OT: Re: Volunteers for a multilog patch?

[richard]

On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Dave Sill wrote:

> Peter Samuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> >    - we're metric, the USA isn't (and Canada still hasn't quite made
> >      up its mind yet, even after almost 30 years. And if you think
> >      otherwsie, why do they sell coffee/meat by the pound here?)
> 
> We do some metric. E.g., nutritional information labels are metric. UK
> is half and half, too.

no it is not -- i think you'll find that it's now illegal to sell goods in
'imperial' measures. Since moving to the USA I'm having to learn what all
of these strange measures are. Goods might be dual-labeled, but it's the
Metric measure which is 'standard'.

RjL