Barbara and/or Bill Hooper wrote:
>
> on 4/4/2002 6:12 PM, kilopascal at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > We do this
> > by government laws that require only metric measuring devices be made and
> > certified.
>
> John makes a good point.
>
> As a start, is it possible that we could persuade the powers that be to
> require that all (that is *ALL*) measuring devices sold in the US after a
> date certain would be required to have metric scales or readouts; that, for
> the time being, they could also have Olde English scales or readouts, too,
> but that it must be equally easy to read either one (by having dual scales
> or switchable readouts).
I doubt that such a law would be constitutional. I think it even less
likely that legislators could be persuaded to pass such a law,
regardless of the constitutionality issue.
Jim
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