I will second this..... "complete the Metrication that is halfway done."
Bruce E. Arkwright, Jr Erie PA Linux and Metric User and Enforcer I will only invest in nukes that are 150 gigameters away. How much solar energy have you collected today? Id put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we dont have to wait til oil and coal run out before we tackle that. I wish I had a few more years left. -- Thomas Edison♽☯♑ Jun 16, 2013 06:38:29 PM, [email protected] wrote: Your report is an example of something that I have been recommending to >the USMA officers by why of changing the wording of its mission, which >should not be expressed as "convert to metric in the U.S.," but "complete >the conversion that is halfway done." > >The metric system has not gone by the wayside. It is more used than ever >before. All new technologies use it from the start: nuclear, lighting, >electrical, etc. We are already converted in medicine, most of beverages, >science, manufacturing, etc. > >It is a mistake to think that conversion has not taken place just because, >for example, automobiles are manufactured in metric, but described in >advertising in inch-pound. Our task is to make people understand that >we are already half way and need to complete the conversion for our >country's trade and financial benefit. > >Being stuck in the middle is the worst place to be. Moreover, who is >advocating a return to grains instead of milligrams, ounces instead of >litres, etc.? Once people naturally think metric in these areas, there is >no backlash. > >Martin Morrison >USMA Training & Education Columnist > > >============ >On Sun, 16 Jun 2013, Team Metric Info wrote: > >> http://www.thetimesnews.com/news/local-columnists/brent-lancaster/a-writing-form-without-real-funct >> ion-1.151163 >> >> OMG- how do these people get published. The writer of this article is >> agreeing with the change in >> some public education curriculum related to teaching kids to write in >> cursive which, btw, he is >> completely wrong about from a brain development perspective. ; >> >> Here is the last sentence of the article: >> ?The world is moving fast. There?s not much use for cursive writing anymore. >> Let?s let it go the way >> of instruction in the metric system.? >> >> How has the U.S become so ignorant about the metric system?
