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| ebastler:
--- Quote from: KL27x on November 22, 2019, 06:46:51 am ---... --- End quote --- What's the matter, KL27x? Frustrated that people have stopped quarreling about metrification in the last couple of posts? Maybe everybody just got bored with the topic. Honestly, I think it would be good for you let this thread rest too. For reasons which are beyond me, you seem to be taking this matter rather personally. Not a recipe for happiness... |
| tooki:
--- Quote from: ebastler on November 22, 2019, 08:59:22 am --- --- Quote from: KL27x on November 22, 2019, 06:46:51 am ---... --- End quote --- What's the matter, KL27x? Frustrated that people have stopped quarreling about metrification in the last couple of posts? Maybe everybody just got bored with the topic. Honestly, I think it would be good for you let this thread rest too. For reasons which are beyond me, you seem to be taking this matter rather personally. Not a recipe for happiness... --- End quote --- Really? I think there are others in this thread who have taken it way, way more personally than KL27x... |
| KL27x:
ebastler: --- Quote ---What's the matter, KL27x? Frustrated that people have stopped quarreling about metrification in the last couple of posts? Maybe everybody just got bored with the topic. Honestly, I think it would be good for you let this thread rest too. For reasons which are beyond me, you seem to be taking this matter rather personally. Not a recipe for happiness... --- End quote --- Thank you Ebastler, and Tooki for your concern. There is no frustration. I have accepted metric into my heart. So now, we can stop to worry about making half our signs to metric and half imperial. We can spend all the money on the parade. And you are all invited. We will have knitting, meters and meters of yarn for all. When I go to the hardware store, it will be so much better to be able to buy wood in 40x90's. No more 2x4's. That was silly. Now I will be able to buy wood by the liter. It's like being in the Matrix and seeing the 1's and 0's for what they truly are. Metric isn't just another arbitrary system. It's the one and only truth; you just have to accept it. The physical universe was made in meters. It's not a measuring system; it's reality. "I'll take 1200 L of pine" "Yes, I got you *wink wink*. And I don't even need a calculator. Just drive around back. Here, you'll need these tie downs, too. I can tell by looking at your truck, it can only hold 1100 L in the bed." We lock at eyes and we say, in unison, "Ain't metric swell?" Bink! Within only one generation, my kids will give you a blank stare if you say "inch." That's when the real progress will kick in. These kids will make us flying cars any day now. These same kids will also give you a blank stare when the total is 10.21, and you hand them a 20 and a 1. But as long as they are unhampered by imperial, they will be unstoppable. Just like the kids in UK and Canada and Australia, today. America is making great strides in oxycontin abuse, right now, as well. But if we divert this money to metric, I'm sure drug abuse will just disappear on its own. It's probably a side effect of the frustration that imperial gives us as Americans. The happiness we have when we realize how superior we are to a country-not-named-Rowanda will be incredible. We will all be high on life. |
| Cubdriver:
--- Quote from: bsfeechannel on November 21, 2019, 02:27:38 am --- --- Quote from: Cubdriver on November 21, 2019, 01:24:17 am ---Hmmm... As an engineer, have you ever done any sort of cost-benefit analysis? Again - what benefit would the United States see from the extensive cost of changing all the road signs from imperial to metric? Remember, this is not a clean sheet choice, but a choice to change an extensive infrastructure that already exists and is perfectly functional in its current state. --- End quote --- Going metric pays off. Knock yourself out. --- End quote --- Yep. Pretty sure that I've acknowledged that going metric in industry is a good thing. Believe that I've said that a few times in this thread. But I saw nothing in your link that said anything about changing road signs - yet again, you have typed a response but failed to answer my question. For clarity, that question has been bolded, enlarged and changed to red in the embedded post, since the non-answer you provided leads me to believe that you somehow failed to see it when you typed the above reply. And now I'll repeat it here, yet another time since it keeps slipping past you. What economic benefit would the United States derive from spending unknown billions of dollars to change existing road signs from their current form with archaic miles, feet, and inches to meters and kilometers? What is the cost-benefit of making this major change? Is there something about my question that you don't understand? It seems pretty straightforward to me. If you're missing something about it, please let me know and I will attempt to rephrase it more to your liking. Or is it simply that you're avoiding it because you don't have a good reason to justify spending what it would cost to make the change? -Pat |
| GeorgeOfTheJungle:
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