My own hopes, for starters at least: Weather in degrees Celsius, km/h, etc. Road signs in km or m. Packaging in metric only. I won't get picky about hard metric, just have it in metric. Advertising in metric. No more Giant Food calling a 2 liter bottle of soda a "67.6 oz." bottle. Building supplies, etc. shown in metric first. Doesn't have to be hard metric especially since most of it is nominal anyway, and there's a lot of legacy construction for which stuff still has to fit. Hospitals and doctors measuring and weighing carbon based life forms in metric. If people want to use ifp in the lonely hearts ads more power to them. Ultimately they will give up. In general, nothing official or commercial in wombat units. No policing of what people say to each other. Carleton In a message dated Wed, 30 May 2001 12:57:29 PM Eastern Daylight Time, "Jim Elwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: << Gene Mechtly asks (in part): > Do you believe that "mandatory metrication" would require that all > negotiated contracts between individuals or private corporations, with > no sales offered to the public, would have to be in metric units? > > I ask these questions because I believe that a clear distinction between > private and public transactions is not being made in this discussion of > "mandated metrication" which, to me, means *only* transactions in which > there is a compelling public (governmental regulatory) interest. I posted an email a few minute ago that brought up the same issue: are we talking apples and oranges here? What do you folks want the government to mandate? Just labels on retail packages? What about consumer products that use colloquial fasteners (e.g., a lawnmower)? What about "wholesale to the public" warehouses? Heck, for that matter, are the rest of you all on the same wavelength? Jim Elwell >>
