webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote:
On 02/21/2013 12:11 PM, James Knott wrote:
webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote:
The USA had a movement towards Metric, but it failed big-time.
It failed because Ronald Regan canceled Jimmy Carter's plans to move
to it.
Economicsis the key. We do have most things in the grocery store
listing both English and Metric measurements. That is for economics
as well, since these items would not need different package designs
for the regions of the world that speak English and use metric.
Economics had nothing to do with it. Reagan was a "stick in the mud"
conservative who didn't want change. Economics would have meant moving
to it, to keep up with the rest of the world. As a result, the U.S. is
stuck with an obsolete system that uses arbitrary units. IIRC, there
are only 3 countries in the world that don't use the metric system and 2
of them are 3rd world.
--
For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected]
Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/
Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette
List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/
All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
