John, you're obviously a very intelligent fellow, but once again, we are polarizing Metric (and SI) into an issue of US patriotism vs. anti-Americanism.
How we handle the Argentine economic crisiis, *if* we should we handle it, and, indeed, the USA's politcal track record overall are not germain to a +++metric+++ discussion list. I'm also a little tired, frankly, of the assertion by a number of us that our crass failure to metricate is part of an American agendum of global disobedience and nationalist spite. This is as idiotic as those trogs who believe that SI is a plot to destroy our identity as USAmericans...in fact, it's the same absurdity played backward. (Anyway, that's my 2 centimetres' worth) Randi
