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blake murphy wrote:
>i just wanted to pick a ridiculous exampe. *mad dog 20/20?


Yes, there are US-only suppliers.


>>sure. *you just do a (in my case, fuzzy) calculation in your head, or say
>>'1.75 liters is a big-ass jug.'


Quite. No drama.


>If you live in Canada it makes life a lot simpler since you don't have
>to check on any number of items to see if the volume is in US or
>Imperial gallons.


Quite. The only units that the British commonwealth and the USA agree
on are metric.


Proctor & Gamble gave a presentation on why they support the proposed
change to the FPLA so that it is no longer illegal to use metric-only
labels:
http://ts.nist.gov/WeightsAndMeasure...guaypg1102.pdf