No the Navy speaks in yards, so know one knows what they mean. Even us Americans have to convert yards into nautical miles.
[QUOTE=z-drive;176306]thought you left?[/QUOTE]
Yes, but keeping an eye on you guys once in a while. Happy Metric New Year.
[QUOTE=Bayrunner;176320]Well, you know, we Americans are still using imperial measurements because we can. Screw your eurofag metric system!![/QUOTE]
I do not understand why you Americans are so occupied with maintaining the Imperial system of measurement? I thought you fought a war to get your freedom from the British Empire and its systems??
Why the size of the feet of some long dead English King is so important to you is beyond me. Lucky he divided the feet by the size of his index finger not his dick, otherwise you guys could be talking about “dick lengths”. (1 foot = 2 stiff dicks or 5 slack dicks)
Weren’t the US the first to use a metric system of coinage? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_for_Establishing_Uniformity_in_the_Coinage,_Weights,_and_Measures_of_the_United_States
to steal the phrase from Michael Jackson, you’re ignorant. We use metric in the US more than ignorant people think. Do some research.
Back to the topic at hand, what is T. Parker Host proposing to pay for these job openings.
It seems to me that Chesapeake Bay wages are usually about the lowest in the USA. I’ve heard stories of $425 a day captains in the Bay (about what OSV ABs use to make).
They may pay above the normal area rate to get talent, or the same as others, “market” rate. I have seen new or reorganized companies offer very good wages from day one to get good people vs bottom feeders. No idea on them, just commentary.
[QUOTE=z-drive;176359]to steal the phrase from Michael Jackson, you’re ignorant. We use metric in the US more than ignorant people think. Do some research.[/QUOTE]
I was quoting Bayrunner.
If the metric system is widely used and taught in schools, why not take the step into the real world??
The rest of the former British Empire has done so years ago.
Been like that for ages. In fact, the demarcation line for pay began at Sandy Hook. Anything south of NY harbor saw a dramatic reduction in pay. Well, except before 1987 and the contract with Curtis Bay Towing Company. One of the best ever.
it’s used in the real world, hence your ignorance
[QUOTE=tugsailor;176360]Back to the topic at hand, what is T. Parker Host proposing to pay for these job openings.
It seems to me that Chesapeake Bay wages are usually about the lowest in the USA. I’ve heard stories of $425 a day captains in the Bay (about what OSV ABs use to make).[/QUOTE]
So cal wages aren’t that much more than that. Other than a small handful of companies, I’ve always thought in general so cal was behind everyone else wage wise.
[QUOTE=Ctony;176368]So cal wages aren’t that much more than that. Other than a small handful of companies, I’ve always thought in general so cal was behind everyone else wage wise.[/QUOTE]
Non-Union Southern California for some strange reason does have ridiculously low pay. There are a small number of employers and many of them are pretty shabby operations. MMP Pacific wasn’t much better in So Cal
[QUOTE=z-drive;176367]it’s used in the real world, hence your ignorance[/QUOTE]
Care to define the part of the world where imperial system is still in official use?
Please make it in % not in fractions.
in the U.S. Almost anything taken seriously(industry: the real world) is done in metric, besides some construction. Same thing in Japan etc where building trades stick to non-metric systems. What percentage is not relevant.
[QUOTE=z-drive;176436]in the U.S. Almost anything taken seriously(industry: the real world) is done in metric, besides some construction. Same thing in Japan etc where building trades stick to non-metric systems. What percentage is not relevant.[/QUOTE]
OK if % of the world’s population still using the Imperial system is not relevant, maybe the number and name of those countries that does may be more interesting; Liberia, Myanmar & USA. (Myanmar has decided to go metric, however)
This article may put it in context: http://www.zmescience.com/other/map-of-countries-officially-not-using-the-metric-system/
With more than 300 different units of measurements officially approved and fractions the preferred way of dividing the various units, I can’t think of anything more illogical than sticking to this system. Especially so since it cost the US billions of dollars in trade and accidents to retain it.
you’re retarded. I’ve specifically said that with a few exceptions, nearly anything important in the US is done in metric regardless of whether or not it’s the official system.
I propose we use the metric system while standing on watch. We can be lazy and use the imperial system while sitting on watch. Since every professional mariner in the world stands for their entire watch we can limit the use of imperial to the backward GOM.
yes we can do 1/2 or 3/8 of the watch in imperial time too. Funny the US was the first country to have decimal currency, but we’re backwards goons somehow. Why don’t we have metric time, too? Didn’t someone try for a ten hour day for that reason?
METRIC TIME?!?!?
[QUOTE=z-drive;176449]you’re retarded. I’ve specifically said that with a few exceptions, nearly anything important in the US is done in metric regardless of whether or not it’s the official system.[/QUOTE]
The retarded people is those who doesn’t changes to the metric system as their official system after they realize it’s superiority to the imperial system. What does it take to convince you people anyhow???
[QUOTE=z-drive;176455]Funny the US was the first country to have decimal currency, but we’re backwards goons somehow.[/QUOTE]
Actually Russia was the first country to have decimal currency.