In Freedom System, they should replace measurements like gallon, mile, pound, etc with some names like Washington, Lincoln, Reagen, etc.
Ofcourse there should be 1 unit named after Bush. Madan --- kilopascal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2003-03-15 > > We have to be careful with this. Freedom units > become FU for its symbol and > you all know what FU stands for. > > Second, it only feeds the Joe Six-pack "nuke them > towelhead bastards" back > to the stone age nasty attitude. I would rather see > the effects of > euroisation force metrication then wasting my time > trying to convince an > arrogant and ignorant population they are better off > with SI. One gets > better results talking to the wall. > > John > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "James Wentworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, 2003-03-14 23:14 > Subject: [USMA:25149] Re: FPLA timeline? (Freedom > Units) > > > > Perhaps we can "ride" the current wave of American > anti-French sentiment > by > > referring to metric units as Freedom Units and the > system as the Freedom > > System? :-) -- Jason > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Brian J White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: U.S. Metric Association <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 3:27 PM > > Subject: [USMA:25148] Re: FPLA timeline? > > > > > > > Thanks John...that certainly answered my > question. > > > > > > Uhhh... > > > > > > At 18:07 2003-03-14 -0500, kilopascal wrote: > > > >2003-03-14 > > > > > > > >Congress is too involved with Iraq to care > about anything else. And > with > > > >the increasing anti-French, anti-European > attitude permeating every > > aspect > > > >of American lives, I doubt you will ever see it > any time soon. > > > > > > > >John > > > > > > > > > > > >----- Original Message ----- > > > >From: "Brian J White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >To: "U.S. Metric Association" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >Sent: Friday, 2003-03-14 11:03 > > > >Subject: [USMA:25138] FPLA timeline? > > > > > > > > > > > > > All the discussion on amending the FPLA and > one thing I haven't seen > > yet > > > >is > > > > > a timeline for when the amendment will come > before Congress. > > > > > Anyone know? If at all at this point? > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com
