As much as I am in favor of buying metric products, the cold reality is in this day and time in the United States to not buy at least some non metric labelled products is almost completely impossible. I might like a 2m cable but the reality is that some places it's only six foot six inch label. I'm more interested in talking to industry to get them to change rather than boycotting because even a million people boycotting one product will do nothing but stiffen resistence to metrication. Calm, reasoned argument and analysis will be the only thing that will induce industry to use SI.
Mike On 3/13/07, Daniel Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Except the result of their craftiness is that those who love the metric system don't buy American products. They buy Asian and European. They take jobs away from metric haters and give them happily to metric lovers. They are lacking in intelligence because they don't see the damage they are doing to the US economy and the middle class American lifestyle. The American middle class life style is no longer affordable to most Americans. To have some semblance of it, there has to be a lot of borrowing. "Brother, can you spare a dime"? If it is built in pounds and feet don't buy it, for it is obsolete. ----- Original Message ---- From: Remek Kocz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> Cc: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 6:30:49 PM Subject: [USMA:38186] Re: metric in the classroom Those who hate the metric system hold very influential positions in lobby groups like the FMA. They're crafty bunch that I would not accuse of lacking intelligence, or at least the smarts to outwit the pro-metric crowd. Remek On 3/13/07, Daniel Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Those who hated the metric system then are most likely working as > Wal-Mart clerks, Burger flippers, janitors or any of the many jobs not > requiring intelligence. > > Dan > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: "Kim, Rich (ECY)" < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 12:17:36 PM > Subject: [USMA:38169] Re: metric in the classroom > > I must have been luckily. My 8th grade math teacher was very "gung-ho" > about the metric system. He emphasized the simplicity of it. His > favorite question to the class was "who doesn't like the metric system?" > > About half the hands would go up. He would then reply, "then you'd > better not handle money because it's based on the metric system." > > This was in 1968 (Tacoma, WA). He thought we'd be using it by now. :( > > . ______________ > ____ | | RICH KIM, Spatial Database Administrator > \ | | | Washington State Department of Ecology > | // | P.O. Box 47600, Olympia, Washington USA 98504 > | * Olympia | Phone: (360) 407-6121; Fax: (360) 407-6493 > \ _____| E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > `---------' http://www.ecy.wa.gov/services/gis/index.html > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of STANLEY DOORE > Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 08:43 > To: U.S. Metric Association > Subject: [USMA:38166] Re: metric in the classroom > > The test example Howard gave is an example of the deficiency in the > education system. They should have questions using the SI in science > applications. > > Stan Doore > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Howard Ressel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "U.S. Metric Association" < [email protected]> > Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 8:59 AM > Subject: [USMA:38154] Re: metric in the classroom > > > > My 5th grade dau. was reviewing stuff for the NYS Statewide math test. > > > They had English and metric questions mixed in. There were > specifically > > units of measurement questions not other question with English or > Metric > > units. They asked questions about feet in yards and also centimeters > in a > > meter, meters in a kilometer etc. but in a math format. For example, > Sally > > walked 200 m Bill walked 2 km, how far did they walk together. Fact > is > > our kids the will need to speak both languages. At least They now > get > > equal footing on tests (no pun intended). > > > > Howard Ressel > > Project Design Engineer, Region 4 > > (585) 272-3372 > > > >>>> Daniel Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/10/07 11:37 PM >>> > > May I inquire as to how they teach metric? Do the students learn the > > rules of SI like they would the rules of grammar and spelling? Do > they > > learn it practically, or do they learn it as a conversion to/from > > non-metric (FFU)? How they learn it will influence how well they > learn it > > and how much they will use it in the real world. > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > 8:00? 8:25? 8:40? Find a flick in no time > with theYahoo! Search movie showtime shortcut. > ------------------------------ It's here! Your new message! Get new email alerts<http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=49938/*http://tools.search.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/>with the free Yahoo! Toolbar.
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