From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Thu May 19 2005 - 09:26:25 CDT
On 19/05/2005 13:25, JFC (Jefsey) Morfin wrote:
> At 13:28 19/05/2005, Peter Kirk wrote:
> ...
>
>> The French may well reject the new European Constitution because it
>> seems too Anglo-Saxon - and we may reject it because it seems too
>> French!
>
>
> This is what politicians try to make us believe. We will both reject
> it for the same good reasons.
>
>> But we did accept this paper size system, and in fact before the
>> French did.
>
>
> As we pointed it here, this was a DIN proposition.
>
> This kind of universality in standardisation was more or less the rule
> until recently. We tried to look into the rationale rather than in the
> nationale of the things. ...
If only we would do the same with the European Constitution, and realise
that it is in the best interests of all of us.
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