Re:US Metric? Easier said than done. (Score 1)

For a significant amount of time now the US has been officially metric. I think several decades. The public just hasn't accepted it yet, but change is coming soon. Now close to where I live (KY) some of the interstate signs have been showing up with both English and metric units.

While all this metric conversion stuff makes sense, but I'm really going to miss units like the hogshead(unit of volume).

"And low behold all the earth trembled as the great serpent took hold of every nation such that the once proud world bowed down to its tyrannical might. Except one proud people would not bow down and the serpent gnashed it's teeth in anger. And the name of the beast was on its forehead and it's name was SI" The Book of Units