Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN Date: 3 Mar 2025 05:13:04 GMT Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <1976765442.762208809.808387.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <20250225130315.00004e34@gmail.com> <1924764604.762215659.468999.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <87mse5zyn8.fsf@eder.anydns.info> <20250228132017.00005dbb@gmail.com> <20250228140740.00007b4b@gmail.com> <67c2cfbf$0$16850$426a74cc@news.free.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net CwPHrkM/IQ06vTzqgj0c2waiHTlN8/dd+h633Bm1qVpUUaxpI5 Cancel-Lock: sha1:0lFbjvs61s5S3mBrt9L7/jmbDos= sha256:O8yGBfjh6pjyGeCEAX1c+ddwb6to26Ldhkunu2gofkk= User-Agent: Pan/0.160 (Toresk; ) Bytes: 2730 On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 22:43:05 -0500, c186282 wrote: > "Sales-speak" and objective reality are two different things > > Esp if selling to males, "bigger"/"stronger" is what you want to > convey to the rube ... er ... customer. Works every time. The .38 Special has a bullet diameter of .357 but .38 sounded better when selling it to the military. The later .357 Magnum went back to truth in advertising with a case 0.10 longer so you can't fire it in a .38. 9 mm is .356 so it's about the same although the ballistics of the three vary widely. I had a Yamaha Seca 400 that was a hair under 400 cc to meet the European tiered licensing breakpoints. It didn't sell in the US because it was too small. I put a lot of miles on that too small bike, including a trip up to a trailhead on a road designed for goats. https://vividness.live/riding-solo-to-the-top-of-the-world Great movie. At one point he's up around 18000' pushing the bike because it won't run. He's not running very well either but he made it. It definitely isn't a Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman trip with expensive BMWs and a film crew.