I finally wound up giving the "Go Metric" bumper sticker to two women who seemed like they were attached to the campaign.
It gets worse.
The Technology Vice President, (AL Gore) seemed totally mystified when I asked him if he would fight for the Metric System. He was talking about fighting for this and fighting for that, so I shook his hand and asked him to fight for the Metric System. "Huh" was all he could say.
I talked to Rod Blagojevich when he was a Congressman, but nothing happened when he was in Washington and later went to jail for being a corrupt Governor. Then when I talked to Dick Durbin about the FPLA, all he could say was "Metric is already on the labels."
These guys just do't understand the issue, and no matter how many phone calls I make or letters I write, they still just don't get it.
Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: Eric Kow <[email protected]>
Date: Monday, June 17, 2013 9:10 am
Subject: [USMA:52953] Re: Practical Letter to Congressman
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Cc: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
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Is this a resistance issue, or a not-taking-the-problem-
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I'm a bit curious about this, because I remember somebody on list mentioning handing a metric campaign bumper sticker to a Clinton campaign aide and getting a smirk for his trouble. It'd be interesting to see how the metrication community can overcome the Looking Like a Bunch of Clueless Silly Nerds problem (ie. of appearing to care about
> something that appears to be relatively inconsequential
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> turning the tables on it, or even playing it our endearing advantage…
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I'm a bit curious about this, because I remember somebody on list mentioning handing a metric campaign bumper sticker to a Clinton campaign aide and getting a smirk for his trouble. It'd be interesting to see how the metrication community can overcome the Looking Like a Bunch of Clueless Silly Nerds problem (ie. of appearing to care about
> something that appears to be relatively inconsequential
> [regardless of how correct the perception is]). I'd love to
> see a metrication effort that was sophisticated enough to skirt
> around the problem. For example, by changing the perception,
> turning the tables on it, or even playing it our endearing advantage…
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On 17 June 2013 03:31, Henschel Mark <[email protected]> wrote:
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NIST has prepared the legislation, but it first has to be accepted by the Cabinent before being submitted for Congressional action. As far as I know there are still members of the "change" Caninent who still are not willing to move forward from a 16th Century measurement system.
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John M. Steele" <[email protected]>
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> Date: Sunday, June 16, 2013 6:05 pm
> Subject: [USMA:52948] Re: Practical Letter to Congressman
> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
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>Amending FPLA for permissive-metric-only requires Congressional approval. However, the assumption is NIST would recommend it to Congress.
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> > Subject: [USMA:52947] Re: Practical Letter to Congressman
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> > Is this a matter of legislative action, or executive action? My understanding from Mark Henschel on this list is that it is in the executive branch.
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> > On Sun, 16 Jun 2013, Natalia Permiakova wrote:
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