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-----------UN Resoultion 24 states the following-----------

Metric System
A resolution to reduce barriers to free trade and commerce.


Category: Free Trade
Strength: Strong
Proposed by: Wortham

Description: Science has already coverted over to the far superior metric system from all other localized forms of measurement. I propose that all countries within the United Nations be converted to the Metric standard. This would include all official research, roadways, and labeling. This would breakdown barriers in sharing of research and in the international marketplace. Tourism would also be benifited from the common standard. This proposal would mainly help countries of poor economic standing, whereas the common standard would improve their ability to compete in the international market place. Science would also benifit from a unifide standard to taught in public schools, no conversions would need to be made.

Votes For: 8,629
Votes Against: 5,227

Implemented: Mon Jul 28 2003

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----Please Read why this should be repealed----

The Planet Federation proposes to repeal this act on four basic grounds.

1- The UN is not a international dictatorship it is ment to be a guiding body for the international community it does not have the right to decide what its members will say or how they or what kind of measurment system they use.

2- This resoultion makes it very difficult for new nations to join the UN because they must spend vast amounts of money convering their entire nations to this system.

3- Many advanced nations today have far simpiler and better ways of measuring things and it is the opinion of this nation that they should be allowed to measure however they want with whatever they want without facing punishment from the UN.

4- If this law was enacted with measurments why wasnt it enacted with currency, or a national symbol? Beacuse the UN would lose many members because they owuld fell like there rights as an independent nation were being tampered with.

In Conclusion i propse that the Un repeal this act it is a violoation of the countires rights as an independent nation and therefore has no place in an international institution. Espically one as great as the United Nations.


Please Post and tell me weather you agree with this repeal act or not ive already posted this in my regional forums and am wiating their position on this issue. Please let me know with by tlelgram or by posting on this thread.

-----------UN Resoultion 24 states the following-----------

Metric System
A resolution to reduce barriers to free trade and commerce.


Category: Free Trade
Strength: Strong
Proposed by: Wortham

Description: Science has already coverted over to the far superior metric system from all other localized forms of measurement. I propose that all countries within the United Nations be converted to the Metric standard. This would include all official research, roadways, and labeling. This would breakdown barriers in sharing of research and in the international marketplace. Tourism would also be benifited from the common standard. This proposal would mainly help countries of poor economic standing, whereas the common standard would improve their ability to compete in the international market place. Science would also benifit from a unifide standard to taught in public schools, no conversions would need to be made.

Votes For: 8,629
Votes Against: 5,227

Implemented: Mon Jul 28 2003

______________________________________________________________________________________
----Please Read why this should be repealed----

The Planet Federation proposes to repeal this act on four basic grounds.

1- The UN is not a international dictatorship it is ment to be a guiding body for the international community it does not have the right to decide what its members will say or how they or what kind of measurment system they use.


Please reread the UN FAQ. The NS UN is not the RL UN.



2- This resoultion makes it very difficult for new nations to join the UN because they must spend vast amounts of money convering their entire nations to this system.

"Vast"? We spend more on coasters and sporks.



3- Many advanced nations today have far simpiler and better ways of measuring things and it is the opinion of this nation that they should be allowed to measure however they want with whatever they want without facing punishment from the UN.


So?



4- If this law was enacted with measurments why wasnt it enacted with currency, or a national symbol? Beacuse the UN would lose many members because they owuld fell like there rights as an independent nation were being tampered with.


No, because it was about measurements. The UN cannot regulate a national symbol or currency.



In Conclusion i propse that the Un repeal this act it is a violoation of the countires rights as an independent nation and therefore has no place in an international institution. Espically one as great as the United Nations.

Please Post and tell me weather you agree with this repeal act or not ive already posted this in my regional forums and am wiating their position on this issue. Please let me know with by tlelgram or by posting on this thread.

You have no arguement to present.

The Planet Federation proposes to repeal this act on four basic grounds.

1- The UN is not a international dictatorship it is ment to be a guiding body for the international community it does not have the right to decide what its members will say or how they or what kind of measurment system they use.
Please make sure that you have someone proof read in future - this is very difficult to read. Spelling, grammar and punctuation can help a proposal immeasurably.
Other than that, there is the fact that the UN is entirely within its rights to tell member states what to do - indeed, that's what it does with every resolution.

2- This resoultion makes it very difficult for new nations to join the UN because they must spend vast amounts of money convering their entire nations to this system.
I don't agree with you here - I don't believe that there has been any significant change in membership numbers as a result of this resolution.

3- Many advanced nations today have far simpiler and better ways of measuring things and it is the opinion of this nation that they should be allowed to measure however they want with whatever they want without facing punishment from the UN.
Can you back this up with evidence? As far as I am aware, the SI system of measurement is the most scientific system yet devised. If you can provide evidence of a generally used system better than SI, please do so.

4- If this law was enacted with measurments why wasnt it enacted with currency, or a national symbol? Beacuse the UN would lose many members because they owuld fell like there rights as an independent nation were being tampered with.
No, nothing of the sort. The UN isn't allowed to institute a common currency, symbol, flag, animal, or anything else like that. It's in the UN FAQ.

In Conclusion i propse that the Un repeal this act it is a violoation of the countires rights as an independent nation and therefore has no place in an international institution. Espically one as great as the United Nations.
Well, I hope I've made my point - I don't agree with you. But please, make sure with future proposals/repeals to find someone to proofread - a proposal that is easy to read will get more votes than one that consists of long unbroken sentances.

OOC, but relevant:

I'm American, and as such, I've been trained almost exclusively in the non-SI measurements. I have to be careful around who I say that my ideal weather involves temperatures near eighty degrees. I'm lucky that my background in science has at least helped me learn SI measurements reasonably well; I can now say that my ideal temperature outdoors is around twenty-eight degrees without having to think about it too much. Distance still eludes me, and I often have to convert (especially for things like a person's height, where SI units are sufficiently small that I make significant errors).

Ultimately, I consider any decimal system of measurement to be superior to the nightmares of more outmoded systems that still require a calculator to go, for example, from miles per hour to feet per second (the factor, BTW, is 22 mph = 15 ft/s). Of course, I don't use the standard prefixes with time, instead going with seconds, minutes, hours, and so on. I do this because it works throughout the world, and the last time "metric time" was tried, it was at the height of the French Revolution, and it failed utterly.
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Krioval sees no compelling reason to undo this resolution. It makes measurements far simpler, especially when all units are measured in powers of ten. While the conversions between systems of measurement are difficult, that is far less onerous when a nation uses a single form of measure.

----Please Read why this should be repealed----

The Planet Federation proposes to repeal this act on four basic grounds.

1- The UN is not a international dictatorship it is ment to be a guiding body for the international community it does not have the right to decide what its members will say or how they or what kind of measurment system they use.

Actually, it is an international dictatorship of the majority of its members. You volunteer to be dictated to when you join. The UN does have the right to decide what kind of measurement system its members will use and has executed that right.

2- This resoultion makes it very difficult for new nations to join the UN because they must spend vast amounts of money convering their entire nations to this system.

So what? If you're going to join a group, you should check them out first and see what costs they may have as part of membership. Not doing so is your own fault.

3- Many advanced nations today have far simpiler and better ways of measuring things and it is the opinion of this nation that they should be allowed to measure however they want with whatever they want without facing punishment from the UN.

Most of the advanced nations I have met use the metric system. Keep in mind I measure "daily kilometers" put on my ships in lightyears.

4- If this law was enacted with measurments why wasnt it enacted with currency, or a national symbol? Beacuse the UN would lose many members because they owuld fell like there rights as an independent nation were being tampered with.

Actually, because doing such is against the rules. The UN has never really given a damn if it loses members.

In Conclusion i propse that the Un repeal this act it is a violoation of the countires rights as an independent nation and therefore has no place in an international institution. Espically one as great as the United Nations.

You chose to give up those rights when you joined. This arguement doesn't hold simply because of that.

Please Post and tell me weather you agree with this repeal act or not ive already posted this in my regional forums and am wiating their position on this issue. Please let me know with by tlelgram or by posting on this thread.

To be honest, this shows you have no clue about even the basics of the rules. Read them first and then attempt this.

Prime minister---

We formerly apoligize about the following above. It seems the PM's little brother was on the command consol last night and having no clue what he was doing proposed this. I done even have enough votes to repeal anthing

Truly sorry
Prime minister of the planet federation.