> To resurrect and add fire to the unit debate,
>here's an interesting web page. It's a little --
>check that, very -- extreme and defensive in its
>viewpoint. (I can think of a lot better things
>to get riled about.) Nonetheless, I agree with
>several of the core principles given.

I just love the waving American flag on the initial page. Gotta slam home the patriotism angle right away, ya know, so you can hook the rednecks. If it's got a FLAG on it, it's *GOT* to be good!

I just hate the argument that basically says "it's the way we've always done it, so lets keep doing it that way!".

Also, I love the part where he claims to be an engineer, but doesn't see the need for easy conversion between units. Yeah right.

Whatever. I have the Imperial system coded into my brain, and I don't feel the need to replace it whole-stock with the Metric system. But I don't see anything wrong with teaching my hypothetical children metric units exclusively, if that's what most of the rest of the world is going to be using.