Ignore -- just testing my change of email addresses.
Jim
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I can understand where you're coming from on the decimal place business, there
is limited space to write the petition. What I'm meaning is take 1000 mm, move
the decimal over 3 and you have a meter, move it one and you have cm. Same with
all the other untis. What people don't understand is how
Up to 120 now, if we get it over 150 it's searchable on the web site.
Mike
And thanks to everyone who's signed it so far.
On 24/09/2011, at 21:26 , Bill Hooper wrote:
I'm signature 105.
Regards,
Bill Hooper
Fernandina Beach, Florida, USA
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Make It Simple;
Folks:
I am as pro-metric as anyone, but I cannot sign this petition. Since I have not
posted much in a few years, before explaining why, here is some info about me:
I founded a manufacturing company (QSI Corporation) in 1983, which I converted
to metric around 1992 (also when we joined the
Jim, does all Federal procurement mean that the government would purchase
only products designed to the metric standard? In the current lingo, would it
mean that non-metric design would have to be substituted by metric design? In
what you envision, would the government refuse to buy 591 mL
Paul:
Since the Federal government procures a huge variety of products and services,
saying all federal procurement in metric would impact many areas. Some
examples:
(1) Road and bridges paid (at least in part) by federal dollars would have be
designed in metric units. Architects,
Try #2. I'm not sure if the server was being cranky because it was too early
or because this contains links, but it seems to have not gone out this morning.
Date: Sunday, September 25, 2011, 6:29 AM
The International Game Fish Association has launched a world record program for
catch
Theoretically, the Feds are already required to procure in metric by the
Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988, which amended the the Metric Act
of 1975. Obviously you could drive a truck through the loopholes and it has
never been much enforced (Nasa seems to get away with any lame
