krj wrote:
Rich Hampel wrote:

It wont be long until the EU 'resets' the prime meridian through the
administrative capital of Brussels .... just like the French tried to
do a short time after the French Revolution ..... and then defined the
meter as ~ 1/10.000,000 of the circumference of the earth.
Just remember this is what you get when you install authoritarian
socialism .... nothing make 'sense' and you HAVE to blindly follow the
'rules' .... ask Microsoft how they feel about the EU.

Anything the EU or anybody else can do to Microsoft is welcome. Long
live Linux

Yeah, you'll think that is fine until the EU decides it needs to
standardize computers and does it without any regard for logic, what is
in use, what is or is not in the public domain, or anything else.

Imagine that the pencil necked geek that came up with this initiative is
on a Token Ring network and decides that Token Ring is what is best for
the EU and allows not other interface to the world.

I don't begrudge anyone the metric system, I understand it, can converse
in it fluently, and use it when and where I want or when it makes more
sense. But I also use the Imperial system and a number of other
standards that have come into common and widespread use over the years.

U.S. commerce has gone to providing markings in both systems and that
works for everybody. But to allow some anal retentive, my way or no
way, petty beaureaucrat ram something like this down the world's throat
simply does not make any sense.

Jack

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