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bsfeechannel:

--- Quote from: KL27x on February 18, 2020, 11:25:41 pm ---Firstly, BSFEEChannel, this is great improvement. I was skeptical as I started. But you are becoming way more reasonable in this exact post, anyway.
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Why are you surprised? That's a short compendium of everything I said in this thread.


--- Quote ---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.
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Impressive. However, all of that is irrelevant now. I was trying to restore a vintage Compaq laptop computer the other day. It was manufactured in 1994 or 1995. I noticed that the power supply was made in India. The screen and the hard drive were made in Japan. Some other part was made in Mexico, another in China, yet another, elsewhere, but the US. The only thing made in the US was the logo.

So, this argument cannot be used to explain why the US is not metric. The US today is not the US of the early 1900s. And that's been going on for a couple of decades now.


--- Quote ---Yes, eventually one day we might have everythign in metric, here. But it's a natural course, following the money and the market.
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Exactly as every country in the world did. Only that they managed to do it a lot faster than the US.


--- Quote ---It's not efficient to force it.
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As I said, no country was forced to adopt the metric system. The adhesion has been always voluntary. Of course, after metric becomes official it will have to be enforced, just like imperial is enforced in the US.


--- Quote ---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.
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In other words, Australia has accomplished nothing, that's why metrication there was a piece of cake.


--- Quote ---And i don't know how many times we can apologize for rstopher. I'm personally sorry for everything he posted in this thread.
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No. Don't apologize for him. I'm thankful for his replies. He is the accurate portrait of the typical anti-metric American. If the US really wants to speed up metrication, it will have to remove his objections.

tooki:

--- Quote from: bsfeechannel on February 22, 2020, 02:26:49 am ---
--- Quote from: KL27x on February 18, 2020, 11:25:41 pm ---And i don't know how many times we can apologize for rstopher. I'm personally sorry for everything he posted in this thread.
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No. Don't apologize for him. I'm thankful for his replies. He is the accurate portrait of the typical anti-metric American. If the US really wants to speed up metrication, it will have to remove his objections.

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Except that the vast majority of Americans don't care at all. The tiny percentage of Americans who are rabidly anti-metric aren't representative of Americans as a whole, just as rabidly pro-metric people like you aren't representative of non-Americans as a whole. Neither rstopher nor you are willing to take an honest, nuanced look at the situation, instead relying on outlandish, extremist claims that bear little resemblance to the truth.

bsfeechannel:

--- Quote from: tooki on February 22, 2020, 10:34:20 am ---Except that the vast majority of Americans don't care at all.

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If that was true, we wouldn't be on page 54.

tooki:

--- Quote from: bsfeechannel on February 22, 2020, 12:00:27 pm ---
--- Quote from: tooki on February 22, 2020, 10:34:20 am ---Except that the vast majority of Americans don't care at all.

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If that was true, we wouldn't be on page 54.

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We are here because you refuse to accept ANYTHING that contradicts your narrow worldview, including very reasonable, realistic reasons for not embracing metric to a degree you consider acceptable.

Moreover, the fact that most Americans don't care about units at all doesn't mean none do. And many people who don't care about the issue itself will still come to the country's defense when under attack from morons like you.

xrunner:

--- Quote from: tooki on February 22, 2020, 10:34:20 am ---Except that the vast majority of Americans don't care at all.

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--- Quote from: bsfeechannel on February 22, 2020, 12:00:27 pm ---If that was true, we wouldn't be on page 54.

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LOL - we're on pg 54 (soon to be 55) because other people seem to care a lot that we don't care.  :-DD

Like I said a long time ago, I use metric and imperial, both, all the time. I use metric for model railroading, 3D printing, and electronics. I use imperial for a lot of other things because it's the common measurement for those other things. I can go back and forth with no problems whatsoever.

So I'm actually a more versatile person than others that don't..  :box:

Did I say I don't care?  8)

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