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----- Original Message ----- From: "Aggie lewanda" <agat...@yahoo.com> To: "KR builders and pilots" <kr...@mylist.net> Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 1:21 PM Subject: RE: KR>Metric system [ NON_KR SUBJECT] > > --- Fraser McGregor <fa.mcgre...@qut.edu.au> wrote: > > What? Thinking in a different base system? If God had meant us to think in > > 12's, we would have 12 digits. The only numbers in the imperial system > > that stimulates a better understanding of math are 36-26-36 :-) Now back > > to planes------ > > > > Fraser, > > For the last century the United States of America has been the > absolute leader of the free world. The Kaiser, Hitler, Saddam > Hussein and the Soviets are long gone and the world is a better > place for it. > > Our business, industry and capital markets are the backbone of the > world. "Sound as a dollar" has passed into the lexicon of the > entire world. > > EVERYONE else either wants to come here, or to be like us. > President Ronald Reagan said once "It is time for us to stop > worrying what the rest of the world thinks about us and let the > rest of the world worry about what we think of them." > > Americans, and our borrowed English measuring system have > given the rest of the world it's standard of living. Without > Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Tom Edison, Donald Trump, Bill > Gates and MILLIONS like them, the rest of the world would > be savages freezing in the dark! Even foreigners like Tesla, > Einstein and Oppenheimer had to come to America and live under our > system for their genius to flourish. > > Now, sorry if I offend anyone but it seems just plain NUTS to > me that after all of the above, and much more, we are supposed to > kiss the asses of our intellectual, mental, moral and military > inferiors and adopt THEIR way of doing anything! > > At age 52 I have no plans to change. Many years ago in college > my sociology professor taught us about societies being "ethnocentristic". > The difference between myself and the cute little socialist sociology > professor was that she saw an "ethnocenric" society as a terrible > thing; while I on the other hand (once I learned what the word meant) > was damn proud of it! > > Warmest Personal Regards, > > Dean Allen > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software > http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > see KRnet list details at http://www.krnet.org/instructions.html > >
