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@ 05:14 pm PST       Lawrie Barclay 15th December, 2010 @ 09:51
pm PST  Surely Web 2.0 should support "read in your own units"?
Then provincials can use miles, most of us can use kilometres,
and the central country can use li, without distraction.  16th
December, 2010 @ 05:47 am PST  A couple reasons why we don't
switch over to metric is because:  -Everyone here is using the
imperial system of measurements. We're one of the few countries
that still uses the system, and we might keep it for that reason
alone.  -(The Biggest) Because the cost of changing things would
be unfathomable. Billions would be spent because we have
millions of road signs alone that use the imperial system. All
of those billions would be from just the tax payer's money. We
can't afford that a