It pleases me that the foot and pound are officially just metric derivatives. I wish we used metric here, but as others have said I don't think it's going to happen. I have a machine shop full of US standard metrology equipment and it would be ruinously expensive for me to replace it with metric stuff. At least precision machining doesn't use fractions for the most part which is nice. Everything is in inches or tenths, hundredths, or thousandths (aka "thou") of an inch.