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As song as certain industries can retain their own, I am fine with it.
Printing uses Picas for example. And sorry, but when they introduce basketball players at the start of a game, using Metric for their height ain't gonna cut it.
I'd rather convert to the English language as the official language of the U.S. Then once we're all talking about the same thing we can take a look at which side of the measuring cup to use.
I have never been clear about what the legitimate objections are to finishing our transition to the metric system. The public schools have been teaching it for 50+ years now, so it cannot be said that people are not familiar with it.
We could even let different industry sectors largely design their own transition plans, with an expectation that they move ahead purposefully, but with no requirement of being in an unnecessary rush.
All that being said, it is hard to imagine very many people voting for Chafee because of his advocacy for this proposal.
I'd rather convert to the English language as the official language of the U.S. Then once we're all talking about the same thing we can take a look at which side of the measuring cup to use.
Won't happen, and it's an absolutely preposterous topic to even discuss on the presidential candidacy platform. 99.9% of American's (had they been listening) would have dismissed Lincoln Chaffee in 3 seconds flat for even bringing up such an irrelevant topic while America slides into ruin under this President.
Chaffee made himself irrelevant on DAY 1. He's done before he even got started.
You do realize that most US industry has been doing metric for decades, right?
in fact we have been going metric for far longer than that. remember our money system has pretty much always been metric. and people have been pushing the metric system since world war one.
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The Fahrenheit temperature scale is actually better because it's more precise.
not really. the kelvin and rankine are much more accurate, and both of them start at absolute zero. when fahrenheit designed his thermometer, he started with a bunch of marks on the glass, and the lowest one was marked as zero, and he went up from there in set increments. he then used that to figure out where water froze and boiled. celsius on the other hand started his thermometer at zero where water froze, figured where water boiled, and marked that as 100, and then marked equal increments from there.
I learned to convert temps 30 some years ago from Bob and Doug McKenzie.
Take off eh.
i have a converter app for my phone
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