[Boatanchors] W= J/s AND Siemens

[Ray]

What have the French done that is note worthy anyway to their own good?

You are right on  and I am not nationally prejudiced as I am French.   Just 
very annoyed
at their attitude and snobbyness (yes that is a word)

Ray Cote
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From: WA5CAB at cs.com
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 11:34 PM
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Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] W= J/s AND Siemens

Several comments in this thread have terminally irritated me (not
specifially those copied below - I just didn't save the earlier ones). 
Systeme
Internationale, also know as (or AKA as in Police criminal reports) the
Rationalized Meter-Kilogram-Second system, or RMKS, is a system for losers. 
In fact,
the French, who are are its main proponents, have not won a war without
outside help since the time of Julius Caesar.  That has been several months.
Roughly 23592 to be exact.  The Metric System basically sucks.  The basic
units are poorly sized for practical use.  The names change sporadically,
randomly and without warning.  The only one that's fairly useful is the 
klick.
Half a klick is beyond normal pistol range.  So a half Klick perimeter is
moderately safe.  One klick is good rifle range.  And ten klicks is good
tactical Nuke blast radius.  Beyond that, the Seimen sounds vulgar if not
downright obscene.  The Tesla is too large for small field measurements and 
too
small for large field ones.  The degree Centigrade (or Celcius or Kelvin) is 
too
large (only 100 cover the freezing point of water to well above the lethal
range for humans).  The Millimeter is too coarse for basic machining. but
too fine for common measurements.  I could go on and on with bad examples.
And I don't really give a damn what the New Zealund educational sytem thinks
of it.  In New Zealand since the 16th Century there have been more murders
than the Nazis, the Japanese, and the Soviets accomplished in the 20th, and
with a much smaller potential victim base.  So I don't have a high opinion 
of
New Zealund.

All of the metric based threaded fastener systems are poorly designed for
survival in the real world.  Thread pitch is too fine and bolt head
dimensions are too small.

Speaking as an engineer with considerable experience in building equipment
to survive in hostile environments, the whole Metric edifice is not worth
the powder to blow it to Hell.  Which is where it belongs.  Anyone incapable
of quickly and easily learning the English system has a very low IQ and
belongs in the Democratic Muslim Party with Obama, Pelosi, and the rest of 
the
terrorists on the planet.

If I haven't made it crystal clear, the metric system was designed by
idiots for idiots.  Thank God that one country on the planet has not yet
succumbed  to its idiocy.  However, I expect it is only a matter of time 
before the
entire planet goes dark.  The last election, although promising, still left
several of the terrorist Democrats in position.