Re: IEC
"It's why the US refuses to adopt many standards and uses "American customary units"."
The US uses 'American customary units' because it has one of the worst cases of Not Invented Here' syndrome in the known universe.
They are convinced that the best things only come from Americans, and everything else is automatically inferior.
As a result they end up with units used nowhere else in the world, and occasionally lose space probes and such because their engineers don't use near universal standard units (SI).
Biting the hand that feeds IT
