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B Gruff

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I'm not, I just can't understand their mentality: They arrest a Russian for doing something totally legal in his country because that act was illegal in America, but I doubt very much if Americans expect to be arrested on entry to other countries under similar circumstances, eg Saudi Arabia because they've had an alcoholic drink in America; and if they were I wonder what kind of outcry there'd be eminating from the "Land of the Free" to do what you want as long as it don't interfere with the large corporations profit making schemes who paid for stupid laws because they can't fix things themselves.

(Liter)

Interesting fact in one of my encyclopaedia (published 1968):

"...the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the Union of South Africa, in 1959, announced the adoption of a uniform system of English units of length and mbutt, defining the yard as 0.9144 metre *EXACTLY* and the pound as 0.45359237 kilogram *EXACTLY*, effective 1 July 1959."

Which means that in 1959 the pound was redefined as a METRIC measure as it is an EXACT fraction of a kilogram; thus also ounces, being 1-16th of this. Similarly, the yard is a metric measure, and its derived units: foot (1-3 yard), inch (1-36 yard), Mile (1768 yards), etc.

Though I must say that most of the comments I see from Americans suggest that they think that the World is the USA.

They did: 128 bit encryption couldn't be exported from the USA to, say England, so anyone shopping online (originally) in the USA had the benefit of 128 bit encryption, but in Europe it was less. (Funny how MS didn't moan about the European version of Windows being less functional-good when the USA enforced this, but they are moaning when the EU enforces a restriction.)