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Re: EVIL Metric system not quite taking away my HERITAGE
Posted By: Wolfspirit, on host 206.47.244.94
Date: Thursday, July 12, 2001, at 21:29:45
In Reply To: Re: The EVIL Metric system not quite taking away my HERITAGE posted by gabby on Friday, July 6, 2001, at 18:24:35:

> According to the U.S. General Accounting Office, roughly two-thirds of global industrial output remains based on customary specifications. The article that contained this figure also claimed that significant other industries are only pseudo-metric: film companies relabeled 1-3/8" film as 35mm film without actually changing the size, in order to make it sound "more accurate."
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What's the problem? I don't see anything wrong with labelling products by converting the volume/weight/whatever dimensions directly from Imperial to "pseudo-metric". So one pound equals 454 grams. What do you expect the manufacturer to do, drop everything and retool every single die, mold, and cog into the metric equivalents, immediately? Whereas the more sensible method would be to replace any entire machinery that has worn out naturally, through attrition, using metric parts.

What I find most amusing about this statement from the U.S. General Accounting Office is that if I request manufacturing/industry standardization protocols from ASTM (The *American* Standards and Testing Materials Institute), I find that *all* the process sheets and procedures they give to me are entirely in metric, not Imperial. At least ASTM knows how to get the job done properly.


> gab"We should convert to using cubits, ephahs, and shekels"by


Wolf "too late... slippery slope arguments aren't useful for people who are already dead" spirit

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