At 07:20 PM 1/24/2002 -0500, Joseph B. Reid wrote: >Can Jim [Elwell] name a country that has gone metric after a referendum or >other >form of consultation of all the people?
No I cannot, but I'm not sure of the point of this. My contention has been unchanged for quite a while: the USA *is* metricating already. It is going slowly, but it is most definitely happening. Given that the USA is the only country of note that is still not metric, I do not see how we can possibly NOT go metric, regardless of polls or referendums or politicians or good-'ol-boys who hate anything "un-American." Someone else on this list has pointed out that much of the underlying (i.e., non-consumer) industry in the USA is already metric. As a manufacturer of industrial products, what I see every day agrees with that. So we are to the point that we have to let it sink into the public consciousness. It's going to take awhile, but it is going to happen. Jim Elwell
