PART 2 -- 5. Failing to switch could result in the US losing it's competitive edge in science, engineering, and math. 6. Exports, imports, and trade will be much easier since the whole world uses metric. 7. The cost of keeping imperial is $1 trillion+ per year (which will bring the US to a failure if we don't switch soon).
It is extremely likely that the US will switch this century, and likely that the US will switch by the end of this decade.
PART 1 -- Metrication is inevitable because: 1. There is only one system of volume in the metric system (a liter is just another name for a cubic decimeter) which will make cooking far easier. 2. For football, defense would be easier because the offense has to run farther. 3. For temperature, 0 is icy, 10, is cold, 20 is normal, 30 is hot, 40 is my upper limit, and 50 is deadly. 4. About 3 new people per second in America are for metrication.
Don't think I am mad at you but what is wrong with having two systems? Why can't we just go our separat ways? If someone wants to use metric I don't really care. However I preffer the customary units.
@77tubuck Because it costs you more! Only 2 oddballs in the world use the Imperial system. Miles and MPH are for pussies. Going metric is easy and simple and its conservative people like you that try to make it difficult.
Kindly do a little research on this... I can think of one example:
It costs more to share two different sets of labels. Exports bound for Europe (shampoo, food etc.) must be labelled in Metric-only units. MPH speedometers are now becoming a custom feature (because only 2 countries want them). All our scientific/medical measurements are in Metric and yet no problems with this. What's the problem with the speed limits and signs changing over?
Globalization is a bad thing and therefore your argument is not a good point. When we ship bottles of shampoo to other countries it uses up oil and pollutes the air. It makes no sense to make shampoo here and ship it to another country and then ship shampoo in from another country. We should be making everything we need locally. It's the same thing with speedometers. We should be making our own speedometers in our country for our country only.
@77tubuck A true American if you will. Actually, we lost many of our manufacturing jobs because of state bureaucracy, anti-corporation, higher wages and bonuses, higher energy costs... Surely you aren't that naieve to see we cannot survive on our own anymore; China buys our debt. Are you saying we should become another North Korea or Burma?
Wow. You claim that we lost many of our manufacturing jobs through state bureaucracy, ant-corporation, higher wages, the Galagon invasion...(sounds like a rant) but you don't give any evidence to support that opinion. Why can't we survive on our own anymore? What has changed that we can't survive on our own anymore?
@77tubuck The Intel CEO actually clarified that. Google it for yourself. What's changed? For starters, our tax rates are known to be among the highest in the western hemisphere. When car manufacturers stop manufacturing MPH speedometers for good, what then? Will we pay more just to be different? Or will we make the simple and rational switch, like anyone else in the real world?
@Highwaycrazy If the Intel CEO says a global economy is a good thin it is because he makes money off of it. It's the same thing if a hard drug dealer tells you his drugs are safe. Just because someone tells you something does not mean it is true. As per car manufacturers we make to many cars as it is. All our manufacturing jobs are harming the environment. Are you familiar with planned obsolescence?
PART 2 -- 5. Failing to switch could result in the US losing it's competitive edge in science, engineering, and math. 6. Exports, imports, and trade will be much easier since the whole world uses metric. 7. The cost of keeping imperial is $1 trillion+ per year (which will bring the US to a failure if we don't switch soon).
It is extremely likely that the US will switch this century, and likely that the US will switch by the end of this decade.
METRIC FOR THE WIN!
mainchow10 3 months ago
PART 1 -- Metrication is inevitable because: 1. There is only one system of volume in the metric system (a liter is just another name for a cubic decimeter) which will make cooking far easier. 2. For football, defense would be easier because the offense has to run farther. 3. For temperature, 0 is icy, 10, is cold, 20 is normal, 30 is hot, 40 is my upper limit, and 50 is deadly. 4. About 3 new people per second in America are for metrication.
mainchow10 3 months ago
Don't think I am mad at you but what is wrong with having two systems? Why can't we just go our separat ways? If someone wants to use metric I don't really care. However I preffer the customary units.
77tubuck 2 years ago
@77tubuck Because it costs you more! Only 2 oddballs in the world use the Imperial system. Miles and MPH are for pussies. Going metric is easy and simple and its conservative people like you that try to make it difficult.
Highwaycrazy 1 year ago 2
@Highwaycrazy I think we both it does NOT cost us more two have two systems. Secondly calling me a pussy is an ad hominem fallacy.
77tubuck 1 year ago
@77tubuck
Kindly do a little research on this... I can think of one example:
It costs more to share two different sets of labels. Exports bound for Europe (shampoo, food etc.) must be labelled in Metric-only units. MPH speedometers are now becoming a custom feature (because only 2 countries want them). All our scientific/medical measurements are in Metric and yet no problems with this. What's the problem with the speed limits and signs changing over?
Highwaycrazy 1 year ago
@Highwaycrazy
Globalization is a bad thing and therefore your argument is not a good point. When we ship bottles of shampoo to other countries it uses up oil and pollutes the air. It makes no sense to make shampoo here and ship it to another country and then ship shampoo in from another country. We should be making everything we need locally. It's the same thing with speedometers. We should be making our own speedometers in our country for our country only.
77tubuck 1 year ago
@77tubuck A true American if you will. Actually, we lost many of our manufacturing jobs because of state bureaucracy, anti-corporation, higher wages and bonuses, higher energy costs... Surely you aren't that naieve to see we cannot survive on our own anymore; China buys our debt. Are you saying we should become another North Korea or Burma?
Highwaycrazy 1 year ago
@Highwaycrazy
Wow. You claim that we lost many of our manufacturing jobs through state bureaucracy, ant-corporation, higher wages, the Galagon invasion...(sounds like a rant) but you don't give any evidence to support that opinion. Why can't we survive on our own anymore? What has changed that we can't survive on our own anymore?
77tubuck 1 year ago
@77tubuck The Intel CEO actually clarified that. Google it for yourself. What's changed? For starters, our tax rates are known to be among the highest in the western hemisphere. When car manufacturers stop manufacturing MPH speedometers for good, what then? Will we pay more just to be different? Or will we make the simple and rational switch, like anyone else in the real world?
Highwaycrazy 1 year ago
@Highwaycrazy If the Intel CEO says a global economy is a good thin it is because he makes money off of it. It's the same thing if a hard drug dealer tells you his drugs are safe. Just because someone tells you something does not mean it is true. As per car manufacturers we make to many cars as it is. All our manufacturing jobs are harming the environment. Are you familiar with planned obsolescence?
77tubuck 1 year ago