Hi Mike: Nice thinking! This precisely was the points I used to talk to VB Mainker, late Director Weights & Measures (INDIA) way back in 1976. He indeed was a sensible man to imply use of Metric system then. The vacuum still exists, in India althogh 1976 marked official change over to 'metric system' in India. UNFORTUNATE! Brij B.Vij
>From: "Wizard of OS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [USMA:21802] Re: Letter to Discovery Channel >Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 02:02:41 +0200 > >decent letter > >I am excited for their response! >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Mike Joy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2002 4:39 PM >Subject: [USMA:21801] Letter to Discovery Channel > > > > Below is an e-mail sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] today. Floods of these > > kinds of comments to these blind filmmakers will speed up the >metrication > > process in the US. Go to it. > > > > > > > > Sirs, > > > > How disappointing that Stephen Baldwin, the narrator of Power Zone (a > > Discovery Channel documentary about satellites and the ski dome in >Tokyo) > > used only your customary units to describe all the measurements and > > dimensions in it. > > > > It's hard to imagine in this day and age that you Americans are >completely > > blind to what's going on in the world right now, and, worse, that you're > > all so arrogant that you really don't care what people think about you. > > > > How can you possibly carry on like this, not even realising that you're >the > > last country in the world to use the metric system? > > > > Your documentary was completely spoilt because of the use of measures >that > > only people within your country can understand. What's the point in >sending > > your documentaries outside the US if no-one can understand them? > > > > People like you should not be perpetuating the acute embarrassment >caused > > to your countrymen every time you show scientific documentaries like >this > > by using an antiquated and dead system of measures. > > > > It's really time you do something and ask your film producers to use >metric > > measurements. EVERYONE (including Americans) can then understand what > > you're talking about. > > > > This is the 21st century in case you don't realise it, and at present > > you're alone in a metric world. > > > > No more 'feet' and 'Fahrenheit please. Our kids don't want to know. > > > > Sincerely, > > > > Mike Joy > > Perth, Australia > > cc: US Metric Association listserv. > > _________________________________________________________________ Join the world�s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com
