On Wed, 9 Oct 2002 13:34:09 -0400, "Joseph B. Reid"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>Jim Elwell wrote in USMA 22542:
>>
>>If customers hate buying in pounds, if he has obsolete equipment, if 
>>he wants to still "ride a horse," why do we need to prosecute him?
>>
>>He will go out of business on his own.
>>
>
>Canadian experience indicate that this won't happen.

And if you read The Weights and Measures of England (R D Connor) you
will find several examples of (now long obsolete) units that required
the law to be further strengthened because traders continued to use
them.

Chris


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