> > Why? I personally despise the Imperial units
>>of force, energy, and power, but these are not
>>used outside of technical fields. When I'm
>>doing physics calculations, I use meters,
>>newtons, joules, and so forth.
>
> I feel I ought to apologize here. At the time
>that I wrote my previous, I hadn't seen your
>(Sam's) own post stating your "staunchly Imperial
>side of things", so I wouldn't have used such
>strong invective in describing my own position (I
>did use the word "idiotic" to describe Imperial
>:-(). I had felt that f2m had worded her/his
>case quite strongly, so I felt as free to respond
>in equally strong measure. But I could have, and
>should have, written otherwise.


Hey, don't appologise for having an opinion different from Sam's. I make an impassioned hobby of it, after all.

-- Dave