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rstofer:

--- Quote from: tooki on October 31, 2019, 10:02:03 pm ---
--- Quote from: rstofer on October 31, 2019, 05:50:31 pm ---The US is not metric and never will be.  For competitive reasons some industries may choose to use metric but that isn't the country, it's an industry.
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The US will never be 100.000% metric — but then again, neither is any other country, even the ones who claim to be all-metric. But that's not really the benchmark. You're using your own private goalpost, not one germane to the discussion.

But is the US going to become predominantly metric? I believe so, in the mid to long run.

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Why not a verifiable benchmark?  The US will be metric when our odometers are in units of km and we buy gasoline in liters.  The roadsigns have to be in km as well or it would be easy to cheat given electronic dashboards.  Just flip a switch and the display is metric.  That doesn't count!  The unit has to be in daily use!

But it is a verifiable benchmark.  It's a simple test and nobody can debate the conversion!  But it's not going to happen!

Yes, pharmacology has always been metric.  Clear back into the '50s I was aware of cc and mL.  It didn't mean anything, it was just the graduation on a syringe or test tube.  But those were the units, no question about it!

An interesting unit in pharmacology is microgram - abbreviated 'mcg'.  Where did that come from?  Don't believe it?  Look at the units for Folic Acid on the ordinary vitamin bottle.  Apparently 'ug' doesn't work for vitamins.
boffin:

--- Quote from: Macbeth on October 31, 2019, 10:35:22 pm ---That's because European continent horses are gay. Those of us in the Anti-gay horse Popular Front of Judea get taken to court all the time.  :-DD  :horse:

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I thought you were in the People's Front ?
Macbeth:

--- Quote from: boffin on October 31, 2019, 11:10:49 pm ---
--- Quote from: Macbeth on October 31, 2019, 10:35:22 pm ---That's because European continent horses are gay. Those of us in the Anti-gay horse Popular Front of Judea get taken to court all the time.  :-DD  :horse:

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I thought you were in the People's Front ?

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Splitters!
Monkeh:

--- Quote from: rstofer on October 31, 2019, 10:56:05 pm ---Yes, pharmacology has always been metric.  Clear back into the '50s I was aware of cc and mL.  It didn't mean anything, it was just the graduation on a syringe or test tube.  But those were the units, no question about it!
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Miles don't mean anything, they're just the graduation on your odometer.
bsfeechannel:

--- Quote from: tooki on October 31, 2019, 10:02:03 pm ---

--- Quote from: rstofer on October 31, 2019, 05:50:31 pm ---Here's a thought:  Why does anyone in the metric world care what the US does?  It's our concern, nobody else's.

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This is the only sensible thing you've said in this entire thread, and it's a question to which I have posited an answer multiple times already: smug, arrogant prejudice against USA. No objective analysis of the situation results in a justification for the vitriol some of the anti-customary people spew.

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I think the answer has been already given: perception. While the resistance to adopt metric lies in the perception of some kind of external interference in domestic affairs, imperial is perceived as antiquated, obsolete, cumbersome, incompatible, error-prone, non-standard, time-consuming, expensive.

That the "largest economy" in the world is not fully metricated is really intriguing, but the average Joe elsewhere doesn't really care.
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