Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]De : "Bill Pearce " <bs.pearce at cox.net> A : lug at leica-users.org Copie ? : The biggest missed opportunity in getting the U.S. to adopt the metric system was Oh, crap, is this stuff starting again? Why, oh why, when money is tight, should our government have to expend bazillions of dollars on this fools errand? What is to be gained? Doesn't what we have work just fine now? So others use another system, what's that to me? I never saw the reason to be like everyone else. Fear not, you're not Bill :-) No one on the LUG is, are we? There is another potential opportunity right now. Gasoline should be sold by the liter rather than by the gallon. A $4 price for gas sounds like highway robbery. A $1 price per liter sounds almost reasonable. That's much cheaper than a Starbuck's Grande coffee. This sounds like something you can market to politicians. Good luck! By the way, anyone who does any mechanical work on automobiles already has to have a full set of metric tools. Sure, they have either one or both, depending on what they work. Simple. I don't think anyone is going to bring about a program to get me a MF digital system so I can increase my business. I'm reminded of what my father, an aeronautical engineer responsible of design elements in several major airplanes said on the subject. He was used to working in inches and thousandths. "I don't want to lose accuracy!" What's the math behind this? If I may ask and if you remember. Philippe Bill Pearce _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information NO ARCHIVE