In article >,
Jeßus > wrote:

> On Sun, 2 May 2010 16:15:48 -0700, "Brian Christiansen"
> > wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> >I also think that it is partially due to the fact that we (Americans) don't
> >really like either the government or the French telling us what measurement
> >system we are supposed to use.
>
> That's a rather pathetic reason (if indeed it is a reason) not to
> change to an easier/better system, isn't it?
>
> --
> Jeßus
>
> May God protect you from his followers.

The Metric system is used universally in the health care and science
fields. Always. I like metrics better as it's much easier to convert
numbers by 10's. :-) I do wish we would switch over to it completely!
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