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The metric system is great on paper. But if you're building stuff, like houses....or rigging sailboats.....the metric system is pidgin measurement.

The physical world is about 360 degrees, which breaks down nicely to feet and inches. Carpenter's square's work on this principle. It is hell to build a house or rig a boat using the metric system. It's just not done!

The computerized world is all about base 10. It's also about very, very small things....for which the metric system is very apropos.

Both systems are useful, but for different reasons.

I used to work for a Swedish company, doing construction for telephone switches. Everything was in metric, once got used to it I thought was simpler than standard system. But it's just a pain in the ass to keep bouncing back and forth. I like just moving decimal point over instead of fractions lol:Namaste::green_heart::passitleft:
 
Wow! I was just making a little joke about kilos vs. grams. Didn't mean to spark a debate on the value of the metric system! :laugh:

hehehe...I remember after we adopted the metric system, they tried to incorporate it into building materials...dimensional lumber was left alone, but they tried to switch plywood, chipboard, OSB, drywall...it failed miserably...01101000 01100101 01101000 01100101 01101000 01100101 00101110 00101110 00101110 01001001 00100111 01110110 01100101 00100000 01100111 01101111 01110100 00100000 01110101 01110011 01100101 01100100 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01100010 01101111 01110100 01101000 00101110 00101110 00101110...cheerz...h00k...:rollit::passitleft:...just a lil binary ...:rofl:

There are 10 types of people in this world: those that know binary and those that don't! :rofl:
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Wow! I was just making a little joke about kilos vs. grams. Didn't mean to spark a debate on the value of the metric system! :laugh:



There are 10 types of people in this world: those that know binary and those that don't! :rofl:
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010101000110100001100001011011100110101101110011001000000110011001101111011100100010000001110100011010000110010100100000011011010110010101110011011100110110000101100111011001010010000001101001011011100010000001100010011010010110111001100001011100100111100100100001001000000101100101101111011101010111001000100000011000100111001001100001011010010110111000100000011101110110100101101100011011000010000001101000011101010111001001110100001000000110110101110101011000110110100000100000011011000110010101110011011100110010000001101001011001100010000001111001011011110111010100100000011101010111001101100101001000000110000100100000011000100110100101101110011000010111001001111001001000000110010101101110011000110110111101100100011001010111001000100001
Says the 0 to the 1: why the long face?:rofl:
 
I used to work for a Swedish company, doing construction for telephone switches. Everything was in metric, once got used to it I thought was simpler than standard system. But it's just a pain in the ass to keep bouncing back and forth. I like just moving decimal point over instead of fractions lol:Namaste::green_heart::passitleft:
Exactly!! I was a fan of standard until I start doing work for Siemens and had to deal with the Germans and the metric system. In a year I was fully assimilated and now I hate fractions. Now I hate dealing with standard size tools.
 
Wow! I was just making a little joke about kilos vs. grams. Didn't mean to spark a debate on the value of the metric system! :laugh:



There are 10 types of people in this world: those that know binary and those that don't! :rofl:
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010101000110100001100001011011100110101101110011001000000110011001101111011100100010000001110100011010000110010100100000011011010110010101110011011100110110000101100111011001010010000001101001011011100010000001100010011010010110111001100001011100100111100100100001001000000101100101101111011101010111001000100000011000100111001001100001011010010110111000100000011101110110100101101100011011000010000001101000011101010111001001110100001000000110110101110101011000110110100000100000011011000110010101110011011100110010000001101001011001100010000001111001011011110111010100100000011101010111001101100101001000000110000100100000011000100110100101101110011000010111001001111001001000000110010101101110011000110110111101100100011001010111001000100001
I didn't mean to spark the debate as well lol. Guess it sparks that Ford/Chevy type of reaction in people.
 
Um Chevy here on the derby farm. 3500 dually duramax diesel. Best thing to pull the ponies with. I've pulled over 33k with her.
I still drive my 99 F250 super duty. Love that big bitch. Don't love the gas mileage with the big V10 though
 
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