OT: Anniversary of the "Indiana Pi Bill"

[Bob Stockler]

Bill Campbell wrote (on Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 12:44:46PM -0800):

| On Tue, Feb 06, 2007, Kenneth Brody wrote:
| >I forgot to post this yesterday, the 110th anniversary of the passage
| >of the "Indiana Pi Bill".
| >
| >In case you don't know what that is...
| >
| >The basic story is that the Indiana House of Representatives was duped
| >into passing (unanimously! 67-0) a law stating, among other things,
| >that the value of pi was, in fact, exactly 3.2.  (Fortunately, the
| >Indiana Senate did not pass the bill, but apparently only because a
| >mathematics professor happened to be visiting the legislature at that
| >time.)
| 
| That makes about as much sense as the recent changes in daylight savings
| time foisted on the U.S. by the brain-dead legislature.

The recent changes in daylight savings time were a result of pressure
by the Greenies and Tree Huggers, enacted to lower electrical power
use - and therefore its generation.

I'd like to see us go back to the War Time of WW-II (daylight savings
time the year around).  That would save me the trouble of changing the
dozen clocks in my home or autos (that are not either radio controlled
or on computers) twice a year.

But then, what would remind me to change my smoke alarm batteries?

Bob

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