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Hi Pat,
I have looked at your web page. May I
respectfully make a few comments:
The phrase
<<
and centi is generally restricted to traditional women's activities such as
cooking, nursing, primary school teaching, and sewing.
>>
could be construed as being sexist and will thereby
undermine the promotion of the metric system. May I suggest that this be
re-worded as
... "and centi is generally restricted to
activities where the accuracy afforded by millimetres is both unnecccessary and
often confusing such as dealing with cloth, twine and ropes, in primary school
teaching and in measuring the human body!.
May I also suggest that you add the words "under
Australian Law" to the phrase
<<In many
nations, contracts written in old pre-metric measures are simply not legal. For
example, the Australian Weights and Measures (National Standards) Act stipulates
that if units other than the prescribed legal units are used in a transaction,
that transaction is void.
>>
My
understanding of the legal situation is that if I (as a UK resident and citizen)
enter into a contract with you (as an Australian resident and I presume citizen)
and we negotiate the contract without leaving our home countries, then
we would be well advised to write into the contract the law under
which the contract is to be interpreted. The law need not be
Australian or UK law as long as we both agree as to which courts would submit
ourselves should a dispute arise.
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Title: Re: [USMA:35521] Re: Happy New Year
- [USMA:35531] Re: Happy New Year Martin Vlietstra
- [USMA:35534] Re: Happy New Year Pat Naughtin
