Vectorsnrasterss wrote in USMA 17909:

>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


Well said, Randi!

Joseph B.Reid
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