This was a later invention obviously. There is equal evidence to support both ideas. But people think small of only what is right in front of them.

Hmm...

That does seem to ring true for the most part, speaking as someone who, in daily life, is an inch-foot-mile user but who in his professional life needs to be able to interchange between imperial and metric on-the-fly. And since I work exclusively in millimeters when using the metric system and much of the metric-using world talks in centimeters, that simple conversion of 10 to 1 still doesn't come naturally to me when trying to visualize a size in cm.

There is one everyday thing where I wish we would use metric: construction. On the weekends I often help my brother work on his place. He's the guy installing this or that and I'm the schlub down below on the saw, custom-cutting the pieces. At these times, I would find it easier to work in metric. When I need to split a 72 7/16" board in half, accounting for a 3/32" wide blade... yeah, give me metric for that.

This thread has seriously derailed from unwanted Windows 10 update pushes.

10 fingers doesn't mean anything necessarily. We also have 10 toes giving us 20, and there's counting systems that go well into the 20's used for counting sheep, still used today.

And also apparently a larger portion of the world had a lower base number, probably 8 before the romans after conquering the areas forced them to change it to base 10.

Well, the romans could be brutal to submitted people that rose in revolt, but apparently cutting of thumbs wasn't part of their brutality!

Yeah, that works but Windows want to keep installing it. In some cases (mine) it labels the file as important. I finally turned off auto update and now check every few days. Annoying.

Right Click, Hide Update? Doesn't that work?

Copy the above in notepad, save it as .bat and run it as administrator. Stops quite a few annoying updates like the "update to 10" and the "block SecuRom" one, though it's best to manually activate the securom service if needed instead of blocking that update.

Yeah, that worked. It's sad that I have to do this, thanks for the heads-up.

this worked for me totally

http://betanews.com/2015/09/11/remove-unwanted-windows-10-upgrade-files-from-windows-7-and-windows-8-x/

be aware that the next time you reboot the pc needs to redownload some stuff, it may time out as well forcing you to turn it on again but when it gets done the incessant nagging is gone forever.

lol

Nonsense, 360° is a stupid way of measuring angles. I propose the day be measured in radians. One day being 2π radians. Difficult, but mathematically based!

I'm still all for the beer solution...

Both D/M/Y and M/D/Y make equal sense but the USA was being silly to not just be like the rest of the world when it comes to dates. It's like the USA was trying too hard to be different just to look cool. Like wearing shorts with a jacket, having a green mullet and wearing your sunglasses at night while also claiming to be a vampire.