5 Mar
2001
5 Mar
'01
4:11 a.m.
At 08:08 AM 3/5/2001 -0800, you wrote:
On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Geoff Roberts wrote:
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
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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