Re: Datasheet-flation?

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:
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On Sun, 24 Nov 2024 11:30:34 +0000, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid
(Liz Tuddenham) wrote:
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Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote:
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Also be aware that the term "Billion" means a million million
(Bi-million) in English but only a thousand million in American and
French..

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.. where it is a "milliard"

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The Milliard is English for a thousand million, which Americans call a
"Billion".
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Logically the English runs:
10^3   Thousand
10^6   Million
10^9   Milliard

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No, that's a duck.

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What goes "Quick!  Quick!" ?
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A duck with hiccups.
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(It will soon be Christmas cracker time.)

 
Wonderful birds. It's unfortunate that they taste so good.
 

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That may be what will save them. Animals that taste good
don't go extinct. But what a destiny...
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Jeroen Belleman

I wonder if any animals have evolved to taste bad. Or be outright
poisonous.

Plants do that.