Yes Carleton. I agree with your statement. It is our goal to achieve all
the things on your list. Passing the FPLA amendment would bring us closer
to at least one of those goals. David Pearl www.MetricPioneer.com
503-428-4917
https://www.facebook.com/MetricPioneer
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Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2014 17:17:56 -0400
From: Carleton MacDonald <[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
Subject: [USMA:54355] Re: Good Question: Why are speed limits posted in
kilometers?
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Until the following happens in this country, things that affect everyday
life and not behind-the-scenes manufacturing, I don’t think we are a
whole lot on the way at all:
People measured in kg and m
Gasoline sold by the liter
Roads marked in km – only
Speedometers in cars showing km – only
Food in the stores sold in g and kg only – not lb, and all remaining
liquid food like milk in liters and ml only
A steak on a restaurant menu showing mass in grams and not ounces
etc.
Until then the average Joe Sixpak will never think anything has
happened.
Carleton
FROM: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] ON
BEHALF OF [email protected]
SENT: Monday, September 01, 2014 16:39
TO: U.S. Metric Association
SUBJECT: [USMA:54353] Re: Good Question: Why are speed limits posted in
kilometers?
Martin Morrison. I agree with what you say. But I find it a bit
strange that most people in this group still call it the Metric System,
when we really should be using the current name. The eleventh CGPM
(Conférence Générale des Poids et Mesures = General Conference on
Weights and Measures) in 1960 faced the question of what to call this
new reorganization and extension of measures. The name Metric System had
referred to the units for length and mass. What the CGPM had created was
much more comprehensive, and after some discussion, this new system was
called the International System of units or SI after its French
initials. For the first time, the world had not merely universal units,
but a universal system of units. The Metric System became
the International System the same year I was born, 1960, and after 54
years, you still refer to SI by its old name. It is beyond me! Does
anyone want to justify using the old name?
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Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2014 12:44:54 -0700 (PDT)
From: [email protected]
Reply-To: [email protected]
Subject: [USMA:54351] Re: Good Question: Why are speed limits posted in
kilometers?
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
"Typically, we don't see the metric system in use here in the U.S."
This statement in the article indicates why we need to do a much better
job of public education and stop talking about "converting" to the
metric system and instead talking about "completing" metrication.
The metric system is already 50% here. It is used in medicine,
pharmacy, alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, light bulbs, power,
radioactivity, and many other industries, while it is making headroads
into other industries like food, where new products are often
hard-sized to metric quantities.
I argue that the U.S. is no more "non-metric" than Canada and England,
for example, which countries have not completed their metrication
either. Let's stop talking about the U.S. being the only non-metric
country in the world along with two unknown little countries. We're on
the way to complete metrication, just like certain other countries that
haven't gotten there yet.
Martin Morrison
"Metric Today" Columnist
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On Mon, 1 Sep 2014, [email protected] wrote:
Good Question: Why are speed limits posted in kilometers?
http://www.nbc-2.com/story/24077659/good-question-why-are-speed-limits-posted-in-kilometers
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