Priorities
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@Cat said:
@Weng said:
Bottom line, metric units are peculiarly sized, despite their logical consistency. Because of the lack of any non-ghetto unit between the centimeter and the meter (blah blah decimeter - do you know anybody who actually says decimeter?), all kinds of things need to be represented with either hilariously large numbers, or with fractional units. There's too much uncertainty in rounding to the nearest meter when, for example, measuring the size of a room, or a desk.
So measure in "metric feet" -- 30 cm. It's almost exactly the same size.
A pint of beer is a damn reasonable size. Again, in metric you either have to use a ghetto-assed unit (centiliters), fractional liters, or a whole crapton of milliliters.
The standard for measuring liquid on that scale in metric nations is the deciliter (not a "ghetto unit"). And 4.5 deciliters works out great for a pint.
Those crazy swedish use deciliter, and they also have a swedish mile (10km)
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@RTapeLoadingError said:
I'm convinced. Next time I'm in a bar in the US I'll ask for 4.5 deciliters of beer.
Hey, want to go to to the 105 by 68 metres field of grass for a game afterwards?
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It makes sense for Americans to move over to getting half-litres of beer as it means they get more beer than they currently get in a pint.
In the UK, where a pint is bigger, moving to half a litre would mean getting less beer as a pint is about 568ml.
Of course I'm sure people in the UK wouldn't object to moving to a 600ml metric pint.
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german metric 1lt beers sounds like a good idea
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@Helix said:
@blakeyrat said:
@Helix said:
US sticking to imperial cost lives. When sending people to space, a US team mistranslated some European engineering work from metric to imperial.
Wait, what? Are you talking about the Mars Climate Orbiter?
You know that was a robot, right? There wasn't like a little midget inside tapping away at a telegraph key or... whatever the hell you're imagining. I mean, sure, it cost like $120 mil, but lives? No.
Also the problem wasn't that they mistranslated it, but that they didn't translate it at all, they just plugged in the wrong units.
Edit: Basically exactly what Weng already posted. Sorry!
Well they may tell you that, but that is far from the truth. They only tell those who have top level clearance.
Ooo conspiracy theories. OooOOOOoooOOOooOOOOooOOOOO! Did you make the scary ghost voice when you typed that?
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Blakeyfriend, Helix has displayed incurable troll tendencies in the past. You would do well to just, you know, completely ignore him.
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@dhromed said:
Blakeyfriend, Helix has displayed incurable troll tendencies in the past. You would do well to just, you know, completely ignore him.
I wanted to make the ooOOOooo noise.
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@blakeyrat said:
@Helix said:
Open your mind, man. Don't believe the government, there is no Mars.@blakeyrat said:
@Helix said:
US sticking to imperial cost lives. When sending people to space, a US team mistranslated some European engineering work from metric to imperial.
Wait, what? Are you talking about the Mars Climate Orbiter?
You know that was a robot, right? There wasn't like a little midget inside tapping away at a telegraph key or... whatever the hell you're imagining. I mean, sure, it cost like $120 mil, but lives? No.
Also the problem wasn't that they mistranslated it, but that they didn't translate it at all, they just plugged in the wrong units.
Edit: Basically exactly what Weng already posted. Sorry!
Well they may tell you that, but that is far from the truth. They only tell those who have top level clearance.
Ooo conspiracy theories. OooOOOOoooOOOooOOOOooOOOOO! Did you make the scary ghost voice when you typed that?
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@davedavenotdavemaybedave said:
Open your mind, man. Don't believe the government, there is no Mars.
As long as there are still M&Ms, I'm fine with that.
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@Zecc said:
You're so naive. They got rid of the second M years ago for cost-saving purposes.@davedavenotdavemaybedave said:
Open your mind, man. Don't believe the government, there is no Mars.
As long as there are still M&Ms, I'm fine with that.
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@Cbuttius said:
I'm sure they'd object even less to getting their beer in (IIRC from Germany) 0.2l, 0.3l, 0.4l 0.5l and 1l measures. (Though I suspect the pubs would only simplify it down to 0.3l and 0.5l anyway, and the government would kibosh 1l ostensibly under health reasons.)In the UK, where a pint is bigger, moving to half a litre would mean getting less beer as a pint is about 568ml.
Of course I'm sure people in the UK wouldn't object to moving to a 600ml metric pint.
Providing the pubco's didn't take the piss and increase the price per unit volume at the same time. Oh wait, who am I kidding...?
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@davedavenotdavemaybedave said:
@blakeyrat said:
@Helix said:
Open your mind, man. Don't believe the government, there is no Mars.@blakeyrat said:
@Helix said:
US sticking to imperial cost lives. When sending people to space, a US team mistranslated some European engineering work from metric to imperial.
Wait, what? Are you talking about the Mars Climate Orbiter?
You know that was a robot, right? There wasn't like a little midget inside tapping away at a telegraph key or... whatever the hell you're imagining. I mean, sure, it cost like $120 mil, but lives? No.
Also the problem wasn't that they mistranslated it, but that they didn't translate it at all, they just plugged in the wrong units.
Edit: Basically exactly what Weng already posted. Sorry!
Well they may tell you that, but that is far from the truth. They only tell those who have top level clearance.
Ooo conspiracy theories. OooOOOOoooOOOooOOOOooOOOOO! Did you make the scary ghost voice when you typed that?
A better know one is that actually Obama did not cancel the moon return
project. He did this to hide the real project, which is the moon return
project. He plans to get a team to get the moon and bring it back home
and be the leader of basketball courts. He can slam dunk it on his
brother Osama.
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@Zecc said:
@davedavenotdavemaybedave said:
Open your mind, man. Don't believe the government, there is no Mars.
As long as there are still M&Ms, I'm fine with that.Marathon was renamed by the government as it was a secret designed forces super fuel that was stolen and they tried to sell it to a commercial organisation, however Mars brought it which is owned by government so it went back into state ownership.
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Everyone knew what an eagle was until FDR essentially outlawed them in 1933 (all coin denominations over $1 were in gold). No only coin collectors and investors know what mills and eagles are.
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@blakeyrat said:
But we already have a stupid slang name for the dollar: a buck.New rule! Let's start calling the dollar the "wheezle" just to confuse people! I bought a 8 wheezle lunch today.
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@amischiefr said:
@blakeyrat said:
But we already have a stupid slang name for the dollar: a buck.New rule! Let's start calling the dollar the "wheezle" just to confuse people! I bought a 8 wheezle lunch today.
Clearly we need to replace the image of President Washington with that of a large male deer. Then the name will make sense, and it will be sort of analogous to the Canadian "loonie".
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@Someone You Know said:
Clearly we need to replace the image of President Washington with that of a large male deer. Then the name will make sense, and it will be sort of analogous to the Canadian "loonie".
Which makes sense, as Washington was the president to coin the phrase: "the buck stops here".
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@b-redeker said:
@Someone You Know said:
Clearly we need to replace the image of President Washington with that of a large male deer. Then the name will make sense, and it will be sort of analogous to the Canadian "loonie".
Which makes sense, as Washington was the president to coin the phrase: "the buck stops here".
No, that was Taft. Washington said "Give me my face on a dollar, or give me death."
