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Our Friend, The Meter
dbirchall writes "Upon hearing that SpaceShipOne reached 100km today, I did some hasty math based on the altitude in feet sttated by Scaled Composites in their press release, and was surprised to come up with a number under 100,000 meters. Fortunately, a friend pointed out that my inches-to-meters conversion was flawed. Some quick Googling determined that lots of people still have no idea how many inches are in a meter, even after some folks have had big problems because of conversion errors."
Ooooohhh ho ho ho, the U.S. will be bringing the Imperial Units back -- just you wait! The only reason you aren't using 'em is because you live in the provinc--er, other countries.
Breakfast served all day!
as an american, i am ashamed that my country is not using the metric system
the political climate of this world paints an arrogant america, an america that happily drive hummer h2s and tank-sized suvs around while oil supplies become volatile, pollutes and consumes per capita more than any nation
it would be best if there wasn't an "us" versus "them" shadow cast across our country, but our stubbornness at not adapting the metric system can be chalked up to nothing other than an attitude exactly like that
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
You know what? It's too early in the morning to care what you think about that site. So screw you, Mr. Anonymous Coward. ThatWeasel.com rocks. And this post is crap. Convert Inches to Meters properly by using the back of a Marble Notebook.
TW
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Can someone tell me why using the metric system is superior to the American forms of measurement? Not opinion mind you, but the science of it, please.
:-p
As far as opinion goes - Personally, I think doing exactly the opposite of France and Germany isn't such a terrible strategy!
Mod me troll, if you must, I can't help it.
That's an ultimate trick you've just pulled off.
1. Submit flawed slashdot story and have it posted for some unknown reason
2. Clarify your mistake by posting
3. +5 Informative!!!
Stick your foot up your ass. Go metric plz.
Bitch, I'm an American.
I think in feet, pounds, and miles.
The only time I do metric is in chemistry or bio lab.
LK
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
Yes, that totally ruined Bridget Jones' Diary for me.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
It's people like you who make me ashamed to live here.
Feel free to leave.
If it was "the best place" we'd all have free medicine when we need it, a job, food free from chemicals, food period, less violence in the streets, no racism (which is rampant, from all sides), inexpensive quality housing, both parents (if there are two) in any given family wouldn't have to work (if they can find work) to support their children, we'd actually have cars that live up to emissions standards, it would be safe to eat the fish from our waterways, it would be safe to walk through a city (any city) at night, people would be able to hold police accountable to the same laws they supposedly uphold, we'd stop declairing "war" on abstract concepts ("war on terror" is working about as well as "war on drugs" did), we wouldn't have to filter our water to get rid of the poisons our water treatment plants put in it, we'd never have another case of a high school grad who couldn't read (thousands a year), there'd be nearly free quality higher education for average income people, there'd be less homeless...
What place on Earth has all of these things?
If you read my post, you'd see that I admit that my country is far from perfect.
LK
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
But wait! How (long|wide|high) is an asshat?