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(...) Abosolutely yay. The US should get out of their redneck rut and realize that they are decades behind the rest of the world when it comes to this issue. The US is simply stinking up everybody else with their stupid old system (especially here (...) (24 years ago, 29-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Don't diss my kind. BTW, YAY. Metric rules, so do rednecks. Rick (24 years ago, 29-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Nice blanket statement ;) I live in Tennessee (which is pretty near the top of the Redneck-O-Meter), and I prefer metric over standard. It's really an irrelevant issue, as most common conversions can be done in one's head on the fly. That's (...) (24 years ago, 30-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Sorry about that! But isn't the Metric system an abomination in the eyes of God? After all, the linear measure is based on human scientists gaining a true understanding of the world and its workings. Whereas the linear measure in the Imperial (...) (24 years ago, 30-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) You know, I was going to comment on that, then I saw that you already had. (The part about Tim championing science, that is.) I almost fell out of my chair when I read that! :) I was half prepared to read "cubits." Or are we just being evil, (...) (24 years ago, 1-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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.... (...) I recently had to do somethin involving metirc conversion and was told that at some point the inch was redefind by the international standards people to be exactly 2.54 cm. (...) .... I thought that the meter was defined in terms of the (...) (24 years ago, 1-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Really? Cool! Maybe the Euro will be NGL 2.20 one day, and not NGL 2.203. ;) I know, immaterial, given that the Guilder shall cease to exist on 1 March 2002. (...) n.b.: 1872 was the actual Conference that made one particular meter bar the (...) (24 years ago, 1-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) First, regarding the metric system, use whatever pleases you. Personally, I don't care. I like the old system, simply because i grew up with it, and i therefore find it more (personally) natural to think in terms of feet and inches than meters (...) (24 years ago, 1-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) redneck rut and realize (...) when it comes to this (...) with their stupid (...) so many of their (...) pleases you. Personally, I (...) grew up with it, and i (...) terms of feet and inches (...) Big deal. Anyway, to (...) around in debate. (...) (24 years ago, 1-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) i want to print up stickers with this saying on it... :) thanks! -chris (24 years ago, 2-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) On the personal level it's not so important. In Australia (metric for thirty years or so) people's height and (less often) weight is still usually described in imperial units. On the organisational level using the wrong units can waste over (...) (24 years ago, 2-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) that both teams didn't use the *same* wrong units. 8^) Dave! (24 years ago, 2-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Ok, this is an honest question, although somewhat rhetorical, but I mean no affront: Why, then, did Australia fight in the World Wars and in Vietnam with America? I understand the historical relationship between the UK and Australia, and yes, (...) (24 years ago, 2-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) From distant memories of my School boy History. There was. Japan actually bombed the North of Oz a few times (Darwin?). The Oz Government had a plan only to defend an internal triangle which I think was almost Melbourne - Brisbain - Cairns. I (...) (24 years ago, 2-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) America should not have invaded Vietnam. My question involving Australia's involvement in Vietnam was rhetorical. My point was that America isn't the only nation to have gone to war in modern times for reasons that are not for clear- cut (...) (24 years ago, 2-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Point taken. Of course, Australia has never been in a position to establish world-wide military and economic hegemony. I'm not saying it has been wrong of the US to do so, but while the moral and political questions are similar the global (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) In short, the industrial base of the serpent's head was there. The United States could easily take Japan in a fair fight, but an Axis-controlled Europe was a much more dangerous nut that needed cracking. Once pressure was off Britain, huge (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) The only case I can think of that might address this question is the US Civil War. Europe walked an amazing tightrope then, in part to avoid upsetting the balance of Europe internally-- although Britain recognised "belligerent rights" with (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Linday: First, I'd like to say that I appreciate all of the information. I'm quite interested in the role that nations such as Australia and Canada played in the theater of the World Wars, chiefly because I'm afraid to say that I know quite little (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Seriously, I'm not sure what you mean: do you really want to debate the mediocrity of American culture? Since I've never been to Australia (and, obviously, have therefore never spent an appreciable amount of time there), my judgments as to the (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I hope it's all as correct as I think it is! :) (...) You and I both. It's especially shameful for me, because it's my *job* to know the Empire--but the big problem is that the research and writing just haven't been done yet, and that's done (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I have only one thing to say about this entire thread-to each his own. -Harvey (24 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) (sorry for taking so long to reply on this) ......but that is kinda funny :) (24 years ago, 13-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Interesting. I went to a play this weekend, about Galileo and his ... interactions ... with the Church. I had always thought that Galileo's problem was that people did not believe his ideas, but the presentation of the drama was that a number (...) (24 years ago, 14-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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