Well this metric stuff sounds suspiciously Frenchy and revolutionary.
I'm for holding out for a pure base 12. Dollars, decimal? That's like
trying to count with your ears cut off...
On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Tony Eros wrote:
> At 08:08 AM 3/5/2001 -0800, you wrote:
> >On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Geoff Roberts wrote:
> >
> > > Well, paranoid is a bit strong, however they do seem to show a tendency
> > > to regard anything that has
> > > A) Originated elsewhere
> > > or
> > > B) Not been in use in the US for 100 years or more
> > > As "unAmerican".
> > > Apart from it's local 'mods', like the US mile, US ton, US gallon - we
> > > used the slightly larger, Genuine, Unadulterated Imperial measures,
> > > 5,280 ft or 1,760 yards to the mile, and 2,240 pounds to the ton - the
> > > US system is what the British left them in the first place.
> >
> >If you think all that's bad, I still haven't figured out the measurements
> >for cooking...like how many tablespoons in a cup, and how many cups in a
> >quart and all that nonsense. Who came up with this crap anyway?
> >
> >If I had my druthers, I'd gladly switch to metric for everything.
> >American units are stupid, archaic and illogical.
> >
> >Call me a Communist.
> >
> >Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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>
> Yeah, let's get rid of all those stupid non-metric
> measurements. Especially those pesky units of time. I mean, what idiot
> came up with "seconds", "minutes" and "hours", anyway? The "hours" even
> repeat twice every "day" -- how stupid is that!
>
> We need a nice metric time measurement to help us get out of our silly
> American technological rut and encourage more Continental innovations like
> EuroDisney... :-)
>
> Then again, maybe DEC had it right all along -- KiloCoreTicks forever!
>
> -- Tony
>
>
M. K. Peirce
Rhode Island Computer Museum, Inc.
Shady Lea, Rhode Island
"Casta est quam nemo rogavit."
- Ovid
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