From: Archimedes' Lever on
On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 17:02:25 -0700 (PDT), Bill Sloman
<bill.sloman(a)ieee.org> wrote:

>The mil is still a standard unit of measurement in the US, whose
>engineers failed to keep up with the rest of the world when it went
>metric. Your scientists weren't as backward.


We work in BOTH, idiot, and do so well. There is no need to jump into
microns where mils or even mm works just fine.

Paints, films, etc. can be described quite well with mils, and there is
no need to replace single units with 63 additional divisions. Microns
are for more precise industrial processes and systems, like sputtering,
epitaxy, etc.

So we DO use ALL of the world's quantification units, in EVERY realm of
science. You are absolutely stupid to think otherwise. We just happen to
have garnered a better sense of which to use where, and when, AND WHY.

Only stubborn "ours is the right, only way" total dorks have issues.

So get a clue, you total dork.
From: Archimedes' Lever on
On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 17:02:25 -0700 (PDT), Bill Sloman
<bill.sloman(a)ieee.org> wrote:

>I'm happy to use any unit that works

And happy to insult others that do as well, accusing them of not doing
so, and lacking something you claim to have as a result.

You could not be less civil for your stupid finger pointing
masturbation. We don;t need it, SLOW-wanna-be-man.
From: Archimedes' Lever on
On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 17:02:25 -0700 (PDT), Bill Sloman
<bill.sloman(a)ieee.org> wrote:

>I'm not so stupid as to expect other people to be able to rapidly
>process idiosyncratic units.

You obviously are.

Now YOU should go back and read some of your own posts, you insulting
twit.
From: Archimedes' Lever on
On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 17:02:25 -0700 (PDT), Bill Sloman
<bill.sloman(a)ieee.org> wrote:

>- the engineers of God's Only Country didn't think that their tools
>and products might be exported to other countries,

And you are a US hating dumbfuck, just like Senile from BC is.
From: Archimedes' Lever on
On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 17:02:25 -0700 (PDT), Bill Sloman
<bill.sloman(a)ieee.org> wrote:

>That was stupid, arrogant and expensive. It will
>cost you a bundle to retool as the British did, some fifty years ago,
>back when the tools were simpler and cheaper and somewhat thinner on
>the ground.

You have a HUGE bent perception of reality, as well as history.