There is of course the argument that Murdoch does not give a damn about metrication - he will support it or oppose it on a locality by locality basis, depending on whether support or opposition will promote his own political viewpoint..
_____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John M. Steele Sent: 02 February 2011 17:48 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:49742] Re: "The Daily" Many of his other holdings seem to avoid metric or be overtly anti-metric. I will be surprised if this turns out to be pro-metric. (but I don't have an iPad). --- On Wed, 2/2/11, Paul Trusten <[email protected]> wrote: From: Paul Trusten <[email protected]> Subject: [USMA:49739] "The Daily" To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Cc: "Lorelle Young" <[email protected]>, "Don Hillger" <[email protected]>, "Valerie Antoine" <[email protected]>, "Gary Brown" <[email protected]>, "Chris Stone" <[email protected]>, "Don Jordan" <[email protected]>, "Mary Gerke" <[email protected]>, "Sandra Hanson" <[email protected]>, "Mark Henschel" <[email protected]>, [email protected], [email protected] Date: Wednesday, February 2, 2011, 11:18 AM As I speak, Rupert Murdoch is announcing the creation of The Daily, a subscription news and entertainment product (99 cents per week, not available on the Web), for the iPad tablet device only. iPad has about 15 million followers. Murdoch harps on the "sophisticated reader." I sense that metric units are going to flow onto this audience, and I'll be keeping both eyes on this thing. I haven't bought an iPad yet, but I probably will very soon. What is your experience with the iPad if you own one? This reminds me of the technology suggested by that movie The Minority Report, which, in the year 2054,showed electronically-enabled paper newspapers and even electronically-enabled containers (e.g., video on a cereal box). Paul Paul Trusten, R.Ph. , Vice President U.S. Metric Association, Inc. www.metric.org <http://www.metric.org/> [email protected] <http://us.mc824.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]> +1(432)528-8824
