Comment Re:First Post with good info (Score 1) 51
If management sets up incentives to game the system they have no one to blame but themselves. Of course employees will do what the system is setup to reward. Duh.
If management sets up incentives to game the system they have no one to blame but themselves. Of course employees will do what the system is setup to reward. Duh.
The link should take them to Reddit after deleting their account. Damn FA readers.
What? My Engineering degree is 30 years old. We did almost everything in school in Metric.
After school it's industry specific. But all common metric parts are readily available.
I objected to five items on the list, but that's better than most.
Siri launches Waze. Is this an old problem, or a problem on other platforms?
When you factor it out, what you're left with is advantage of their divisible by ten units versus the more varied divisions in imperial.
One thing to realize is that Imperial measurements are often simpler to work with, they're in more handy increments than metric.
Unless you're doing scientific stuff you don't often compare inches of something with miles of something else.
I remember reading that chefs and cooks over in Europe are 'rebelling' against metric because it's a pain in the ass when cooking. Imperial - tablespoons, cups, and such are actually more convenient once you've learned it. You can triple or quadruple a recipe, cut it in half or thirds, pretty easily in your head. Not so easily for metric.
Same deal with inches, feet, and yards when constructing a building.
Sigh. My point is that LoS is not a measure of capacity, and that absolute numbers can be increased while congestion is decreased with driverless vehicles. You haven't provided anything that refutes any of my claims.
If you owned a wrench, you would realize just how stupid that statement was.
Eh, how would they be boned? They'd have to transition an entire department, but clearly that's not a problem for them. And now they have practice.
In England and Germany the government actually does useful thing. Verifying that pints are pints and half liters are 500ml.
Almost all the glasses used in bars in the USA would get the bar shutdown in England/Germany.
Disney deserves negative publicity for this, but let's be honest -- if the employees have been laid off, then nobody's making them do anything. Personally, I would tell them to piss off. Or train them wrong.
First, the US is officially metric.
The problem most non-Americans can't understand is that the US government/system ostensibly has few tools to compel this transition, CERTAINLY none that are worth political cost of using on an issue that most people don't give two shits about.
In short: the people who need/want metric use it.
The people who don't would strongly resist doing so.
Second: there's no "automatic" value inherent in the metric system. It's a SHIT TON easier to use with computers and calculators, certainly, as it's all decimal. But otherwise its less wieldy in daily use as 10 doesn't divide neatly by 3 or 4.
If your pro-metric argument is about the value of universalization, hell, we can't even agree that we should all speak ENGLISH in this country, and the 'universalization' value of that would be orders of magnitude more useful/immediate than all switching to a measuring system most of us don't use in the first place.
If you can't stick to the facts without personal insults, I'm not interested in the conversation.
You are correct, I meant to say "don't want," not "don't need."
I used the example of Shark Tank because it's an easily approachable and widely available example for the lay person, and your original post was written as a lay person, as is your reply.
Corporations market things all the time, but if people don't want it, the products and/or companies are ultimately unsuccessful. The conspiracy -- and that's what it is -- that people are purely told what to want disregards all of the massive market failures for every one success.
He's a troll.
I was, actually, hoping for a couple of +1 Funnies, rather than Trolls. I guess, Illiberals aren't all that open-minded and mirthful either, when caustic humour is aimed at them... Please, don't hate.
If we are going to change systems why not use the International Standard?
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