Aaaerrrrr........a 3 wood? :dunno:
No, wait I'll get this one....................mmmmm, I'm going to stick with the 3 wood.
Should the US switch to the Metric system?
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Aaaerrrrr........a 3 wood? :dunno:
No, wait I'll get this one....................mmmmm, I'm going to stick with the 3 wood.
I just did one of those converstion things.....so I guess I would hit a 5 iron or maybe a 4 depending on the wind
Yup
right on ....thats whats wrong with the world today...if it works,,,dont fix it :crash:
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WELL :dunno: It's TRUE !!
Me and this guy must be reading the same books.
:rofl:That's what is wrong with progressives today ! They can't leave well 'nuff alone.
Always lookin 'round for a gas leak with a lit cigarette in their mouth !
It is not impossible to change to metric system.
The odometer does show both miles and kilometer per hour but which is more prominent.
There are hundreds and hundreds of units you have not known about that we can NOT change to metric system.
Sure, 1.8 m tall, 3 degree and 100 km/hr are simple but consider litres.
Suddenly you go to the gas station and get 1 litre of gas for $0.85 cents. What's that?
But there are so many measurement you never heard of that can not be changed: BUN, creatinine, all the physics units, all the math. units, all the medical units and not to count the chemical units.
We will never use the metric system forever !
Sure the odometer has both in many cars but not all !
The odometer does show both miles and kilometer per hour but which is more prominent.
There are hundreds and hundreds of units you have not known about that we can NOT change to metric system.
Sure, 1.8 m tall, 3 degree and 100 km/hr are simple but consider litres.
Suddenly you go to the gas station and get 1 litre of gas for $0.85 cents. What's that?
But there are so many measurement you never heard of that can not be changed: BUN, creatinine, all the physics units, all the math. units, all the medical units and not to count the chemical units.
We will never use the metric system forever !
Sure the odometer has both in many cars but not all !
An acquaintance of mine has miles per hour on his odometer and I don't see him complaining even though all the signs are in km per hour here.
Err, it's a litre of gas for $0.85. :wtf:
This doesn't hold up either, even if your car has just mph, you could re-calibrate the speedo yourself with a screwdriver and then use the numbers as kph.
I think the question is, why can the rest of the world manage with metric whem America cannot? :wave2:
Jeez I wouldn't know how to answere those "How long is your cock" polls if it was in centimeters.
1 inch = about 2.54cm.
So as everyone on here, judging by the last "how long is your cock thread" has at least 9 -10 inches between them (we seem to be the most well endowed board in history :dunno
, that would be; 9 inches = 22.86 cm and 10 inches = 25.4 cm.Inches are easier, but just imagines going up to a lady you like at a bar and saying something along the lines of "hey, hey baby, I've got a 15.24cm cock, how d'ya like that!?!"
It makes you so much more impressive
I would like to see some of these unchangeable units. I guess when the board of well qualified engineers and scientists developed the SI system of measurement and the rest of the scientists and engineers in the world adopted it, they must have all forgotten about physics, mathematics and chemistry.
Boy, must their faces be red!
You Americans could - just for once - adapt to the Rest of the World...
I don't think it's easier at all.I've used both,side by side for several decades now.I always revert to Imperial units for everyday tasks, they were designed for this purpose and do it better.It was a system designed to make life easier whereas the metric system was introduced purely to bring consistency to a badly governed country.Strangely enough one of my sons worked as a builder in Germany and guess what-the locals were using feet as units.Ok, a 300 mm foot but that's how they were seeing things.
I can talk the metric system to death, having been involved in a small way in its introduction to the UK but it's badly understood and often wrongly utilised.After a lifetime of using it my judgement is that it's crap for normal everyday use.
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Let's look at something about the metric system that isn't easier...
1 MILE = 5,280 feet (nice even number, not hard to remember)
1 MILE = 1,609.344 meters (HUH?)
1 MILE = 5,280 feet (nice even number, not hard to remember)
1 MILE = 1,609.344 meters (HUH?)
It's simple, existing infrastructure ...
President Ford signed the order that officially switched the US to the metric system over 30 years ago. US ******** have been taught math and science with metric since then, myself included. The problem isn't the education. Every American under 40 grew up with metric in everything they learned. The problem is existing infrastructure.
The overwhelming majority of US civil and mechanical engineering is with historical documentation and engineering machines that are imperial standard. You can't change that overnight. The US civil infrastructure just more recently started switching to metric, largely because the systems have the accuracy required -- end-to-end, from groundstation to the combined state GIS. US manufacturing infrastructure will take a bit longer, as a lot is still imperial units.
And the US is switching to metric in all new documentation, machines and systems. It has been for a good 10-20 years, as developed. But understand the hey-day of US civil and manufacturing -- through the '70s -- was built on imperial standard. You don't change that out overnight. However, you do have dual imperial and metric labelling in the US, and have since the '80s, among other things.
Only new systems and capabilities since the '80s have started converting. And even then, the accuracy in computing systems at the scales of GIS and other systems were not available until only more recently. I distinctly remember a major issue with legacy '70s/'80s Intergraph CAD that dominated much of government stores was that it only used 32-bit.
People who demonize the US for seemingly not using the metric system are demonizing in ignorance. We have officially switched since the '70s, and it's just taking time for both education and infrastructure to catch up. We have a huge, legacy civil and industrial base that is entirely imperial. But most everything is done with both units these days, including on virtually every consumer good or device since the '80s.
President Ford signed the order that officially switched the US to the metric system over 30 years ago. US ******** have been taught math and science with metric since then, myself included. The problem isn't the education. Every American under 40 grew up with metric in everything they learned. The problem is existing infrastructure.
The overwhelming majority of US civil and mechanical engineering is with historical documentation and engineering machines that are imperial standard. You can't change that overnight. The US civil infrastructure just more recently started switching to metric, largely because the systems have the accuracy required -- end-to-end, from groundstation to the combined state GIS. US manufacturing infrastructure will take a bit longer, as a lot is still imperial units.
And the US is switching to metric in all new documentation, machines and systems. It has been for a good 10-20 years, as developed. But understand the hey-day of US civil and manufacturing -- through the '70s -- was built on imperial standard. You don't change that out overnight. However, you do have dual imperial and metric labelling in the US, and have since the '80s, among other things.
Only new systems and capabilities since the '80s have started converting. And even then, the accuracy in computing systems at the scales of GIS and other systems were not available until only more recently. I distinctly remember a major issue with legacy '70s/'80s Intergraph CAD that dominated much of government stores was that it only used 32-bit.
People who demonize the US for seemingly not using the metric system are demonizing in ignorance. We have officially switched since the '70s, and it's just taking time for both education and infrastructure to catch up. We have a huge, legacy civil and industrial base that is entirely imperial. But most everything is done with both units these days, including on virtually every consumer good or device since the '80s.
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