> Of Jim Elwell >A minor item: just finished the latest issue of Reason >last night, which is the largest-circulation magazine >promoting a Libertarian perspective. > >There were three different places where measurements >were used, and each was pure metric -- no colloquial >conversions. I don't recall ever seeing metric used >in the magazine before, so I think there may have been some >editorial shift there. > >I left the magazine at home so I can't give you more >details, but if anyone wants them let me know and >I'll post them tomorrow.
I searched on 'reason magazine'. The Reason Foundation has several websites and publications. You can navigate to them (including the online magazine) via: http://www.reason.org/ I did a search of the magazine website. There are metric references in articles dating back as far as 1997. There are also non-metric references dating back that far. I found a deliciously bizarre measure from a Reason intern quoting what may be a US regulation: [begin quote] "legal limit" for added caffeine (6 milligrams per ounce). [end quote] http://www.techcentralstation.com/1051/techwrapper.jsp?PID=1051-250&CID= 1051-070202B At first I thought that the prevalence of metric meant that it was non-US based e.g. Canada (however incompatible that might be with the political angle of the foundation). However, it appears to be based in California. Incidentally, I enjoyed some of the articles. -- Terry Simpson Human Factors Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.connected-systems.com Phone: +44 7850 511794
