> I will give you my opinion about such things. > > You have been approached by British and Americans who go all the way to European websites in order to be offended by the metric system and then they > demand the inclusion of their units. You have met them allright, not by 100%, but by 200% by making their outdated, non-standard, irrational > measuring units default on your site! > Other British and Americans have made legitimate complaints about metric units on maps and in itineraries **within the US and the UK**. This is no issue here. You could and should have limited the use of yards and miles to these cases. > > What are we, Europeans with dignity and self respect or abject slaves, crawling in the mud before our Anglo-Saxon masters, always doing their > bidding? Their so-called 'system' of weights and measures is a pile of garbage. It is NOT a global standard; metric is. 96% of the world population > use the latter system. Most English-speaking nations have adopted the metric system. The last holdouts are the UK and the USA.You are French people and you should have more self respect. Kow-towing to the intransigent and the arrogant is a disgrace. You should have refused to include their units on all non-UK and non-USA maps and itineraries, politely and firmly. > > Those Americans and British who demand the inclusion of their units on European sites per s� and who wanted all maps and itineraries, not just > US/UK maps and itineraries, changed are a small, but vociferous section among both peoples; they are stupid, intransigent and arrogant. They refuse > to accept anything from other peoples, they refuse to learn anything new, and at the same time they insist that all other peoples on the globe accomodate their whims. What they really want is global adoption of their units. Such people should not be rewarded for their antics, they should be opposed wherever possible! > I think that members of anti-metric organizations like the British Weights and Measures Association (BWMA), Americans for Customary Weights and > Measures and the US-based Freedom 2 Measure movement are scouring the net for metric websites and then trying to get these sites corrupted; in this case they succeeded only too well! > > I am absolutely sure that there are many Americans and British who do not appreciate what you are doing. They are open to other peoples and cultures. > Many of them are fighting to metricate their country, and are being stabbed in the back by sites like this one. Others, who are not yet ready for metric are willing to do the conversion themselves. I invite you to go to the following websites: http://www.metric.org (United States Metric Association); http://www.metric1.org (another US pro-metric site) and a British site > http://www.metric.org.uk (United Kingdom Metric Association). They have background information about the metric question and the problem > of units. Last, but not least, http://www.bipm.fr (The Bureau Internationale des Poids et Mesures, where the US and the UK have been participants since the last quarter of the 19th century). > > (cont) > > --------------------------------------------- > DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE BY EMAIL! > --------------------------------------------- > You have chosen to receive messages from "Metric America" by email. > > Reply to this message: > http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/metricamerica/bbsfrp?action=r&tid=metricamerica &sid=12177109&mid=1082 > > Unsubscribe from the Club mailing list: > http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/metricamerica/config/change_mb_list > > Return to "Metric America": > http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/metricamerica > ---------------------------------------------- > > Not a member? Remove yourself from this list: > http://edit.clubs.yahoo.com/config/unsubscribe_mb_list?.userID=millitesla&.g roupID=metricamerica&.groupType=&.code=kqkKEmys7C >
