I really don't think in so many miligrams or whathaveyou. One pill, two pills, three pills. I'll leave the rest to the drug company.
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Why the heck does America still use outdated measurement and date units?
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I get it - I made the same argument earlier. But, whether we think in those terms or not and at least in the case of drugs, we're metric in our daily lives.
The US has some roads labeled in metric.
I've driven them
The Only Metric Highway in the United States
Currently, only three countries in the world have not adopted the metric system as the standard: The United States, Myanmar, and Liberia.
www.geographyrealm.com
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"Currently only three countries in the world have not adopted the metric system as the standard: The United States, Myanmar, and Liberia."
Not entirely accurate. The United Kingdom has certainly not done so in respect of road distances.
Not entirely accurate. The United Kingdom has certainly not done so in respect of road distances.
You can add milk in some cases where it’s often listed in ‘pints’, although I often see it in 1 and 2.5 litre bottles these days. We also order draught beer/lager in pints and I think this is more down to the culture and that link to the old days. I can’t imagine walking into a pub and asking for 0.57 litres of lager. On the continent they seem to just ask for large or small beers in bars which is perhaps less awkward.
In regards to engineering, we use metric entirely. Everything is measured in millimetres in the industry I work in along with kilo newtons (kN) rather than pounds of pressure etc. We sometimes deal with American automotive companies where there is a demand for dual dimensioning but the US markets are becoming less lucrative for us and thankfully these relationships are starting to run their course. You wouldn’t believe how many arguments have been had over rounding 25.4mm and 50.8mm dimensions down as the conversion baffles our American technical friends.
I think that some of the older (more traditional) beers - especially when they are served on draught - are served as pints, and half pints.
Bottled beers, however, tend to be sold in bottles that are measured in metric units, such as .33 of a litre, or .5 of a litre.
From what I can see, milk is sold in both pints and litres; the latter, often in cartons, and sometimes, the former, in glass bottles.
I’ve worked in the American auto OE biz since 1979, not retired yet.
1979-1984 was a mechanical draftsman, for GM and Ford BIW welding fixtures.
1985-1989 Direct at GM as Senior Manufacturing Engineer
1989 - current Nissan many positions in vehicle development
(With family / friends in all the other OE’s )
All car parts are 100% metric units , been that way long long time.
Now, unfortunately the tooling industry has dual stds on some legacy stuff, that can cause issues at times.
It’s been a long long long time since I’ve used 0.03937008 ….
Interesting that you should mention the car industry. In NZ there's the occasional call to standardise the size of tow balls, which are currently either 1 7/8" or 50 mm, depending on the manufacturer. I've also seen the "why should we go to that weird European size?" argument when 50 mm is suggested as the standard.
Hehehe love it that 'that weird European size" is used for 50mm. To me 1 7/8" is just a weird size.
We're ostensibly metric here, but with the odd edge case. A while ago someone was complaining about a companion app for a (Ford?) car, where setting the speed to km/h would also change the tyre pressure setting from PSI to whatever it is in Europe (kPa?). Setting it back to PSI again would change the speed back to MPH. This caused no end of frustration in a country that uses km/h and PSI. Apparently they did fix it with an update though!
Meanwhile you can pry my 16 oz coffee cup from my cold, dead fingers... while on a train with 3'6" tracks.
Hehehe we arrived in Cryprus last night, the aircon units annoy me as three are in Fahrenheit and two in Celsius. I'll move them all back to Celsius again today.
Well, who’s laughing now?
Metric time? Yep.
The non metric defensive rests its case.
Metric time? Yep.
The non metric defensive rests its case.
I really do think that Liberia is also a third world country, so that makes 3 of them.Almost every other country in the world, including China.
There are 7.4 billion people in the world, 3 countries do not use Metric. 2 of them are third world.
http://matadornetwork.com/abroad/metric-map-which-countries-dont-belong-with-the-others/
And amongst those who do not use metric, you don't even use the same measures for gallons and who even knows what else.
Every single one of those countries did not start out with Metric, every single one of them managed to convert.
And, as for that insanely annoying and irksome American rendition of dates...
Yes when you work with a US-based institution. Oddly the accounting software we use accepts European style inputs but records them in American style.
Whereas you guys only do that on the 4th of July.You guys confuse me when you put the day in front of the month…
I’m sorry but Vader said no such thing. Grand Moff Tarkin said it.
This just shows that some countries are more important than... OMG this thread goes back to 2016?
My world!
:: dies. ::
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As Leia said (directly to Tarkin's face), "Governor Tarkin, I should have expected to find you holding Vader's leash."
Tarkin was a Grand Moff, the Tarkin Doctrine named for him. He was Vader's SUPERIOR.
And quite frankly, Vader didn't care about the Senate. He was focused on something else.
Yes, bringing the metric system to the last holdouts.
That explains how Luke blew up the Death Star. Vader went easy on his boy instead of blasting him to bits. RIP Biggs 😭 and 3 other nobodies from Red Squadron🥱.