On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 1:48 AM, Kenneth Barns <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

On 7 July 2016 at 13:48, C. Berry <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
Nobody uses any of the prefixes consistently in colloquial speech. Why am I a thousand kilometers from Portland, rather than a megameter?

I don't know, "microaggressions" seems to be the preferred term for "acting like a jerk" now. Maybe it's all a part of metrication? *shrug*

And then there's the "Megabucks" lottery . . .

Richard Aiken

"Never insult anyone by accident." Robert A. Heinlein

"I studied the Koran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as Muhammed." Alexis de Tocqueville (1843)

"We know a little about a lot of things; just enough to make us dangerous." Dean Winchester

"It has been my experience that a gun doesn't care who pulls its trigger." Newton Knight (as portrayed by Matthew McConaughey), to a scoffing Confederate tax collector facing the weapons held by Knight's young children and wife.