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Originally Posted by Rick Lee
This is ironic. Math is sooo much easier in the metric system, where everything is a matter of ones and decimal points. In the imperial system it's conversion tables - 12 inches to a foot, three ft. to a yard, 5280 ft. to a mile, etc. We are idiots, nonetheless.
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Hey Rick, be easy on yourself. I grew up one mile from the border, White Rock BC - Blaine WA , and you are certainly not idiots. America produces more 'brain power' than just about all of the earth. I have though noted of many occasions of how that there are many better ways to do things in a variety of different countries but unfortunately it appears that everyone is too stubborn it seems to change to a better/smarter way. I think it must be what they call 'nationalism'?
A local example is how that although the US is
by far the largest provider of foreign aid in the world, yet schools throughout America can't afford school books? It appears to be an 'everyone for themselves' way... ->
(Worldwide by the way)