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Zesty
Jan 17, 2012

The Great Twist


It's almost as if distribution is random.

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Zesty
Jan 17, 2012

The Great Twist
It's a difficult change for a superpower with 320 million people who have been using imperial measurements for hundreds of years.

While it would be nice if we could transition overnight, a lot of issues like that could also be solved more easily by making sure conversions are being made when necessary.

Zesty
Jan 17, 2012

The Great Twist

Absurd Alhazred posted:

Pretty much every other country in the world has done this, though, and they did not have the advantage of working under a federal government joining them together. I'm sure there's a significant cost for this obstinacy, whether it is in imports/exports or in retraining engineers. Quantified to buttress an argument for change, along with some political will, and it's not insurmountable.

"Pretty much every other country in the world" isn't the best country in the world. :911:

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