Warp wrote:
 >   One thing I like about the metric system is that terms are always
 > consistent and don't change meaning (and especially not amount) depending
 > on what you are measuring.

True. It's certainly more consistent. I just find it a touch less 
convenient in some cases.

 >   Of course since Americans have this obsession that they can't have
 > *anything* the same as those pesky Europeans, they even had to change
 > at least *something* of the metric system: To them it's litre, not
 > liter (likewise metre instead of meter, etc).

Errrr, no, I don't think so. That's the Brits, not the Americans. :-)

And given how much longer Imperial measure has been around compared to 
Metric, I'd argue that it's the Europeans trying to abandon the 
Brits/Americans.

Technically, everything in the US is supposed to be on the metric 
system, but the government has no right to enforce that for private 
individuals, so imperial measures persist. Altho I understand that many 
government contracts specify metric, so you wind up with 4.1 liters of 
fluid held in a container constructed with 7.82 mm bolts. :)


-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     "That's pretty. Where's that?"
          "It's the Age of Channelwood."
     "We should go there on vacation some time."

Post a reply to this message