I leave for a week and a half and come back to a bucketful of
USMA messages. Some very interesting conversations going on!
Adrian writes:
> It is no fantasy, this is probably the only way a
> democratic government can regulate a transit to
> metric. Forbidding anything generates a lot of
> animosity in any democratic country. The forbidding
> part comes only after the large majority has accepted
> the new system, it is then perceived as a logical step.
This is said very well. These anti-metricationists in England
certainly want to keep their beloved units, but what really sets
them off is some government busy-body telling them how to run
their lives.
As I have said before, even if you managed to pass such
anti-colloquial laws in the USA at this time, there would be mass
disobedience.
Jim Elwell
