I fear you have totally missed the point.
From: Michael-O <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: "U.S. Metric Association" <usma@colostate.edu>
CC: "U.S. Metric Association" <usma@colostate.edu>
Subject: [USMA:32676] Re: Brussels e-mail calls Metric Martyrs 'Luddites'
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 12:53:04 +0200
Kent K. Steinbrenner wrote:
Interesting article in /The Independent /on Wednesday, about a Eurocrat in
Brussels who sent an offensively-worded e-mail to one of the “Metric
Martyrs.” Although I’d be one of the first people to defend the
increasing use of SI in the U.K., or the U.S., or anywhere else for that
matter, I don’t think it helps “the cause” to fire off a nastygram to
someone on the other side. Whatever happened to reasoned discourse? Saying
“you luddites in england make me sick” /[sic]/ doesn’t exactly win points
in my book, even though I’m an SI supporter.
well I like the mail kinda:
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* youre a bunch of fucking luddites. Metric has to win cos thats what we
learnt at school. Long live England. long live metric, with 5 metric units
named after Uk scientists and 2 Uk directors of the metre bureau. The
imperialists are dead in the water ... you luddites in england make me
sick.
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He's right especially som any british scientists were honored and people
are rejecting it.
If I would be a Briton, I would and should be proud of that people like
Newton, Watt, Joule etc contributed so much to science.
bye
Mike