On: Death by Inches: The battle over the metric system in America

[raldi]

That objection is growing obsolete, too: Nobody these days divides by 5280; they go to Google and type "1/4 mile in feet"

[matymador → raldi]

Don't you feel handicapped having to use a computer to express basic distances? In the metric system, you have to have some sort of low IQ not to be able to convert from meters to kilomethers on the fly. Hours to seconds is trickier, and would be much improved by decimal notation.