Posted on 12/07/2019 7:04:44 AM PST by Olog-hai
Boris Johnson has revealed plans to bring back pounds and ounces once Brexit is done as he attacks Jeremy Corbyn as “the most extreme Left-wing candidate produced by the Labour Party in a century” entering Number 10.
In a wide-ranging interview with the Daily Mail, the Prime Minister laid out his post-election blueprint to lift the EU ban on imperial measurements and hark back to the old system.
He said: “We will bring back that ancient liberty. I see no reason why people should be prosecuted.”
The Conservative leader added: “I think the reality is a lot of people are now educated in the metric system; we have to recognize that. But people… I understand what a pound of apples is. I also understand what a kilo of apples is. There will be an era of generosity and tolerance towards traditional measurements.” …
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I’m sure you meant meters, because 1,500 kilometers is a little over 932 miles.
I would hesitate on including Guam. It may tip over soon.
My degree is in chemical engineering; 1982. We used English units, SI, CGS, and MKS. Made one understand that units are arbitrary.
IIRC, sometime in the late 1800s, metric DID become the international unit. The USA was really slow at adopting it and it still isn’t in full force.
Poland or Hungary, which would be "red," would be necessary to counterbalance Scotland, which would come in as a "blue" state because it is one of the most left-wing countries in the world.
Metric was invented after the French Revolution. The USA didn’t accept it; neither did Russia (which measured distance differently). Nor China. So it’s a European measurement,
imported (with some coercing) into other areas.
It’s been a long time...
The M1078 military truck was originally a Steyr of Germany design. Stewart and Stevenson of Texas bought the license to build it in the US, for TACOM. Ever try to find tons of 10mm steel plate, metric switches and non-aircraft metric hydraulics in the US? The Cat engine's mounting holes were Imperial... The whole truck had to be redesigned in Imperial units, much to the royalty in Houston's bafflement.. What was supposed to be a 6 month conversion turned into a 3 year rebuild.
[The Conservative leader added: “I think the reality is a lot of people are now educated in the metric system; we have to recognize that. But people… I understand what a pound of apples is. I also understand what a kilo of apples is. There will be an era of generosity and tolerance towards traditional measurements.]
US auto makers had mixed vehicles for years. Crazy to have to have both types of tools on hand.
I was just explaining this to Mrs. Thinking a couple days ago. The advantage of a highly composite number (composite being the opposite of prime) is that you can evenly divide it many different ways. You can evenly divide a 12-inch foot into 2, 3, 4, 6 or 12 pieces without getting into fractional inches. Something in base 10, like a centimeter, you can divide by 2, 5 or 10 and you’re done. Thus 12 inches, 60 minute hours, 24 hour days, etc. Some researchers even claim that the absolute size of Imperial units like inches feet, pounds and so on, are more intuitive for humans. No idea if that one is true or not.
Whenever I read something in kilos or meters or ccs, I have to convert it to US standard before I know how much it is.
The limeys don’t have any constitutional prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, do they? Maybe they’ll impale Corbyn on a stake.
It's your call. Do you want to discard it the first time it breaks, or fix it? If it's 40 years old, it's going to require inch sockets.
There are LOTS of machine tools left over from WW2. Lathes, mills, shapers. Companies bought them, surplus, for pennies on the dollar. They still work, hold tolerances.
Fix them, or junk them because some bureaucrats in Brussels was raised with millimeters and couldn't convert from one system to another at gunpoint?
My WW2 vintage lathe will not cut metric threads. I’m ok with that.
Hungary as #56?
A company I worked for had a mechanical tool from the 19th century, with ornate cast scrolled legs. They couldn't find 60 cycle C frame motors that would fit the mount, and found that 50 cycle motors imported from England, and run at 60 cycles until they burned out were actually cheaper, on a per unit basis.
Years ago I was doing electrical work in SO Cal and kept running into failed 50Hz motors. Turned out large parts of the area was 50hz when service started.
No. Canadians hate us. Go over to You Tube and look at videos dealing with Canadians view of America. It’s infuriating.
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