But you ignore my point. You, like others on this list are residents of
another country demanding we change something. Yes, I understand that's a
page out of the American playbook, but I don't support our use of that
either. You demand we metrify to make you life easier. Gee, thanks, why
don't we demand you convert to imperial units and see how YOU like it?
Bill Pearce
From: Jan Steinman [mailto:Jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 2:06 AM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [OM] Reminiscing [was: Re: iPhone et al]
> From: "Bill Pearce" <bs.pearce@xxxxxxx>
>
> Well, lets see, You live in Canada, don't you? That means you really don't
> have an oar in the pond.
Those who live inside hegemony are incapable of seeing it.
Yea, right... Canada's totally independent when it comes to Metric vs
Imperial. Like when Ontario, being fiscally responsible for its citizens'
health (unlike the US, which makes more tax money when people are
unhealthy), decided to jack up the tobacco tax to constrain smoking.
What happened instead was a massive black market in cheap cigarettes,
streaming across the border. Ontario threw up its hands in despair, and
lowered the taxes.
Pierre Trudeau said trying to govern next to the US was like "sleeping with
an elephant." As Canada's single biggest trading partner, Canada knuckles
under when their US customers want their widgets in Imperial units.
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It is the essence of political tragedy to make the perfect the enemy of the
good. -- Aristotle
:::: Jan Steinman, EcoReality Co-op ::::
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