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Wow you must not have read my comment at all. I explicitly said we should convert, but that there are some considerations that need to be made. I even said that now is a better time than ever.

Perhaps I'm not being zealous enough with my "hey lets be careful about this as we do it" type statement?

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Now isn't going to happen and later might be better. We're transitioning more and more to computers. The transition could be handled more easily if we have a generation of computer programs that can easily handle either. Pervasive language support for units would probably help.

America is like the fat kid who's the last to jump into the swimming pool; everyone else is shouting the water is fine, it's warm, it's fun, but you're sitting there worried about the consequences of being wet. As if you were the first person to ever get wet.

You don't need to be careful. Just look at everyone else who jumped in without injury and jump yourself.

Yep. Nope. You've outed yourself in an unfortunate way. Everyone wants to do business in the US and everyone is prepared to jump through the hoops to do that business. US regulation accomplishes a bunch of things, including adding friction to non-US companies doing business in the US.

With that hyperbole, I'm willing to bet you've never stepped a foot outside the USA. Don't you realise it also adds friction for US companies doing business in the everywhere else?

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