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Petition For Metric In US Halfway To Requiring Response From the White House
fsterman writes "Without any prompting from the U.S. Metric Association, a We The People petition to standardize the U.S. on the metric system has received 13,000 signatures in six days. That's half the number needed for an official response from the White House. It looks like ending the U.S.'s anti-metric alliance with Liberia and Burma (the only other countries NOT on the metric system) might rank up there with building a death star."
Metric is the tool of unbridled liberalism creeping into our once-brave country. Introduced by a Negro in 1962, the Metric system is the favorite of politically correct pansy-boys everywhere.
Why won't people think of America first for once?
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Right. And now the Metric system itself is from the US? Who writes this stuff.
Do you really expect that most American will accept the metric system if it is somewhat unamerican? I don't mind it been presented as an american invention if it can help bring the US in the 20th century.
Also, I suspect this is exactly the idea behind this article. So shut up about it, and let this US metric system get root.
13,000 American signed? That's like 20,000 in metric! (or airplane seats)
Adopting the metric system will eliminate a lot of confusion and ease standardization of container sizes and other such things, which in the long run will save a lot of money. Indeed, the Death Star will be cheaper to design and build, and more likely to work, if all of the work is done in metric.
Yeah, these editors, sheesh. You give them an inch, they take a mile.
It creates jobs and gives every red-blooded male an excuse to double his tool collection (at least the stuff like socket sets where you can get great bargains), what are we waiting for?
So? There are 1000 mInch in an Inch. There are 1000 inch in a kiloInch. There is nothing special about the meter.
Right. And now the Metric system itself is from the US? Who writes this stuff.
Do you really expect that most American will accept the metric system if it is somewhat unamerican? I don't mind it been presented as an american invention if it can help bring the US in the 20th century.
Also, I suspect this is exactly the idea behind this article. So shut up about it, and let this US metric system get root.
Once you convert over to metric, it's the 21st century.
For hire.
Who writes this stuff.
Me.
Sorry, the thing went through several revisions : )
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Could you pick up some robertson screwdrivers as well? Last time I shipped a crate to the US, they used crowbars to open it up.
Whenever I ship something big to the US, I make a point to attach a note to the outside of the crate warning them about the Robertson screws, and informing them that for their convenience, I have included a pack of Robertson bits inside the crate.
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I little piece of my soul dies every time I have to measure something in 1/32th's of an inch.
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The rest of the world just isn't smart enough to learn the US Standard system. It really confuses them, and the only way they can maintain any sort of smug sense of superiority is by belittling the way we measure cups and feet.
Paying taxes to buy civilization is like paying a hooker to buy love.
Besides, that is what God created conversion programs for.
God crashed a multi-billion dollar research craft into Mars?
If I'm fishing in my pants to figure out what all the "fur" is about... that means I have been away from it for far too long.
Since the simplest answer to every question is "It was God's will.", Occam's Razor says, yes. It was God that crashed the craft into Mars.
When I see a distance of a multiple of 60 one can quickly determine how many hours it will take to get there when driving. :-)
Until time is also switched over to base 10 using miles/hr has a very nice 1:1 mapping with time! (assuming one drives 60 mi/hr.) The metric is a nice scientific system; the imperial system is a "nice" organic system. There is no reason BOTH systems couldn't be kept on the signage.
Ummm, yeah. I'm assuming you either just forgot your sarcasm tag or had a massive brain fart....
Last I checked km / hour was 1:1 as well. 1 hour @ 65 km/hour = 65km traveled.
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I would wager that 1/3 of a meter is "1/3 of a meter"? How much is 1/5 of a foot?
One toe?
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A kilobyte is 10 bits
That's you off the next Mars probe team.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
Dude, what the fuck is wrong with your feet?!?
Even my big toe is less than one tenth the size of my sole.
So the Texans will have Meedurs?
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