Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice paragraph styles exported to other software/formats?

       so some days you spend more time viewing the scenery, huh?  ;-)



On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Tom Davies <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

Hi :)
> I think our cars show both too.  I think road signs only show miles.
> Errr, i am a cyclist so any distance away just seems forever away until i
> reach it.  60 miles might take just a few hours one day but then an 8mile
> might be unfeasible another.  Bit of an exaggeration of course.
> Regards from
> Tom :)
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> From: James Knott <james.knott@rogers.com>
> To: LibreOffice <users@global.libreoffice.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, 27 August 2013, 19:08
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice paragraph styles exported to
> other software/formats?
>
>
> Ruth Ann wrote:
> > Metric just never caught on here in the USA. And I noticed that as the
> > signs were replaced, the news ones just gave the distance in miles again.
>
> You can thank Reagan for that one.  Peanut Carter had implemented a plan
> to convert, but Reagan killed it.  This was the same period as when
> Canada switched.
> > Oh, and our cars still do show the speed in both miles per hour and
> > kilometers per hour - but I think that is probably just in case we
> > happen to visit Canada (who has gone metric, I think) :-)
>
> Both Canada and Mexico along with every other country an American can
> drive to, uses Km.  The U.S. is stuck with 2 third world countries as
> the last holdouts.  How does it feel to have the U.S. on par with
> Liberia and Myanmar (Burma).
>
> Regardless, thanks to world trade, more and more U.S. companies are
> having to work with the metric system, if they want to sell elsewhere.

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