The main problem stems from the fact that pre-college people in the US rank
13th out of 15 OCED countries in the world. This hurts US productivity and one
reason why things are manufactured outside the US.
The World Is Flat as Tom Friedman writes, and the US hasn't recognized it,
especially elected officials/politicians. Non-metric products won't sell
outside the US and therefore limits markets for those products.
Stan Doore
----- Original Message -----
From: [email protected]
To: U.S. Metric Association
Cc: U.S. Metric Association
Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 12:45 PM
Subject: [USMA:44703] RE: Nothing but Imperial
There is opposition to metric from those in the right who hold a "goverment
leave me ALONE" (also known as "Don't tell me what to do!") attitude, though.
Carleton
----- Original Message -----
From: "STANLEY DOORE" <[email protected]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 7:26:50 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: [USMA:44693] RE: Nothing but Imperial
You are mistaken Mr. Humphreys.
Metric is NOT right wing as you say it is. Companies in the US are
subtly converting to the SI because of the SI economic advantage - an advantage
to taxpayers. It is the left who are against standardizing on the SI in the
US, not the right.
Stan Doore
----- Original Message -----
From: Stephen Humphreys
To: U.S. Metric Association
Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 4:36 AM
Subject: [USMA:44692] RE: Nothing but Imperial
Be aware that you might get the usual stuff about the Daily Mail being a
right wing rag (the usual mistake of 'if you prefer imperial you're right wing
- if you prefer metric you're left wing') - to an extent that a recently joined
'contributor' has used German nazi style words to describe the Daily Mail
elsewhere (I kid you not). However - you'd find the same vocabulary in the
Daily Mirror (which is left leaning) and probably even the Morning Star
(Britains only official daily communist paper!).
Incidentally - if this item was covered by any of the television stations
here then they'd use the same terminology. In fact a lot of recent 'real life'
style documentaries would be worded as such.
Regards
SteveH
If someone follows up this thread with a claim that I have said that UK TV
is 'exclusively Imperial' or that my sole purpose above is to create a (how's
it called?) 'half-truth' that people 'only deal in imperial' and 'never use
metric ever' then simply discard the nonsense.
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Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 02:20:44 +0000
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: [USMA:44691] Nothing but Imperial
Ran across this article today online in The Daily Mail:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1170348/The-50-year-old-mother-spent-10-000-surgery-look-like-daughter.html
While this article offers us more than one lesson, it certainly illustrates
Stephen's point about the absence of SI in today's Britain in various quarters.
Ezra
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