I can understand where you're coming from on the decimal place business, there is limited space to write the petition. What I'm meaning is take 1000 mm, move the decimal over 3 and you have a meter, move it one and you have cm. Same with all the other untis. What people don't understand is how it's all connected up and can be done in your head.
If farmers here do as Farmers in the rest of the world do and find out how rainfall per m2 equates to liters of water and that an odometer will measure your field down to 10 m distances (or one meter if you have enough digits) it will help with the application of fertilizer, water and who know what else. The farmers in Australia and South AFrica went totally metric in a short space of time. It can be done here. But we need more intelligent people in congress and there lies the problem. I do all I can, as do you. Mike On 24/09/2011, at 14:25 , Stanislav Jakuba wrote: > Mike, > between you and me, while I support your effort, I believe you are in error > claiming:' > Moving a decimal place gives a different unit. > That is not true. > Also, farmers have been measuring the same way for generations and will see > complication, not simplification in their work - I doubt any farmer would > agree with you. > I am the first one who wants to make this country metric and devoted > substantial part of my professional life to it. So I am very sorry to > conclude that your petition will not succeed. > Stan > > On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Michael Payne <metricmik...@gmail.com> wrote: > As of Saturday 14:00 ET there were 80 signatures, there has to be 150 for the > general public to even see this apparently, so I'd like to ask everyone to > open an account and vote. We need to get this out to the American public. > > Thanks > > Mike Paye > On 24/09/2011, at 24:03 , Harry Wyeth wrote: > > > I signed it, but 41 signatures is pretty pathetic. Let's get on it! > > > > HARRY WYETH > > > > > > On 9/23/11 1515:15, Michael Payne wrote: > >> Please go to http://wh.gov/gw1 I need 150 signatures to keep it on the > >> list, 5000 to get the White House to pay attention. > >> > >> Mike Payne > > > >
