Hi there phma and group:
This post does bring up a good question about where to draw the line of metric measures.
It would seem to me like there is a great big gap about what could be and what really is measured with metric means.
Come one come all does not apply in metric maters and that is sad.
The doors of ignorance will always be open until metric rules any and all of the increments in our lives.
I know that I am opening myself up for some ridicule from this group by asking this but here it is: If the metric system is all of that as many people would say it is then why is it not every where and about every thing?
I mean here it is 2006 and I am still using shoes that are a size ten and a half and i drive to the store looking at a speed ometer that would have me think "miles" per "hour"
Gee the paints that i have on even look like flinstone sizes.
Is the SI system even geting a fare shake in the US?
Will the SI system ever be able to suport the ever growing need to mericate?
Thanks for letting me vent some of this.
I just might learn something from the replies to this.
Tim
"Time to advance the mind"
n a message dated 3/23/06 7:54:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Subj: [USMA:36359] the preferred system
Date: 3/23/06 7:54:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time
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The Metric Conversion Act calls the metric system "the preferred system of
weights and measures". Does that mean that if someone makes a thermostat,
speedometer, or anything else that handles different measuring units, it must
default to metric? My thermostat defaults to Fahrenheit; the thermometer I
recently mentioned doesn't have a default but uses Celsius internally; and
the bike computer I just bought defaults to miles but requires the wheel
circumference in millimeters.
phma
