>Here is an interesting case of a "martyr" who suffered for upholding his convictions: http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2004/03/15/383251-ap.html

Holy cow. I'm accustomed to the metric system both from my work and my hobbies here in the US, but I like the freedom to use either metric or non-metric, for various different things. (And if I'm selling certain items on eBay, I may use *both* measure-systems to attract customers worldwide (for small items, anyway.) Looks like the Brits wised up on this too.

I see the world as "all-metric" someday, but maybe we shouldn't force it too fast, I guess I would say.

The one real problem metric has is Time. Yes, there are ways to measure time in metrical units, but not so easy to do - and we already have so many various calendar systems around the globe...