> From: "Jim Elwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [USMA:13163] Re: Pulling Together
>
> What do you folks want the government to mandate? Just labels on retail
> packages?
Not JUST labels, but lables would be a good start.
Rational sizes would be helpful (but sometimes we don't even get rational
sizes with the non-SI currently in use).
SI pricing would be a big step forward.
For measuring instruments (or devices that contral measured amounts),
require that they measure in SI or, perhaps temporarily in both SI and old
non-SI units, but arranged so that the SI is always easier to measure.
Sports, provided that it the sports management can be persuaded to
cooperate. (I'd hope they could be persuaded to cooperate but, hell, we've
lived this long with horse racing in furlong, I guess we could live with
football in archaic yards instead of metres).
Federal regulations in metric.
I could go on and on (and on and on) but my list demonstrates that it would
probably be necessary to legislate all these things individually (even if
they were all in one piece of legislation). It might not work just to say
"Let there be metric" and hope that everyone knew what that means.
In all things I think consideration must be given to allowing businesses to
continue using non-SI for reasonable amounts of time to allow them to
replace equipment by attrition and to continue supplying old non-SI parts
for durable old equipment. That time would be different for differnt
industries, I'm sure.
Regards,
Bill Hooper
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Keep It Simple!
Make It Metric!
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