Even kids know that it is best to all be the same (homogenous, slang speaking kid society), while still being a LITTLE bit different (blue hair or red hair). But, when you are a LOT different, and ask for special social, financial, educational, and language priviliges consistant with the Aliens of STAR WARS or the Underworld, you are one of those nutcases from a different PLANET.

I thought creating homogenous standards between people so they can communicate bettter was TABOO for liberals.

That really isn’t relevant to exports, however (the comment was made that if the US was switched to the metric system the US could export more…I stated that just about everything in the US is engineered in metric).

But in case you were wondering, the Manual of Uniform Traffic Control devices does define what a metric speed limit sign would look like in the USA:

http://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/HTM/2003r1/part2/fig2b-03_longdesc.htm

I just bought some 10 AWG wire from Home Depot. In other countries they don’t use AWG (American Wire Gauge), they use mm2 (cross sectional area of the wire in square millimeters).

What do you know, the wire I bought says right on it:

(AWG 10)5.26mm2

You can find metric in places you’d never expect now.

Maybe one of our progressive NOVA legislators will follow Alabamas example.

I love the fact that you said this….it wouldn’t be any fun or educational if everyone agreed, now would it

Ok, so drivers….well, lets not forget about the pedestrians.

They should be able to read signs in English too. I used to work in DC and Arlington ( culture shock to me , just from being raised in Manassas)
I Always head about “j walking/ jay walking ( I know by now, it must be slang, like bob wire :), forgive me ) anyway article for WTOP:

http://www.wtopnews.com/?nid=25&sid=1305638

BTW, we women would rather make a grand ENTRANCE than a grand exit. So, TADA, I’M BACK!!! To your chagrin, evidently. Admit it though; you have secretly missed my clever, profound, well thought-out, etc. etc. comments.

I’m ashamed of myself for actually taking the time to read all of this. Talk about tempest in a teapot. I must give it to Greg L. He sure know which buttons to push. This case has all the ingredients he needs; Christ, Satan, Mexican flags, US flags not high enough, illegal immigrants, scared children, religious proselytizeing with candy canes. Even ACLU was mentioned.
I, for one, am done, d o n e, DONE with this bagatelle!!!!
Hasta la vista. Ciao. Auf Wiederseh’n, au revoire, sampai jumpa lagi, tata, etc. etc.

Looks like a permanent good bye to me. Nothing was mentioned about just the parade thread, besides, if you were finished with the parade thread you could have just stopped posting instead of making a grandstand exit.
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/\/\3|)iç 64 (Winner of the BVBL 40,000th post award) said on 3 Dec 2007 at 5:53 pm:

BTW, IMHO, Krusty hasn’t left, he will be back in 3-5 days either as Krusty or with a new handle. He can’t stand not being able to voice his opinion
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I was of course situated right about your gender. I have been online long enough to know those that make the grand exit for attention will be back. I beleive your first post back was:

Krusty said on 5 Dec 2007 at 8:47 pm

This makes it less than 3 days. How about not making a grand exit next time and just stop posting (c:

Common sign shapes generally don’t require knowledge of English. A stop sign is obvious. Traffic lights are lights. How the heck do you know where you are, if you cannot read place names, either because you cannot read English or because you cannot read at all? Emergency type signage is also provided in English. I really do not think DMV should provide testing in any language but English, nor should it provide testing in any format but written.

On Q-tips (elderly drivers where all you see is the puff of white hair), yes, they sometimes have lousy reaction time. It’s not true of all seniors. Some are spry. Drunk teenagers and most people on cell phones have lousy reactions times. Maybe all State Troopers should carry frisbees and administer the frisbee test, as described above by a poster, when an infraction is observed? Get hit by the frisbee and lose your license!

The history of the metric system is fascinating, isn’t it? I love how it all meshes together so simply and is geared to earth measure. Sigh.

I love working with it but to be truthful, I don’t think metrically. Too stubborn, I guess. Someone should have forced me. Probably the only way I would have ever learned to think metrically. I guess it is easier for me to do something the hard way than it is to adapt to something new. (meaning new to me…not the rest of the world)

~~splash~~

Just about everything is engineered in metric in the USA, including roads.

As far as whether drivers should be able to read signs, I recall a news story about a driver from Mexico who stopped on the train tracks and caused a train accident. He claimed he couldn’t read the RR crossing sign….

Interestingly enough, the sign that Mexico uses for RR crossings looks almost identical to the one used in the USA.

US still backwards with temperature readings using Fahrenheit. With Celcius so simple (and in use all over the world) it’s a shame that we freeze at 32 and boil at 212 (?), when we could freeze at 0 and boil at 100.

While I’m at it. Why don’t we use the 24 hr system when it comes to traveling? There would never be a mistake. And another gripe: When it comes to dates, US is the only developed country that puts the DAY in the center. Anywhere else, today would be 05/12/07, or the formal way in Scandiavia: 071205. Either way, the MONTH is in the middle. - Let’s see, is there anything else I can gripe about before I go to bed?