Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: rpw3%rigden.wpd@sgi.com (Rob Warnock) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Good For a Laugh: Polish Payphones Message-ID: <9668@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 12 Jul 90 05:29:39 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: Rob Warnock Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc., Mountain View, CA Lines: 20 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 478, Message 12 of 13 In article <9626@accuvax.nwu.edu> KLUB@maristb.bitnet (Richard Budd) writes: | Another example: In the early '80's when the US was floundering in its | attempt to convert to the metric system, I suggested that Congress | pass a law saying that on August 1, 1985, the US will use the metric | system for all measurements... Lest we forget: The metric system *is* now the official U.S. system for standards, and has been for quite some number of years. (The U.S. inch at some point in the process was re-defined to be *exactly* 2.54 cm.) It's just that we haven't yet faced up to killing off this unofficial but pervasive English system of measures... ;-} ;-} Rob Warnock, MS-9U/510 rpw3@sgi.com rpw3@pei.com Silicon Graphics, Inc. (415)335-1673 Protocol Engines, Inc. 2011 N. Shoreline Blvd. Mountain View, CA 94039-7311