I agree. The quick brutal approach is, rightly or wrongly, the most effective.
Short term pain for long term gain. The persuasive gentle approach has been
shown to not work, and is, as has been said here many times before, the primary
reason why the UK (and Canada) are in such a measurement muddle.
John F-L
----- Original Message -----
From: Stephen Davis
To: U.S. Metric Association
Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 7:09 PM
Subject: [USMA:45626] OK Simon.....try this.
Do you think that for effective integration of SI into American society, it
would have to forced through and made mandatory to only use SI units?
Or do you think freedom of choice and polite persuation would be more
effective in getting the benefits of SI across? Something that seems to be the
consensus of quite a few on this board?
Personally, I think a properly organised mandatory implementation of SI both
in the US and Britain is the only effective way doing it, much like the way
decimal currency was introduced in the UK way back in 1971.
----- Original Message -----
From: [email protected]
To: U.S. Metric Association
Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 6:46 PM
Subject: [USMA:45625] Re: Maths (or should that be "math?")
Amen!
I beginning to wonder what kind of forum this is. When a topic involving
the metric system is brought up the responses are almost zero. Talk about
something other then the metric system or something loosely connected and then
everybody joins in.
I hate to complain since I'm so new here but I came here to discuss the
metric system and so far its not happening at the level I would like to see.
Simon
From: Aaron Harper
Sent: Friday, 2009-08-14 12:20
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:45624] Re: Maths (or should that be "math?")
The question of whether decimals or fractions are better has nothing to do
with the purpose of this forum: "Metrication."
