Re: Different Formats for Different Countries -- Variable Density

Chris Hills spake thus:

> It is irrelevant as the whole world is metric apart from *some parts* of

> the USA.

Huh? Where are the "other parts" of the US that have gone metric? I know 
of none. Please enlighten me.

> To come back to the original questions on paper the whole world uses A4 
> etc including the parts of the US that need to work internationally.

I challenge you to find any business in the US, any office, that 
*doesn't* use 8-1/2" x 11" paper in their office printers, for 
correspondence, billing, etc. I have *never* seen anyone here who uses 
A4. It's a virtually unknown paper size here. Where are you getting your 
information?

> It is only time before the fits in with the rest of the world.

Maybe.

> BTW I did hear that just after the US announced that it was building a 
> Communist-Berlin style Iron Curtain wall between the US and Mexico the 
> Canadians started surveying for a wall on their southern border too. :-)

They ought to, if they're smart.

Just for the record, I share your antipathy for this "separation 
barrier", which is just as wrong-headed as the Berlin Wall, or, more 
pointedly, the Israeli wall around the Occupied Territories. But that's 
a separate rant for another day.


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