Even worse is the AP. How do we get those guys to change?
> On Apr 23, 2016, at 18:55, Mark Henschel <mwhensch...@gmail.com> wrote: > > But the problem is that government is necessary to make the use of metric > units legal, if not required. This is why it is so important to update the > FPLA, for example. > Mark > > On Apr 23, 2016 3:46 PM, "c...@traditio.com" <c...@traditio.com> wrote: > Mark (Henschel)-- It is disappointing that latter-day Democrats, who claim to > be "progressive," have been useless as far as promoting the metric system is > concerned. The modern U.S. movement started in the 1970s with Republican > Gerald Ford, but Republican Ronald Reagan slowed it down. However, > businessmen of both parties are now largely in support of metrication because > of international advantages. Barack Obama has been useless. > > Nevertheless, as I have written before, it may be best for the government to > keep out of it and let business drive the movement. That way, there isn't > the ignorant public resistance encountered. Metrication just happens without > opposition. If the U.S. government were as efficient as the Australian > government, we wouldn't have to worry, but in the last decade more more, the > U.S. bureaucracy has become incompetent and corrupt. > > An example of recent conversation, without much government involvement, is > the complete conversion of the lighting industry to the use of lumens and > kelvins, driven by Compact Fluorescent Lights, units which had been virtually > unknown to the public before, but you didn't hear any resistance to the > conversion on January 1, 2015. --Martin Morrison > > _______________________________________________ > USMA mailing list > USMA@colostate.edu > https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma > _______________________________________________ > USMA mailing list > USMA@colostate.edu > https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma
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