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[Nadaka]

The great thing about metric is that you can use kiloliters if you want to.

The weird thing is when people say metric tonne instead of megagram, because megagram just sounds more awesome.

[Il Palazzo]

Wait, wait.  So there's kilometers.  Then meters.  Then centimeters.  Then milometers.  Then for volume we have liters.  And milliliters.  But no kiloliters or centiliters?... 

That's milimetres. And yes, you can have centilitres and kilolitres. Centilitres are commonly used to measure shot glass volume. Common usage frequency might vary from region to region, but ant of those prefixes is correct: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_prefix

ed: typo

[Rose]

I've seen kiloliters used where appropriate.

And Solifuge, WOO!

[RedKing]

Wait, wait.  So there's kilometers.  Then meters.  Then centimeters.  Then milometers.  Then for volume we have liters.  And milliliters.  But no kiloliters or centiliters?... 

Oh, they're there. Just don't get a lot of use is all. I remember the old Traveller/Megatraveller RPG measured a lot of ship components and cargo in kiloliters.

@Vector: Wait...I thought you were excoriating Descartes just the other day?

[Reelyanoob]

Wait, wait.  So there's kilometers.  Then meters.  Then centimeters.  Then milometers.  Then for volume we have liters.  And milliliters.  But no kiloliters or centiliters?... 

Those both exist according to online dictionaries. They're just not in common usage.

How about decimeters? Which are 1/10th of a meter? You ever used that one?

[TherosPherae]

So I found a Youtube channel with a bunch of Mega Man Battle Network OSTs. I am nostalgiaing so hard right now you wouldn't believe it.

[Aklyon]

Woo for delayed but successful jobness, Soli!

[Vector]

@Vector: Wait...I thought you were excoriating Descartes just the other day?

Yup.

Our moron teacher got us to read what amounted to his grant request for his real work, rather than what he actually had to say, which was significantly better explained.  To be sure, there are some stupid places and some positions where one could draw obvious conclusions he didn't quite get to, inconsistencies, etc., but in total it is quite the marvelous work.

[Reelyanoob]

I for one was wondering at all the Decartes hate.

[Darvi]

The man's writings have something about them that makes them very irritating to read imo.

[MaximumZero]

He, uh, tends to be kind of a prick. That happens when you look down on humanity, though.

[Vector]

I wouldn't say Descartes is looking down on humanity at all.  On the contrary, his grant proposal was one of the most quakingly humble things I've ever read.

[Bauglir]

Which was what he actually had to say? I should give it a read if it's better-explained than Meditations.

[Vector]

Which was what he actually had to say? I should give it a read if it's better-explained than Meditations.

It was Meditations.

You know the interesting thing about Meditations?  It's organized into six pieces, each attached to a "day."  It starts with nothing and ends with the world entire, and there is no seventh piece.

You the interesting thing about his appendices on physics and optics?  They start with light, and move on to the stars, and to the planets, and then to plants, and slowly to human life.

[Bauglir]

... My copy did not include appendices somehow, as far as I can recall. I should find a better. I didn't think much of the Meditations, but part of that may have been a professor whose goto response whenever I asked about something was a non-answer ("Well, Descartes would probably have said that he knows better than you" or something to that effect, which I just took as a signal to drop it and let him move on with the discussion).

EDIT: Heh, I had missed the symbolism there with the days. Descartes seems like the sort to have intended it, too. That is +1 respect point, at least.