Dear TTN,
While I sympathize with those who face regulatory change in the EU, I must
recount the fact that the Metric Directive has been postponed twice. Its
impetus is not inspired by bureaucrats, but by the long-standing need for
the establishment of one system of measurement. Poetry, nationalism,
conspiracy theories, and simple obstinacy and sloth have derailed this goal
many times in the last century. But, in this new century, with the whole
world a click away, it is time for us to roll up our sleeves and get to work
making the change. The authors of metrication are not sorcerers, sadists,
or symbolists, but scientists. Anyone who measures is a part of science, and
this change involves all people, in all times.
SI-incerely,
Paul Trusten, R.Ph.
Public Relations Director
U.S. Metric Association, Inc.
www.metric.org
3609 Caldera Boulevard, Apt. 122
Midland TX 79707-2872 USA
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