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

It's enforced too slow... you know, after four years here, I've just today found how are the map ratios expressed (at least at middle school level). Instead of simple 1:1000 or 1:1000000 or something like that, it's 1mi:1in... I mean, which other system of measurement requires names of units in a ratio where both units are of the same kind?

>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...

For starters, my dream is that America would once confess that day has 24 hours, and stop that ridiculous AM and PM - where the "AM" doesn't mean "before the noon" (nor does "PM" mean "after). When is 12:30 AM? Twelve hours and thirty minutes before the noon (ante meridiem)? Nope, it's actually 0:30. And 12:45PM is not 12.75 hours after the noon (post meridiem), it's 0.75 after it.

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