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   From: lcraver@home.ca   
      
   On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 11:23:17 -0500, Doc O'Leary   
    wrote:   
      
   >In article ,   
   > Greg Goss  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Doc O'Leary  wrote:   
   >>   
   >> >As an aside, I always thought that a good way to get the US public into   
   >> >using the metric system would be to market the hell out of metric being   
   >> >a way to get *more*.  500 grams is *more* than a pound.  4 liters is   
   >> >*more* than a gallon.  100kph is *more* than 60mph.  Gluttony always   
   >> >wins in America.   
   >>   
   >> Don't you already use 2 litre pop bottles.   
   >   
   >No, but just because I'm not a fan of carbonated beverages.  We also   
   >have 9mm guns and plenty of gram-based drug traffic.  But it's not the   
   >same thing as widespread metric adoption.  Nothing that would give a   
   >time traveller from 50 years ago much trouble.   
      
   Agreed - though the NATO standard dates (I assume the months are   
   translated in non-English speaking areas) are 31Jan2013 or 31Jan13 so   
   that no one need question whether 01/12/12 refers to January 12th,   
   2012 or December 1st, 2012.   
      
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