Maybe the USMA could endorse the idea?
http://www.change.org/ideas/view/nudge_the_us_to_adopt_the_metric_system
There is a link to endorse the idea on the right hand side of the page,
and that would mean a link on that page to the USMA website, and the
USMA people can put something to promote the idea of voting on
change.org to promote metrication in the USA.
You can even put the graphic that shows how many votes so far it has
received onto the USMA site.
David King
/Metric is British and best! Speak in English, Measure in Metric
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David wrote:
That's true. There's also one top (I believe top 10) idea that seems
to have been wasted. It is the idea to legalize marijuana, and it is a
waste because the Obama team has specifically stated that Obama does
not want to legalize marijuana. If that's one of the ideas I'm not
sure what they'll do. Since Obama doesn't want it they certainly
couldn't do anything with it.
Even if one fourth of the people in that Facebook group voted that
would be great. Is there some way for the admin or leader of the
Facebook group to send a mass message?
--- On *Tue, 1/6/09, Victor Jockin /<[email protected]>/* wrote:
From: Victor Jockin <[email protected]>
Subject: [USMA:42261] Re: change.org doubt
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Date: Tuesday, January 6, 2009, 8:31 AM
I agree with David, but it's also noteworthy how few votes there
are in general at this point. Supposedly the Facebook pro-metric
group has nearly 11,000 members (though most are not actively
participating). The leading idea on change.org has fewer than
3000 votes. So that's a reason to keep trying to recruit our
supporters.
Another thing I notice is that there are some strange items near
the top representing very specialized interests (raw milk,
hand-made toys). These people may be at organizations where they
can muster a few hundred votes with an e-mail blast. So the
process is probably not a good index of public opinion.
Let's send our own e-mail blasts to people we know, and keep this
issue front and center on the Facebook group.
*From:* David <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* 01/05/2009 8:00 PM
*To:* U.S. Metric Association <mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:* [USMA:42260] change.org doubt
I think change.org is a great idea and I was surprised to see that
we made the second round, mostly because we were in sixth place
just a mere day away from the end of the first round. Once I saw
that our votes doubled in one day I was so surprised and excited
that the idea made it.
However, and I hope this doesn't become a trend, but we are very
quickly sinking. Well, not really sinking, but we aren't moving
anywhere and other ideas are going up so much faster. Our place is
hovering at 51 now (and staying in that area) and we need 773
votes to make it into the top 10. Just a few hours ago that was
about half, just a mere 400 votes.
I don't want to make any doomsday prophecies, but right now it
isn't looking so good. But hopefully we'll get surprised again. I
think it would be great if we made it into the top 10. And if not,
this isn't the one and only chance to become metric.
