Name 3 countries you'd consider inviting to join the United States.

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True you can never eliminate human error but you can minimise the risk of human error by using the same system.

In the case of the Mars Climate Observer, yes it failed because of non-standardisation. Because 1 team used metric and another imperial. Had they both been using the same system they would have been no need to convert from one to another. Which is basically what happened

From wikipedia

However, on September 23, 1999, communication with the spacecraft was lost as the spacecraft went into orbital insertion, due to ground-based computer software which produced output in non-SI units of pound-seconds (lbf s) instead of the metric units of newton-seconds (N s) specified in the contract between NASA and Lockheed.

So at first glance one or more human errors occured

1.>Lockheed failed to follow the NASA specification
2.>NASA failed to detect the error made by Lockheed

But the error was detected
The discrepancy between calculated and measured position, resulting in the discrepancy between desired and actual orbit insertion altitude, had been noticed earlier by at least two navigators, whose concerns were dismissed. A meeting of trajectory software engineers, trajectory software operators (navigators), propulsion engineers, and managers, was convened to consider the possibility of executing Trajectory Correction Maneuver-5, which was in the schedule. Attendees of the meeting recall an agreement to conduct TCM-5, but it was ultimately not done.

So yet more human errors failure to carry out TCM-5, the root cause of the error as I said earlier is due to companies using different measuring system.

 

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My mom, brother and I once visited Tjuana while on a vacation in San Diego in 1997, and we never needed a passport either. We were only there about two hours, so maybe that made the difference, I don't know. All I remember is the border guards saying "hello" and "have a pleasant day" going both directions.

 

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So you could have smuggled 40 pounds of pot?

 

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Depends on the atmospheric pressure, and why use water as your standard as opposed to something else?

And "Metric System" isn't?

Been to both Canada and Mexico using just my enhanced driver's license, got checked both way at the Canada border, with Mexico five of us received no checks going in (the smiling Mexican guard told me "welcome home chica"), coming back to America I was the only one who got asked for ID.

The joys of being brown.

 

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There are graduated lines on the wrapping of the butter stick!

 

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Not to mention the purity of the water can affect the boiling and freezing point.

 

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Back in the late-80s, I smuggled in 15 kilos worth of 100% pure grade Mexican Coke as a mule for the Southern Cali cartel of Doña Abuela. I felt like Scarface. But I knew with horrifying clarity that one day the racket would come to an end and I'd wind up with my misdeeds exploding in my face.

That day came in 1989, when, after taking a rough side road to avoid border inspections, the box of 24-bottles was badly shaken in transit. Hot and thirsty from the grueling off-road drive, I made the rookie mistake of trying to sample the merchandise, and it hit me like a sticky, sugary shotgun blast to the face. I've never taken Mexican Coke since.

After an extensive treatment program with Dr. Pepper, I'm finally getting my life back on track.

 

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Mexico, Spain and Columbia.

The point on this one is to force the adoption of Spanish as the official American lanuage if the three new states just added contain 210 million primarily Spanish speaking US Citizens (Which they do.).

 

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Measurement increments are labelled on the butter. All you have to do is slice off what you need.

 

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Isn't the US fluid ounce smaller than the imperial fluid ounce, I think under imperial a fluid ounce and an ounce are the same in terms of weight.

 

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Customary is what the yanks were using when they kicked the British out in 1776.

Imperial, although similar, was invented in 1825.

Customary and Imperial have both been subject to modernization over the centuries.

 

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We don't have a national official language here.

 

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The West Wing taught me that years ago.

Point being is that the Spanish speaking billionaires have no desire to be alienated in their own country, and the English speaking Billionaires can't quite see how this is a thing.

At the moment, you can't adopt an official language, because of the corssfire of shit that would be unleashed by the slighted freaking out and rioting. Of course my scenario is that by adding 210 new Spanish primary speakers, the deadlock would be broken, and the government would be forced to surrender to the will of it's people, who are mostly a massive city burrning rabble of hundreds of millions, but also a couple new opinated billionaires.

 

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Best not to us The West Wing as guide for US politics, or perhaps it should be used as a guide.

After all is there talk of yet another US government shutdown over the budget once again last time around it was the PPACA, this time it's what Planned Parenthood?

 

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Did you know know that Hugh Laurie is going to be the President on Veep next year?

Good #### to look forward to.

 

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But you will hear the call again. And try as you might, it is unavoidable.

And then, to quote someone else, you'll say: Just when I thought I got out, they pull me back in!

 

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They've got their hooks into me.