--- Roberto Mello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 03:08:53PM -0700, Jonathan Ellis wrote: >> On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 16:05:58 -0600, "Kenneth Burgener" >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >>> American's are terrible with change. Always waiting till >>> everyone else has changed, before changing your self, even >>> if the change is better. >> >> That's called "avoiding the bleeding edge." There's good >> reasons for taking that approach, ones that are hardly unique >> to Americans. > > Changing from gallons to liters (or gallon bottles to liter > cartons) is not that revolutionary or dangerous of a change :-)
Neither is it a particularly useful one. It is an expensive one, though. So long as the current system works, and people understand it, there's no compelling reason to switch. "It's what the rest of the world does" is *not* a compelling reason. .-----------------------------------. | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | | Don't Fear the Penguin. | | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | `-----------------------------------'
