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  • #21
    Originally posted by opensource View Post
    I heard USA's religious leaders decided to use non-European units because they didn't like the French atheists. "In God we trust" is even on the dollar bill.
    They are of European origin. Unfortunately the US hasn't moved on to the metric system.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_units#Length
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit

    It's inherited retardation.

    Aside from some manufacturing lobbies who hate even the mention of change, and talking-head firebrands in search of a misguided cause to exploit, I think most US citizens aren't really invested in US customary units. Apathy and inertia all-around, which benefits whatever is the status quo.

    As for date format, if a change were to occur, I would prefer big-endian (ISO 8601).

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    • #22
      Originally posted by opensource View Post
      IDK what you mean by mentioning the date of adoption, but the date of adoption doesn't matter.
      It was meant to convey a little background flavor on why/how in god we trust came to be.

      As in, it was mostly a meaningless political ploy designed to poke the communist (and state enforced atheist) USSR in the eye during the height of the Cold War.

      Not that plenty of people don't try to use it to prove some point about religion now. Both your side and conservatives in the US make it sound like the founding fathers would be rolling over in their graves if someone took it away.
      Last edited by smitty3268; 17 January 2015, 03:12 AM.

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