Metric vs. other measurement systems - chart

[mklotz]

@Marv
I learned doing sq.roots the old fashioned way and have since purged it out if my memory as well. However, my son showed me how to do it using Newton's method at age 12. So, they're not all getting dumber! But then, he's a lot smarter than I ever was; has won 35 awards and 2 international tournaments in robotics, 5 science olympiad awards, and was in Forbes magazine by age 13 !!

Of course, there will always be exceptions, but mankind depends on the ability of the majority in order to move forward. When the majority can no longer understand the technology in which they live nor have the language and mathematics skills to modify it creatively, the downward slide will engulf the exceptions.

We currently live in a society where the makers of automotive windshield sunshades find it necessary to apply a label that tells the driver to remove it before driving. It's not a slide; it's a lahar and it's overtaking us.

[mklotz]

Americans will do anything to avoid using the metric system.

They know that, if the USA actually started using the metric system, they would have TWO measurement systems they don't understand.

[Crusty]

They have to add those stupid labels so that they have a positive defense in any lawsuit from opportunists looking for a payout.

[mklotz]

They have to add those stupid labels so that they have a positive defense in any lawsuit from opportunists looking for a payout.

The fact that the shade manufacturer can be sued for accidents caused by driving with the shade in place is a clear demonstration of the failed average intelligence. In an educated society, such crap wouldn't be considered; the case would be thrown out of court.

[Crusty]

I don't place the blame for that on people in general, despite their apparent reptilian understanding, but rather on the legal system. The legal system, designed by and for lawyers, was created to entangle people so that they may be fleeced for the benefit of lawyers, and they've made incremental progress over the years using the government to force their system onto potentially everyone. It's all about taking universally understood concepts and spinning them into something which can be exploited for financial gain.

Product liability laws come from this system, where the phrase "reasonable and prudent" is a big money maker. It's a grand scam in which justice is only an occasional by-product.


E.G. "That depends on what your definition of "is" is. WJ Clinton

[Frank S]

The fact that the shade manufacturer can be sued for accidents caused by driving with the shade in place is a clear demonstration of the failed average intelligence. In an educated society, such crap wouldn't be considered; the case would be thrown out of court.

Why do you think new cars have collision avoidance braking and lane wandering sensors, now days? and automatic parallel parking or controlled trailer backing. Heck people have to have an app on their phone to start their cars, tell them when they might be running low on gas and the phone has to interface with the vehicle at all times so it will know where to go to get a tire aired up or the car itself is a roving wifi connected to the web at all times

[hemmjo]

I don't place the blame for that on people in general, despite their apparent reptilian understanding, but rather on the legal system. The legal system, designed by and for lawyers, was created to entangle people so that they may be fleeced for the benefit of lawyers, and they've made incremental progress over the years using the government to force their system onto potentially everyone. It's all about taking universally understood concepts and spinning them into something which can be exploited for financial gain.

Product liability laws come from this system, where the phrase "reasonable and prudent" is a big money maker. It's a grand scam in which justice is only an occasional by-product.


E.G. "That depends on what your definition of "is" is. WJ Clinton

The REALLY scary things is, the vast majority of our elected officials are lawyers!!!!

[Crusty]

That's why and how they were able force the legal system onto everyone. Like I said, it's a grand scam and it's been going on for many years.

[Toolmaker51]

The REALLY scary things is, the vast majority of our elected officials are lawyers!!!!

Of course; they have gamed their own system [converting justice and civil law into legal manipulations], so politics is just another avenue straight to Agendaville.

I've said this forever; most [maybe all] the inequities we suffer as citizens are traceable to lawyers, lobbyists and politicians. I don't single out the left broadly, yet far left certainly is the keystone. Added detail, lawyers have only studied the law, attorneys pass bar examinations.

For example; they'll inform you otherwise about that hierarchy; I reply with one or another challenge but favorite is, "how many interpretations are there to Shall Not Be Infringed...". They'll argue meaning of militia, I remind them of Minute Man statue and his pose, in Concord, Mass., even name implies differently then standing army.
Stops them every time.

[12L14]

The REALLY scary things is, the vast majority of our elected officials are lawyers!!!!

And now imagine place where most of those officials are engineers(lets say F. W. Taylor type smart scumbags).

Sounds like science fiction?

Think again.

Commie china, east Germany and(to some extension) soviet union are/were "good" examples of such places...