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Subject: Re: Datasheet-flation?
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2024 18:16:52 -0000 (UTC)
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On Fri, 29 Nov 2024 10:53:34 -0000 (UTC), Jasen Betts wrote:

> On 2024-11-24, john larkin <JL@gct.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, 24 Nov 2024 20:25:59 +0100, Jeroen Belleman
>><jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:
>>
>>>On 11/24/24 18:37, john larkin wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 24 Nov 2024 17:25:43 +0000, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid
>>>> (Liz Tuddenham) wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> john larkin <JL@gct.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sun, 24 Nov 2024 11:30:34 +0000,
>>>>>> liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Also be aware that the term "Billion" means a million million
>>>>>>>>> (Bi-million) in English but only a thousand million in American
>>>>>>>>> and French..
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> .. where it is a "milliard"
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The Milliard is English for a thousand million, which Americans
>>>>>>> call a "Billion".
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Logically the English runs:
>>>>>>> 10^3   Thousand 10^6   Million 10^9   Milliard
>>>>>>
>>>>>> No, that's a duck.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> What goes "Quick!  Quick!" ?
>>>>> |
>>>>>
>>>>> |
>>>>>
>>>>> |
>>>>>
>>>>> |
>>>>>
>>>>> |
>>>>>
>>>>> A duck with hiccups.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> (It will soon be Christmas cracker time.)
>>>> 
>>>> Wonderful birds. It's unfortunate that they taste so good.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>That may be what will save them. Animals that taste good don't go
>>>extinct. But what a destiny...
>>>
>>>Jeroen Belleman
>>
>> I wonder if any animals have evolved to taste bad. Or be outright
>> poisonous.
> 
> puffer fish, Koala, several other animals with extreme diets.

Toads as well.