Re: Interesting programming description for bank selection

On 23/04/2014 8:33 AM, MikeS wrote:
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Clockmeister" 
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> To: <cbm-hackers@musoftware.de>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2014 8:13 PM
> Subject: Re: Interesting programming description for bank selection
>
>
>>
>> On 23/04/2014 3:38 AM, MikeS wrote:
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pete Rittwage" <peter@rittwage.com>
>>> To: <cbm-hackers@musoftware.de>
>>> Cc: <cbm-hackers@musoftware.de>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2014 1:53 PM
>>> Subject: Re: Interesting programming description for bank selection
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Tue, April 22, 2014 1:21 pm, Gerrit Heitsch wrote:
>>>>> On 04/22/2014 08:21 AM, Marko Mäkelä wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I guess that the reluctance to implement
>>>>>> certain international standards, such as the Metric system, is 
>>>>>> coming
>>>>>> from that too (American people are too used to the imperial system).
>>>>>
>>>>> That's no excuse, everyone else managed to move to metric just 
>>>>> fine and
>>>>> if the USA was willing to do it, it would be done in one generation.
>>>>> That means it's a lack of will or lazyness. :)
>>>>>
>>>>> After all, where it counts (soda bottles :)), the move to metric (2l
>>>>> bottles) was no problem at all.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> We learned it in school back in the 1970's, and learned how to convert
>>>> back and forth.  Most Americans can convert on the fly when needed.
>>>> It's
>>>> just that not everything here is sold that way... With nothing to 
>>>> force
>>>> it
>>>> to happen, it doesn't need to... It's not like it stops trade or
>>>> anything.
>>>> We buy many things that are measured metrically, just not everything.
>>>>
>>>> Gas is in gallons, large soda in liters.  Small soda's are ounces,
>>>> cocaine
>>>> is in kilos.. :)
>>>>
>>>> We just accept it as some things are measured one way and some things
>>>> another.
>>>>
>>>> -Pete Rittwage
>>>
>>> There will always be people who will insist that there is only one
>>> "correct" way of doing something and denigrate anyone who chooses to do
>>> things differently (often applying epithets like "lazy", "lack of will"
>>> and worse to entire nations (races, religions, ages, genders, etc.) of
>>> people...
>>>
>>> Why does the US or any of its citizens need to 'make excuses' for
>>> retaining Imperial measurements in some areas where they make sense? 
>>> They
>>> are not the only nation to do so, by the way...
>>>
>>> Reassuring to see that judgment and prejudice have survived the mid 
>>> '40s;
>>> let's hear it for the One World Order - one language, one currency, 
>>> etc.
>>>
>>> When was the last time that the US still using Imperial measurements 
>>> for
>>> *some* categories has affected any of you folks ?
>>>
>>> (I'm not American BTW)
>>>
>>
>> The last time I worked on a Jeep and didn't have the correct imperial
>> socket even though most of the car was in fact metricated.
>
> Pshaw! That's why the Americans invented Vise Grips!
>

Heh ;-)

> Can't please some people; complain about the Yanks using the (British)
> *Imperial* system, and still complain when they try to make you happy by
> switching to metric...
>
> Bet you don't have those odd Torx-like bits/sockets they use in Audis and
> Mercs either, for example...
>

I do as a matter of fact, and there is nothing odd about them.





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