Apologies to Bill Roush. I thought my reply was to everybody on the list. There are 45 million immigrants living in the U.S., presumably all familiar with the metric system.
What can we do to leverage this base of support for metrication? Seems like in some metro areas at least one English language TV station might do the weather in SI units. I just have to admit, we're too far gone in this country for people like us to ever effect any change. Even a losing army has a victory or two from time to time. We've had none. I was using my Cricut machine (a consumer level plotter that cuts vinyl decals) and a companion product called an Easy Press and it just kicked me in the gut how we have to be spoon fed "our" way vs. "their way" and how this attitude is deeply engrained in the American collective psyche. It's sad and seemingly insurmountable. Recently, I was dismissed from a job. No doubt due in part to advocating using the mm over the "5/64th of an inch" as a unit of measure to measure string height on guitars I wish I was being histrionic, but I swear to you, it's true. It even came up in the "discussion" as the manager was letting me go. The whole "This is America" thing blah blah blah. I even gently tried to show him that the -official- instructions from the manufacturer is 2 mm/1.5 mm. He got that crap eating grin on his face like I was the nut. Advocating for change is going to kill me, or at least make me sick. We seem to have no friends in high places to further the cause and frankly, we're all too nice. We're easy targets for ridicule and herd mentality and I'm just not resilient enough to stay the course. Go metric, America! What are you afraid of? _______________________________________________ USMA mailing list [email protected] https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma
