No, I'm not misinformed. Mulroney abolished the Metric Commission in Canada in spring of 1985. Stores might advertise in lbs because it sounds cheaper, but they are only allowed to do this at all because the laws that enabled the metric system to be adopted in the first place were repealed when the metric commission was abolished. Had those laws not been abolished, stores would not have had a choice in the matter, and would have had to use metric for all advertising.

Exit numbers, if they need to be tied to instance alonga highway, could be relcualted in km and rounded to the nearest integer. In Canada, multiple exits that would correspond with the same integer have different letter suffixes after them, such as exit 53-a and 53-b, for instance

They didn't wait a generation.... the conversion started in Canada, in earnest, in about 1971, and was completed over the course of about 10 years.

Oddly enough, about 5 years after the decade-long process of Canada's conversion to Metric was completed, our then-prime minister ended up abolishing the regulations that really enabled the conversion to happen in the first place. Switching back, since it was not actually legislated any more, was simply too inconvenient, and Canada remained on the metric system ever since.

"kilometerage"

Klickage

... is that it's okay for Americans to go up to signs that are in imperial, rip them down, and replace them with ones that are in metric?

I mean, if it's really supposed to be entirely voluntary.... isn't that what that means?

Of course, conversely, they could rip down any metric signage that they see and replace them with imperial too...

I'm seeing a rather glaring problem with this notion of "voluntary" as it applies to what kinds of units the country uses.

When Canada was switching to metric, dual signage was common. The km/h value was shown first, and the mph was shown in a smaller (but still quite readable) font below it. Usage of "km/h" or "mph" was explicit, to ensure there was no ambiguity.

This transition period lasted for quite some time, and after a while, the signs were ultimately replaced with speed limits listing strictly in km/h (and often the "km/h" was no longer present as well).

Personally, I'd only agree to a contract plan that can guarantee that all of the rates and fees that I am paying will remain as they are, and not grow or be added to for the duration of the contract.

And fwiw... I actually do go to the trouble of getting this information when I sign up for a contract, and if I don't see it in the terms of service, I will get it in writing from a manager.

How does plastic get produced by osmosis?

What natural process produced them?

As opposed to materials created by a process which only can occur by manmade intervention.

Technically, yes. But practically, no

Downloading isn't stealing.

Did you reply to the wrong post or something? Who was saying that it is?

Unless the initial contract states that they can add surcharges onto a customer's plan at their option, then it seems to me that one can just call them up and cancel. End of story. Calling it a "surcharge" is irrelevant to the fact that they would have actually changed their cell phone plan without prior approval by applying that surcharge onto the phone bill when it was not previously there and was not part of what one had originally agreed to pay.

If one agreed to a contract that explicitly allows them to add a surcharge onto the bill at any time, without any prior agreement on what that surcharge would be... that's just... unfortunate.

Perhaps... but the insinuation was that reprap prints, in the present tense, a whole printer.

It fails to do so on two counts, which I enumerated above.

The same forces that are moving the sun through space are also acting on the earth itself. So, no.