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The most recent candidate under the DNC banner is Lincoln Chafee who interestingly, besides being the lone Republican (he switched parties) to vote against the Iraq war, is vehemently pro-metric system. I remember when I was a kid, the freeway signs for distance and speed were printed in both English and metric. Converting all those signs from miles to km (again) would cost money, but then, using the English measurement system costs money too, forever -- according to a random guy I googled up without putting any real effort into it because I'm not that interested in proving myself wrong (Paul Naughtin), somewhere between six billion and a trillion. There are without a doubt, critics who might call that somewhat of a wide margin but as one witty commenter noted: "It is probably impossible to give an upper bound on that, however I can give you a lower bound: 500 Million Dollars for the loss of the Mars Climate Orbiter by NASA".
Now, I'm neither a firm GOP nor DNC voter... but I'm tempted.
takyon: Former Governor of Rhode Island Lincoln Chafee joins a number of other candidates seeking a 2016 U.S. presidential nomination.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 06 2015, @09:25PM
We can't even agree about undocumented immigrants here.
Why should we be looking for new big things to fix, that don't need fixing? Most of the blue collar industries would yell en masse, "these metric system regulations are anti business, they're causing us huge costs and forcing us to lay off workers." It's not worth the effort, Republicans know it and Democrats know it. Chafee is the exception who proves the rule - he isn't going anywhere, so he gets to chuck stuff at the wall, like Rand Paul and Donald Trump.
Instead, let's all agree on change that really make sense: in circuit diagrams, starting in 2016, electricty flows from the negative to the positive terminal!
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday June 06 2015, @10:24PM
Why should we try to fix anything, ever?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 06 2015, @10:45PM
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Sunday June 07 2015, @01:05AM
You waited too long to send your post.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 07 2015, @02:18AM
I forgot what I wrote, but I remembered looking at it and thinking it didn't add much to what I said originally, just a rehash (no pun intended). So I decided to go with the error message.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 06 2015, @10:52PM
The electron flow (to me electricty) is from the negative to positive already. It is how Current was defined, as a flow from positive to negative. The guy had 50/50 change of guessing right way back then. But if you think of it as the flow of "hole" then all is right with the world.