Dear All,
This is another repeated message that got through to Marcus but didn't make
it to this list. Sorry about that.
To: Marcus Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: U.S. Metric Association <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: 2004 December 08 05.33.22
Subject: Re: [USMA:31603] RE: Some decimal time... jabs
Dear Marcus and All,
on 2004-12-08 04.31, mavi fibe at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
<snip>
> NO, I'm not rekindling this discussion again, but
> simply jumping on some of our dear colleagues'
> comments here to drive the point home (or give food
> for thought) that there is more to "metrication" than
> just promoting "the status quo" IMHO.
>
> True, ok, when it comes to discussing this this is not
> the forum, so, again, I'll refrain from doing so.
>
> More and more though I'm convinced this "other" cause
> is worthy of our (ok, my...) pursuit.
>
>> However, as longer journeys (as opposed to trips to
>> the store) may take
>> several hours, expressing speed in km/h makes sense.
>
> Of course it does! And what does SI offer us to
> address that? NOTHING, NADA, ZILCH! So we're stuck
> with using minutes and hours as 'acceptable to be used
> with SI' because, again, SI simply does NOT have
> ANYTHING in its place to offer to the common folk!
<snip>
I can see the confusion in some people's minds when they arrive at the USMA
mailing list hoping to get support for their own metrication process and
they find a vigorous debate � for and against � obscure improvements to SI,
the modern metric system. We all know that this is confusing to new readers.
Maybe we should split the list into two components � one for ways and means
to adopt and promote metric use in our communities and another to discuss
the ways to improve SI. Perhaps,
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/misc.metric-system?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8
is a possibility for the second of these.
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin
Geelong, Australia
61 3 5241 2008
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.metricationmatters.com
