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by Lunatic Goofballs » Wed Aug 12, 2009 4:42 am
Eternal Mysteries wrote:Silly is a silly does.
Do you know how?
by West Failure » Wed Aug 12, 2009 5:08 am
by Risottia » Wed Aug 12, 2009 6:30 am
Chrobalta wrote:I find myself wondering, why the hell is the U.S. not on the Metric system? The system itself is clearly superior to the U.S. Customary units system. So why the hell can't we just switch over to it like the rest of the world already has?
by Galloism » Wed Aug 12, 2009 6:35 am
West Failure wrote:The US does use the metric system they just don't realise it. The monetary system is decimal, their scientists use SI units, they use 9mm weapons, and the military use metric measurements like kilometres.
by Kry_has_Genital_Herpes » Wed Aug 12, 2009 6:37 am
Galloism wrote:Actually, I think the military mostly uses nautical miles when it comes to large distances.
At least, the air force and the navy do.
Then again, the aviation industry throughout the world (yes, even in oh-so-advanced europe) still uses nautical miles.
by Galloism » Wed Aug 12, 2009 6:39 am
Kry_has_Genital_Herpes wrote:Galloism wrote:Actually, I think the military mostly uses nautical miles when it comes to large distances.
At least, the air force and the navy do.
Then again, the aviation industry throughout the world (yes, even in oh-so-advanced europe) still uses nautical miles.
Gall how d'you put up with Nanatsu? I'm guessing with the liberal application of a gag.
by Kry_has_Genital_Herpes » Wed Aug 12, 2009 6:41 am
Galloism wrote:What?
by West Failure » Wed Aug 12, 2009 6:41 am
Galloism wrote:West Failure wrote:The US does use the metric system they just don't realise it. The monetary system is decimal, their scientists use SI units, they use 9mm weapons, and the military use metric measurements like kilometres.
Actually, I think the military mostly uses nautical miles when it comes to large distances.
At least, the air force and the navy do.
Then again, the aviation industry throughout the world (yes, even in oh-so-advanced europe) still uses nautical miles.
by Galloism » Wed Aug 12, 2009 6:41 am
Kry_has_Genital_Herpes wrote:Galloism wrote:What?
How d'you put up with the pure idiocy that spews from her mouth?
by Ifreann » Wed Aug 12, 2009 7:17 am
by Buffett and Colbert » Wed Aug 12, 2009 7:21 am
Aelosia wrote:Well, to be quite frank, I don't like the gun nuts, the americans, the christians, the supremacists, the imperialists, the customary system, the ignorants, the lobbies, the two party politics, the military obsessioned, the "I'll sue you" kind of people...
For the rest, USA is ok. I wouldn't live there
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by Dyakovo » Wed Aug 12, 2009 7:23 am
Blouman Empire wrote:Parthenon wrote:Unless you are using it for mathmatical or scientific purposes the metric system is pretty damn shitty.
I am 6'3'', not 1.90500 meters
I have one tablespoon of vanilla, not 14.7867648 milliliters. or 1.47867648 centiliters
There is 10 yards in a first down, not 9.14400 meters
Houses have square footage, not square decimeters.
Why would you write 1.90500, why not 1.905?
Or even 1.9 metres is what you would say
by Intestinal fluids » Wed Aug 12, 2009 7:25 am
by Kelssek » Wed Aug 12, 2009 7:46 am
Galloism wrote:Actually, I think the military mostly uses nautical miles when it comes to large distances.
At least, the air force and the navy do.
Then again, the aviation industry throughout the world (yes, even in oh-so-advanced europe) still uses nautical miles.
A man in America wants to measure his penis in inches not centimeters.
I am 6'3'', not 1.90500 meters
I have one tablespoon of vanilla, not 14.7867648 milliliters. or 1.47867648 centiliters
There is 10 yards in a first down, not 9.14400 meters
Houses have square footage, not square decimeters.
by Cabra West » Wed Aug 12, 2009 7:51 am
Intestinal fluids wrote:The imperial way of measurement is basically a giant FU to the rest of the world and we like the fact that the worlds economy is based on dollars and that we have our own way of measurement that noone else has. A man in America wants to measure his penis in inches not centimeters.
by Cabra West » Wed Aug 12, 2009 7:53 am
Kelssek wrote:Feet are also used in altitude everywhere, except in Russia and China. Air pressure is given in the SI unit (hectopascals) in most places. The US insists on using inches of mercury, and most of the other countries in the Americas go along with that.
by Kelssek » Wed Aug 12, 2009 8:02 am
Cabra West wrote:Kelssek wrote:Feet are also used in altitude everywhere, except in Russia and China. Air pressure is given in the SI unit (hectopascals) in most places. The US insists on using inches of mercury, and most of the other countries in the Americas go along with that.
Er... nope. Nobody in Germany would use feet... it would sound utterly ridiculous.
by Tiesabre » Wed Aug 12, 2009 8:04 am
Ifreann wrote:I love that America, the great home of capitalism, continues to piss away money whenever it deals internationally for no good reason other than "Fuck you, our dicks are huge and we have guns. We don't have to change, especially not if the French invented it!".
But wait, what's that I hear rushing down my intertubes? Could it be the sound of a thousand traditionalists trampling each other to tell me about the prohibitive cost of conversion? "Such huge numbers! Millions of dollars! All to save a tiny amount? MADNESS!". Well yes, a tiny amount. A tiny amount hundreds of thousands of times over. The longer you wait to convert, the more money thrown away. A one time payment to permanently remove a long term, regularly occurring cost.
Imagine you run a business, and I come to you selling a perfect machine, one that will never break down or require maintenance, one that only requires you to buy it, install it and turn it on and it will do its thing for all of eternity. This machine would replace one of your workers. Naturally the cost is far higher than the weekly salary of that worker, but you'd have to be a fool not to buy it on that grounds. After all, you have to pay that salary every week. Yet that's exactly what the US does. Pays good money for a job that could be eliminated if they would just change.
by The Orion Federation (Ancient) » Wed Aug 12, 2009 8:06 am
by Gioanni » Wed Aug 12, 2009 8:09 am
by Galloism » Wed Aug 12, 2009 8:12 am
Kelssek wrote:Cabra West wrote:Kelssek wrote:Feet are also used in altitude everywhere, except in Russia and China. Air pressure is given in the SI unit (hectopascals) in most places. The US insists on using inches of mercury, and most of the other countries in the Americas go along with that.
Er... nope. Nobody in Germany would use feet... it would sound utterly ridiculous.
In aviation, I meant; in Germany, aircraft would be told to "climb to 3,000 feet", etc., as opposed to "1000 metres". Of course, in everyday use, if I wanted to know the height of a German mountain, etc., I'd expect it in metres.
by The Orion Federation (Ancient) » Wed Aug 12, 2009 8:13 am
by Ifreann » Wed Aug 12, 2009 8:14 am
Tiesabre wrote:Ifreann wrote:I love that America, the great home of capitalism, continues to piss away money whenever it deals internationally for no good reason other than "Fuck you, our dicks are huge and we have guns. We don't have to change, especially not if the French invented it!".
But wait, what's that I hear rushing down my intertubes? Could it be the sound of a thousand traditionalists trampling each other to tell me about the prohibitive cost of conversion? "Such huge numbers! Millions of dollars! All to save a tiny amount? MADNESS!". Well yes, a tiny amount. A tiny amount hundreds of thousands of times over. The longer you wait to convert, the more money thrown away. A one time payment to permanently remove a long term, regularly occurring cost.
Imagine you run a business, and I come to you selling a perfect machine, one that will never break down or require maintenance, one that only requires you to buy it, install it and turn it on and it will do its thing for all of eternity. This machine would replace one of your workers. Naturally the cost is far higher than the weekly salary of that worker, but you'd have to be a fool not to buy it on that grounds. After all, you have to pay that salary every week. Yet that's exactly what the US does. Pays good money for a job that could be eliminated if they would just change.
You make it seem like a country of 300 million plus could just convert their entire system of living to the metric system overnight.
Yeah, metric is better. But jeeze, how 'bout you make sure the American people actually know how to fucking use it first?
by The Orion Federation (Ancient) » Wed Aug 12, 2009 8:17 am
Gioanni wrote:BY THE WAY I TOTTAY AGREE WITH MOST SANE PEOPLE THAT THE US SHOULD SWITCH TO THE METRIC SYSTEM
by The Future Kingdom » Wed Aug 12, 2009 8:19 am
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