I'd love to agree, but as a subscriber to Time magazine, I've noticed a steady decrease in the metric content of the magazine, with the most recent issues being completely devoid of any parenthetical metric that I was accustomed to. Scientific articles, ironically enough, have usually been non-metric, which to say the least is pathetic.
On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 8:15 PM, Kilopascal <[email protected]> wrote: > ** > Remek, > > I read the article, and even though it mocked the idea of the petitions > and mentioned some of the petitions, it mentioned nothing about the > petition to metricate. > > I would find it hard to believe that Time magazine would mock any push to > metricate as it reports articles of scientific nature using metric units, > at least as far as I know it still does. It did so in the recent past. > That would make time hypocritical. > > I'm curious though, has the White House been officially presented with the > metric petition? What has been their response? If it hasn't, will it ever > be? > > There are now just under 38 000. Maybe if it could get 100 000, it might > get someone's attention. > > > > [USMA:52308] Metric Petition mentioned in this week's Time > magazine.<http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]&q=subject:%22%5BUSMA%3A52308%5D+Metric+Petition+mentioned+in+this+week%27s+Time+magazine.%22> > > Remek > Kocz<http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]&q=from:%22Remek+Kocz%22> > Sun, > 03 Feb 2013 14:32:21 > -0800<http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]&q=date:20130203> > > This news falls most likely into the "bad news" category, but our metric > system petition to the White House made the Time magazine. I'm looking at > the print edition right now and it is listed in a ticker at the foot of the > page among other petitions, most of which fall shy of being ridiculous. I > have not yet read the accompanying article, but below is the link to the > online version, which does not include to ticker. > > http://swampland.time.com/2013/01/31/we-the-people/?iid=sl-main-belt > >
