On Sun, 2006-11-26 at 15:24 -0500, James Knott wrote:
What rubbish! Precision is precision, no matter what system you use. How does it make a difference whether or not you use the metric system? I guess the rest of the world can't build houses or bake a cake. I don't recall ever seeing a metric or imperial chicken. Try telling the French they don't know how to cook. (Try telling them anything for that matter. <g>)
One huge advantage to the metric system is the abandonment of hoary, arbitrary units in favour of a consistent and logical system.
Like the hunk of rock which is the basis of the kilo which is stored in switzerland since before WWII. I agree about the french. -- ___ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ | | | | [__ | | | |___ |_|_| ___] | \/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org