Welcome back, Jim. Now on to this... On Mon, 9 Jul 2001 07:41:11 Jim Elwell wrote: ... >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. > True, in part... >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. > And again, we insist that it would not be "anti-colloquial", but rather pro-metric in the sense of recognizing officially only SI units. If they want to continue using monkey units the burden is on them to do so. Hopefully sooner or later they'd realize how expensive it would be to continue dual labeling everything and eventually discard the ifp crap. Marcus Get 250 color business cards for FREE! http://businesscards.lycos.com/vp/fastpath/
