[OT] legality of DVD backup

Richmond richmondmathewson at gmail.com
Tue Nov 9 13:58:34 EST 2010


On 11/09/2010 08:23 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
> Now I remember why I like the Scottish! Because they still flatly refuse to accept Metrics!
>
> Bob
>

Well, really we are not totally keen on English stuff such as Yards, 
preferring Ells.

The rot set in when the Scot parliament, packed with bribed folk voted 
to support William of Orange,
deposed our rightful monarch (James VII), and supported Anschluss with 
England; something that is
illegal under Scots law. We lost our:

money: merks and pounds Scots; for the mathematically minded 3 Merks = 2 
pounds Scots.

fluid measurement: Scots pint ( = 4 English pints)

lengths: Scots mile, ells and so forth

monarch: currently King Francis II ( 
http://www.facebook.com/posted.php?id=16233840101#!/photo.php?fbid=383891736095&set=o.16233840101 


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So, far from being a Runtime 'Revolutionary', I am best described as a 
Runtime 'Counter Revolutionary'
as I want ALL these things back; especially the King!

I, ALSO, want "LiveCode" to resume being called "Runtime Revolution"; 
dead South American Commies
or not.

> On Nov 9, 2010, at 9:44 AM, Richmond wrote:
>
>> On 11/09/2010 07:07 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
>>> On 11/9/10 5:35 AM, Dave Cragg wrote:
>>>
>>>> They may have dropped the name, but this Revolutionary tune was heard blasting out of one office window in Edinburgh recently:
>>>>
>>>> The compiler flag is deepest red
>>>> To those that say Hypercard is dead
>>>> But your static class can kiss my *ss
>>>> We're in the iTunes store at last
>>> And they were dancing a jig to it, which was quite a feat given that the metre doesn't match. :)
>>>
>> That is because, although the Europeans imposed metres on us, we prefer yards . . .  :)
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