At this juncture, it might be wiser to urge the setting up of a Measurements Commission to look into the measurement practices in the U.S. and, where advisable, adopt more productive units. Matters such as ease of use, trade considerations etc. would naturally input to "advisability". Duncan -----Original Message----- From: Hu, Alfred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: June 5, 2001 16:23 Subject: [USMA:13472] Re: Thanks, Eddie! >Yes unfortunately Reagan abolished it in 1982. Among other stupid things he >attempted to do was to get rid of Amtrak in 1985, the nation's only >passenger rail service. I barely sleeped a wink. >Glad Amtrak is still around. > >I remember a bumper sticker that says "Real men don't eat jellybeans"!!! > >alfred > >-----Original Message----- >From: eddie lechat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 12:10 PM >To: U.S. Metric Association >Subject: [USMA:13468] Re: Thanks, Eddie! > > >Has the metric board (which was in existence back >during Carter) been abolished? >--- "Joseph B. Reid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> In USMA 12413 Eddie Lechat asked: >> >> >I would like to have somebody share with us some >> >proposed resolution in favor of metrication which >> we >> >might bring to various scientific and political and >> >civic and business and labor groups. >> >> >> I have searched my archives to find a resolution >> that the Canadian >> Information Processing Society adopted in 1968 >> urging the Canadian >> government to switch the country to SI. >> Unfortunately I have been able to >> find, so here is how I would word a resolution >> today; >> >> OBSERVING that 95 % of the world's population uses >> the International System >> of Units (SI) for all measurements; >> >> AND OBSERVING that US exports would be facilitated >> if all dimensions were >> dimensioned and expressed in round SI terms; >> >> AND OBSERVING that the use of the SI in the United >> States for all >> measurements would save unnecessary arithmetic and >> would simplify all >> measuring; >> >> THERFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the US Govrnemnt should >> establish a Metric >> Board charged, in consultation with the various >> sectors of manufacturing, >> commerce and education, to draw up time-limited >> schedules for conversion of >> all measurement activities to the SI. >> >> Joseph B. Reid >> 17 Glebe Road West >> Toronto M5P 1C8 Tel. 416 >> 486-6071 >> > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 >a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ >
