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Re:Make the Metric system the standard in the United States by czzarr on Wednesday January 02, 2013 @08:01AM (#4996403)
quite frankly this is deceitful, a lot of Americans already use the International System daily for their work, and I would bet that a very large number of Americans have some knowledge of it. Whereas the Euro was completely new, the International units have been here for years.
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Re:Make the Metric system the standard in the United States by davidw on Wednesday January 02, 2013 @08:04AM (#4996425)
> deceitful

I'm telling it like I see it, please do not ascribe malice to what I'm writing. I wish we had the metric system in the US, but the units just aren't as meaningful as familiar degrees F, pounds, inches, feet, miles, and so on. That's true for me even after having spent a lot of time living here in Italy, to varying degrees, depending on how much I use a given unit.

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Re:Make the Metric system the standard in the United States by czzarr on Wednesday January 02, 2013 @10:29AM (#4997117)
sorry I wasn't implying any malice, just wanted to say your explanation was misleading in my opinion
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