Amish possibly. But then wouldn't be using a computer either. Baron Carter
-----Original Message----- From: Han Maenen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 17 January, 2002 12:45 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:17454] ACWM. Was: Re: Insight Mag It is strange that the 'Americans for Customary Weight and Measure' (ACWM) from Seaver Leslie does not have a website like the BWMA and F2M do. I wonder what other modern technology they reject. Maybe this organization has ONE member: Seaver Leslie! Han ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nat Hager III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, 2002-01-12 23:55 Subject: [USMA:17404] Insight Mag > This showed up on my database... > > Nat > > http://insightmag.com/main.cfm/include/detail/storyid/161345.html > > Issue Date: September 24, 2001 > THE METRIC SYSTEM - Still a Matter of Inches > By Erin Condon <snip> > But Seaver Leslie, chairman of Americans for Customary Weight and Measure > (ACWM), attributes the resistance to the national psychology. "We're a very > practical, independent-minded nation," he says. By rejecting the metric > system Americans are "celebrating the poetry, practicality and accuracy" of > our superior English units. He views metric proponents as "profiteers" > introducing new units of measurement that "do not work" and require highly > expensive changes from which special interests will profit. "If industry and > manufacturers want [metric]," Leslie says, "that's fine. But don't force it > on people." >
