On Mon, 07 Jul 2003 12:15:31 GMT, Gene Nygaard
wrote:



But above you mentioned the importance of communicating with the
public - why would you then force hundreds of millions of people to
learn a new system when the old one has served them perfectly well for
decades?

I guess you were sleeping when David Ball told us that the Canadian
public has made the change quite easily, and that he does use the
proper SI units when communicating with them--it is just the
meteorologists who have difficulty getting it right.

LOL. I never said that, Gene. I said standard units are
provided to the public. Nothing more. I also said that there is
nothing wrong with using standard units internally either. You seem to
have a corncob inserted in a certain orifice about that. Too bad. Deal
with it. The goal is effective communication of ideas between peers.
Anything that satifies that goal is OK with me.