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Re: Too much exposure
Tbirder, it's actually 2.54 cm per inch rather than 2.4.
Metric bolts are routinely used in cars and other machinery made in the U.S. to avoid export problems, and many outdoor thermometers show temperature in Fahrenheit and Celsius. Car speedometers also list both miles and kilometers.
As Meredith said, I learned the "English" system as a child, though I was also taught the metric system in school. Metric is much easier to work with -- especially when working with volumes -- as long as you don't have to convert to our system.
Other than converting the problem for me is conceptualizing measurements in the metric system without really thinking about it. Some are easier then others. I know I'm roughly 95 kilos, but I had to do the math to know that I'm about 188 cm tall. I have no clue what 30 C feels like.
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30° C feels great if you don´t have manual labor to do and a pool or beach close at hand. It feels like summer pure, better yet with a light breeze going to take away your sweat. We have had a few of these day, just too few. Most of this summer temperatures here in Hamburg were around 22° to 25° C.
Today it´s 14°C and rain showers are followed by brief streakes of pale October sun.
I like to be "down under" - Hank
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Re: Too much exposure
30 C feels exactly the same as 86 F.
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10/5/2009, 3:51 pm
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Using the metric system is straight foward. The problem is that Americans insist on using "our" system. For a few years road signs had both miles and kilometers but not any lomger. The problem comes trying to convert one to the other. Think half a kilo (about a pound) rather than trying to figure out how many pounds it actually is. Do you look for exactly a pound of meat or about a pound? A liter is about a quart. In the metric system things are multiples of 10. We have 12 inches per foot 3 feet per yard, and I honestly don't know how many yards per mile. I used to have a professor that wanted speed in furloughs per fortnight. We will never understand other people until we walk a kilometer in their moccasins.
Peace.
Cannot believe signs have been converted back.
Many parts of the US are ultra conservative, we know that from other threads and these people often resist change most. The USA is for now at least the largest economy in the world, so most countries much smaller have adapted to fit in with the bulk of the world. USA obviously feels the need not to as the economy size and people spending power has historically meant trade external of USA was not needed. Just look at how many Ebay sellers and other large shops from US don't do OS and hence why there is such a large industry in USA for OS people to have a US mailing address (I have one).
ie Apple Pie, Statue of Liberty, Freedom of the press and Imperial measurements. Industrially the USA enjoys strong patroism to help keep american made in production even if its not cheaper ro better. Few other countries enjoy this culture. Most Aussies would sell out Australia in this way.
China (and maybe former USSR) for example has simply refused to adopt the airline standard for measurement of altitude as feet and use metres. Metric is it and this is the growing issue for the USA as China doesn't believe the USA should hold its placing on world affairs.
Until GFC and the growth of China and India, the USA could afford and justify to some degree not changing. But the USA's time as the global industrial engine and financial power house is coming to a close. The US dollar as the worlds trading currency is retreating. During GFC many other nations currencies were dumped for USA seen as safe haven. Yet currencies like Australian dollar actually provided a better safe haven as Australia didn't have a recession and none of our banks failed and certainly much of the westernised middle east. ie if you bought Aussie 1m aussie dollars in Jan using Euro or US you'd have 1.5million now. Its just Australia's and others size that and historic practices that made these decisions. If the GFC were to happen again the USA dollar will unlikely be bought up again. If China ever floats its currency, look out. The Euro was formed solely to provide an alt to the US dollar and adding countries like Turkey is aimed to boost the size of the base load of the currecy and give it more stability and strength.
Iraq war is all over the Sadam wanting to sell oil in Euro's, a precendent that would have finacially impacted on USA severely had Iran and others followed.
Anyway, a bit off track. But the world stage is changing and the measurement system in the USA will shortly need to follow. If not offically it will unoffically.
Don't take this to be anti USA, not intended, but there are some growing facts that need to be reconised.
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As you may have noticed, America is more and more becoming two countries, with political polarization more extreme than at any previous time in my life, and I am 79. Unfortunately, the Americans who are dying in Iraq and Afghanistan are from one US and the Americans who run things (both Democratic and Republican) are from the other US. The anger we hear every day has a real basis, but I believe that many of the policies pushed by these angry people would be disastrous. Your example of systems of units is a perfect instance of misguided so-called conservatism.
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TBirder wrote:
I'll settle for a soft,curvy woman any day rather than a "hardbody" with a six-pack.
John
My personal preference is for a soft, curvy woman AND a 6 pack. Maybe with chips and guacamole.
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Okay, Tom, I can relate to that 
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10/27/2009, 6:08 pm
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meredith2kp4 wrote:
As you may have noticed, America is more and more becoming two countries, with political polarization more extreme than at any previous time in my life, and I am 79.
Not to get too far off topic, but you should read the book "The Big Sort."
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