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Joules, BTUs, Quads--Let's Call the Whole Thing Off

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Brad Rogers:

Ok this has to be the MOST asinine thing Ive seen in a long time. Why not rename the mile, and the second? Lets recall every last book using these obsolete units of measure unless these authors want them burned? Why do we have the metric and US standards at all? Too confusing, lets redesign all fasteners and replace all tooling world wide.

but the MOST important thing? I want to put MY groups name as the brilliant innovators who saved the planet by renaming obsolete standards of energy measure.

Instead of wasting time and whining about how hard it is to convert numbers, why not get some real work done? Or is this just the generation of unprepared psuedo-professionals who need the 2 hour work day and 2 1/2 day work week? but pay them less than 40 hours and they will quit?

With all the incredible technological advances made by hard working folks, its not the availability of technology now but the lack of willpower, work ethic, backbone or value systems that plague accomplishment... demonstrated in the article by wanting to change what has worked. I do not recognize the names of those individuals in the article but the implication signals incompetence.

There are so many pseudo professionals who are simply in the wrong business. I wish they would quit their jobs or be fired and move to their real calling, fiction. Move to Hollywood, an exodus out of non functional jobs in science and technology/engineering and move to their real calling making fictional movies or tv shows. I say its better to have NO ONE at a job in technology than to have a person(s) wearing a disguise pretending to work at a job in technology wasting everyone's time, resources and... ENERGY

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