Most of the people who made that demand will not come to France anyway. Those who do will be confronted with the metric system at every turn. Others, wo may assume that France uses miles and yards because you accomodated them might drive 30, 50, 80 and 120 mph on roads where the speed limits are 30, 50, 80 and 120 km/h. They may crash or be caught by the police. It could mean deaths. I request that you delete all Anglo-Saxon units from your site, with the exception of units on UK and USA maps and itineraries (just keep the units dual on these maps/routes for people there who already use and prefer metric). If that is impossible, a simple converter between miles and km on the same page of the currency converter should be good enough. Let THEM search for the converter and use it if they want their medieval measuring units. They have no right at all to demand that people who live in metric countries use their weights and measures! The time is decades overdue to fight back against the Anglo-Saxon steamroller! We will only shoot ourselves in the foot if we continue to fall on our knees before those stubborn and arrogant people who want to crush us with it. It will happen if we do not change our state of mind radically! There are many people in the Anglo-Saxon world who do NOT want this to happen, but they rightly expect us to make a stand and to fight when necessary. Please, stop betraying them and us! I would have written to you in French, but my knowledge of that language is too defective to do it; therefore I have used English, which is a Germanic language like my own Dutch one. English is destined to be the global language of communication; it is too late to stop this development. We must keep our own languages while using English as an international language. Their units, however, should not become the world standard of measurement. They must go to the dustbin and until they end up there, they should be contained within their last holdouts. This means: IN PRINCIPLE NO US AND UK UNITS ON CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN WEBSITES! Yours sincerely, Han Maenen The Netherlands [EMAIL PROTECTED]
