OT: Why the US will never go metric....

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one word...Football...Football would lose its meaning...30.5cmball
would make no sense. In retrospect, naming a game using an imperial
measurement was darn right stupid.

Yes folks, the US will never go metric because we stuck our foot in
our mouths.
 
On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:23:31 -0700 (PDT), "oparr@hotmail.com"
<oparr@hotmail.com> wrote:

one word... Football..
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Two words and a contraction: You're an idiot.

Football would lose its meaning...30.5cmball
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What do they call linear progress in rugby?

would make no sense. In retrospect, naming a game using an imperial
measurement was darn right stupid.
Click to expand...
It is not named after a lineal measure, it is named after the human
appendage that is used on the ball.


Yes folks, the US will never go metric because we stuck our foot in
our mouths.
Click to expand...
Perhaps you did.
 
On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:23:31 -0700 (PDT), "oparr@hotmail.com"
<oparr@hotmail.com> wrote:

one word...Football...Football would lose its meaning...30.5cmball
would make no sense. In retrospect, naming a game using an imperial
measurement was darn right stupid.

Yes folks, the US will never go metric because we stuck our foot in
our mouths.
Click to expand...
The US press measures everything in football fields. If they switched
to soccer fields, it wouldn't even be in the same ballpark.

John
 
On 6/12/2010 8:26 PM, John Larkin wrote:
On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:23:31 -0700 (PDT), "oparr@hotmail.com"
oparr@hotmail.com> wrote:

one word...Football...Football would lose its meaning...30.5cmball
would make no sense. In retrospect, naming a game using an imperial
measurement was darn right stupid.

Yes folks, the US will never go metric because we stuck our foot in
our mouths.

The US press measures everything in football fields. If they switched
to soccer fields, it wouldn't even be in the same ballpark.
Click to expand...
Nice pitch.

--Winston
 
On Jun 12, 9:08 pm, Winston <Wins...@bigbrother.net> wrote:
On 6/12/2010 8:26 PM, John Larkin wrote:

On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:23:31 -0700 (PDT), "op...@hotmail.com"
op...@hotmail.com>  wrote:

one word...Football...Football would lose its meaning...30.5cmball
would make no sense. In retrospect, naming a game using an imperial
measurement was darn right stupid.

Yes folks, the US will never go metric because we stuck our foot in
our mouths.

The US press measures everything in football fields. If they switched
to soccer fields, it wouldn't even be in the same ballpark.

Nice pitch.

--Winston
Click to expand...
One of the projects I worked on for the Army specified a maximum size
in inches and a maximum weight in pounds, but required that the
included software display distances in meters and masses in kilograms.
 
"John Larkin" <jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote in message
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On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:23:31 -0700 (PDT), "oparr@hotmail.com"
oparr@hotmail.com> wrote:

one word...Football...Football would lose its meaning...30.5cmball
would make no sense. In retrospect, naming a game using an imperial
measurement was darn right stupid.

Yes folks, the US will never go metric because we stuck our foot in
our mouths.

The US press measures everything in football fields. If they switched
to soccer fields, it wouldn't even be in the same ballpark.

John
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Groan :)
That's very good for groaner!
Mike
 
On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 19:16:03 -0700, Archimedes' Lever
<OneBigLever@InfiniteSeries.Org> wrote:

On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:23:31 -0700 (PDT), "oparr@hotmail.com"
oparr@hotmail.com> wrote:

one word... Football..

Two words and a contraction: You're an idiot.

Football would lose its meaning...30.5cmball

What do they call linear progress in rugby?

would make no sense. In retrospect, naming a game using an imperial
measurement was darn right stupid.

It is not named after a lineal measure, it is named after the human
appendage that is used on the ball.


Yes folks, the US will never go metric because we stuck our foot in
our mouths.

Perhaps you did.
Click to expand...
<WOOSH>
 
John Larkin wrote:

On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:23:31 -0700 (PDT), "oparr@hotmail.com"
oparr@hotmail.com> wrote:


one word...Football...Football would lose its meaning...30.5cmball
would make no sense. In retrospect, naming a game using an imperial
measurement was darn right stupid.

Yes folks, the US will never go metric because we stuck our foot in
our mouths.


The US press measures everything in football fields. If they switched
to soccer fields, it wouldn't even be in the same ballpark.

John

:)
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On 6/13/2010 1:07 AM, Richard Henry wrote:

(...)

One of the projects I worked on for the Army specified a maximum size
in inches and a maximum weight in pounds, but required that the
included software display distances in meters and masses in kilograms.
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Arrrgh!

It saddens me to think of all the bright technical minds in
'imperial measurment' countries that got turned off to applied
physics because of our insistence on awkward, self-
destructive measurement systems.

Beijing must be very happy about this.

--Winston <--Slugs? Poundals? Foot-pounds? You're joking, right?
 
On Sun, 13 Jun 2010 10:33:13 -0700, Winston <Winston@bigbrother.net>
wrote:

On 6/13/2010 1:07 AM, Richard Henry wrote:

(...)

One of the projects I worked on for the Army specified a maximum size
in inches and a maximum weight in pounds, but required that the
included software display distances in meters and masses in kilograms.

Arrrgh!

It saddens me to think of all the bright technical minds in
'imperial measurment' countries that got turned off to applied
physics because of our insistence on awkward, self-
destructive measurement systems.
Click to expand...
We do all our serious stuff in SI units. We use inches (in decimal,
not fractions) for pcb layouts and mechanical stuff like sheet metal.
I don't think it's a big deal.

I think physics is taught in SI units.

John
 
On Sun, 13 Jun 2010 10:28:42 -0700 (PDT), linnix
<me@linnix.info-for.us> wrote:

On Jun 12, 6:23 pm, "op...@hotmail.com" <op...@hotmail.com> wrote:
one word...Football...Football would lose its meaning...30.5cmball
would make no sense. In retrospect, naming a game using an imperial
measurement was darn right stupid.

Yes folks, the US will never go metric because we stuck our foot in
our mouths.

No problem. We can switch to StarLength. 1 SL is 1/10000 of an
inch. I am already using it for PCB anyway, since many of the IC
packages are either 500, 250 or 254 SL. We can all watch 120Kball and
eating 120Kdog. In StarDate 120K, 120Kdog will cost 120K StarCredit
anyway.
Click to expand...
I think that early IC designers, the rubylith cutters, used 1" = 25
mm.

John
 
On Sun, 13 Jun 2010 08:25:34 -0400, PeterD <peter2@hipson.net> wrote:

On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 19:16:03 -0700, Archimedes' Lever
OneBigLever@InfiniteSeries.Org> wrote:

On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:23:31 -0700 (PDT), "oparr@hotmail.com"
oparr@hotmail.com> wrote:

one word... Football..

Two words and a contraction: You're an idiot.

Football would lose its meaning...30.5cmball

What do they call linear progress in rugby?

would make no sense. In retrospect, naming a game using an imperial
measurement was darn right stupid.

It is not named after a lineal measure, it is named after the human
appendage that is used on the ball.


Yes folks, the US will never go metric because we stuck our foot in
our mouths.

Perhaps you did.

WOOSH
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If you imply passage over a head, you should at least get with the
times. The modern sound effect is that of helicopter blades, but I am
sure that one will go right over your head.

Nothing got past me, PeterD. It is clear that the D stands for dipshit
or dumbass. Or you could be that total retard that ran the bar for
years.
 
On Jun 12, 6:23 pm, "op...@hotmail.com" <op...@hotmail.com> wrote:
one word...Football...Football would lose its meaning...30.5cmball
would make no sense. In retrospect, naming a game using an imperial
measurement was darn right stupid.

Yes folks, the US will never go metric because we stuck our foot in
our mouths.
Click to expand...
No problem. We can switch to StarLength. 1 SL is 1/10000 of an
inch. I am already using it for PCB anyway, since many of the IC
packages are either 500, 250 or 254 SL. We can all watch 120Kball and
eating 120Kdog. In StarDate 120K, 120Kdog will cost 120K StarCredit
anyway.
 
On 6/13/2010 11:07 AM, John Larkin wrote:

(...)

I don't think it's a big deal.
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I feel that it is a huge deal.

Your average precocious kid, curious about physics is handed a set of
tools guaranteed to waste much of his (or her) energy, manipulating
our weird-ass base-12 and base-16 units and multiple contradictory
unit definitions.

I think physics is taught in SI units.
Click to expand...
'Way too late to ignite and foster a love of learning for kids.

The available tools are terrific aversion therapy, however. :)


--Winston <-- Absorbs 672 wet ounces per fortnight.
Masses 132 dry ounces any night.
 
On Sun, 13 Jun 2010 12:07:42 -0700, Archimedes' Lever
<OneBigLever@InfiniteSeries.Org> wrote:


Nothing got past me, PeterD. It is clear that the D stands for dipshit
or dumbass.
Click to expand...
And F is for "fetish."

John
 
Winston wrote:
On 6/13/2010 1:07 AM, Richard Henry wrote:

(...)

One of the projects I worked on for the Army specified a maximum size
in inches and a maximum weight in pounds, but required that the
included software display distances in meters and masses in kilograms.

Arrrgh!

It saddens me to think of all the bright technical minds in
'imperial measurment' countries that got turned off to applied
physics because of our insistence on awkward, self-
destructive measurement systems.
Click to expand...

If they can't work in multiple systems, they aren't very bright.


Beijing must be very happy about this.

--Winston <--Slugs? Poundals? Foot-pounds? You're joking, right?
Click to expand...

--
Anyone wanting to run for any political office in the US should have to
have a DD214, and a honorable discharge.
 
On Sun, 13 Jun 2010 10:28:42 -0700 (PDT), linnix <me@linnix.info-for.us>
wrote:

On Jun 12, 6:23 pm, "op...@hotmail.com" <op...@hotmail.com> wrote:
one word...Football...Football would lose its meaning...30.5cmball
would make no sense. In retrospect, naming a game using an imperial
measurement was darn right stupid.

Yes folks, the US will never go metric because we stuck our foot in
our mouths.

No problem. We can switch to StarLength. 1 SL is 1/10000 of an
inch. I am already using it for PCB anyway, since many of the IC
packages are either 500, 250 or 254 SL. We can all watch 120Kball and
eating 120Kdog. In StarDate 120K, 120Kdog will cost 120K StarCredit
anyway.
Click to expand...
Shouldn't your nym be 'dippix'?
 
On Sun, 13 Jun 2010 12:37:37 -0700, Winston <Winston@bigbrother.net>
wrote:

On 6/13/2010 11:07 AM, John Larkin wrote:

(...)

I don't think it's a big deal.

I feel that it is a huge deal.

Your average precocious kid, curious about physics is handed a set of
tools guaranteed to waste much of his (or her) energy, manipulating
our weird-ass base-12 and base-16 units and multiple contradictory
unit definitions.
Click to expand...
Yeah, having to use hex ruins programmers. Maybe that's why software
is so bad.

I think physics is taught in SI units.

'Way too late to ignite and foster a love of learning for kids.

The available tools are terrific aversion therapy, however. :)
Click to expand...
If your theory is true, the USA doesn't get many Nobel prizes in the
sciences, or invent many new technologies.

John
 
On 6/13/2010 1:02 PM, John Larkin wrote:
On Sun, 13 Jun 2010 12:37:37 -0700, Winston<Winston@bigbrother.net
wrote:

On 6/13/2010 11:07 AM, John Larkin wrote:

(...)

I don't think it's a big deal.

I feel that it is a huge deal.

Your average precocious kid, curious about physics is handed a set of
tools guaranteed to waste much of his (or her) energy, manipulating
our weird-ass base-12 and base-16 units and multiple contradictory
unit definitions.

Yeah, having to use hex ruins programmers. Maybe that's why software
is so bad.
Click to expand...
Note that a Hex 'A' is always equal to binary '1010'.
There isn't a "'dry' Hex 'A'" or "'fluid' Hex 'A'" used for different tasks.
There are no 'avoirdupois' or 'troy' Hex 'A's that differ from each
other by 9%. That's my point.

I think physics is taught in SI units.

'Way too late to ignite and foster a love of learning for kids.

The available tools are terrific aversion therapy, however. :)



If your theory is true, the USA doesn't get many Nobel prizes in the
sciences, or invent many new technologies.
Click to expand...
How many more Nobel prizes have we abandoned?

We will never know.

--Winston
 
On Jun 13, 11:13 am, John Larkin
<jjlar...@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:
On Sun, 13 Jun 2010 10:28:42 -0700 (PDT), linnix

m...@linnix.info-for.us> wrote:
On Jun 12, 6:23 pm, "op...@hotmail.com" <op...@hotmail.com> wrote:
one word...Football...Football would lose its meaning...30.5cmball
would make no sense. In retrospect, naming a game using an imperial
measurement was darn right stupid.

Yes folks, the US will never go metric because we stuck our foot in
our mouths.

No problem.  We can switch to StarLength.  1 SL is 1/10000 of an
inch.  I am already using it for PCB anyway, since many of the IC
packages are either 500, 250 or 254 SL.  We can all watch 120Kball and
eating 120Kdog.  In StarDate 120K, 120Kdog will cost 120K StarCredit
anyway.

I think that early IC designers, the rubylith cutters, used 1" = 25
mm.

John
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Actually, it should be 1000, 500 and 250 for the Imperial stuffs and
786 and 393 for the Metric stuffs. So, everything is rounded and
proper.
 
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