The official name is International System of Units or SI units for short. Let us NOT make up confusing alternate names. Ask them if they use SI units. If they give you a blank look, they don't know what they are and don't use them, or (probably) don't use them properly. If necessary, you could clarify that is the proper name for the "modern metric system" as opposed to the obsolete metric system with cgs units, steres, kilogram-force, myriameters and the like.
________________________________ From: "a-bruie...@lycos.com" <a-bruie...@lycos.com> To: U.S. Metric Association <usma@colostate.edu> Sent: Wed, March 13, 2013 8:17:37 AM Subject: [USMA:52503] RE: (4) Ten reasons to hate... Oh, this discussion got me to thinking the next industry expo that we have here, that I should attend, even though I am no longer working as a toolmaker, and ask every vendor, if they are working in and or only Metric, and if not, why. Thats Metric with a capital M, we do not want to confuse with metric, the math definition..... ; ) Bruce E. Arkwright, Jr Erie PA Linux and Metric User and Enforcer I will only invest in nukes that are 150 gigameters away. How much solar energy have you collected today? Id put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we dont have to wait til oil and coal run out before we tackle that. I wish I had a few more years left. -- Thomas Edison♽☯♑
