At Monday, 07 October 2002, Jim Elwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >At 07:25 PM 7 October 2002 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>The semantic argument is: >>he made a choice to be a pounds-only trader. This is not permitted and >>he was convicted for it. Can we agree on this too? If so, then the >>debate is about whether pounds-only trade should be legal.
Well..as the United States is concerned, the Constitution states that the government should "fix weights and measures." Therefore keeping a level of accuracy for trading, documentation, and legal issues. I would say a government by definition HAS to be involved in what weights and measures are used to prevent fraud and further the use of standards that would (hopefully) result in greater efficiencies that could benefit no one but the citizens in which the government is charged with protecting.
