Google| Subject | Re: ISO value names are becoming ridiculous |
| From | nospam |
| Date | 01/07/2016 17:48 (01/07/2016 11:48) |
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In article <91034459-6929-484d-89b7-b85f55d9dbde@googlegroups.com>, Whisky-dave <whisky.dave@gmail.com>wrote:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_Conversion_Act> The Metric Conversion Act is an Act of Congress that U.S. President Gerald Ford signed into law on December 23, 1975.[1] It declared the Metric system "the preferred system of weights and measures for United States trade and commerce", but permitted the use of United States customary units in non-business activities.Whisky-davenospamEric Stevensphilonospam
A linear system would now make more sense
definitely not. it would only confuse things.
it's a bit like converting to metric. not gonna happen.
It's already happening.
definitely not.
the usa tried converting to metric long ago and it did not work.
When did it try that ?
there's still one highway with metric signage, which was built during the metric conversion days, and not surprisingly, there is some resistance to switch: <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/15/us/15highway.html?_r=0>
Maybe USAins are just not bright enough to understand it after all there's only a couple of oher countries which haven't been able to convert to at least some extent those countries are Myanmar (Burma) and Liberia. That should mean something.it means nothing.
it's not that hard to learn for those who work with it every day. if not, it's not that hard to calculate.nospamWhisky-dave
there's also nothing wrong with imperial measurements.
othe rthan most of teh wold has gone metric and for a lot of things it's easier to use in calculations. But I admit I still use both and can understand both. I do find the metric system easier than remmebr what a fatham is and how long a furloing is and chains and drams, and fliud onouces and gallons, quarts, bushels, hectares, the hand, olympic swimming pools, car lenghs, Cow's grass, a football field.......
it's whatever people get used to.
switching to a new system needs to offer a significant advantage, and it doesn't.
that's dated 2007, which is well after the moon landing and mars landing.nospamWhisky-dave
think about which country put people on the moon, put spacecraft on mars, did a flyby of pluto and landed a spacecraft on an asteroid.
hint: it was a country that uses imperial measurements.
http://www.space.com/3332-nasa-finally-metric.html
What country crashed a probe into mars because they got the units wrong, and it was ESA not NASA that landed a spacecraft on an asteroid.the problem with that probe was they used *two* systems, not one. that's just asking for problems.
Where did the USA go for it';s specail effects for the star wars film ?who cares. wherever they went should have told them how stupid the movie is and refused to have anything to do with it on principle.
01/06/2016-
