"Allow me to clarify (I realise what I said might have been read wrong). I was refering to the comments in the bottom section - ie those sent in by people, so not the main article. Most responses (at the time I read it) were related to the Islam angle of the article. I think only one mentioned metric/imperial and even that was as an 'also' type comment. You can see that some comments were hostile to the writer. The writer is a libertarian right-winger and commonly a target for/by the left so you can imagine that his articles will attract criticism from that section of society. Sorry if I wasn't clear."
I'm not altogether clear what comments about Islam that appeared in a national newspaper have got to do with a discussion board concerned with metrication, but whatever floats your boat! Maybe keeping the discussion limited to metric matters may help things? After all, that's what this discussion board is for. ----- Original Message ----- From: Stephen Humphreys To: U.S. Metric Association Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 1:48 PM Subject: [USMA:46603] RE: Burma Allow me to clarify (I realise what I said might have been read wrong). I was refering to the comments in the bottom section - ie those sent in by people, so not the main article. Most responses (at the time I read it) were related to the Islam angle of the article. I think only one mentioned metric/imperial and even that was as an 'also' type comment. You can see that some comments were hostile to the writer. The writer is a libertarian right-winger and commonly a target for/by the left so you can imagine that his articles will attract criticism from that section of society. Sorry if I wasn't clear. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: [USMA:46602] RE: Burma Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:44:22 +0000 " find the comments quite interesting. And possibly a barometer on what concerns people most? Worth pondering" ....Or maybe a certain section of people believe what they're told by some sections of the media with an anti-metric agenda, many of whom are to be found in publications like the Daily Mail and the Daily Telegraph. Worth pondering! . ----- Original Message ----- From: Stephen Humphreys To: U.S. Metric Association Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 10:25 AM Subject: [USMA:46600] RE: Burma I find the comments quite interesting. And possibly a barometer on what concerns people most? Worth pondering. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: [USMA:46598] Burma Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:56:58 +1100 Dear All, I came across this quote from a most unlikely source, Peter Hitchens in an anti-metric diatribe at http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2010/02/collected-works.html By the way, before someone mentions this canard, it's not true that Burma hasn't metricated. It has, as I can recount from my own visit there. Cheers, Pat Naughtin Author of the ebook, Metrication Leaders Guide, that you can obtain from http://metricationmatters.com/MetricationLeadersGuideInfo.html PO Box 305 Belmont 3216, Geelong, Australia Phone: 61 3 5241 2008 Metric system consultant, writer, and speaker, Pat Naughtin, has helped thousands of people and hundreds of companies upgrade to the modern metric system smoothly, quickly, and so economically that they now save thousands each year when buying, processing, or selling for their businesses. Pat provides services and resources for many different trades, crafts, and professions for commercial, industrial and government metrication leaders in Asia, Europe, and in the USA. Pat's clients include the Australian Government, Google, NASA, NIST, and the metric associations of Canada, the UK, and the USA. See http://www.metricationmatters.com for more metrication information, contact Pat at [email protected] or to get the free 'Metrication matters' newsletter go to: http://www.metricationmatters.com/newsletter to subscribe. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Do you want a Hotmail account? Sign-up now - Free ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Not got a Hotmail account? Sign-up now - Free
