I said it before and I'll say it again. We have little to gain by converting,
certainly not enough to cover the expense, and if you are one who like Jan
considers this the inverse of "Americans wanting everyone to be like us" please
tell me what is the difference between what we do/have done and the whining I
see about why don't we be more like you. Personally, I don't speak for all
Americans, and have never expected other countries be more like us except in
the case of the Soviet Union under Stalin or Germany under Hitler. I just don't
like to see Europeans looking down their noses at us about this. I've traveled
to 5 continents outside of NA and found most folks to be delightful, and there
are many things I lake better in some of those places. But I don't try to tell
them how to do things.
And trade? Tariffs are an issue, but I don't think not using the metric system
is one of our problems. And by the way, Jan, we have been buying boatloads of
European and Japanese cars, and getting a set of metric wrenches hasn't slowed
sales at all. I don't care what kinds of nuts and bolts my car has, I've got
both Metric and SAE wrenches, so for me and everyone I know it isn't a problem.
the real reason we don't sell that many cars overseas is because ours are
generally unsuitable for most other countries situations.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Philippe" <photo.philippe.amard@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2019 2:27:18 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: Airport Experiment
> Le 10 mars 2019 à 19:23, Bill Pearce <billpearce@xxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
>
> The metric system isn't stupid, it's just a set of arbitrary values for
> measurements, and the people that use it aren't stupid either. The stupid
> people and stupid ideas are those that think it is inexcusable for the USA to
> not adopt it and be more like them.
> You have expressed you opinion that you can't comprehend why we haven't
> converted,
Me ??? really ???
> and yet you can't produce one solid argument in favor of the conversion.
Nope Bill - never tried to convince anyone - I was just asking why it was a
stupid system, and why those who advocated it are/were stupid. I never
considered my own selfish self as part of the former, nor the latter if you
prefer.
I asked for the sake of finding my truth behind the facts, as per some
président …
> I have never seen an argument in favor that doesn't boil down to so we can be
> like everyone else. To put things in the view of the average American
which I’m not, but would be eager to understand
> , the cost to our taxpayers would be backbreaking
the Brits and others thought the same, and I can conceive it - I still DK if
they were right or wrong, sorry.
> and would push back even farther such things with serious value like one
> payer healthcare.
>
Metric and healthcare ??? Neither here nor there I’m afraid Bill, particularly
regarding the original request for information, which you haven’t provided so
far. So in short, why are they (both system and advocators) stupid?
Amities
Philippe trying to earnestly understand your vision, but unable to untangle the
threads of your opaque reasoning(s).
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> From: "Philippe" <photo.philippe.amard@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2019 1:17:08 AM
> Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: Airport Experiment
>
> I’m a supporter of nothing in particular. I’m a user of the systems as they
> are, and wonder why you call these « stupid », both the idea of a metric
> system, and the people who developed it.
>
> Amities
>
> Philippe
>
>
>
>> Le 9 mars 2019 à 21:28, Bill Pearce <billpearce@xxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
>>
>> The only argument that any of you metric supporters has made is that we will
>> then be more like you. Should we also give up english and speak french? Why
>> should we be more like you? What would you say if I said you should be more
>> like us? That seems problematic, as European politicians seem to be more
>> like ones from the USA.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>
>> From: "Philippe" <photo.philippe.amard@xxxxxxxxx>
>> To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Saturday, March 9, 2019 1:43:40 AM
>> Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: Airport Experiment
>>
>>
>>> Le 9 mars 2019 à 05:43, Bill Pearce <billpearce@xxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
>>>
>>> The switch to metric was a stupid idea
>>
>> Why?
>>
>>> from stupid people.
>>
>>
>> and why?
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Ph
>>
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