23rd February 2004, 2:42 PM
(This post was last modified: 23rd February 2004, 6:38 PM by Dark Jaguar.)
Haha, of course! Why didn't I see it before? Good man GR...
Weight on a liscense? Yeah that is weird when you think about it, that CHANGES. What possible use could it have? Height is at least somewhat stationary by the time a person gets one anyway. Also, yes it IS very odd to still use pounds to weigh people but kilograms the rest of the time, and sometimes still to weigh people... I mean, what's the deal with that? Guess it's like containers using both gallons and liters here, basically just sticking with whatever unit that standard of container first came in. Metric for soda, standard for milk... Oookay...
An attack plan like "you weigh LESS kilograms than you do pounds!" would probably work Weltall! There are likely enough people dumb enough to fall for that line of thought (mainly because it's on TV, and TV has standards don't they? :D) and not enough people who will say "But kilograms are heavier than pounds so it's the same thing, the SAME THING!" to really make a difference, plus those people who point that out would be the same ones who would want everyone to go metric anyway so they'd keep quiet anyway :D.
Weight on a liscense? Yeah that is weird when you think about it, that CHANGES. What possible use could it have? Height is at least somewhat stationary by the time a person gets one anyway. Also, yes it IS very odd to still use pounds to weigh people but kilograms the rest of the time, and sometimes still to weigh people... I mean, what's the deal with that? Guess it's like containers using both gallons and liters here, basically just sticking with whatever unit that standard of container first came in. Metric for soda, standard for milk... Oookay...
An attack plan like "you weigh LESS kilograms than you do pounds!" would probably work Weltall! There are likely enough people dumb enough to fall for that line of thought (mainly because it's on TV, and TV has standards don't they? :D) and not enough people who will say "But kilograms are heavier than pounds so it's the same thing, the SAME THING!" to really make a difference, plus those people who point that out would be the same ones who would want everyone to go metric anyway so they'd keep quiet anyway :D.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)