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Amend the constitution to prohibit the metric system
- stephengillie 14y ago"If everyone jumped off a bridge, would you also?" Well, duh. Yes. What do they know that I don't? Why are they jumping? Maybe it's a short fall here and leads to a shortcut. Maybe there's a train coming, like in Stand By Me.
- charonn0 14y agoThe Constitution is the last place this should be settled. Furthermore, the Congress has much bigger things to fail to act upon than an amendment to prevent something which isn't going to happen any time soon anyway.
- tokenadult 14y agoI think the users on Hacker News who have been here longer than I have, and who have more average karma per comment than I have, may be in general agreement that political discussions generally don't belong on Hacker News. Perhaps I should follow their example and relentlessly flag any submission to HN from the petitions.whitehouse.gov domain, which mostly seems to attract crap proposals anyhow. The Hacker News FAQ http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html distills the basic rules into a simple statement: "Essentially there are two rules here: don't post or upvote crap links, and don't be rude or dumb in comment threads."