Changing From Imperial to Metric

they certainly dictate what units you use on a product offered for sale. they dictate what units you use on a government form.

 

Do they? Again pretty sure I can sell cubits of dirt without issue.

 

do your homework

http://www.nist.gov/pml/wmd/metric/pack-lab.cfm

 

Sorry, why am I even arguing this? Why would it be the job of the government to declare what system I use to measure? I can understand having a default system, so that if I were to say I'm selling a 1x1 item it would be considered that I am using Imperial or Metric, but if I specify the measurement where is the issue? Does France say you can only sell items in metric measurements, regardless if you post the unit of measure? If so why? Also, how is that their job? Why should the individual be forced to comply with a government determined unit of measure?

 

Wow, looks like government overreach to me. Still doesn't prevent me from selling cubits of dirt though. I suppose it would stop me from selling oz of juice were I a large company, but in no way shows that it's the governments job to regulate units of measure.

Edit; BTW it would only stop me IF I didn't provide both metric and imperial, apparently the metric side is trying to skip the law, but it shouldn't be a law to begin with. So long as the measure is present I can't see why what you measure with is an issue.

 

and yet they are doing it!! go figure. your qualifying big vs small companies does not change the facts pal

 

and that still doesn't make it their job. BTW I can still sell cubits of dirt, printers of lemonaid (though not alcohol because for some reason the government thinks it is their job to ensure I as and individual do not sell alcohol without their permission), hell I can sell you a desk of cheeze-its to quote Family Guy.

Again though, it's not the governments job to tell me, you, or anyone how we will measure. AGAIN, and you seem to miss this every time, I'm not opposed to the government having a standard unit of measure that will be used if no units of measure are specified (simplifies contract law), but in what way is it the governments job to tell you, me, and everyone else how we will measure? Also, they're not, as I've proven already by the fact that I can sell you a crap ton of ironing boards, legally! You just have to agree to the contract!

 

I think it should happen and can happen. The metric system makes more sense and they teach both systems in the military.

 

They also teach mils, which, what the (*)(*)(*)(*) is a mil? Again I don't see it as the governments job to enforce a standard. They can and should adopt one, but if people choose to measure another way then so be it. As for the military we should go completely metric. It's what our allies use, so we should use the same.

 

At no point was I taught what a mil was at school or in the Army. All I knew was that mils were what you used to measure from a compass, and IIRC with one of those fancy protractors I had in my K-pot. BTW if you still think I'm trying to hype up the imperial system as somehow good then please read my previous posts in this thread. Like, really, read them. I'm for the metric system, just not government enforcement of it.

 

There is a reason why the government regulates standard weights and measures and that is the public demanded it because they were tired of being cheated by the arbitrary measures that businesses subjected them to on a daily basis. The government does not require private businesses to adopt any particular standard of weights and measures but does require them abide by ones established by international treaty or federal regulation.

A mil is one hundredth of an inch, a mic is a thousandth, fractions were not precise enough for precision weaponry so they divided up the inch by decimals and used metric naming, sorta.
There is also Mil-spec, which is completely different.

 

a mil is a thousandths of an inch

 

I imagine that MyFingID is referring to angular mils or mrads and not fractions of an inch.

 

it wasn't him I was correcting

 

We prefer miles over kilometers, because a mile is 5,280 feet, while, a kilometer is a 1,000 meters.

We prefer acre over hectare, because an acre is 43,560 sq/ft, while, a hectare is 10,000 sq/km.

The only metric measurements we find acceptable are with our booze. Even that can be iffy.

It keeps it simple for us!

 

Mkay, I didn't say that you were correcting anyone...

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Mkay, I didn't say that you were correcting anyone...

 

well why did you tell me what myfingid might have meant?

 

I was informing anyone reading this thread...you and unrealist included. Notice that I didn't quote you, no need to make a federal case out of my very plain statement.