My recommendations:Deletes: film (both movie and still), VCR tapes, 90 mm
floppies as obsolete
Adds:Also ball point and gel pens specify point in mm, like pencil leads.In the
refrigerated juice case, the 1.75 L carafe has largely replaced the half
gallonHardware stores generally have a good selection of metric fasteners
(necessary to mount your flat screen tv (VESA mount) and for "some assembly
required" items if you are short a screw.
I've never heard of a 26 km race. Is that an error or a test? Marathon is 42.2
km (approx), half marathon is half that.
From: James <[email protected]>
To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 2:56 PM
Subject: [USMA:54744] Re: Interview for "Here and Now" NPR program
> They "think metric" without knowing it. We (USMA) really need to take this
> fact into account when we develop our arguments.
Pat Naughtin and I, with suggestions from others, developed a list of
instances in which Americans use the metric system in their everyday
lives. I think USMA's website used to post that list but I cannot find
it. So I provide this link to it on my website:
http://www.metricmethods.com/metricmoments.php
I probably should update it a bit and I'm open to suggestions. The ones
about 90 mm disks and VCR tapes might be removed now.
Jim
On 2015-06-10 10:25, [email protected] wrote:
> The problem I see is that we (USMA) still get bogged down way too much
> in mathematical and technical and historical technicalities, which a
> mostly science-ignorant population tunes out. In this interview, the
> practical argument was relegated to the very last few seconds, after
> lots of talk about abstruse (to the general public) metric units,
> Napoleon, and Roman miles -- fascinating in themselves and encouraged by
> the interviewer, but of no practical interest to the audience. I can
> just hear that audience thinking: "That's why I don't like the metric
> system. It's too confusing."
>
> I STRONGLY BELIEVE THAT WE NEED TO GET OFF THIS TRACK OF TRYING TO
> PERSUADE PEOPLE THAT THE METRIC SYSTEM IS BETTER FOR LOGICAL REASONS.
> PEOPLE ARE NOT INTERESTED IN THAT ARGUMENT.
>
> Instead, we need to emphasize the ECONOMIC and FINANCIAL advantages of
> completing the national conversion to metric. I say "completing,"
> because we are 50% converted already, and there is no going back. If we
> complete the conversion, we become competitive worldwide and can take
> advantage of billions of dollars of extra commerce.
>
> But people don't realize that we are already 50% metric. One of the
> revelations that has come to me during this recent discussion is that
> most people don't recognize the metric system when they see it. When
> they buy 500 mg of aspirin, they don't know that the milligram is a
> metric unit. When they buy a 2-liter Coke, they don't realize that the
> liter is a metric unit. When they buy a 3500-lumen CFL, they don't
> realize that the lumen is a metric unit. They "think metric" without
> knowing it. We (USMA) really need to take this fact into account when
> we develop our arguments.
>
> People are not moved by philosophical arguments now. They are moved by
> practical arguments. If you tell them that metric means a job for them
> or a higher salary, they will convert overnight! Remember the motto:
> "Metric Means Jobs and Money." --Martin Morrison, USMA Columnist
>
>
>
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