-----Original Message----- From: han_maenen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 2000-10-17 18:02 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: to y'all [Yahoo! Clubs: Metric America] MARCUS: Nobody is denying your right to use ifp. However, don't expect society to pay for someone's "bad choices"!!! Alas, if you insist on using ifp, fine, go ahead, but the burden of usage should fall squarely on the user's shoulders, fair? JAKE: You know how y'all always point out that "the whole world is metric why shouldn't we!" well apart from the fact that the whole world ISN'T metric (unlike the metric propaganda would like everyone to believe) EVERY SINGLE country uses NON-METRIC units every DAY, more frequently than they use metric. I'm taking about TIME. Somehow nobody has trouble remembering 60 sec in a min, 60 min in an hour, 24 hrs in a day and so on and don. The world somehow manages to live on these ancient, NON-METRIC units and conduct daily calulations with them!!! MARCUS: ? The second IS metric, and the use of min, h and day are recognized by BIPM and universally accepted. Nonetheless, I, personally, would change *in a second* if a "decimal" option were offered me! As I still find it very cumbersome having to do "conversions" all the time from one form to the other. It's undeniable that, while we have "no trouble remembering" such relations, it would make our lives a lot easier if we didn't have to deal with them! JAKE: So stop your false propaganda of metric superiority. MARCUS: Unfortunately for you, it's not false "propaganda", but an assertion of the truth! ;-) JAKE: If you're truly tolerant you will agree with freedom to choose,..... MARCUS: Freedom to choose should also be applicable to metric proponents, should it not? It's a two-way street, sir. And metric defenders are also fighting to have their right to NOT see ifp units invade their territory, just the same! However, what does the US do? It keeps flooding their markets with this thing, something which Europeans, for instance, have been trying to make crystal clear to Americans they do not want!!! JAKE: and if we wanted the metric system in everyday situations we, as majority of Americans, would have switched and gone with the 1975 Metric Act. Have we? No. So drop it whydontya! MARCUS: Well... It's true that the US hasn't followed through with its metrication attempt, but it doesn't mean the movement is dead in that country. On the contrary, there is reason to believe that this "movement" is growing stronger. While in the beginning one could say that only "purists" were after metrication of the US, it seems it's slowly but surely creeping into "grassroot movement" territory. Hopefully one day such movement will be strong enough to finally get this over with. Regards, Marcus --------------------------------------------- DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE BY EMAIL! --------------------------------------------- You have chosen to receive messages from "Metric America" by email. Reply to this message: http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/metricamerica/bbsfrp?action=r&tid=metricamerica &sid=12177109&mid=837 Unsubscribe from the Club mailing list: http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/metricamerica/config/change_mb_list Return to "Metric America": http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/metricamerica ---------------------------------------------- Not a member? Remove yourself from this list: http://edit.clubs.yahoo.com/config/unsubscribe_mb_list?.userID=millitesla&.g roupID=metricamerica&.groupType=&.code=kqkKEmys7C
