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In the UK, a measure of spirit went from 1/6 gill (23.7 ml) to 25 ml. Still only enough to wet the inside of the glass.

I think it was 1/4 gill before WW1. Is this progress?

'Fixing' roads around here is a mixed blessing. They're big on chip seal. A few years back they widened and asphalted the road I live on. Either there is some sort of invisible jurisdictional boundary or they ran out of material and stopped a 1/4 short of where I live, leaving the 30 year old potholes. I have seen the county patch the potholes, generally when its well below freezing and the hot patch has zero chance of sticking.

Our politicians of both parties are very good at sucking the juice out of Federal funding. I've bitched about the two new rotaries I have to navigate to get to town; I think they're part of the fruit.

I don't know how they fill chip bags but I've worked with vibratory feeders in other contexts and they're pretty accurate.

Do I get to whine if they reduce the contents and raise the price simultaneously?

They use multiple bins where the contents of several are combined and dispensed into the bag after each of the bins are weighed.

There might be a dozen or more bins, each filled by volume to perhaps a quarter or fifth of the required weight. The computer weighs each bin and dumps the four or five which sum closest to the required final weight.

There is/was a series on Science channel called How It's Made and they showed what you described above on one of the episodes.

Let's see, what projects are inconveniencing me this summer...

I live near the confluence of I-94 and US-23.

It's done now, but they scraped about 1/4 mile of surface-road pavement near I-94 down to dirt and put it all back. Previously, it was as if it had been carpet-bombed.

The bridge over US-23 is being widened. They're adding two ramps (so you don't have to turn left to get onto the freeway). They're widening several miles of US-23 to make merging easier.

My mother lives near I-75 just north of Detroit. That's been enjoying a multi-year rebuild and restructure of ramps (not all of which can be credited to Joe Biden). Same thing for I-94 in Detroit.

Considerably more elaborate than chip-and-seal (which they did to my road a couple of years ago).

Twice as loudly. I can hear it from here.

Am 26.07.23 um 19:43 schrieb Jim Joyce:

Back when I was a student during the X86 vs 68K wars, Reemtsma had a full blown VAX11-780 in their Berlin fab for quality control (weight etc) of their cigarettes, I was told by a friend. How we were jealous!

Gerhard

California voted to increase the gas tax about four years ago - with the proceeds 100% dedicated to road repair.

Since then pretty much all the major and minor county roads have been resurfaced or patched and chip-sealed, depending on condition. It had been over thirty years since many of them had been resurfaced. On one county road, an alternate commute route parallel to a freeway, there are three accident-prone single-lane bridges - two of them are currently being replaced, the third next year (all three are 91 years old).

It's also called a partial-product weighing machine. I almost instrumented one for Continental Biscuit, a big contract baking company.

After the bags are filled and sealed, they run along an instrumented conveyer belt, the check weigher, to make sure none are underweight. Few are.

I haven't been west on I-90 this year but I went over to Butte a couple of weeks ago and there were only a couple of stretches under construction. The bridges are well past their life expectancy and are the usual project. There isn't all that much traffic so you don't get the horrendous backups when it goes down to one lane.

I've got a geocache called 'The Million Dollar Bridge'. When they were building it there was a large sign explaining the project and the funding which was slightly over a million.

The bridge in question is on a dirt road

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Deschamps+Ln,+Montana+59808/@46.9335129,-114.154182,16z/

The bridge downtown rehab was supposed to cost 17 million but that was before the crew removing the old deck cut the beams for the new deck by mistake.

At least it's finished. I think. Nobody is talking about the final tab.

Why do people insist on these words for something more easily expressed with a number? Same goes for OS version on Macs and Android.

Because it wouldn't start?

There is no such thing as British food. There may be English food, Welsh food and Scottish food - the Scottish wanker probably eats that.

There's nothing particularly cruel about sentencing him to eat that - he clearly doesn't know any better.

Forcing him to eat better would be cruel to the rest of us - he'd probably live longer.

And presumably buy fast food, you'd look a bit odd walking in and clearing the tables of ketchup. So you haven't saved money after all.

You need psychiatric help immediately.

I buy this in the UK:

Sometimes the made up story is more sensible than reality. And why should we take reality as the truth? "Do not adjust your mind, the fault is with reality". The universe can go wrong just like any other mechanical device. How many times have you seen inanimate objects do the impossible?