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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Announcement--new "Unicode" standard
Message-ID: <926@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 25 Feb 91 17:52:04 GMT
References: <39545@cup.portal.com> <1902@public.BTR.COM> <1991Feb24.164137.11897@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1991Feb24.175313.10206@Neon.Stanford.EDU> <1906@public.BTR.COM> <1991Feb25.090953.18672@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany
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In article <1991Feb25.090953.18672@Neon.Stanford.EDU> torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) writes:
>thad@public.BTR.COM (Thaddeus P. Floryan) writes:
>
>>Think back to why the metrification of the USA failed ... most of the WORLD's
>>production is in the USA based on OUR standard (crappy though the "English"
>>system of weights and measures may be).
>
>  Why did the metrification of the USA fail?  Since coming here 6
>months ago, it's one of the things that has really annoyed me... Why
>on earth would you cling to a system where below freezing means less
>than 32 degrees?  What possible reason is there for not changing to a
>Celsius temperature system?
>  I, for one, would like to see a push towards metrification in the
>US.

The version I heard about metrification is USA said that they chose
a different way of metric measures than Europe (or rest of the world).
So these so-called metric parts manufactured in USA still were not
compatible with those made in Europe! I find this silly, that they
didn't jump on the wagon but had to do their own (new, non-standard)
way, pretending it were standard and was indeed not. 

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Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel  // E-Mail to  \\  Only my personal opinions... 
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