[BlueOnyx:24286] Re: 5209R logins - More code archeology

[Ken Hohhof]

That's just a minor part of it.  People still measure their kids height in feet and their temperature in Fahrenheit, and buy things at the store by the quart, gallon, pound, foot and yard.  Even when their car has a 13 mm nut they use a 1/2 inch wrench.  Wine does tend to come by the liter, so most people just assume that's a quart.

'mericans are very stubborn.


-----Original Message-----
From: Blueonyx <blueonyx-bounces at mail.blueonyx.it> On Behalf Of Greg Kuhnert
Sent: Friday, September 11, 2020 2:52 PM
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Subject: [BlueOnyx:24283] Re: 5209R logins - More code archeology



> 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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