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danny burstein danny burstein is offline
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Default "Industry-standard" measurements and advertising

In "Percival P. Cassidy" writes:

I guess that if we didn't have decent regulations, we'd have 3-qt.
"gallons" of milk and gasoline, and 40-ft. reels of electrical wire
labeled as "50-ft."


Home Depot and some others recently settled in California
for... not pointing out that "2 by 4"s are really something
like "1.5 by 3.25", or whatever the real number is.

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