Well, Paul, as you know ---- there are executive orders and there are
executive orders.
Some get enforced and some are just pieces of paper. Sadly.
Ezra
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Trusten, R.Ph." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Cc: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 8:07 PM
Subject: [USMA:39983] Re: A welcome example of "smarting up"
According to President G.H.W. Bush's executive order, shouldn't the
***U.S.
government source*** have stated the area in square kilometers only?
Quoting Ezra Steinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Dear USMA mailing list:
Too often we see shared on this list instances of information originally
given in metric units (from an organization or governmental body located
outside the USA) that is "dumbed down" (as many list members have put it)
to
Imperial or US Customary units in news reports, magazine articles, etc
here
in the States.
Tonight I was pleased to hear an instance of "smarting up". The BBC
(broadcast over our National Public Radio network) reported tonight that
a US
Federal agency announced it was going to auction off concessions for
drilling
for oil off the shore of Alaska. That was the sad part. The positive part
was
that the announcer gave the size of the off-shore drilling area in square
kilometers only.
Clearly, the US Federal agency must have originally announced the size in
square miles. I was quite pleasantly surprised to hear that the BBC had
converted the area to metric and gave only that figure in their reading
of
the news.
With continuing influence like that, there's hope for us yet, boys! ;-)
Cheers,
Ezra
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