That's good news for the UKMA then since they can now close down, stop using
money on producing "A very British Mess", close "think metric" sites, and
claim a job "well done".
"Coffee" springs to mind.
Because they know they have lost the battle, that metric is already here,
and that people want to use metric (except Stephen Humphreys and a few
others), and they are desperate to do anything to make a stir or shake up
the Internet. I think they do it for their own entertainment value, as
there is no real value to their site, I certainly am not learning anything
about why imperial is better than metric (if it really is!) from this
webpage, and nothing that would in any way dissuade me from using metric. I
just look at a page like that and think the BWMA have finally gone
completely mad. I wonder what Freud would make of them?
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***>Buy UKMA's report "A Very British Mess" ISBN 0750310146
***>http://www.ukma.org.uk/Docs/pubs.htm
***>
***>Avoid confusion with conversion, just learn to think metric!
***>http://www.thinkmetric.org.uk
***>
Daniel wrote:
http://www.bwmaonline.com/UKMA%20exposed.htm
Phil,
According to the BWMA the UKMA is lieing. You may wish to view their
"evidence" and decide for yourself who is telling the truth or not. If
the UKMA is behind the pressure, I support them and you should too. If
they are fibbing, shame on them! What do they have to hide? They have
every right to push the issue and as a pro-metric group they should.
Dan
----- Original Message ----- From: "Philip S Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Cc: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, 2005-09-04 13:11
Subject: [USMA:34235] Re: Wolf in sheeps clothing
... It is apparent that the UKMA tried the "state the facts" approach
and it got them nowhere. They realize that in order to get the ball
moving they had to pressure an authority like the EU Commission to force
the issue.
The EU Commission didn't say who it was that prompted them to approach
the UK government. The UKMA have now stated publicly their position in
relation to this:
www.ukma.org.uk/press/releases/pr050831.htm
Phil Hall
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