Hi Harry, I think change need not come from the government but through commerce. When cost of doing business in dual units becomes more expensive cooperate america will ask the government to change the laws blocking SI change over. Many laws in different States blocking SI were placed by industries in the past years. A movement to ask and encourage companies to have SI measured products from "consumers" would be helpful.
On 8/14/12, Harry Wyeth <[email protected]> wrote: > I have watched both summer and winter Olympics for years now, and am > convinced that there will never be any changes in the reporting. In the > winter events, the announcers always tell us that there are so-and-so > miles to go for the skiers in the 50 km cross country event. And the > way things were reported for the summer games are not different from the > way I remember them at the Atlanta games. It just isn't going to > change, much to our disgust. > > I have said for years that the /only--only/--way things are going to > change in this sometimes-advanced-sometimes-backward country is for > metrication to be mandated by the government. It need not be all at > once or even obvious, but it has to come from on high. For > instance....the Weather Service could fix their website so that temps > are always displayed in degrees C, and the viewer would have to select F > manually every time he viewed the page. Topographic maps could be > published with meter elevations only. Milk sold in military PXs could be > in liter containers only (as in Canada). And so on. > > And there is the terrible AP, as we all know. They aren't going to > change unless someone else leads the way. And can you imagine the > political nonsense that would result if a candidate for national office > were to say he favored metrication? The Tea Party would come unglued. > > Sorry to be so pessimistic, but I have watched this for years now and > not seen much progress. > > HARRY WYETH > -- Sincerely, Edward B.
