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Mr. Scram:

--- Quote from: SkyMaster on February 17, 2020, 11:55:10 pm ---Anonymously bashing a particular country?

Nobody is forced to post on an internet forum.
 
If a person has a concern about privacy, this person should not post on an internet forum.

 :popcorn:

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What's your home address?

bsfeechannel:

--- Quote from: forrestc on February 18, 2020, 04:08:14 pm ---Here's something for you to think about.
[snip]

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Thank you for the time you spent writing your post, but I've known all of that long before I came to this thread. And when I say long I mean years. Perhaps decades. In this thread we've shown that it is expensive to maintain two systems of units. The tax payers do not realize that they are already paying more for that exclusivity. I know that from experience. But we've already discussed that.

Mr. Scram:

--- Quote from: ebastler on February 17, 2020, 06:33:46 am ---Gents, I agree that in some discussions the home country of a poster may provide useful context. And I understand that bsfeechannel's posts in this thread may have annoyed some of you, resulting in an interest to obtain more context.

Nevertheless, I think we should respect bsfeechnnel's wish not to disclose his (or her?) home country. To my knowledge, he has never mentioned it in a post. And the somewhat unusual approach to his Youtube videos suggests that he is concerned about privacy.

May I suggest that you remove the above posts disclosing or speculating about bsfeechannel's home country? It's a very mild form of doxing but I still think it's not appropriate. Thank you!

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Just when I thought this thread couldn't be more disappointing it devolved into doxing.

KL27x:

--- Quote from: bsfeechannel on February 18, 2020, 02:55:07 pm ---The US is really behind in terms of metrication when compared to the whole world. Metrication there goes at a sluggish--almost indolent--creeping pace. This is a fact. This is true, and is admitted by many in the US. Of course that's an embarrassment. Having two competing systems of units in a globalized world is ridiculous. Especially when one of them is outdated, based on principles and concepts obsoleted long ago.
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Firstly, BSFEEChannel, this is great improvement. I was skeptical as I started. But you are becoming way more reasonable in this exact post, anyway.

I will agree that the US is way behind in metrication. But would you agree that the US was WAY ahead of 94% of the globe's population in terms of STANDARDIZATION since the early 1900s when people starting the whole idea of mass manufacturing? And that the US built up a massive amount of this stuff compared to anyone else other than the losers of the WWII. Standardization... in its measuring system. In its tooling. In stadards used for production. In actually not just making standards. But selling them. Spreading them. Making them popular. Despite not being metric, early on, and dealing with imperial/USC and later metric, as well. 


--- Quote ---To mitigate that discomforting predicament, assertions like "the US is metricated where it makes sense", "no country is fully metricated", "metrication is expensive" or "shut up because we landed on the moon" are designed to persuade people inside and outside the US that the state of affairs is not that absurd as it really is.
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Yes, eventually one day we might have everythign in metric, here. But it's a natural course, following the money and the market. It's not efficient to force it. There's a lot of yarn in the ball, and a lot of people are using that yarn to make a living. We can't change just one piece at a time without fucking up other things. And compared to Australia just "getting 'er done," Australia's metrication was like excising a wart vs US would be like separating Siamese twins, in terms of cost/scope and what WILL go wrong.

And i don't know how many times we can apologize for rstopher. I'm personally sorry for everything he posted in this thread.


--- Quote ---But we are engineers, and we smell bullshit 20,000 km away. So this kind of argument can't survive here. We like to vapulate them without getting tired, and some of us even do that for a living. Here it is better to admit the truth than try to cover it up with that vacuous rhetoric that no one is buying.

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I disagree that what you think is important is the same as 99% of humans. We go with the market/money. Easiest way to make the most people happy. We don't do stupid stuff so BSFEE doesn't have to use a calculator. 99% of Americans will not have increased happiness or quality of life because their taxes went up to pay for this change they don't care about. They will lose real purchasing power and capital/wealth in exchange for... one set of wrenches and an abstraction that doesn't concern them.

SkyMaster:

--- Quote from: Mr. Scram on February 18, 2020, 05:35:56 pm ---
Just when I thought this thread couldn't be more disappointing it devolved into doxing.

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Yet, you wrote this in Reply #1310:


--- Quote from: Mr. Scram on February 18, 2020, 05:17:48 pm ---What's your home address?

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