It doesn't impact you directly, but what about indirectly?
I'm sure it does, by adding some inefficiencies into the economy: mechanics requiring two sets of tools, and some manufacturers requiring more complicated machinery and two sets of slightly differing inventory.
Still, that's sufficiently remote from my life that it's very indirect.
It's funny you say that, seeing as how Canada is the #1 country we import our oil and petroleum from.
And 2nd, is Mexico.
I'm merely saying that Canada is an important neighbor and trade partner. Mexico is too.
So... we shouldn't treat them like dog shit.
So you shouldn't just ignore them.
Intellectually, I say "Yes, we should not ignore Canada."
But you know, what? The closest part of Canada (Toronto) from where I live is 1,100 miles!!! Mexico is 700+ miles. They being metric just doesn't impact me AT ALL.
That's the whole point of me saying how big the US is.
but like a good internet, it will eventually simply route around any attempts at censorship.
I used to be a big believer in "the Internet routes around any attempts at censorship" but then the ChiComs slapped me in the face with a big wet tuna.
And then Big ISP remembered that they effectively hold us by the short and curlies.
I believe that chaining hash tables is somewhere in Knuth. Which means that it came out before 1980. Yes, on page 507 of volume 3 he talks about "search methods commonly known as hashing or scatter search", so these were COMMON in 1973.
You'd think that one of the 10,000 uber-geniuses at Google would have noticed that and brought it to the attention of their lawyers.
I'm not *disparaging* Canada. I'm blissfully unaware of it's existence when driving through the vast majority of the 8,500,000 sq miles (21x bigger than France & German combined) of the lower 48 states.
Are most Minnesotans, Detroitans or New Yorkers that affected by different measuring system in their neighbor? Whenever I go to Buffalo, I don't see any big issues.
Americans like monosyllabic or abbreviated words wherever possible.
It's taken to a sad and farcical extreme (advertisements for the cure of "Low-T" are common on TV) in modern America, but you are correct that the Imperial words are easier to say...
Americans just don't want to say "Kilometer" when they can say "mile.
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I don't think Wal-Mart is intended to be a place you buy actual groceries.
Must not have been a Super Wal-Mart, which is a grocery store bolted onto a Wal-Mart..
Decent prices, slightly limited selection and just a mile from home.
I would much prefer a pick up point where I could go after an email was sent telling me it was there.
That (except for the email) is how grocery stores worked 100 years ago
It doesn't impact you directly, but what about indirectly?
I'm sure it does, by adding some inefficiencies into the economy: mechanics requiring two sets of tools, and some manufacturers requiring more complicated machinery and two sets of slightly differing inventory.
Still, that's sufficiently remote from my life that it's very indirect.
It's funny you say that, seeing as how Canada is the #1 country we import our oil and petroleum from.
And 2nd, is Mexico.
I'm merely saying that Canada is an important neighbor and trade partner. Mexico is too.
So... we shouldn't treat them like dog shit.
So you shouldn't just ignore them.
Intellectually, I say "Yes, we should not ignore Canada."
But you know, what? The closest part of Canada (Toronto) from where I live is 1,100 miles!!! Mexico is 700+ miles. They being metric just doesn't impact me AT ALL.
That's the whole point of me saying how big the US is.
Fortunately, I can have cable TV *and* an Internet connection.
Even when I was a know-it-all 25yo, I still knew that Important Stuff was discovered before I was born...
Then you get married and sports becomes so much more important again...
Besides, the stuff that's on the web tends to have annoying randomly placed unskippable commercials.
Actually, my Spousal Unit doesn't mind the commercials while watching /Desperate Housewives/ on abc.com because they are so short.
(I'd probably disagree, but mainly since you can't pause them.)
When you can watch what you want on demand on the web?
You falsely presume that everything is on the web.
but like a good internet, it will eventually simply route around any attempts at censorship.
I used to be a big believer in "the Internet routes around any attempts at censorship" but then the ChiComs slapped me in the face with a big wet tuna.
And then Big ISP remembered that they effectively hold us by the short and curlies.
I believe that chaining hash tables is somewhere in Knuth. Which means that it came out before 1980. Yes, on page 507 of volume 3 he talks about "search methods commonly known as hashing or scatter search", so these were COMMON in 1973.
You'd think that one of the 10,000 uber-geniuses at Google would have noticed that and brought it to the attention of their lawyers.
I know Americans like to disparage Canada
I'm not *disparaging* Canada. I'm blissfully unaware of it's existence when driving through the vast majority of the 8,500,000 sq miles (21x bigger than France & German combined) of the lower 48 states.
Are most Minnesotans, Detroitans or New Yorkers that affected by different measuring system in their neighbor? Whenever I go to Buffalo, I don't see any big issues.
Declare Americanized English as the global standard for language, and we'll convert our measurements to your SI.
I'm an American (Republican, to boot), so that's fine by me.
A lot of carpentry is geometry, and dealing with successive halves is easier.
Certainly carpenters in the rest of the world have come up with some solution?
For example, 32cm (12.6 in) is a power of two.
You can eyeball 2' 7" pretty easy, not so with 0.78m.
European carpenters would disagree.
No carpenter measures in feet and inches, just inches...
Completely valid point. I should have remembered that measuring tapes do that.
From ... Nome to Key West (7250 km), everyone uses the same units of measure
Remind me again how you get from AK to FL without going through Canada?
Canada? What's Canada?
Except that I don't travel thru Guatemala to get from Southern California to Maine.
3,250 driving (2,700 crow-flies) miles of pure, unadulterated Imperial Measurements.
(BTW, 2,700 crow-flies miles is the distance from London England to Tehran.)
Think laterally.
Is "klick" actually used much in common parlance?
It would be, I think, if the metric system were the norm.
2.5m x 1.25m
AKA 250cm x 125cm.
But they could also shrink it to 240cm x 120cm.
finding the center of a 2.54cm thick board is a pain.
After the first 3 or 4 times you do it, the number 1.27 will become pretty stuck in your head.
Anyway, who's to say that lumber mills wouldn't shrink it down to 250mm?
Also, a 2x4 is as you know really 1.5"x3.5" (3.81cm x 8.89cm). That could be slightly enlarged to 40mm x 90mm.
Bit more of a pain in the ass to say "40.64 centimeters".
Then shrink it to 40 cm for new construction and remodeling.
An 8' x 4' sheet of plywood would become 2.5m x 1.25m (8' 2.5' x 4' 1.25').
Sure it's doable (10' 3" becomes 9' 15" so it's 9'15" - 2' 7"), but that's more effort than 3.12m - 0.78m.
carpentry (pretty much the only endeavor where the Imperial system beats the metric system)
Eh????
Subtracting 2' 7" from 10' 3" is a royal pain in the ass.
Americans like monosyllabic or abbreviated words wherever possible.
It's taken to a sad and farcical extreme (advertisements for the cure of "Low-T" are common on TV) in modern America, but you are correct that the Imperial words are easier to say...
Americans just don't want to say "Kilometer" when they can say "mile.
"Klick" is monosyllabic.