Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: brochure templates for letter and A4 sizes

webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote:
> On 02/21/2013 12:11 PM, James Knott wrote:
> > webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote:
> > > The USA had a movement towards Metric, but it failed big-time.
> >
> > It failed because Ronald Regan canceled Jimmy Carter's plans to move 
> > to it.
> Economicsis the key.  We do have most things in the grocery store 
> listing both English and Metric measurements.  That is for economics 
> as well, since these items would not need different package designs 
> for the regions of the world that speak English and use metric.

Economics had nothing to  do with it.  Reagan was a "stick in the mud" 
conservative who didn't want change.  Economics would have meant moving 
to it, to keep up with the rest of the world.  As a result, the U.S. is 
stuck with an obsolete system that uses arbitrary units.  IIRC, there 
are only 3 countries in the world that don't use the metric system and 2 
of them are 3rd world.

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