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Why settle for a kludge when a monument is needed?

08-10-09 – 02:51:am

It’s been widely noted that the national debt clock, erected by NYC real estate magnate Seymour Durst to protest the now-quaint US$2.7 trillion debt in 1989, has run out of digits, and that “[a]s a short-term fix, the digital dollar sign on the billboard-style clock near Times Square has been replaced with an integer—the ‘1’ [...]

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Amazing chart

08-08-16 – 05:06:pm

Slide 3 of ANSI’s “Standards and Conformity Assessment Bodies of the United States” (PPT, version 2006-07-21):

Explanation:
The primary purpose of the chart is to attempt to portray, in high-level, block diagram form, the entities of the standards and conformity assessment systems of the United States, their and primary inter-relationships and relationships to international and regional organizations—on [...]

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