Please, Bill and John, allow me to jump on this as this sparked a new idea for us here.
I think we could use what John commented below as a real weapon against ifp supporters! Yes! How? Simple, confront them on their knowledge of ifp, pose simple questions to them to test whether they really know 'their stuff'. Outright embarass them with the realization that they actually have no clue about what they defend! I'd like to believe that this would be a marvelous strategy! And I guess I'll put it to the test next time I encounter those fierce ifp goons or sympathizers... ;-) Marcus On Thu, 14 Mar 2002 00:14:22 kilopascal wrote: >2002-03-14 > >Bill, > >Read what I said in USMA 18741. > >If I may expand on what on was saying there. We on this list server say the >public doesn't know FFU. And they may not, except for a few basic units. >But, they think they know FFU. And thus they are not going to be anti-FFU. > >There is a big difference between not knowing something and admitting to not >knowing it and to not knowing something or not knowing it well, yet claiming >to know it. > >John > > > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Bill Potts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Wednesday, 2002-03-13 19:05 >Subject: [USMA:18745] Re: Missing Middle > > >> In John's defense, he does claim that most (American) people don't >actually >> know FFU -- but that they are NOT anti-FFU. >> >> You are, uncharacteristically, making a leap of logic. >> >> Bill Potts, CMS >> Roseville, CA >> http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On >> Behalf Of Jim Elwell >> Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 15:35 >> To: U.S. Metric Association >> Subject: [USMA:18743] Re: Missing Middle >> >> >> At 06:12 PM 3 March2002 -0500, kilopascal wrote: >> >Would be...Could be....if....maybe. You could say that about any >subject. >> >If everybody had been educated in 3 languages instead of just one, we >would >> >all be tri-lingual too. But, we weren't, and so we aren't. And >extending >> >the logic to metric, the people are not knowledgeable of metric and >> >therefore oppose it. >> >> By John's logic: >> >> (A) if you don't know French, you are anti-French >> (B) if you don't know German, you are anti-German >> (C) if you don't know Russian, you are anti-Russian >> (D) if you don't know Swahili, you are anti-African >> (E) etc. >> >> If you believe John, then you must think most people are a bunch of >> racists, as well as being anti-metric. >> >> Jim Elwell >> >> > > Is your boss reading your email? ....Probably Keep your messages private by using Lycos Mail. Sign up today at http://mail.lycos.com
