[USMA:45011] metric progress in USA

2009-05-04 Thread John Frewen-Lord
In terms of progress, I have just come across a Julia Child cookbook that my other half brought back from the US when she lived there. Title: Julia Child More Company. Publication 1979 - 30 years ago. The entire book, some 250 pages, has every single recipe in both USC and metric

[USMA:45012] Political Will/Dogma RE: Re: The true state of the USMA list......

2009-05-04 Thread Brij Bhushan Vij
Jerry, sir: .The problem with this method is it will take too many lifetimes to achieve. The USMA has been around for over 100 years and as far as I can see it has been as useless as tits on a bull. That should tell everyone how ineffective this organization is. I even doubt that the

[USMA:45013] Re: metric progress in USA

2009-05-04 Thread John M. Steele
You would find a (very) few other examples, but it is not a common practice.  I think 30 years ago, there was more of a feeling that the country was going metric.  Some things (certain industries) are metric, but any progress is stalled out, and there has been backpeddlingt in a few areas