Or he might ignore the email or skim quickly over it.Most of us get emails from people we don't know - usually we might inspect it at a very 'surface level' to see if it's important (relating to jobs, friends, announcements etc) or we might just delete it thinking it's auto-generated or 'nuisance mail' or phishing or 'mass emails on the weekend' for example. In the real world people don't have heart attacks when seeing imperial or metric lengths / weights / volumes / speeds / etc / etc. Normal people don't react that way - especially those who introduce themselves as being 'in the middle / on the fence' regarding the metric/imperial debate just a few weeks back. Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 20:11:00 -0700 From: jeremiahmacgre...@rocketmail.com Subject: [USMA:44755] Re: Is this a joke or is it supposed to be serious? To: usma@colostate.edu
Pat, >From the tone of his article, I don't think he will be too amused. He might >have a heart attack when he realizes how much metric there is in his life that >he never knew existed. Jerry From: Pat Naughtin <pat.naugh...@metricationmatters.com> To: U.S. Metric Association <usma@colostate.edu> Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2009 6:26:16 PM Subject: [USMA:44746] Re: Is this a joke or is it supposed to be serious? On 2009/04/18, at 9:18 PM, Han Maenen wrote:I was on the USMA site on the page 'Published articles about metric - 2009' and found this: Metric is no way to measure By Glynn Moore| Columnist Augusta (Georgia) Chronicle, 2009-Mar-16, 1p., Moore,G.; Metric is no way to measure. [http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2009/03/16/moo_514811.shtml] I can hardly believe that an intelligent person can spout such trash. All the old scare mongering canards are back again like:A body temperature of 37.77 degrees, converted from 101.8 degrees Fahrenheit - too accurate.A weatherman predicting 26.7 C = 80 degrees Fahrenheit. That is new to me: nature has standardized the weather to the Fahrenheit scale (and I also suppose to the inHg and the inch of precipitation). Using metric the weatherman would predict 27 degrees of course.A speed limit of 55 mph equates to 88 km/h. In metric it would be 90 km/h."As globalization continues, a football field is destined to become 91.44 meters long". Of course, if American football should go metric one day, it would be wile to move to a 100 m field. Although soccer still uses soft converted measurements. Not one valid argument against metric, just garbage. Maybe is this supposed to be funny. Han Dear Han, I have just sent a copy of the article, Don't use metric', for his amusement. See http://www.metricationmatters.com/docs/DontUseMetric.pdf Cheers, Pat NaughtinPO Box 305 Belmont 3216,Geelong, AustraliaPhone: 61 3 5241 2008Metric system consultant, writer, and speaker, Pat Naughtin, has helped thousands of people and hundreds of companies upgrade to the modern metric system smoothly, quickly, and so economically that they now save thousands each year when buying, processing, or selling for their businesses. Pat provides services and resources for many different trades, crafts, and professions for commercial, industrial and government metrication leaders in Asia, Europe, and in the USA. Pat's clients include the Australian Government, Google, NASA, NIST, and the metric associations of Canada, the UK, and the USA. See http://www.metricationmatters.com/ or to get the free 'Metrication matters' newsletter go to: http://www.metricationmatters.com/newsletter to subscribe. _________________________________________________________________ Share your photos with Windows Live Photos – Free. http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/134665338/direct/01/
