On Sat, 07 Jun 2003 11:09:59 Jim Elwell wrote: ... >The US is metricating, and the process is accelerating. We do not >need more government, we just need patience and persistence. > >Jim Elwell, CAMS
'Accelerating', uh?... Hmm... Let's see, from 1 um/s to, maybe 1.2 um/s?... (where 'u' is micro) ;-) Again, the above resembles someone picking from even a huge "bucket" of sand (which would evidently be "invisible" to the public...) and grabbing it on his hand while "dumping" it on the beach. Perhaps in 3 thousand years one would finally "notice" and pay attention: hey, have you seen the beach sand level lately? Gee, I think it went up 4". I think we should all talk to the gummint about it!... Later he and a "gang of thugs" manage to call the attention of the mayor about it. After so much fuss they finally manage to get him (or her) to do something about that and... Lo and behold, 3 kyears of history go down the drain as an "army of trucks" storm to the beach to eliminate those pesky 4" of extra sand out!!! Moral of the story: it doesn't really matter that we've been "stealthily" metricating. Once it makes enough of a dent to "bother" some key players, guess what? Walls come crashing down in a storm!!! Sorry, pal, it ain't gonna work!!! You MUST come about making a change in Joe Sixpack's stance vis-a-vis metric units, otherwise, forget it! We've all witnessed what happened to the DOT effort. That is PRECISELY the kind of stuff that WILL happen once metric steps on people's toes. Anyhow, my 2-cents worth... Marcus ____________________________________________________________ Get 25MB of email storage with Lycos Mail Plus! Sign up today -- http://www.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plus
