Just about everything where there is an advantage to convert to metric either
has been converted or was always done that way (e.g. automobile manufacturing,
nuclear bomb building).
>>> Jay Maynard <jmaynard@xxxxxxxxxxx> Sep 21, 2000 >>>
On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 12:08:10PM -0700, Jan Steinman wrote:
> When is the US going to get with the metric system? I learned it in
> school in the 60's, when it was supposedly "imminent!" We look like
> dinosaurs to the rest of the world, and it certainly impacts trade --
> just ask why the Japanese buy raw logs instead of dimensioned
> lumber...
We'll convert when the cost of converting becomes less than the cost of not
converting, and not before. It ain't there yeet.
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