Americans are weird...

[Masas]

Originally posted by: ndee

Originally posted by: BooGiMaN

Originally posted by: ndee

Originally posted by: BooGiMaN
He who is the global power sets the standards, got that swiss boy?

He who has the most money sets the standards, got that american boy?

My America can kick your switzerland's ass so nya nya nya nya

Ya sure, you guys would find Switzerland on a map?

No, but its not like YOU can either...so

 

[Torghn]

Originally posted by: ed21x
The US debt is to its own population for service and manufacturing.

Exactly, and it's an INCREDIBLY small percent of the GNP.

 

[charrison]

Originally posted by: Torghn

Originally posted by: ed21x
The US debt is to its own population for service and manufacturing.

Exactly, and it's an INCREDIBLY small percent of the GNP.

Not really. 6 trillion in debt and a 11-12 trillion GNP. However the payments are managable.

 

[PowerEngineer]

Originally posted by: ndee
oh well, I was just thinking about tonight about global standards. Why don't we have all the same units for weights, etc.. Would be kinda practical.

Putting aside all the trash talking (and the possibility that you are looking for just that in the first place), there have been some half-hearted attempts to adopt metric units here. Most engineering schools I'm familiar with use metric units in their technical classes. That said, it's disconcerting for most people who have grown up with the "english" measurements to suddenly change. I'm afraid you'll just have to struggle along with us as we make the units conversions back and forth.

 

[ROTC1983]

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein

Originally posted by: ndee
- Miles and stuff instead of metric stuff.
- Weight thing with ounces, pounds blabla(not only America, I know)
- Words-per-minute wouldn't it be better if you would count the characters you can type in a minute?

 

[Cycad]

We do it so that NASA and JPL can confuse each other and lose a few billion dollars.

 

[Mookow]

Originally posted by: ndee

Originally posted by: Mookow

Originally posted by: ndee

Originally posted by: BooGiMaN

Originally posted by: ndee

Originally posted by: BooGiMaN
He who is the global power sets the standards, got that swiss boy?

He who has the most money sets the standards, got that american boy?

My America can kick your switzerland's ass so nya nya nya nya

Ya sure, you guys would find Switzerland on a map?

Who cares? Our bombs can, and thats all that really matters!

You might bomb yourselves

The only way that's gonna happen is if someone in the USAF doesnt get the word that we have already captured your country and drops onto the victorious american forces.

Heck, even if our bombs can't find your country precisely, we could just start carpet bombing the European continent again. Given enough sorties from enough B-52s, eventually the laws of probability kick in...

 

[RossGr]

Originally posted by: ndee
- Miles and stuff instead of metric stuff.
- Weight thing with ounces, pounds blabla(not only America, I know)
- Words-per-minute wouldn't it be better if you would count the characters you can type in a minute?

Yeah, the rest of the world ought to dump that worthless decimal based stuff and adopt something base 2 or 16, Computers are the future right?

 

[DX2Player]

Originally posted by: hagbard

Originally posted by: DX2Player
Ya we have a large debt but we are still wealthier, if you add everything up, than any other country in the world (I think).

Wrong.

Than how can you explain that in the US economy
-%5 of world population
-20-25% of worlds productions

 

[FenrisUlf]

Originally posted by: ndee
oh well, I was just thinking about tonight about global standards. Why don't we have all the same units for weights, etc.. Would be kinda practical.

How about the Swiss pick a standard for a language? Let's see...there's German, French, Italian, English, and Romansch all spoken natively there (I have a friend who is Swiss and speaks them all).

 

[Peetoeng]

With inflation and all, we should move from decimal to hexadecimal.

Rossman, is $0x500 a hot deal for a laptop?

 

[Sepen]

Originally posted by: ndee
oh well, I was just thinking about tonight about global standards. Why don't we have all the same units for weights, etc.. Would be kinda practical.

Practical? For whom? You? We are just fine with it.