Re: Different Formats for Different Countries -- Variable Density B&W Film

In message <vvgfk2pmljev7lb8et2dkl3h0iski0cq1c@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, John 
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>On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 10:00:57 -0800, David Nebenzahl
><nobody@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>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.)
>
>
>In short the metric system is far more precise and natural than using
>any other common set of measurements.

Actually the reasoned justification is irrelevant. As the metric system 
and in particular the paper sizes are in use world wide (including in 
parts of the USA)  why use a different and dying set of systems.

If you look at the comments and references in this discussion you will 
find that even in the USA the metric system and ISO paper sizes are in 
use. It is just that it is not in wide spread use as it is in every 
other country in the world.

The world has standardised we just need the last few people in the US 
to get with reality.

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