No, but I'm positive that (since they are so important and all) they can go in the first ship to evacuate the planet because it's about to be eaten by a Giant Mutant Star Goat.
Bring Back our Flag... And you've won. I'll be waiting.
I think that means by definition that they get SECOND, doesn't it?
And by the way, what's Russian for "obsessive/compulsive about being first/biggest/whatever"? Sheesh, you guys are practically TEXAN.
Also by the way, the US was "first to the moon". If you are racing your friends to go to "Billy's House", the winners would not be the ones who: a) who drove past b) who drove around his house c) whose dog visited Billy's house d) who stopped in the driveway e) who actually crashed into his house with their car
If a significant portion of the world's communications and commerce infrastructure can be signficantly effected by the hackings of a disgruntled, alienated minor, perhaps rather than murdering the most likely talented, albeit misguided youth, we could take a closer look at why our infrastructure is so vulnerable. ...and THEN murder him, as an example to the rest of the talented indolent youths that perhaps their time could be better spent doing something other than e-vandalism.
Something really gory and slow. Webcast, of course. Maybe TechTV would carry it?
I've never understood why the ebook crowd is trying so hard to compete with books in the worst possible context - the 'comfortable novel' reading category.
Imagine: I have my Joe Ebook Reader. Before I leave on my trip, I hit the synch button and like Avantgo, it dumps the contents of a number of my favorite web pages to the device. Later, I'm going through an airport, stop in a kiosk, plug in my ebook reader and in a couple of seconds have today's paper for $0.10 instead of the dead tree $0.50-$1, plus I stay clean. I'm on my way to Germany, so I also get a Frankfurter Allgemein for another $0.25, even though the news stand doesn't carry it. Then I'm walking to my gate, notice the new Wired is out. Cool. Stop at that newstand, and I can choose the lite (text only) d/l for $0.50, or the full (graphics included) version for $0.75; I take the text-only one. I hope on the plane with several hours worth of good reading, without carrying 30 pounds of dead trees.
FLEXIBILITY. SPEED. EASE OF USE.
Ebooks can't beat the feeling of curling up with a good book, but there's a HUGE market out there for something like the above. Except of course this is almost more about the INFRASTRUCTURE than the device, and they're all just apparently interested in selling us their latest clever device.
if the description doesn't fit the checkout assistant won't allow the sale.
You have never really been IN a big store, have you?
You walk up to the counter at Target or Wal Mart. You hand the checkout person the MP3 player you want to buy. It's an ABC corp 512 meg MP3 player with inegrated everything, $300.
However, you have switched the RFID codes with the ABC Corp's *bottom* end product, a 32 meg crap Mp3 player @ $14.99.
The checkout person (9 times out of 10 a new immigrant who probably can't read english all that well anyway) looks at item, it says "MP3 player" on the side. Maybe somewhere on the package is the code XBWU3214114CMP3512X. The RFID tag talks to the cash register, and the checkout person glances at it and it says "MP3 Player, ABC Corp, prod XBWU3111234DMP3032X $14.99"
Yeah, that checkout person's going notice. SURE.
Products without on-package pricing + low paid checkout staff + easily-hacked RFID = my money's going to go a LOT further.
...we could just say that anyone too stupid to fill out a punch card ballot correctly is arguably too incompetent for their opinion to be of any value ANYWAY.
Oh but heavens, that would be so unfair.
One of the two parties DEPENDS on the votes from illiterate and uneducated voters, who else is voting the "bread & circuses" ticket?
No mention about if he actually WAS breaking the law in the article.
Erroneous & misleading information? If the SSN listed wasn't his, whose was it? The fact that they don't say leads me to believe it was probably relevant, just not him (fiancee, maybe?).
I don't believe "but I sold a lot of their DVDs" or "they really liked my site!" is a useful defense to anyone but those who are already convinced that this is another case of the PATRIOT ACT (read: Nazi John Ashcroft Bush Facist Dictatorship) overreaching.
This entire article is based on a study by one person, no doubt with a political agenda.
I've lived next to Hanford since I was 3 years old, and work a couple of miles from the nuke plant. I've toured the site many times.... We swim in and eat fish from the river. Our water comes from the river and local groundwater. None is contaminated enough to be detectible, let alone harm somebody. And I'm right here, a fraction of a mile downstream from the site.
Yeah, but who do we believe? Your OTHER head said you are totally full of crap and we shouldn't listen to you.
...could someone who IS please explain the boundary line in the following cases?
1) a dentist listening to his own radio in the exam room while he works? (like a boombox, not a portable headphone radio) 2) me sitting in my cube in the backoffice and listening to music while I work? (presumeably, at least 3 other people can hear it) 3) the receptionist at the dentist's front desk listening to her own radio while at work? (where, presumeably customers could hear it) 4) the receptionist, the dentist, and each of the couple of assistants all listening to their own radios while they work, all tuned to the same station?
...releasing the first clips of the movie so far in advance.
I used to *hate* trailers that gave away a movie's storyline (back when I used to go to movie theaters), now I'm starting to get sick of 'driblets' and trailers and all the 'leaked production clips' that seem to end up sprinkled all over the net.
Lacking any sort of self-control, I frequently download said clips, and by the time the movie comes out, I've seen 2/3rds of it. It sucks.
Aside from that, there's the whole difficulty of keeping a fanbase whipped up for so long. Maybe Joss'll take a page from Gabe Newell: "oh, we were GOING to release the film in September, but someone hacked our email so we're going to have to 'check' it for the next 12 months before ACTUALLY releasing it."
Well, look at it this way: that dumbass with a cavalier respect for the 'rules of the road' that just cut you off on the commute to work this morning might get a fender-bender.
In a light plane, he'd probably be dead or seriously injured.
Road rage is much less of an issue for pilots, since Newton and Darwin tend to make sure the ones flying are fairly careful individuals.
Space exploration is a perfect example of the "give a man a fish..." paradigm.
The problems of humanity are endless. And frankly, we've solved most of them. Now it's a question of distribution and dissemination.
But does anyone doubt that in 1000 years we're going to be colonizing other planets and spreading the human race across the galaxy? We'll STILL have the same human problems of violence, greed, selfishness, etc. - I think they are endemic to the human animal.
I can see your grandma saying 80 years ago "why are we funding these silly things called airplanes? They are unsafe and barely can stay up in the air - what use are they? Use that money for something important, like feeding the starving."
"They should shut down this anti-democratic project and put it into a security system that works," Scannell said. "Instead of retooling, they should junk the entire system and improve physical security."
No way! Improve physical security? You mean like stop worrying about having an algorithm figure stuff out and do it manually? That's work, no way! Plus, we wouldn't be able to create a large database of information on airline passengers that could be easily accessed by other agencies in the on-going fight to end freedom, errr I mean terrorism.
I hate to harsh your mellow, but I'd love to hear you or Scannell's ideas for "a security system that works"?
It's easy to bitch "aaagh, they've stolen my privacy!!", but YOU figure out a way that you can - identify or at least highlight potential terrorists - inconvenience as few people as possible meaning it's got to be quick and as inconspicuous as possible - cost as little as possible
Personally, I think the simplest solution would be to extensively scrutinize any male of Middle Eastern descent, aged 12-62. Yep, it's profiling. But yet, I bet it would effectively screen out most terrorist candidates, at least until they figure out how to force Scandinavian grandmothers to start carrying their bombs for them. However, because of leftists like a goodly chunk of the/. crowd, such a simple solution is prohibited under the rubric of 'no profiling'. Therefore we get stupid systems where US Senators and little old ladies are getting searched. Brilliant. When's the last time a little old lady or a US Senator blew up a plane?
For those of you who are young, or perhaps never watched PBS, you have no understanding of the cultural freedoms we used to enjoy. PBS was allowed this freedom because the hicks, red necks, and vengeful religious fanatics did not watch it. Even more amazing, in the best US traditions of freedom of speech and religion, these people tended to leave PBS alone.
This message and the unintentional irony brought to you from your local elitist public television member.
Let me run through a little thought experiment.
- money is taken from Joe Citizen's paycheck, from his investment earnings, and from every dollar he spends at the store. - some of this money is then turned over to a 'public' television station for programming.
Here's the test question. Who gets to chose what is shown on this station that is paid for by the taxpayer: A. The taxpayer B. An elitist bunch of intellectual poseurs who are entirely out of the mainstream?
If you answered A, you are clearly a Republican Facist oppressor.
Here's a hint: if you don't want Joe Sixpack telling you what you can show on TV, don't take Joe Sixpack's FUCKING money to pay for it.
How about the goverment just gets the hell out of TV programming, "arts" funding, and all sorts of other 'government as mommy' programs, and just go back to doing the few things that the original Constitutional authors INTENDED a Federal government to be responsible for?
Sorry to be such a 'redneck hick' but I'd rather keep my money, and all the impassioned leftists so concerned about free speech can contribute voluntarily to pay for Cop Shop and they can say whatever they want on cable?
I find it even more ironic also that you term us 'pompous assholes.'
You know, everyone (including me) likes to bemoan Hollywood's inability to have a "new" idea. Apparently the same affliction exists at BBC and in Whoville. So they can't use the Daleks. So? I like Dr. Who a lot, but they don't *have* to regurgitate all the old villians all the time. Personally, I think they're now rather anticlimactic - "oh, whew - it's just Daleks.":\
LOL, I knew the first one to be mentioned on/. would be America's Army. At least its agenda is overt. It makes no bones about the fact that it is a recruiting & propaganda tool.
Personally, I think it's a bit of a relief to see a game where the government is the GOOD GUYS.
How many games have come out over the years with the theme of "evil corporation/government (or agency thereof) is trying to catch/control/compel you for nefarious purposes" or "you are the only one that can stop this evil corporation/government agency and its irresponsible experiments!" (games like XIII come immediately to mind, or oh, I dunno, perhaps Black Mesa rings a bell, or the soon-to-be-released game set in the Union Aerospace Corporation on Phobos?)
I have a friend who loves to play shooters like these, but refuses to play AA because he feels it's propaganda. I guess the tinfoil-hattery implicit in the other titles so closely matches his worldview, he doesn't notice/care.
It's pretty bad when you have to buy 200 gb HDs and use them to backup your images and stick'em in the closet. There are better uses.
Not to be contentious, but these drives are going to start at what, $700-$800 for at least the first year they're out? Media's probably going to be a minimum $6-$10 per disc for the short to medium term.
When I see that USB drives are about $0.50/gig, I wouldn't really have a problem with buying hard drives for backup devices, and swapping them out when I need the images. You can store a LOT of pictures before you start to reach the price point of your blue-ray burner, and (I don't know how compatible blue ray dvd's are with red-ray tech) the images remain a lot more universally portable.
Or, he could be talking about Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, which contextually might be more relevant, given that it is a SciFi game ABOUT the colonization of a different planet...just a hunch.
Unless you could build the setup like a Nebelwerfer on the back of your pyro truck - since it's not burning/explosive/consumed at launch - you could literally just drive up, park, fire up the compressor on the truck. While it's charging, you load the tubes - voila - insta-show.
BTW I've wanted to ask - my company has hundreds of 6" heavy duty (1/2" wall) cardboard cores, 39" - 70" long. Does anyone in the fireworks business want them?
like the sheep idea because it leads off in more interesting directions.... With the electric sheep, you can set a number of more interesting goals than having it walk a predetermined path.
Anyone else think of Realdolls.com when they read this?
Something like the fair bit of arrogance assuming someone doesn't use them.
Most US scientists, technicians, engineers, students use metric systems in a majority of their calculations. I'm in transportation, and I use them CONSTANTLY. It's only the popular measures and 'common parlance' where Imperial units are dominant.
BTW, we don't call the cities Roma or Moskva, either. It's a long-standing English-language tradition (inherited from our British ancestry) to rename foreign stuff, or at least re-spell it. Probably has to do with the fact that they couldn't agree within England how to spell words like plow/plough.
I don't understand why people get so upset over this. To the Euro's, it's just *another* proof that Americans are just too stupid for their own good (insert obligatory Euro-chic reference to George Bush). To the Americans, it's another proof that the Eurotrash are patronizing snobs.
IMO using both systems is like being bilingual. It hasn't changed in the US because the government here doesn't ORDER people to change things like that. It encourages, but doesn't compel - if there's not a pressing market need to change, people won't change.
If my reference to pounds or miles angers you, then: a) you have way, way, way too much energy. Go post on the internet and work it out a little. b) *ASK* me; I'd be happy to repeat it in km or kg.
What are you going to do next rename Bordeaux into Bordo so you can get your heads around other French concepts? Well, we could just let the Germans HAVE it next time, they'll convert it to "Bordohausen" or something that's abundantly easier for our Anglo-Saxon palates to pronounce. Sheesh.
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No, but I'm positive that (since they are so important and all) they can go in the first ship to evacuate the planet because it's about to be eaten by a Giant Mutant Star Goat.
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Bring Back our Flag...
And you've won. I'll be waiting.
I think that means by definition that they get SECOND, doesn't it?
And by the way, what's Russian for "obsessive/compulsive about being first/biggest/whatever"? Sheesh, you guys are practically TEXAN.
Also by the way, the US was "first to the moon". If you are racing your friends to go to "Billy's House", the winners would not be the ones who:
a) who drove past
b) who drove around his house
c) whose dog visited Billy's house
d) who stopped in the driveway
e) who actually crashed into his house with their car
Sorry!
If a significant portion of the world's communications and commerce infrastructure can be signficantly effected by the hackings of a disgruntled, alienated minor, perhaps rather than murdering the most likely talented, albeit misguided youth, we could take a closer look at why our infrastructure is so vulnerable.
...and THEN murder him, as an example to the rest of the talented indolent youths that perhaps their time could be better spent doing something other than e-vandalism.
Something really gory and slow. Webcast, of course. Maybe TechTV would carry it?
Oh look, it's a Doom3 (anything)
I think I'm going to die of a heart attack of not-surprise.
I've never understood why the ebook crowd is trying so hard to compete with books in the worst possible context - the 'comfortable novel' reading category.
Imagine:
I have my Joe Ebook Reader. Before I leave on my trip, I hit the synch button and like Avantgo, it dumps the contents of a number of my favorite web pages to the device.
Later, I'm going through an airport, stop in a kiosk, plug in my ebook reader and in a couple of seconds have today's paper for $0.10 instead of the dead tree $0.50-$1, plus I stay clean. I'm on my way to Germany, so I also get a Frankfurter Allgemein for another $0.25, even though the news stand doesn't carry it.
Then I'm walking to my gate, notice the new Wired is out. Cool. Stop at that newstand, and I can choose the lite (text only) d/l for $0.50, or the full (graphics included) version for $0.75; I take the text-only one.
I hope on the plane with several hours worth of good reading, without carrying 30 pounds of dead trees.
FLEXIBILITY. SPEED. EASE OF USE.
Ebooks can't beat the feeling of curling up with a good book, but there's a HUGE market out there for something like the above. Except of course this is almost more about the INFRASTRUCTURE than the device, and they're all just apparently interested in selling us their latest clever device.
if the description doesn't fit the checkout assistant won't allow the sale.
You have never really been IN a big store, have you?
You walk up to the counter at Target or Wal Mart.
You hand the checkout person the MP3 player you want to buy. It's an ABC corp 512 meg MP3 player with inegrated everything, $300.
However, you have switched the RFID codes with the ABC Corp's *bottom* end product, a 32 meg crap Mp3 player @ $14.99.
The checkout person (9 times out of 10 a new immigrant who probably can't read english all that well anyway) looks at item, it says "MP3 player" on the side. Maybe somewhere on the package is the code XBWU3214114CMP3512X. The RFID tag talks to the cash register, and the checkout person glances at it and it says "MP3 Player, ABC Corp, prod XBWU3111234DMP3032X $14.99"
Yeah, that checkout person's going notice. SURE.
Products without on-package pricing
+ low paid checkout staff
+ easily-hacked RFID
= my money's going to go a LOT further.
...we could just say that anyone too stupid to fill out a punch card ballot correctly is arguably too incompetent for their opinion to be of any value ANYWAY.
Oh but heavens, that would be so unfair.
One of the two parties DEPENDS on the votes from illiterate and uneducated voters, who else is voting the "bread & circuses" ticket?
(not replying to poster, but to article)
LOL FUD
No mention about if he actually WAS breaking the law in the article.
Erroneous & misleading information? If the SSN listed wasn't his, whose was it? The fact that they don't say leads me to believe it was probably relevant, just not him (fiancee, maybe?).
I don't believe "but I sold a lot of their DVDs" or "they really liked my site!" is a useful defense to anyone but those who are already convinced that this is another case of the PATRIOT ACT (read: Nazi John Ashcroft Bush Facist Dictatorship) overreaching.
This entire article is based on a study by one person, no doubt with a political agenda.
...
I've lived next to Hanford since I was 3 years old, and work a couple of miles from the nuke plant. I've toured the site many times.
We swim in and eat fish from the river. Our water comes from the river and local groundwater. None is contaminated enough to be detectible, let alone harm somebody. And I'm right here, a fraction of a mile downstream from the site.
Yeah, but who do we believe? Your OTHER head said you are totally full of crap and we shouldn't listen to you.
...could someone who IS please explain the boundary line in the following cases?
1) a dentist listening to his own radio in the exam room while he works? (like a boombox, not a portable headphone radio)
2) me sitting in my cube in the backoffice and listening to music while I work? (presumeably, at least 3 other people can hear it)
3) the receptionist at the dentist's front desk listening to her own radio while at work? (where, presumeably customers could hear it)
4) the receptionist, the dentist, and each of the couple of assistants all listening to their own radios while they work, all tuned to the same station?
...releasing the first clips of the movie so far in advance.
I used to *hate* trailers that gave away a movie's storyline (back when I used to go to movie theaters), now I'm starting to get sick of 'driblets' and trailers and all the 'leaked production clips' that seem to end up sprinkled all over the net.
Lacking any sort of self-control, I frequently download said clips, and by the time the movie comes out, I've seen 2/3rds of it. It sucks.
Aside from that, there's the whole difficulty of keeping a fanbase whipped up for so long. Maybe Joss'll take a page from Gabe Newell: "oh, we were GOING to release the film in September, but someone hacked our email so we're going to have to 'check' it for the next 12 months before ACTUALLY releasing it."
Well, look at it this way: that dumbass with a cavalier respect for the 'rules of the road' that just cut you off on the commute to work this morning might get a fender-bender.
In a light plane, he'd probably be dead or seriously injured.
Road rage is much less of an issue for pilots, since Newton and Darwin tend to make sure the ones flying are fairly careful individuals.
I wouldn't call you cynical, only naive.
Space exploration is a perfect example of the "give a man a fish..." paradigm.
The problems of humanity are endless. And frankly, we've solved most of them. Now it's a question of distribution and dissemination.
But does anyone doubt that in 1000 years we're going to be colonizing other planets and spreading the human race across the galaxy? We'll STILL have the same human problems of violence, greed, selfishness, etc. - I think they are endemic to the human animal.
I can see your grandma saying 80 years ago "why are we funding these silly things called airplanes? They are unsafe and barely can stay up in the air - what use are they? Use that money for something important, like feeding the starving."
And she'd be wrong.
"They should shut down this anti-democratic project and put it into a security system that works," Scannell said. "Instead of retooling, they should junk the entire system and improve physical security."
No way! Improve physical security? You mean like stop worrying about having an algorithm figure stuff out and do it manually? That's work, no way! Plus, we wouldn't be able to create a large database of information on airline passengers that could be easily accessed by other agencies in the on-going fight to end freedom, errr I mean terrorism.
I hate to harsh your mellow, but I'd love to hear you or Scannell's ideas for "a security system that works"?
It's easy to bitch "aaagh, they've stolen my privacy!!", but YOU figure out a way that you can
- identify or at least highlight potential terrorists
- inconvenience as few people as possible meaning it's got to be quick and as inconspicuous as possible
- cost as little as possible
Personally, I think the simplest solution would be to extensively scrutinize any male of Middle Eastern descent, aged 12-62. Yep, it's profiling. But yet, I bet it would effectively screen out most terrorist candidates, at least until they figure out how to force Scandinavian grandmothers to start carrying their bombs for them. However, because of leftists like a goodly chunk of the/. crowd, such a simple solution is prohibited under the rubric of 'no profiling'.
Therefore we get stupid systems where US Senators and little old ladies are getting searched. Brilliant. When's the last time a little old lady or a US Senator blew up a plane?
Liberals could find a dark side to the sun.
For those of you who are young, or perhaps never watched PBS, you have no understanding of the cultural freedoms we used to enjoy. PBS was allowed this freedom because the hicks, red necks, and vengeful religious fanatics did not watch it. Even more amazing, in the best US traditions of freedom of speech and religion, these people tended to leave PBS alone.
This message and the unintentional irony brought to you from your local elitist public television member.
Let me run through a little thought experiment.
- money is taken from Joe Citizen's paycheck, from his investment earnings, and from every dollar he spends at the store.
- some of this money is then turned over to a 'public' television station for programming.
Here's the test question.
Who gets to chose what is shown on this station that is paid for by the taxpayer:
A. The taxpayer
B. An elitist bunch of intellectual poseurs who are entirely out of the mainstream?
If you answered A, you are clearly a Republican Facist oppressor.
Here's a hint: if you don't want Joe Sixpack telling you what you can show on TV, don't take Joe Sixpack's FUCKING money to pay for it.
How about the goverment just gets the hell out of TV programming, "arts" funding, and all sorts of other 'government as mommy' programs, and just go back to doing the few things that the original Constitutional authors INTENDED a Federal government to be responsible for?
Sorry to be such a 'redneck hick' but I'd rather keep my money, and all the impassioned leftists so concerned about free speech can contribute voluntarily to pay for Cop Shop and they can say whatever they want on cable?
I find it even more ironic also that you term us 'pompous assholes.'
You know, everyone (including me) likes to bemoan Hollywood's inability to have a "new" idea. :\
Apparently the same affliction exists at BBC and in Whoville.
So they can't use the Daleks. So? I like Dr. Who a lot, but they don't *have* to regurgitate all the old villians all the time. Personally, I think they're now rather anticlimactic - "oh, whew - it's just Daleks."
LOL, I knew the first one to be mentioned on /. would be America's Army. At least its agenda is overt. It makes no bones about the fact that it is a recruiting & propaganda tool.
Personally, I think it's a bit of a relief to see a game where the government is the GOOD GUYS.
How many games have come out over the years with the theme of "evil corporation/government (or agency thereof) is trying to catch/control/compel you for nefarious purposes" or "you are the only one that can stop this evil corporation/government agency and its irresponsible experiments!" (games like XIII come immediately to mind, or oh, I dunno, perhaps Black Mesa rings a bell, or the soon-to-be-released game set in the Union Aerospace Corporation on Phobos?)
I have a friend who loves to play shooters like these, but refuses to play AA because he feels it's propaganda. I guess the tinfoil-hattery implicit in the other titles so closely matches his worldview, he doesn't notice/care.
It's pretty bad when you have to buy 200 gb HDs and use them to backup your images and stick'em in the closet. There are better uses.
Not to be contentious, but these drives are going to start at what, $700-$800 for at least the first year they're out? Media's probably going to be a minimum $6-$10 per disc for the short to medium term.
When I see that USB drives are about $0.50/gig, I wouldn't really have a problem with buying hard drives for backup devices, and swapping them out when I need the images. You can store a LOT of pictures before you start to reach the price point of your blue-ray burner, and (I don't know how compatible blue ray dvd's are with red-ray tech) the images remain a lot more universally portable.
US Army's docrine of mobility...
Or, he could be talking about Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, which contextually might be more relevant, given that it is a SciFi game ABOUT the colonization of a different planet...just a hunch.
Unless you could build the setup like a Nebelwerfer on the back of your pyro truck - since it's not burning/explosive/consumed at launch - you could literally just drive up, park, fire up the compressor on the truck. While it's charging, you load the tubes - voila - insta-show.
BTW I've wanted to ask - my company has hundreds of 6" heavy duty (1/2" wall) cardboard cores, 39" - 70" long. Does anyone in the fireworks business want them?
www.michaelmoorehatesamerica.com
Watch the new trailer.
Then tell me that Mr. Moore is not hypocrisy personified.
'nuff said.
I think his/her point is that
(anything)/(finite number) > (anything)/(infinity)
Thus the percentage of ocean explored will always be higher than space explored, even when we've explored the entirety of our galaxy.
like the sheep idea because it leads off in more interesting directions. ... With the electric sheep, you can set a number of more interesting goals than having it walk a predetermined path.
Anyone else think of Realdolls.com when they read this?
Something like the fair bit of arrogance assuming someone doesn't use them.
Most US scientists, technicians, engineers, students use metric systems in a majority of their calculations. I'm in transportation, and I use them CONSTANTLY. It's only the popular measures and 'common parlance' where Imperial units are dominant.
BTW, we don't call the cities Roma or Moskva, either. It's a long-standing English-language tradition (inherited from our British ancestry) to rename foreign stuff, or at least re-spell it. Probably has to do with the fact that they couldn't agree within England how to spell words like plow/plough.
I don't understand why people get so upset over this. To the Euro's, it's just *another* proof that Americans are just too stupid for their own good (insert obligatory Euro-chic reference to George Bush). To the Americans, it's another proof that the Eurotrash are patronizing snobs.
IMO using both systems is like being bilingual. It hasn't changed in the US because the government here doesn't ORDER people to change things like that. It encourages, but doesn't compel - if there's not a pressing market need to change, people won't change.
If my reference to pounds or miles angers you, then:
a) you have way, way, way too much energy. Go post on the internet and work it out a little.
b) *ASK* me; I'd be happy to repeat it in km or kg.
What are you going to do next rename Bordeaux into Bordo so you can get your heads around other French concepts?
Well, we could just let the Germans HAVE it next time, they'll convert it to "Bordohausen" or something that's abundantly easier for our Anglo-Saxon palates to pronounce.
Sheesh.