I fear you have totally missed the point.
From: Michael-O <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
CC: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Subject: [USMA:32676] Re: Brussels e-mail calls Metric Martyrs 'Luddites'
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 12:53:04 +0200
Kent K. Steinbrenner wrote:
Interesting article in /The Independent /on Wednesday, about a Eurocrat in
Brussels who sent an offensively-worded e-mail to one of the �Metric
Martyrs.� Although I�d be one of the first people to defend the
increasing use of SI in the U.K., or the U.S., or anywhere else for that
matter, I don�t think it helps �the cause� to fire off a nastygram to
someone on the other side. Whatever happened to reasoned discourse? Saying
�you luddites in england make me sick� /[sic]/ doesn�t exactly win points
in my book, even though I�m an SI supporter.
well I like the mail kinda:
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* youre a bunch of fucking luddites. Metric has to win cos thats what we
learnt at school. Long live England. long live metric, with 5 metric units
named after Uk scientists and 2 Uk directors of the metre bureau. The
imperialists are dead in the water ... you luddites in england make me
sick.
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He's right especially som any british scientists were honored and people
are rejecting it.
If I would be a Briton, I would and should be proud of that people like
Newton, Watt, Joule etc contributed so much to science.
bye
Mike
