[Dr House]

By voting you in.

The moment you actually try to implement a socialist state we're all kicking you out of parliament. And if you try overthrowing the government, we still have Dave's militias... bring it on, bitch.

[dilpill]

And if you try overthrowing the government, we still have Dave's militias... bring it on, bitch.

Don't encourage people to ruin the game.

[Vladimir]

By voting you in.

why did you vote for?

The moment you actually try to implement a socialist state we're all kicking you out of parliament

a government of a bourgeois state implementing a workers' state huh? This would be even funnier than libertarians hoping to reduce the state-capitalist complex to a minarchy

And if you try overthrowing the government, we still have Dave's militias... bring it on, bitch.

actually we are working on a bill that will legitimise and support workers' militias. It won't even be us who overthrow you... bring it on, bitch

[Cheesecake_Marmalade]

WHAT THE FUCK?!

Who cares whether or not someone uses metric or imperial? Stop being assholes.

[Vladimir]

Perhaps we should start a civil war over this ?

[MistyTiger]

Another American reporting to this thread in support of using Fahrenheit. It's simpler and the numbers are just more even under that temperature measurement.

Besides that, I have no qualms with the standard measurement system.

[Thunderhawk]

Regarding ease of use for weather..

high teens = 60s
low twenties = 70s

Its pretty easy actually.

Furthermore, celsius (currently) is based on the Kelvin scale, which is one of the base units in SI (science!).


I believe the government should use and encourage Kelvin as the default system to measure temperature, though the private sector can use whatever they want. Just like the USA government is officially metric but most of the private sector uses imperial.

[Cheesecake_Marmalade]

The government need not legislate on auxillary issues like this.

How about the government completes their budget and then we worry about dividing the country with wedge issues.

[Dr House]

Don't encourage people to ruin the game.

I no longer care. I am really tired of seeing the sim become more of a commie dictatorship with each passing week, for no other reason than the non-communists won't fucking participate.

why did you vote for?

I voted for your government when you guys requested the confidence of parliament. Since you are a minority government, you're only a government as long as you play ball with the other parties (which are all capitalist), which means that pulling shit like a workers' militia won't fly.

[ingliz]

I favour metric as being the standard measure but I don't object to people buying or selling using imperial measures if they show both imperial and metric on the ticket and metric takes precedence in law. For example, as a shopkeeper you could not be prosecuted for selling short weight in imperial if the weight shown in metric is correct.

[Zagadka]

Fahrenheit is better for weather because it stretches further. It's easy to know between 20* f and 120* f... the advantage metric units have is their divisibility by 10, and that isn't really useful in (usual) temperature. It being "28.3" isn't very useful.

Celsius is also flawed in meters above sea level or air presure, where 0 isn't 0.

Other than that, all metric.

[Vladimir]

Fahrenheit is better for weather because it stretches further. It's easy to know between 20* f and 120* f... the advantage metric units have is their divisibility by 10, and that isn't really useful in (usual) temperature. It being "28.3" isn't very useful.

It doesn't need to stretch further, it can tell temperature very conveniently by individual degrees. While 20 and 25 don't much differ from one another in Fahrenheit, they do in Celsius. So Celsius doesn't have pointless stretches of numbers, all numbers have a meaning.
Furthermore, it has the significant point of 0, which is the freezing point and very useful for weather especially during cold seasons when one degree makes a difference between ice and water.
And it's also ridiculous to separate the scientific scale from the meteorological one; it creates a pointless discontinuity in measurement, which is not great in the age of science and technology

Celsius is also flawed in meters above sea level or air presure, where 0 isn't 0.

Celsius measures temperature not pressure

[Cheesecake_Marmalade]

Furthermore, it has the significant point of 0, which is the freezing point and very useful for weather especially during cold seasons when one degree makes a difference between ice and water.

Are you really so stupid that you can't add 32? I've known since I was 3 that the freezing point is 32, are you dumber than a three year old me?

[Vladimir]

32 is an arbitrary number while 0 is an actual watershed mark.... doesn't make a huge difference I agree..

[Dr House]

2 is an arbitrary number while 0 is an actual watershed mark....

That's because fahrenheit is based on weather rather than on the boiling point of water.

[Vladimir]

and the freezing point of water is very important in weather, if Fahrenheit is so great for weather why does it place the point at the annoying number 32?

[Cheesecake_Marmalade]

and the freezing point of water is very important in weather, if Fahrenheit is so great for weather why does it place the point at the annoying number 32?

Because in cold climates, the weather can reach temperatures of... oh look at that, 0 degrees faranheit!

[Demosthenes]

I'm in favor of all metric, but would more likely support F for temp for reasons already stated.

Of course I really don't see why we can't just require both on labels as Ingliz has said already.

[Zagadka]

Celsius measures temperature not pressure :eh:

Yes, but water freezes and boils differently at 0 feet vs. 10,000 feet, or at similar different pressures. Thus, *c is not a constant in all situations.

[Godstud]

Any modern country should be using the Metric system. It is easy to use and everything is divisible by 10. Anyone can learn it quite easily.
Get with the 21st century and learn metric!!!