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From: Andrew Usher on 3 Feb 2010 20:55 On Feb 3, 8:38 am, Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeo...(a)verizon.invalid> wrote: > If one agrees that the systems of units should be standardized, there > are two plausible choices: everyone goes to Imperial or everyone goes to > SI. From a standpoint of pure economics, the latter makes much more sense.. > > I'm perfectly fine with people advocating the status quo; it's the fact > that Mr. Usher is advocating switching the rest of the world that causes > me to take issue. I'm not advocating that, except possibly where international standardisation is an issue. Andrew Usher
From: Marshall on 3 Feb 2010 21:18 On Feb 3, 5:54 pm, Andrew Usher <k_over_hb...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > On Feb 3, 10:06 am, Marshall <marshall.spi...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I really shouldn't have to respond to ridiculous stuuf like this! > > > The rest of the world just called to say the feeling is mutual. > > So bullshit is OK, as long as it's on your side? Well that's all I > need to know. So you admit that what you write is bullshit. Noted. Marshall
From: Heidi Graw on 3 Feb 2010 21:58 >"Andrew Usher" <k_over_hbarc(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message >news:285479b4-f90d-445b-824a-> > In that case, there's no benefit from going metric either. > > Andrew Usher ....and it also means that going metric doesn't necessarily mean it sucks. Given today's computerization of virtually everything, if the programming is done right, one just needs to dial in and the machine will cut to whatever measure it has been programmed for. If you want an ark using the cubits measure, dial in, and be done with it. Anyway, I don't really care what measure is used. All I want is something that works and what will weather a storm, etc. As for cooking, I use a pinch of this and a pinch of that. A handful of this or that, add a dollop and a splash... voila! A Heidi Graw special that can never be repeated in exactly the same way. LOL... Heidi
From: Bart Goddard on 3 Feb 2010 22:22 Antares 531 <gordonlrDELETE(a)swbell.net> wrote in news:hi1km5lsngjl0trb67pcd8r9a164nsbmi6(a)4ax.com: > Heidi, you make some good points here, but what would you suggest as > an approach to changing all the land survey and architectural layout > schemes from the very obtuse feet/inches/rods/yards/miles, etc., that > were used to lay out the entire U.S.A.? I used to work for a surveyor, and I once mentioned to him that our job would be hell if we had to switch to metric. He just shook his head and said, "Naw, they've already changed it several times. We used to do it in rods and chains, then we had to do it in miles, feet and inches. Then we had to switch to decimal feet. It's no big deal." And indeed, even though the U.S. was laid out in miles, the measurements were so inaccurate that there are no sections which are very close to a mile square. The dimentions are given in decimal feet: 5326.34 ft, etc. Converting that to metric makes the number itself no uglier. But the motivation "We'll finally all be the same!" is not that appealling to me. It's no more appealling than the proposal that the entire world switch to English or Esperanto. Kafka just isn't Kafka in English. B. -- Cheerfully resisting change since 1959.
From: Heidi Graw on 3 Feb 2010 22:40
>"Ken S. Tucker" <dynamics(a)vianet.on.ca> wrote in message >news:69011e79-866e-43f3-b01f-bca8a84282fe(a)19g2000yql.googlegroups.com... (snip >Ken wrote: >Went in to order some 5/8" during the MEtric > conversion and the guy asks if I want 16mm ply, ok that's the > same, then a few months later I went back and placed an order > for 16mm, and guys asks, do ya mean 5/8" ? > Canucks are really screwed up. LOL...nah...we're bi-measurable. We can swing both ways or more. LOL... I spent my childhood raised the metric way. Then when we immigrated to Canada I had to learn the British standard. Later, when my children entered school, they learned a bastardization of metrics. All I could do was shake my head in disbelief. Ah well... > >> >... and 2"x4" studs, and much more. >> >> ...like those 2"x10"? > > Code on our floor calls for 2"x8" stud, I like a bit of bounce. I'm on concrete ground. Hard on the feet, legs and back unless I wear my fluffy pink slippers and stand on a cushioned mat at my various work stations. >>Heidi wrote: >> I use metric measures and metric recipes. Works just fine. >Ken wrote: > But a gazillion cook books use, teaspoons, etc. stuff right > off the table. ....not in Canada. But, I rarely use cookbooks. And even if I do, I never follow the exact recipe. I usually end up making all kinds of adjustments to make my cooking uniquely Heidi Graw. ;-) >>Heidi wrote: >> Hey, I like driving 120 km/hr down the freeway. It gives me >> the impression I'm going much faster than I'm actually driving. ;-) > Ken wrote|: > "120 klicks" you must be a hot-rodder. My Daddy taught me to drive. His advice? "Just step on it." LOL... >Are you that person > yapping into a cell while breezing past me in a sports car? Nah...I don't own a cell. I refuse to be at anyone's beck and call. Half the time I don't even answer the telephone. If it's important enough, they'll call back. I also don't have caller ID. This way, everyone has an equal chance at being ignored. I answer at *my convenience.* (snip) >>Heidi wrote: >> No need. I wouldn't be hiring you anyway. My husband >> built the house I designed. Custom? Very...and rather >> quite unique. >Ken wrote: > OK!, wife and I would like to see some pix's. I'll describe it. 3,000 square foot level entry U-shaped bungalow. Vaulted ceilings, 6 sky-lights, 5 glass sliding doors. 2x8 construction, interior walls insulated to dampen sound, thus reducing any echoes. Walk in and you can actually feel the difference. It feels solid and secure. The house hugs the ground and rolls with any earthquakes without breaking apart. Cedar shake roof lined with zinc stripping along the caps to keep moss from growing on it. Wide overhanging eaves to keep rain away from the windows and outside walls. Specially engineered trussing to hold the load. In-floor hot water heating, gas fired monstrosity of engineered gadgetry that I find baffling. > I'm trying to get a design together, have a look, > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/46333912(a)N06/426003595 Awesome, but I would hate to be the one cleaning and maintaining it. Our retirement home will be a small bungalow with an open floor plan and a large screened in porch. Hubby will build that one, too. > > The Architectural consultants inform me that we have a lack > of washrooms, so I'm redesigning the plumbing. Look luck with it. Heidi |