Le 2011/10/04 05:47, Le_Forgeron a écrit :
> Le 03/10/2011 22:11, Alain a écrit :
>> I always wonder WHY the USA kept that colonial mesurment system. The
>> metric system did exist at that time. Back then, it would have been easy
>> to adopt the metric system and ditch the hated imperial system.
>
> The "Not made here" syndrom.
> USA is proud of its own system. It's not imperial (yet looks
> traditional), not metric, but their very own. That's also help to be
> "protective" on commerce while shouting out loud about "free commerce,
> no regulation".
>
> (when the foreign sellers of good have to waste time doing conversion or
> changing measurement tools (at their own expense), it becomes also a
> competitive advantage for the local sellers...))

Well, "not made here" absolutely apply to the mesurement system used in 
the USA. Not only "not made here" but IMPOSED down your throat by the 
Crown during the colonial days.

It not imperial, it's worst, it's Colonial! Born from the colonial abuse 
that is the root of the cecession war.

Then, back then, the "not made here" syndrom was yet to apears... about 
100 years later.

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On 6-10-2011 3:12, Darren New wrote:
> On 10/5/2011 14:05, andrel wrote:
>> I think 'Century of the Anchovy' was a big give away. ;)
>
> You missed the required adjective. "Century of the Flatulent Anchovy" or
> "Year of the Confused Fruit-Bat" or something.

It was the *century* of the fruitbat. As far as I can find only the 
years have adjectives not the centuries. According to lspace.org the 
century of the anchovy was mentioned in Carpe Jugulum.  perhaps I have 
to reread that one to find the reference.


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citizen per day.

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