Re: [hw-rules] imperial

From: Greg Stafford <Greg_at_tlCxM3C6W4mkOdOODx57VRDIlXFaq-n5F1o1SBISpWIJe-Co97UsZjn_q-s7FFJ8_bD3_YwvON>
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 06:38:07 -0800

At 11:39 AM 1/19/2001 +0200, you wrote:
>> >Cubic meters.
>>
>> Sorry, yards.
>
>*sigh* this is the truly tragic development from RQ to HW. We seem to
the Imperial measurements are more organic than the French Revolutionary Measurement Methods.

>have slipped back to imperial measurements. Isn't even US supposed to be
>using SI-units these days?
Not a chance We hae been told since my childhood (in the 50's) that the US would convert but I doubt it.
The essential problem is that the entire US industrry would have to retool, and that's unlikely.
Maybe in a few years when it all rusts away.

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Greg Stafford
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