Yep...exactly my thoughts.
At 19:02 2002-03-11 -0500, kilopascal wrote:
>2002-03-11
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>This guy wants to sue the treasury because he wants them to make US money
>look like other nations, but wants the US to maintain the use of customary
>measurements, because our way is right and everyone else is wrong.
>
>Sounds like a big hypocrite.to me.
>
>John
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Brian J White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Monday, 2002-03-11 17:04
>Subject: [USMA:18679] RE: Yardstick March 2002
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> > I was trying to find out more about Mr Seymour. That article was
> > completely lame-brained.
> >
> > Peter Seymour
> > Hoboken, 07030-2743
> >
> > There is part of his address.
> > He seems to be a big government needs to stay out of people's lives. He's
> > part of an organization called "Separation of State and Schools" or
> > something to that effect.
> >
> > I also found this message post from 1995.
> > Being a blind "reader" of REASON, I feel especially qualified to respond
>to
> > "Unreasonable Accommodations."
> >
> > A Buddhist parable tells of an emperor whose servants had been complaining
> > about how walking on the stones of the street hurt their feet. The emperor
>was
> > about to order all of his cattle slaughtered and their hides used to
>carpet
> > the roads when a wise man suggested slaughtering only a few cattle and
> > making shoes
> > for the servants instead. The emperor took the advice. If our government
> > were as wise, it would not try to carpet the ground by, for instance,
> > harassing store
> > and restaurant proprietors to build ramps, nor by forcing publishers to
> > produce their print materi als in alternative formats.
> >
> > Where adaptive technology is the solution, it will ultimately be far
> > easier, cheaper, and more satisfactory to supply shoes for the disabled,
> > such as wheelchairs
> > that can climb stairs and electronic reading machines for the blind (both
> > of which exist).
> >
> > Ironically, despite repeated attempts for the last few decades, the
>federal
> > government itself has been completely unwilling to budge and make a
>"reasonable
> > accommodation" for the one item that it has exclusive power to produce:
>the
> > legal tender of this nation. An essential character istic of money is that
>one
> > denomination can be distinguished from another. The U.S. Treasury insists
> > that such a distinction can only be based on a rather subtle visual
> > difference in the
> > bills, which are all the same size, color, and basic design. Almost every
> > other country has provided their paper currency with tactile indicators of
>the
> > denomination for those who can't see. For our government to make similar
> > alterations to its bills would be a small expense, yet the benefits for
>the
> > employability
> > and general convenience for the blind and visually impaired would be enor
> > mous.
> >
> > Any lawyer who would be interested in representing me in suing the U.S.
> > Treasury Depart ment for violating the "reasonable accommodations"
> > provision of the
> > ADA should contact me about this matter.
> > Peter Seymour
> > Hoboken, NJ
> >
> > At 13:41 2002-03-11 -0800, Bill Potts wrote:
> > >Peter Seymour
> >
