Couldn't resist...
<g> Nat ------------ Ghost Dog wrote: We tried this back in the 60's or 70's and the citizens of the US were not accommodating to the change. Convert a 36" door to mm, you get 91.84 mm! That is hard to measure, down to the 1/100's of a mm! Try measuring liquids in grams vs. ounces, that gets more complicated, 1 oz. comes to 28.375 grams! Ain't gonna happen! What is an "oz."?? And why do you choose such a strange size for an "oz" - 28.375 g? If you need to use this "oz." thing, why don't you just make it a nice round 25 g or 30 g?? God Imperial is complicated!!!! NEH From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Trusten Sent: Wednesday, 2008 July 30 13:08 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:41516] what many Americans think "metric conversion" means WOW! The posts to the Citizen-Times article were revealing (http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200880726054). I think I have found a common misconception that we may have overlooked---that, for many Americans, "converting to the metric system" means continuing to use inch-pound, but somehow having to continually make soft conversions to metric, and use those soft metric equivalents of the hard inch-pound values. They have not been informed, or have otherwise not understood, that metrication means changing the measurement standard itself, i.e., going all-metric, and not using the USC standards any more. Paul Trusten, R.Ph. Public Relations Director U.S. Metric Association, Inc. 3609 Caldera Blvd. Apt. 122 Midland TX 79707-2872 US +1(432)528-7724 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
