I agree that decisions got to be taken; earlier the better. Especially if school children are to be trained to use METRICS! Brij Bhushan Vij
>From: Markus Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [USMA:20742] Re: Political support for metric system >Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2002 12:18:11 +0100 > >Harry Wyeth wrote on 2002-07-01 10:56 UTC: > > He's right. All you have to do is walk into a building supply or >hardware > > store and see the thousands of items used in construction so realize >that > > there will be no real progress toward SI in the good old USA until the > > federal government makes some real progress in mandating change. > >The only way forward is a very high level decision in one of the major >political parties to actually initiate metrication. This was supposed to >have happened in the early 1970s and failed in the US. It is time to try >it again at full scale. Making the metric system the only legally >recognized system of measurement in the US is a decision that needs to >be made by the president and congress leaders personally. Their personal >interest in the matter has to be sparked, otherwise you will spend the >next 50 years here discussing minor technicalities. All the rest are >trivial technical details. > >You need to awaken the interest of your representatives with an endless >flood of letters, faxes, telephone calls and visits. Tell them again and >again that the current situation is unsatisfactory, that the United >States is out of line and not fit for the 21st century without joining >the rest of the world in using globally accepted conventions, for which >the metric system and the standard paper formats are the two most urgent >and also the most easy to tackle issues. > >How many of you here are a member of a political party? If you want to >achieve a major political goal, you should join one right now and make >your voice heard from inside the decision making system. > >Metrication is a political process. You have to study, understand, and >use the political infrastructure to get it onto the agenda and adressed. > >Visit the web sites of the available political parties, choose one, and >join today. > >Markus > >-- >Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK >Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/> _________________________________________________________________ Join the world�s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com
