Needless to say the usual nonsense is back here referring to all things UK (eg
'no supplementary imperial on UK goods' - 'roads partly metricated' - that sort
of thing) but the other recent suggestion is temperature.
I'm fully aware (being from here) how much 'C' is used in reports etc but
Pat, with respect, please believe me that the 'pint' you refer to below would
not be acceptable or in fact legal in a UK pub. I'm not sure why this keeps
popping up from time to time. If you knew what a British beer drinker was like
then your scenario would see riots happening in the pubs
I certainly don't wish to defend barrels and gallons of petroleum products from
metrication, but I would like to defend them from charges of dishonesty, or
say,
perhaps the dishonesty stems from government.
I don't invest in commodities, but I occasionally look at the data in the WSJ.
This
Out of millions of products found on supermarket shelves, I'm sure you may find
one or two that carry a supplemental unit to a metric value. But one would
have
to spend countless boring hours going up and down store shelves to find that
elusive product with a supplemental declaration that
Pretty much as predicted, really.
...And, unfortunately for you, the vast majority of it absolute fact!
Try harder, Steve!
- Original Message -
From: Stephen Humphreys
To: U.S. Metric Association
Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 2:04 PM
Subject: [USMA:48125] RE: Wrong time to
Pat,
This may not be entirely true. From Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pint_glass
Despite this emphasis on accurately measured glasses, there is a practice of
defining a pint of beer and lager as only 95 per cent liquid.[5] It is common
for drinkers to be served less than a full
I fully understand that this is very easy for you to say - but I also think
it's a disservice to the decent posters here who look to events in other
countries in relation to their own goal.
You may - for whatever reason you wish - want to put across that the UK is some
form of metric paradise
It's a fact that not all road signs in the UK are in English.
Better put out that roadsigns are multilingual then.
Stephen - you must realise that the whole subject here is very opinionated.
The debate would not exist otherwise. What is being 'tried on' here is
submitting a minutae of very
It seems Mr. Humphreys spends a lot of time posting his illusions with the
hopes
everyone will believe him. I wonder how many really do. I would guess the
only
ones are other anti-metric types that post to this forum pretending to be
pro-metric with the goal of keeping metrication efforts
If I was 'very anti-metric' then why would I want to have you banned from this
forum?
Also - who else here on this forum do you class as 'anti-metric'? You suggest
that there are 'others' - who are they, do you think? I wonder if you can
actually find an 'anti-metric' post on this forum
Well to keep me or anyone else from exposing your claims and half truths. That
would be the primary reason.
Presently there only appears to be a handful of people who actually do post,
maybe not more than 5. I'm not going to bother counting them for an exact
number as that is beside the
John,
I don't think the USMA gets it! You bring up some very valid points. Is it
any
wonder that the USMA has been around for 94 years and hasn't made one dent in
the fabric of non-metric usage. Whatever metric usage has happened in the US
has come from those with foresight to take the
Antony sir:
.But the truth be know, the masses usually look for strong leadership and
the USMA is showing weakness and has done so for 94 years.
Is it lack of USMA? Or, the lack of learning and expecting the WILL of 'central
leadership' that need be evoked! The resistance, to me appear
Sir, I'm afraid I don't understand a word you wrote. So whatever the point is
I've missed it.
Can you explain to me in simpler terms what you are trying to say?
Thanks
From: Brij Bhushan Vij metric...@hotmail.com
To: U.S. Metric Association
Sir:
The point I intended to home has been that failure of US going the 'metric way'
has remained lack of teaching and/or learning right at base level, in the hope
what anti-metric lobby took it for granted that some day Metric Reform shall
see its failure by itself, while governmental
Thank You Paul that is a very interesting resumé. Yes, you may be here, but
who
beside a few know this? I (and very few others) have no idea what the USMA has
done simply because it is really all hidden! Metrication can't happen in a
vacuum, it has to be out in the open. Out of curiosity
John,I disagree that the US government would never use any form of compulsion
to
further metrication. It may be highly unlikely under the present
circumstances,
but it need not continue that way.
All it takes is for the right combination of circumstances to rear its ugly
head
to force
Sir:
.John Kennedy once said: Ask not what your country can do for you, but
what you can do for your country.
Well, said: Mr President! But,..US is still 'wanting..?'
No braging, but on my part, as an individual with NO resources, I made a start
and am trying to give what I have
Steve:
There are kilometre signs on all British motorway's -not opinion, fact.
99.9 per cent of pre-packaged goods are in hard metric-not opinion, fact.
All loose goods in supermarkets are weighed in metric at the checkout, not
opinion - fact.
There are dual measurement signs on British
Of course, things could change in the future. However, in 1988 at the same
time
Congress said metric was preferred they also said it had to be voluntary.
Congress has gutted several proposals that would have furthered metrication,
notably creating an exemption for Imperial bricks and
Anthony, Nope, I didn't start on this in 1916 because I wasn't born
until 1952 (grin). I began my work for the U.S. metrication goal in
1974 when I was a still a pharmacy student. It was a coincidence that
my interest was piqued just as the Congress was taking up the Metric
Conversion
I began my work for the metrication goal in 1974 when I was a pharmacy
student. It was a coincidence that my interest was piqued just as the
Congress was taking up the Metric Conversion Act; I got started when I
discovered how much easier, and safer, it was to take the sum of grams
than
I began my work for the metrication goal in 1974 when I was a pharmacy
student. It was a coincidence that my interest was piqued just as the
Congress was taking up the Metric Conversion Act; I got started when I
discovered how much easier, and safer, it was to take the sum of grams
than
Paul,
Thanks for the enlightenment. How much is the USMA involved in with the NIST?
The reason I ask is because why hasn't the NIST played a more active role in
pressuring the Congress to act to bring about full metrication? Afterall they
play a pivotal role in assuring the standards for
Congress needs to man up and force metric first. Congress has said FHWA can't
force metric road signage, and, in fact, it has been withdrawn from the latest
MUTCD. So I could drive any speed I want, and the cop couldn't do anything
about it. Of course, that bridge height, or the distance to
From: Stephen Davis stevo.da...@btinternet.com
To: U.S. Metric Association usma@colostate.edu
Sent: Fri, July 9, 2010 2:28:20 PM
Subject: [USMA:48142] Re: attitudes
Steve:
There are kilometre signs on all British motorway's -not opinion, fact.
There are
It almost seems like Congress is deliberately trying to destroy America. It
seems that the real terrorists are in Congress.
That would be the whole idea. In order for distances and speed limits to have
meaning they would have to be in supported units, that being metric.
If you need a
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