Quote:It's been that way for awhile. Pennies are very rarely used to buy things, and it's been that way for awhile. The cost of the materials required to make a penny has fluctuated between being more expensive and slightly less expensive than the penny is worth for awhile now. This isn't some new thing.
As for the yet another thing, we can look squarely at the metric system which is still not used by most Americans, despite it's obvious benefits. There are a few other things that I'll skip that I find to be backwards about this country because of board rules.
Interesting....you want us to conform, be just like everyone else... :whistling:
Quote:We haven't used pennies since a very brief period right after the introduction of the Euro. Everybody hated the bloody things.
Yeah, since you got rid of them, you just "rounded up" the prices, huh? :whistling:
Quote:Interesting....you want us to conform, be just like everyone else... :whistling:
There's a difference between individual conformity and national scale policies that effect the economy. Pennies cost the US millions to produce each year and provide absolutely no benefit. The metric system is just better than the imperial system. You're working with base 10 weights and measures that are more easily understood and worked with. I don't want us to be "like everyone else" I want us to use the clearly better systems. I don't want to use the metric system because the Europeans use the metric system, I want us to use the metric system because it works better than the imperial system.
EDIT: I'm also in favor of a base 12 number system because it simply works better. Fractions function better in a base twelve system. It's a beautiful and elegant system that nobody uses because we're so used to base 10. This isn't about conformity.
Quote:There's a difference between individual conformity and national scale policies that effect the economy. Pennies cost the US millions to produce each year and provide absolutely no benefit.
rationalize where you see fit, huh?
Quote:rationalize where you see fit, huh?
Do you really not see the difference between banning individual hairstyles and national policies that would save our deeply indebted country millions of dollars or systems of measure that would allow us to more easily compete in the scientific, engineering, and technology fields? Measuring systems that operate very similarly to our counting system and would actually be beneficial to students. No, lets harp on about how dreads are so distracting. These are two completely different and unrelated topics. If you've got a problem with my position on hairstyle conformity
leave it in the hairstyle thread.
Quote:There's a difference between individual conformity and national scale policies that effect the economy. Pennies cost the US millions to produce each year and provide absolutely no benefit. The metric system is just better than the imperial system. You're working with base 10 weights and measures that are more easily understood and worked with. I don't want us to be "like everyone else" I want us to use the clearly better systems. I don't want to use the metric system because the Europeans use the metric system, I want us to use the metric system because it works better than the imperial system.
EDIT: I'm also in favor of a base 12 number system because it simply works better. Fractions function better in a base twelve system. It's a beautiful and elegant system that nobody uses because we're so used to base 10. This isn't about conformity.
I agree, the metric system is clearly better and easier to use. With one exception though; the centrigrade scale is just as random as the Fahrenheit scale.