience in working with wood learns the "true" dimensions of lumber very early on. Similarly with anyone who does even the most basic electrical wiring, you quickly learn the difference between 12-gage and 14-gage wire, which no doubt sounds like complete gobble-de-gook otherwise.

Behind the splashy headlines is the fact that for lumber there actually is an organization tasked with setting the standards for dimensional lumber that has been around for decades. For some busybody AG to ignore such well-established and widely understood standards is just overreach. Are they next going to tell nurses to stop measuring injections in cubic centimeters and force all medical professionals to convert to cubic inches instead?


If they really wanted to be useful, they'd force auto makers to report fuel economy standards in gallons per 100 miles instead. As discussed in more detail in a different thread (it might be Monty Hall We Have a Problem, IIRC, not quite sure), miles per gallon is not a very useful measure.
 
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FreshFish said:
If they really wanted to be useful, they'd force auto makers to report fuel economy standards in gallons per 100 miles instead. As discussed in more detail in a different thread (it might be Monty Hall We Have a Problem, IIRC, not quite sure), miles per gallon is not a very useful measure.
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Repeating it on a second thread doesn't make it true. Miles per gallon conveys exactly the same information as gallons per mile. If you personally have a harder time wrapping your head around one of them, that's not the metric's fault.
 
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Miles per gallon makes much, much more sense than gallons per 100 miles. That would be a completely idiotic unit to use.
 
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