[Info-vax] Anyone in the DC area interested in an Integrity?

[Main, Kerry]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com [mailto:info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com] On
> Behalf Of Richard B. Gilbert
> Sent: March 4, 2009 11:50 PM
> To: info-vax at rbnsn.com
> Subject: Re: [Info-vax] Anyone in the DC area interested in an
> Integrity?
> 
> Glen Herrmannsfeldt wrote:
> > Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
> > (snip)
> >
> >> There are also issues of climate.  We have about an inch of snow on
> >> the ground here in New Jersey.  I suspect that most of Canada is
> >> measuring snow-fall in feet rather than inches.
> >
> > I would expect them to measure it in meters or centimeters.
> > Canada is metric like just about all the rest of the world.
> > Even England is metric, and we still call our units 'English'.
> >
> >  > The snow here may last for
> >> another two or three days.  Canada?  Weeks or months!
> >
> > -- glen
> >
> 
> I don't expect the U.S. to "go metric" in my lifetime.
> 

Migrating to metric is not something one does overnight.

You start out teaching it at entry level school grades. By the time the
grade 1 graduates, they are fully fluent in metric and laugh at people
who sat "feet" and "inches".

Course, until the US finally accepts they need to compete in a global 
world, the chances of this even starting is nill to zero.



Regards

Kerry Main
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