The long link did not work even with Facebook for me, but the following did work, without Facebook: http://www.iowastatedaily.com/opinion/article_445f120c-d0aa-11e4-86a1-9bb97de9119e.html?mode=jqm
The author (Clay Rogers) clearly has emotional issues and is unlikely to change his mind. The editors are listed here: http://www.iowastatedaily.com/home/contact_us From: Mark Henschel <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Reply-To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2015 3:01 PM To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: [USMA:54666] Iowa State editorial For those of you who are not on facebook, there was an article posted recently from the Iowa State University student newspaper that was very antimetric. Paul Trusten and I both responded. Here is my response: Sadly, the author of this article really has no convincing arguments as to why he prefers the customary system over the SI metric system. I get the feeling he really does not have much evidence and is looking around to find some argument that sounds plausible to support his position. The fact is that the Metric System is easy. It was designed on purpose to be simple. Everything, from designing and building houses and airplanes to mixing chemicals or food is much easier using metric units. Anyone who has actually done anything or created anything using both systems can tell quite quickly how much easier it is to do anything that involves any amount of calculating using a decimal system rather than a system based on, let's see, maybe 12, maybe 3, maybe 16, or maybe even 5,280. There is a reason the entire world uses the Metric System, and why more and more Americans are seeing the advantages of using the international system of measurements, now called SI. It is easy. SI is simple to use, and facilitates communication. As those much smarter than myself have already pointed out, there is no "if" in metrication. Metrication is only a matter of "when", not "if". Link to the article in question in case anybody else wants to respond: (http://www.iowastatedaily.com/opinion/article_445f120c-d0aa-11e4-86a1-9bb97de9119e.html?mode=jqm<http://l.facebook.com/l/KAQHkp6Vp/www.iowastatedaily.com/opinion/article_445f120c-d0aa-11e4-86a1-9bb97de9119e.html?mode=jqm>)
