The bill that President Obama signed on Jan 4 is only a "re-authorization" Act. The new House might not appropriate funds for all this new spending.
---- Original message ---- >Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 15:52:09 -0800 (PST) >From: "John M. Steele" <[email protected]> >Subject: [USMA:49434] Re: Fwd: NIST Tech Beat for January 5, 2011 >To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> > > Never mind. I tracked down both TechBeat and the > text of the law via Google. > > The word metric is used in the business sense of > "metrics" 10 times, and once as "metric measuring > strategy" (again business metrics). It is used zero > times in the sense of the SI, as are "SI " and > "International System" (of Units) > > NASA is given a big educational role and prize money > to award in competitions. That will undoubtedly be > for best Customary research as NASA doesn't > understand or use metric. There is money awarded to > NIST, mostly prize money for competitions. I'd > rather see NIST using the money to foster good > teaching of the metric system. > > I obviously did not read all 68 pages in detail (I > used the "find" function for the summary on use of > "metric") but it strikes me as a classic government > boondoggle and waste of tax-payer money. >... > ------------------------------------------------
