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slackmaster

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Tue Sep-04-07 12:18 PM
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16. This is my pet issue - here is my take on it

Edited on Tue Sep-04-07 12:18 PM by slackmaster

Basically inertia. Two big reasons:

1. We have a lot of older machine tools and equipment that can be repaired and kept in service indefinitely, all on the English system. One of the reasons Japan was able to modernize so thoroughly after World War II was that its industrial infrastructure was destroyed. We haven't had such luck.

2. High cost of changing road signs, maps, packaging, metering devices, etc.

I know people say it's because Americans are far too ignorant or lazy to learn things.

People who say that are just intellectually lazy.

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