Posted on 06/27/2014 8:16:11 AM PDT by Kaslin
Ok, Kaslin - What are you doing posting this drivel
The author of this jackass article is very obliviously in deep denial about Footbal.
The Americal Game of “Football” requires a bunch of people who cannot play the game in the allotted amount of time not can they play BOTH Offense and Defense. Pray tell are these American Football player pussies? No, the game has morphed over the years and SOME payers must be “protected” while others are allowed to hit and get hit.
The author’s asinine comments -
“The attempt by elites to cram soccer down our throats are comical, “
simply leave me scratching my head - Who are these ELITES - YOU MORON
Soccer is fun for anyone at any age. The very skilled at the top levels of the game CAN be fun to watch No matter the score.
“I used to be anti metric system. Then I got my electronics engineering degree!”
Goes to show how much you know about the field!
Ever heard of Pulse Width? PRT, or PRF? All of which are measured with the metric system. Frequency, measured with the metric system. Wave Guide sizes are metric. Need I go on?
That’s pretty good.
I’m sorry you didn’t get my humor.
Whatever you say...BUT....I’ll say this Taylor Twellman is the MOST ANNOYING & STUPID ESPN analyst to ever put on a headset.
His play-by-play pal had to cover for him numerous times yesterday. And I have no idea why Ruud Van Nistelrooy hasn’t knocked him out yet with his ridiculous jabbing of the Dutch. I’d rather watch the game in Spanish on Univision than ESPN when he’s on.
“His play-by-play pal had to cover for him numerous times yesterday.”
Oh, you are SOOO wrong - Ian DarkE is a monumental ASS who talks like your typical Democrat and or Woman
No problem, hasn’t been a great morning. Sorry about my snarky remark.
Maybe, but that doesn’t excuse Twellman’s idiocy. It’s soccer, not a lame comedy show. He clearly missed out on a Seinfeld spot before his soccer career began.
It’s cool. I use metric measures as a tool, like anything else. Sometimes English measures do the job better. Sometimes metric ones do. Sometimes it’s just what you are accustomed to.
I saw a photo in my morning newspaper of US soccer players captioned, `US team cheers after 0-1 loss to Germany.’
The soccer clock runs forward instead of backward, you can’t hit anyone or you get handed a card of some sort, every player thinks he’s Marlon Brando ... Soccer’s like the River Dancers were let loose on a field the size of Oklahoma city, roaming back & forth, hands at their sides, kicking away, zzzzzzzzzzzz.
“Soccer critics are right, ... “ stop right there.
This example doesn’t apply. You are converting units of two different quantities. The kilopascal is a pressure unit. The unit kg/cm^2 is NOT a pressure unit. To the best of my ability to come up with a quantity measured in kg/cm^2, I would have to postulate that it would be a density multiplied by a distance. Pressures are force divided by area. Kg is not a unit of force.
The reason you can propose to “convert” the units you do is that you are implicitly assuming that your conversion occurs on earth at mean sea level. Under that condition, you can speak of the gravitational force exerted upon a 1 kg mass. You then convert that 1 kg mass to the equivalent gravitational force. There is no reason whatsoever to think that this gravitational force must be a power of 10 when measured in newtons, and in fact it is not. Therefore, when you “convert” kg/cm^2 to kilopascals, introduction of this gravitational force results in the “conversion factor” not being a power of 10.
AFAIK, when converting from one metric unit to another metric unit that measures the same physical quantity, the conversion factor will always be a power of 10.
I think the biggest objection most people have to the metric system is that they just are not used to it. We know, for instance, how big a foot is, or how much a pound weighs. We really don’t have an intuitive grasp of how much a kilogram weighs or how big a centimeter is. Personally, even though I am accustomed to metric measurement, I still have to mentally convert the metric units to US ones to get an intuitive grasp of how big a quantity I’m dealing with. I find it analogous to learning a new language. You can learn to understand and communicate in your second language, but you never actually learn to THINK in that langauge. You always have to translate everything back into your native one.
On the other hand, as a scientist, the biggest objection I have to the US system has nothing to do with ease of use or precision or anything like that. The main objection I have is that the US system has ambiguous units. An ounce, for instance, could mean the avoirdupois ounce used for measuring most items or the troy ounce used for precious metals. A gallon could mean the US gallon or the imperial one. Miles come in standard or nautical variety. While it’s usually clear which one is meant, it is a source of potential confusion, one which does not exist when using metric units.
This is where science and engineering diverge. Trust me, people measure “pressure” with kg/cm^2 all the time. So, in the real world, like I said, people have to deal with messy complicated numbers.
That’s life.
That is your privilege. BTW I haven’t watched any of the games
I agree with what you said. If I grew up with centimeters, then I would think in those terms. I didn’t and I don’t.
But no system of measurement is perfect. Celsius degrees are too big. Why base the size of the degree on the boiling point of water? (I know, for ease of reproducibility and calibration, just go with me here.)
F degrees more better capture the range of human existence. When it’s 0 F it’s really cold. At 100 F it’s really hot.
You are right that there is potential ambiguity. SI units if nothing else allow one to compare other units to remove doubt.
Yeah, I’m pretty comfortable using both systems. I don’t have a problem moving from one to the other.
Hey, don’t burn yourself out TOO early – what are you gonna do when the U.S. gets to the later rounds ;?
El Rushbo is using the occasion to tweak the STTI crowd; he knows that it’s soccer instead of the usual golf, etc. will get more than the usual rise .....
It is a Euroweenie/liberal sport when a guy can bite another player and keep his teeth.
“Metric it a lot easier then the American system because it goes by ten, hundred and thousand, which is much easier to remember.
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Only being able to remember the number 10 is for feeble minded people. What made this country great were things like not being feeble minded. Europe sucks and they use the metric system.
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