I've seen the ongoing conversation.
The point that he's an EU employee is ledgit.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> CC: > Subject: [USMA:32688] Re: Brussels e-mail calls Metric Martyrs 'Luddites' Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 15:53:43 +0000
The last thing metrication needs is an e-mail with foul language from a nut job like the "Eurocrat" quoted below. I wonder who really sent it.
Carleton
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> I fear you have totally missed the point.
>
> >From: Michael-O
> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >To: "U.S. Metric Association"
> >CC: "U.S. Metric Association"
> >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:
> >
> >---
> >* 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.
> >---
> >
> >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
> >
>
