>We're still stuck on the imperial measurement system. So what. Have you ever given any thought on how complicated - and costly - the switchover might be? ...
Some of Walter's ideas about the U.S. might be subjective (I think that lots of innovation does come from the U.S.), but in the case of the measurement system, the situation is really shameful. As to the switch being complicated: other countries have managed to do it.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
