[BlueOnyx:24284] Re: 5209R logins - More code archeology

[Lew Berry]

> 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.

:)


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I'm old enough to remember when the signs went up and then came back down again since people (future Darwin award winners all I'm sure) thought 88kph and 88mph were interchangeable or their speedometers had magically adjusted (the numbers on the inside were meaningless) themselves to the metric system.

Lew Berry, MCSE, MCT, CSSA
LCB Consulting Inc.