2001-12-30 Well, thanks. I'm glad I have some fans. I guess I'm not the bad boy to everybody.
Happy New Year! John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ma Be" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, 2001-12-30 14:51 Subject: [USMA:16950] Re: Coins (on topic?) > Another superb response by John here (thanks, pal, for such inspiring piece, it will go straight to my archives as with many others coming from you already there! :-) ). > > Just an addendum that they have done it *correctly* by introducing 20 cent coins instead of the ridiculous 25 cent piece still plaguing us here in North America. (As you may recall there is crystal clear proof that there would be significant savings and more efficiency if one stuck with decimal primes - 1,2,5 - for money denominations - provided the money system is decimal, of course, which is the case EVERYWHERE!...) > > On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 11:11:44 > kilopascal wrote: > >2001-12-30 > > > >The discussions on the dollar coin and the Euro are very relavent. They > >point out methods that work and methods that don't work in weaning people > >away from old habits and adjusting to the new. > > > >It also shows the difficulty in America going metric. Because when the US > >decides to change something, it never does it fully or correct. And you can > >see the results. > > > >Conversion to the Euro is an example of how it is to be done. Can you > >imagine if Americans were running the Euro conversion program? They would > >let the old and new co-exist side by side forever and let the people choose > >which one they want. And you would experience exactly what you have seen > >below with the dollar coin. > > > >Conversion to metric parallels conversion in other habits. That is the > >relavence > >... > > > Is your boss reading your email? ....Probably > Keep your messages private by using Lycos Mail. > Sign up today at http://mail.lycos.com >
