Why do you transmit such FUD without doing some research? Carter's 1975 initiative, purely voluntary act, was a failure. Reagan signed the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988, which promised a more effective program for metrification. However, we Americans are a stubborn bunch, and we refuse to change to something in day-to-day use that works for us.
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 12:11 PM, James Knott <[email protected]>wrote: > webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote: > >> The USA had a movement towards Metric, but it failed big-time. >> > > It failed because Ronald Regan canceled Jimmy Carter's plans to move to it. > > > -- > For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected].** > org <users%[email protected]> > Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/**get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-** > unsubscribe/<http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/> > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.**documentfoundation.org/** > Netiquette <http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette> > List archive: > http://listarchives.**libreoffice.org/global/users/<http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/> > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
