Don't forget that the United States of American is pretty much the ONLY country that still uses the "English" Measurement system rather than the Metric (and, IMHO, far easier to use) System, now called SI I believe. I have my own theories as to why, and it has nothing to do with profitability. We *ALMOST* had a law that would provide a 10-year period over which to convert from the American measuring system (English, but they don't use it) to SI in 1975 but it was made optional, unfourtunately. Everything I have seen demonstrates a laziness or something similiar on our parts in refusing to switch over to the effectively world-wide standard measurement system. Bleah. Sorry for the rant, Sabachka On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 01:01:36PM -0400, M. Adam Davis wrote: > It is easier to reach profitability with a new technology if you don't > force the consumer to throw away their old technology and re-buy working > tools and methods than it is to develop a completely new way of doing > something which denies them the use of their current tools and experience. -- sabachka-piclist@oddmagic.net The world's coming to an end. Log off and leave in an orderly fashion. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.