Not that I doubt your words but if they were so many politicians supporting SI why don't they support changing the education to teach in SI , generate panels and discussions on TV about the need to switch and ultimately to influence the press and TV to display at least dual units?
Who's to blame that the public is poorely informed ? The public, or the ones responsible with informing the public? Are we postponing metrication until the public will be informed? Good luck! And then the easiest step to make towards metrication is what every other government did. Stop certifying non-SI masses and volumes. As far as I know it is NIST's job to certify masses. All my calibrating contractors told me they have only ifp certified "weights". Why is that? If we are expecting that the industry asks for SI calibrations we will be long dead before this happens if it ever does. A. -----Original Message----- From: Gene Mechtly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, 27 January, 2002 14:06 To: Adrian Jadic Cc: U.S. Metric Association Subject: Voting for SI On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Adrian Jadic wrote: > ... > *Metric is NOT a political favor*! If they don't believe in metric they > won't vote for it, period. Even if members of Congress do favor the SI (many do), few push for stronger metrication legislation because of business lobbies (which pay for their campaigns) and poorly informed public opinion in opposition.
