[BlueOnyx:24291] Re: 5209R logins - More code archeology

Ralf Quint pcworxla at gmail.com
Sat Sep 12 17:17:02 -05 2020


On 9/11/2020 12:51 PM, Greg Kuhnert wrote:
>
>> On 11 Sep 2020, at 11:58 pm, Ken Hohhof <khohhof at kwom.com> wrote:
>>
>> Good luck fixing something that's been "wrong" for 20 years.  Here in the
>> U.S. we can't even get people to use the metric system.
>
> You realise that the US has officially endorsed metric. They just can’t work out who will pay to change the street signs. Federal , state, county, city? The signs are all owned by cities, but they dont have budget. And if federal changed it, you’d have some yokel city planner who doesn’t like them new metric numbers who will change em back.

Well, the switch to metric was signed into law well before there were 
any street signs. By then president Johnson. Andrew Johnson. In 1866. 
And the USA has been dragging their collective feet ever since...

Ralf


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