At 08:07 PM, 9 October 2002 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Joseph B. Reid wrote: > >>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. > >The major point that Jim was making was that once it is established that >the status quo is not harmful, then he cannot support a change mandated >by law. Even if that means that metrication never happens. The minor >point he was making is that he does believe it will happen eventually.
Yes, and yes! The only thing I would add is that I see our job as proselytizing, helping people understand that metric is better, then they WILL want it more and it WILL happen faster. With the rest of the world already metric, I think US metrication is inevitable. Jim
