Mark Weiss wrote:
> Yet another reason to fight to the death against metrics.
>
Mark - Having fitted new hard drives to both of my computers and loading
software on them, I found myself - once again - cursing the US for not going
metric. I have had to go in to each program and change page setup from
inches to centimetres, page size from quarto to A4.
Most of the world now uses the eminently sensible metric system. Why does
the US persist in sticking with the cumbersome and impractical Empirial
(sp?) measures? I
mean, 16 oz to the lb and 12" to the foot versus 1,000 grams to the kilo and
1,000 cms to the metre - there's no contest! Ergo, there were some sensible
people among those French revolutionaries.
It's the same with these references to the "hash" key, which I also find
terribly irritating. It's a bloody "hatch" key! (And just to protect myself
after writing this, I have consulted the concise Oxford: defn. 3 for the
word includes reference to "two crossing sets of parallel lines".)
Viv
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