(Stephen refers to "Bill" but quotes my email, so I presume that is a typo,
and I will respond.)
At 06:48 PM 7 October 2002 +0100, Stephen Davis wrote:
>...
>If so, there is a basic hypocrisy at work here!! Neil Herron knows fine
>well he would have to obey UK weights and measures law whether it be
>metric OR imperial. There has NEVER been a choice in the matter, as he
>likes to imply!!
>...
>This is all about how fine you want to split a hair!! As a trader, he is
>allowed to price in pounds, his customers can ask for a pound and, Guess
>what Bill......they can GET a pound as well!!
I am not sure what you mean by the second paragraph ("as he likes to
imply"). As far as I have read, the Herron had no problem with the law
(which presumably means getting his earlier pound scale certified) prior to
the law requiring a metric or dual-unit scale. Have I missed something in
that regard?
Please read my earlier response to Brian White. You may call this splitting
hairs, but clearly it is much more than that to the Metric Martyr. And,
since I don't believe in government power being used to force one person's
ideas upon another, above a very, very fundamental level (e.g., murder is
wrong), I have to side with him.
That does NOT mean I think he has chosen an effective or useful battle.
Merely that the battle he is fighting is just, no matter how inconsequential.
And as I said in that other post, if mandatory metrication is attempted in
the USA, the (anti)-Metric Martyrs will be coming out of the woodwork, so
it does not hurt to try and understand what motivates them.
Jim Elwell, CAMS
Electrical Engineer
Industrial manufacturing manager
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
www.qsicorp.com
