Re: Broke off screw mounts from screen
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Ian, you said it best... Thanks. Bob ¡ª KK5R
On Friday, January 1, 2021, 3:29:28 PM EST, Ian Reeve <ian.radioworkshop@...> wrote:
The World is a mix of new and earlier standards. As a resident of the UK we now use metric although a fair few folk who work on older equipment still need to use Imperial measurements as well as knowledge of other engineering standards. Of course we use Litres for liquids but the containers still mostly have the equivalent in Pints. Our American friends use Miles,Feet and Inches. ¡°The U.S. is one of the few countries globally which still uses the Imperial system of measurement, where things are measured in feet, inches, pounds, ounces, etc.¡± Its an eclectic mix! ? 73 de M0IDR Sent from for Windows 10 ? From: Loris IW4AJR via groups.io
Sent: 01 January 2021 19:46 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [BITX20] Broke off screw mounts from screen ? Hy Bob The fact remains that in the world 6/7 billion people use the Decimal Metric System, that the ISO itself has established systems of multiples and submultiples related to the Decimal system ... I don't think that 400 or 500 million people, equal to only the 7% of the world population can continue to burden EXTRA COST over all the equipment, machinery and mechanics they import from the rest of the world with absurd costs for doubler the ingeniering for the rest of the world and maintain a measurement system that has been abandoned even by their own scientists ... I know the inch metric comparison rules, but now, in the third millennium they are absurd and anachronistic !?it is time for the legacies of the past to be left in the past ... the future awaits us ! and the future does not belong exclusively
to the USA, however big and important they may be, but to the whole world, from Europe to Asia and Africa and, not to forget, South America! ------- ? |
Bob Lunsford
