-----Original Message----- From: Han Maenen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: May 2, 2002 18:44 Subject: [USMA:19866] A chilling warning
>I found this wake-up call on the USMA site, "Published articles on metric" >under "Metric system information (provided by the USMA)". > >Year 2000, no. 70 > >http://www.newscientist.com/opinion/opletters.jsp?id=ns22406 > >When I loaded it, the number ns22406 at the end of the URL was changed into >another number and I got a different item. On that page, just change the >wrong number nsXXXXX in the URL to ns22406 and you will get the letter. > >Han >Historian of Dutch Metrication, Nijmegen, The Netherlands > > >First published in New Scientist print edition, subscribe and stay informed >every week. > > >That's about the size of it > >Needless to say, not a single computer or printer allows you to use metric, >because all hardware pitches are in fractions of an inch, not in whole >numbers of millimetres. Truly, the Americans are coming. Would that be: the parochial Americans are coming? D. > >Robert Cailliau >CERN >Geneva >
