Or a pleasant sight. But I agree. The plain fact is, something that the US will NEVER be able to change, however much it wants to, is that 95% of the world’s population uses solely metric units in government, industry, commerce, the professions and in day-today life. Either the US faces up to that indisputable fact, or it continues to spiral down. It then has a stark choice if it wants to regain its power and status – use its formidable military might to take on the entire world in armed combat, or step back and decide that it will need to conform with the rest of the world if it still wants to do business and remain a world leading power.
From: Kilopascal Sent: Monday, February 04, 2013 4:30 AM To: Remek Kocz Cc: U.S. Metric Association Subject: Re: [USMA:52308] Metric Petition mentioned in this week\'s Time magazine. I haven't seen a Time magazine in ages. I was informed via this listserver some time ago that the Time Magazine used metric in its science articles. Maybe they did, but as you noticed, they no longer do. This has a lot to do with the personal preference of those who run the magazine. There must have been a regime change and someone pro-metric was replaced by someone anti-metric. Things like this do happen. Let them mock the metric system all they want. It will not give them the joy they seek. There are two new powers on the rise in the world, Germany via the EU in the west and China in the east. They are both doing everything in their power to bring the US down, from the inside. Divide and Conquer, but totally by cultural and economic means. They know that a nation divided against itself will fall and they are doing everything in their power make it happen quickly. Germany's repatriation of its gold from the US, the UK & France is the catalyst. The US is caught in a whirlwind of conflict on almost every issue, the most potent the fight over the right to bear arms. I can just imagine how all those weapons in private hands will be used when the US dollar collapses. Can you imagine the reaction in the government circles in China and Germany when every gun owning citizen turns those weapons on each other over a scrap of bread? It won't be a pleasant site. From: Remek Kocz Sent: Sunday, 2013-02-03 23:06 To: Kilopascal Cc: U.S. Metric Association Subject: Re: [USMA:52308] Metric Petition mentioned in this week\'s Time magazine. 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. Remek Kocz Sun, 03 Feb 2013 14:32:21 -0800 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 No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2013.0.2897 / Virus Database: 2639/6076 - Release Date: 02/02/13 No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2013.0.2897 / Virus Database: 2639/6072 - Release Date: 01/31/13
