Re: Different Formats for Different Countries -- Variable Density

rafe b spake thus:

> "David Nebenzahl" <nobody@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
> news:45463d04$0$13806$822641b3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
>>And why, pray tell, would I want to do that? Just as I may ask why we
(the 
>>U.S., and even, for that matter, parts of the UK) should abandon our 
>>venerable measurement system in favor of the metric system? (Don't know
if 
>>you're aware of it, but there's *trememdous* oppostion to metrificiation

>>both here in the U.S. and abroad.)
> 
> Much more rational to measure things based on the
> standard of the Supreme Leader's body parts!

Well, at least it was based on *someone's* body parts, instead of an 
arbitrary, disembodied, intangible numerical concept.

> The USA has its head up its ass in far more ways
> than I can enumerate in one post...  But then again,
> we've long since given up being "reality based."

Certainly no argument there from this quarter, Rafe. But in this case, 
we're right: kind of like the stopped clock and all that.


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