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Кара ме да си спомням с умиление за онази спесификация която пратихме на едни малоумници миналата година по това време, където налягането беше в "Оки на квадратен чeчерек", а скоростта "педи за лунен месец". Много моля не разпитвайте какво доведе до тези събития.The metric system was created by the French revolutionary government while they executed tens of thousands. The metric system was used by the Nazis during the holocaust, the Bolshevicks during their purges, and the Chinese during the Culteral Revolution.
Is this a coincidence? The metric system demands absolute conformity from its weights and measures. Measures that do not conform are ruthlessly eliminated. These authoritarian regimes demand absolute conformity from the people under their yolk, ruthlessly eliminating any who would not conform.
I, for one, am glad to live in a land where fractions of inches are measured in sixteenths, 12 inches make up a foot, and 3 feet make a yard. Give me furlongs and acre-feet. Give me rods and chains. Give me ounces, both dry and fluid. But give me liberty. When my units are free I can be free.
And those in that again dark continent... I'll keep a candle lit for you that you will eventually throw of the yoke of your new masters in Brussells. Today you conform in currency. You are growing in legal conformity. Soon they will come to make you conform in all ways, at risk of your very life.
