Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (5130 mails)
| < Previous | Next > |
Re: [SLE] Warning to Americans!
- From: "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 11:30:26 +0200 (CEST)
- Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0605021128290.4915@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
The Tuesday 2006-05-02 at 09:42 +0100, Kevanf1 wrote:
> Ok, now to ask the obvious. Why should a particular country change
> its long held, tried and tested method of measurement? Good grief the
> Industrial Revolution came about with a myriad of different sizes. Some of
> these were often so local that moving from one county to
> another meant that nuts made, eg. here in Staffordshire would not fit
> a bolt made in Warwickshire. Yet the modern world came about despite
> this mix and match arena :-)
>
> Leave things as they are, it works.
Not if you try to put a nut made in, say, France or Spain, to a bolt made
in Britain :-P
It's the same problem, but on a different scale.
- --
Cheers,
Carlos Robinson
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76
iD8DBQFEVyaztTMYHG2NR9URAicuAJkBWoPmDi1T1BorfK0sW2FWc1nGMACeOJAh
Xd6rBz7VNdnK7X2IkHLjgt8=
=6EAN
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Hash: SHA1
The Tuesday 2006-05-02 at 09:42 +0100, Kevanf1 wrote:
> Ok, now to ask the obvious. Why should a particular country change
> its long held, tried and tested method of measurement? Good grief the
> Industrial Revolution came about with a myriad of different sizes. Some of
> these were often so local that moving from one county to
> another meant that nuts made, eg. here in Staffordshire would not fit
> a bolt made in Warwickshire. Yet the modern world came about despite
> this mix and match arena :-)
>
> Leave things as they are, it works.
Not if you try to put a nut made in, say, France or Spain, to a bolt made
in Britain :-P
It's the same problem, but on a different scale.
- --
Cheers,
Carlos Robinson
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76
iD8DBQFEVyaztTMYHG2NR9URAicuAJkBWoPmDi1T1BorfK0sW2FWc1nGMACeOJAh
Xd6rBz7VNdnK7X2IkHLjgt8=
=6EAN
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
| < Previous | Next > |