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soldar:

--- Quote from: vk6zgo on November 03, 2019, 12:01:56 am --- I, personally like the look of blinds that are a bit wider than the windows, rather than a bit narrower.
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Not possible when the blinds are between the jambs and not outside the plane of the wall.

So in metric the problem does not use fractions and is reduced to what is 1500 minus 2 x 8 mm (or whatever the numbers are, I haven't checked).

I dunno but to me anyone who denies that is easier, faster and less prone to mistakes is delusional.
soldar:

--- Quote from: rstofer on November 03, 2019, 12:03:47 am --- What advantage does metric offer to the average person walking down the street? 
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Are they going to the hardware store to buy blinds? Because I would say getting the correct size is definitely an advantage over getting the wrong size.


--- Quote from: rstofer on November 03, 2019, 12:03:47 am --- Second, despite our backward system, we have walked on the Moon and nobody else has and we did it 50 years ago.  Some of the work was calc'd in metric, most of it was built in customary units.  Call back when you leave footprints!  In the meantime (probably another 100 years or so), keep working on the project, you'll get there someday, but we'll be on Mars before you get to the Moon!
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Oh, come on! This is a shitty argument and you know it. Using two sets of units has a cost in time, money, errors, etc. Saying "were so rich we can afford to waste money" is not an argument, it's dick waving.


--- Quote from: rstofer on November 03, 2019, 12:03:47 am --- Why do you care what we do?  Why is this all so terribly important to you?  We don't care what you're doing, we certainly don't criticize your use of the metric system but we're not staging protests demanding change.  We simply don't care!  If we need metric, we use it.  If we don't, well, we don't.  It isn't important in our everyday lives.
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I have missed any protests around the world demanding America change to metric. Is that what the HK protests are about?


--- Quote from: rstofer on November 03, 2019, 12:03:47 am --- And do be aware that, as backward as we are, we're still the largest economy in the world.
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Oh, more dick waving! OK, I'm game! America is still the largest economy depending on how you measure. China is larger by Parity Purchasing Power and the EU is larger outright. So yeah, if you choose the right way to measure the USA is still #1 (and losing ground rapidly). So what? What does that prove with regard to the benefits of one set of measuring units or another? Nothing, that's what.

Saying "we are so rich we can waste resources" is not rational, it's egotism. And nobody is demanding America do anything in this respect. In fact, America's competitors are probably quite happy to see America is losing ground in the world and if you asked them they would be the first ones to opine America should stay with American customary units because they benefit from that.

Do we really want to go back to 1969? (Well, I would but that's another issue and totally unrelated to the metric system.) Do we want to go back to 1969 model cars? TVs?



--- Quote from: rstofer on November 03, 2019, 12:03:47 am --- Been to the Moon, largest economy in the world, Imperial units...  See a pattern here?
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I only see irrational dick waving.



--- Quote from: rstofer on November 03, 2019, 12:03:47 am --- I know, every time I bring up the Moon thing people frame it as American Exceptionalism.  Well, yes, it's true.  But if it wasn't for AE, the French people would be speaking German and the standards would be in Berlin.  The Germans always did have the superior scientists.
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Not only dick waving but a very limp dick that saw better days ... maybe in 1969. Sad!
rstofer:

--- Quote from: soldar on November 03, 2019, 09:09:46 am ---Not only dick waving but a very limp dick that saw better days ... maybe in 1969. Sad!

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You're right, it is.  And that's because EVERY ONE of these threads, and they happen a couple of times a year, devolves into US bashing.  I get a little tired of people from 3rd tier countries attacking the US.  We have done so much for so many in our mere 243 years of existence you would think we would get a little respect.  But no, people from countries thousands of years older that have accomplished exactly nothing in their entire history seem to find great glee in bashing our success because we CHOOSE not to use metric.  It's a choice and we made it!

Do outsiders, in even their most drug induced hallucinations, believe that the US cares what other countries think?
Macbeth:
Lockheed Martin "choosing" not to use metric, while NASA JPL did worked out well for the Mars Climate Orbiter didn't it?  :palm:
Monkeh:

--- Quote from: rstofer on November 03, 2019, 03:44:44 pm ---Do outsiders, in even their most drug induced hallucinations, believe that the US cares what other countries think?

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You seem to care a great deal.

The US is built upon the 'nothing' other countries have accomplished. And now you're on course to undo all of it.
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