I think that is a GREAT petition. Thanks! I signed it:
D. P.
Salem, OR
May 25, 2013
Signature # 2
David Pearl MetricPioneer.com 503-428-4917
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Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 23:15:40 + (UTC)
From: "a-bruie...@lycos.com "
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Most likely has nothing to do with measurement units.
Problem is change or more properly, very poor change control. Changes ALWAYS
make a project grow grander and more expensive than it was intended to be.
Some
are really necessary due to mistakes or missed requirements in the original
plans
I am glad you caught this, a waste of space and American money, I was not near
my computer to pass this on, when I read this. I still can not see how they
overbuild it using SI Metric units, I tried several different SI Metric units
and pretended it was 'American', made it smaller than what they
That is what the Judith Cheney said about conserving energy, it's a personal
preference
Bruce E. Arkwright, Jr
Erie PA
Linux and Metric User and Enforcer
I will only invest in nukes that are 150 gigameters away. How much solar energy
have you collected today?
Id put my money on the sun and
I would imagine that the car was still LHD (something with a bit of a cachet in
Japan, and certainly not illegal, unlike Australia, for example). The
speedometer if it complied with Japanese legislation would have been metric –
but the same speedometer as used in Canada would satisfy that requir
Well, of course the government can enact legislation mandating
metrication of the US, Mark. The U.S. Constitution enumerates its power
to do so in weights and measures!
(Strangely, the Constitution does NOT enumerate education or healthcare
as one of the federal governments responsibilities bu
Has anyone ever voted on what latitude and longitude they are? Do we vote on our time zones? Do we vote on how many days are in February, 28 or 30 or 31?How can we vote on a standard?These are set by international agreement. I have no choice about my latitude or longitude (ecxcept to move) or what
Most of my driving is either in Tennessee or to and from Ohio via
Kentucky. My GPS is set to metric and that works well for me.
On the few occasions that I pay attention to "distance to" signs I do a
quick 8/5 conversion in my head. Even a 3/2 conversion would suit most
of my needs in such sit
I think this is workforce issue, more than anything. I have spoken to some
companies who would like to build in SI units but the typical construction
worker exiting our public school system is not qualified. The summary
argument is that it is cheaper to convert the plans, than to pay to fix the
mis
The response has a feedback link at the bottom. Unfortunately, it only asks
how
you like the "We the People" system, not the response. But there is "comments"
box. I stuffed the following in it:
I have to offer a few thoughts on the response to the Metric “We The People”
petition:
First, qu
http://gizmodo.com/the-white-house-says-you-can-use-the-metric-system-if-y-509827217
snippet:
"When we saw a 'We the People' petition to the White House to make the US move
to the metric system, we listed very sensible reasons why the US should listen:
The imperial system is archaic, irrelevant,
I dug this reference up -
http://www.heritage.org/constitution/#!/articles/1/essays/43/weights-and-mea
sures - it might be useful.
Martin
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