Hi Markus and All: The need of the hour - may be I too optimistic, remain the Socio-scientific and Politico-Economic *THINK TANKS* to unite and ask themselves: What can we contribute to Metrication and/or SI, so the repeat of French experience does not happen! Brij Bhushan Vij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>From: Markus Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [USMA:21325] Re: Metrication pressure group activities >Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 14:17:13 +0100 > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 2002-07-22 10:46 UTC: > > I think the reason for the above is that most of us recognize that the >US > > government is going to have to spearhead it (as has been the case in > > Australia, the UK, Canada, and everywhere else), and this takes a level >of > > political will and courage that does not exist in this country today. >(See: > > previous posts about Congress only listen to the whiners.) > >So what is needed is more whining, again and again and again. A >metrication pressure group. And resources to assist those who might be >interested in spending a bit of time for lobbying. I'm thinking for >example of web pages with > > - lists of the key legislative and executive decision makers > and their contact details (email, fax, postal, phone) > > - suggested petition texts that can be easily faxed and emailed > to these decision makers by citizens who don't have the time to > phrase their own > > - metric profiling of politicians that are up for election, e.g. > a questionary about metrication plans sent to election candidates > and a media-effective publication of the replies received > > - any other form of activity that reminds political candidates > that their views on metrication will be subject to interest group > scrutiny, encouraging them to develop such a view and keeping the > issue on the political agenda > >Is anything like this already available? > >Markus > >-- >Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK >Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/> _________________________________________________________________ Join the world�s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com
