Hi Soren:
Your moving to USMA shall indeed provide a boot to many issues; but,
your No, No.... to changing time and length: Well, the choice is YOURS! But,
I am sure, you need to *digest* about what I have talked in Defing Decimal
Second and Related Metre; and Several Formats for Calendar that I sent
through USMA mailings!
The proposal means NOT changing the minds of *masses* and gaining the
'Socio-Scientific and Politico-Economic' advantage; in addition Decimalising
or *linking* the redefinition of New METRE, to be the *thrust of METRIC
movement in America.
Brij Bhushan Vij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>From: "Carl Sorenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: [USMA:21348] Metrication activities
>Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 21:21:26 -0600
>
>Carleton wrote about metric time and calendar:
>With all respect, this is something to think about LONG after we have
>overcome the REAL hurdle, that is, getting the USA into the metric camp
>once
>and for all, and finishing the job in the baby-halfway-born countries like
>Canada. Tinker with time at the same time you overhaul the measurement
>system and the yelling will be heard on Mars.
>
>Amen to this! I will be one of the ones yelling, because new calendar
>proposals and clocks would distract from the important job of metricating
>the U.S. I do *not* support suggestions to change the second or the meter,
>both of which have been suggested in this mailing list (unless I read
>something wrong).
>
>I like the proposals about things we can do as a group to encourage
>metrication. I think it is important to focus on some specific measures
>that would have symbolic significance (such as getting the current
>administration to endorse President Bush Sr.'s executive order) and some
>measures that would promote hard metric consumer products and labeling
>(amending the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act). I would like to know who
>our allies in Congress are (or could be) and to see a game plan for
>lobbying
>for a change. Well-prepared, face-to-face meetings with governmental
>officials would be good to get attention, show that we have good ideas, and
>develop friends in important places.
>
>Allowing metric-only labeling would be relatively safe politically, and
>consumers are already somewhat familiar with the units and quantities. It
>would be easier to convince Congress to allow that than to get them to
>mandate bigger steps (like changing road signs, which I don't think we are
>in the right political climate for). However, although changing the FPLA
>is
>a goal of USMA (according to the website), I don't know what we are
>specifically doing about it right now. (I will be officially joining USMA
>in the next few weeks, so maybe I will get more information about that kind
>of thing when I get the newsletter.) Let's coordinate our efforts. Let's
>also not just complain about everything we see or else we will be
>written-off as a fringe group.
>
>I agree that the mailing list is pretty high maintenance. A newsgroup
>would
>be better. We could have a mailing list dedicated for official USMA
>emails,
>too.
>
>Carleton mentioned Canada's half-way metrication. My roommate is from
>Canada and he said that the only reason they haven't finished is because of
>their neighbors (no surprise there). It is encouraging to me that they can
>be as strongly metricated as they are dispite being smaller than
>California,
>in terms of population, and as close to the U.S. as they are.
>
>Carl Sorenson
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