List of countries that DO NOT use metric system right now

[mugs]

Originally posted by: DrPizza

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: DrPizza
Uhh, bad news for you guys. You don't realize it, but everything in the U.S. is based on metric standards. An inch is now *defined* as 2.54 centimeters. There is no separate standard for our idiotic system of measurements. Hell, 99% of U.S. citizens don't even know what our measure of mass is (slug). And, of the 1% who do know that, the vast majority of them probably couldn't calculate the mass of an object given its weight in pounds.

So, "only one superpower left and it doesn't use the metric system" is actually "the citizens in the U.S. don't even have a clue."

No one really cares how it's (currently) defined any more than metric system users care that their unit of length is defined as some wavelength of light.

And no one really cares what the unit of mass is, because we use units of mass and weight more or less interchangeably just like most of the rest of the world does; we use the unit of weight for both, and everyone else uses the unit of mass for both. As a European how much they weigh, and they'll tell you their mass. The people to whom mass and weight are not interchangeable use the metric system anyway, thus no one cares about the imperial unit of mass.

Actually, the unit of length is defined by how far light travels in a fraction during a certain amount of time. The speed of light is fixed by definition. (This made much more sense because as the precision of measurements improves, other standards don't have to be changed.)

Way to miss the forest for the trees. :roll:

 

[BurnItDwn]

Wow, we aren't the only retards.

 

[sdifox]

Originally posted by: BurnItDwn
Wow, we aren't the only retards.

Liberia, Burma and USA, the Axis of Evil when it comes to units of measurement 🙂

 

[Auric]

Originally posted by: sdifox

Originally posted by: BurnItDwn
Wow, we aren't the only retards.

Liberia, Burma and USA, the Axis of Evil when it comes to units of measurement 🙂

If the USA intends to remain stubbornly ignorant on this issue they should really consider ditching decimal currency for pieces of eight. Yarr!

May as well join Ethiopia and revert to the Julian Calendar too.

 

[brxndxn]

I want a goddamn liter of cola!!!

 

[Colt45]

Originally posted by: DrPizza

Originally posted by: SparkyJJO

Originally posted by: MattCo

Originally posted by: SparkyJJO

Originally posted by: 3cho
metric is so much better, what is it that people in this country dont understand. its all in 10s!

I have a 20 inch LCD. Or I could say I have a 50.8 centimeter screen. What? Or even better, my parents have a 19 inch LCD, or 48.26 centimeters.

Screw that! Imperial all the way. Metric for measuring computer temps only, and that's just because so many people use it and if I said my CPU is at 118 degrees F I get a lot of "what's that" comments (it is about 48C, FYI).

Most 20 inch LCD TVs/Monitors aren't exactly 20 inches.

Mine was advertised as a 20.1 inch screen and it measures out to that.

I've never seen a ruler that measures tenths of an inch. I've only seen them with inches broken into 1/2's, 1/4's, 1/8's, 1/16's, 1/32's, and 1/64's.

They do exist, but aren't very common outside engineering and machining, etc.

calipers are almost always in decimal, eg.

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[seemingly random]

The temperature of the cpu in my pc averages ~32c.