Another good way to promote metric is to specify new TV screens in metric.
For example, a 40-inch TV screen equals one metre. Isn't this stealth
metric?
Stan Doore
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ziser, Jesse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2008 3:41 PM
Subject: [USMA:40772] Re: BMI, Metric at Costco
--- Jim Elwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The question is whether companies with employees and leadership not
particularly
friendly toward metric will change without putting up a fight. That's
the area where I think leadership at the government level could smooth
things over.
We generally agree, but the nature of the government "leadership" has a
big effect: if it is
mandates, there will be a lot of resistance. However, as I've said many
times in the past on
this forum, if the US Federal Government is the single largest purchaser
of goods and services
in the country, and if it simply said "we buy metric," it would have a
huge positive effect on
metrication, without passing laws on private institutions.
I wasn't advocating legally forcing anyone to use metric (though that's an
interesting subject for
debate). I was suggesting that a presidential administration should use
its voice to tell people
that metric is coming and they better be prepared for it. The presidency
could be used as the
proverbial "bully pulpit" to help persuade people that these changes are
here to stay, and not
something that will go away eventually. That was what I meant by
"leadership".
Needless to say, I strongly agree that the US government should buy
metric. As to legislatively
forcing people to use metric, I don't think I have an opinion right now
whether that would have a
more positive or negative effect.
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