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Pig,

I was never at those jobsites, so that, unfortunately, I probably never had the honor to meet your dad unless it was at a conference.

Carryann,

Don't be so cynical. I think that describes Scandinavian culture to the letter. I speak from first-hand experience and observation.

Jeff

On the contrary, larger industrialized nations have far larger pots of money to work with. They can build infrastructure a lot easier, for example, than smaller countries.

In many ways perhaps a smaller population is more maneageable, but I suspect that it is American culture which holds us back more from some of the incredible inroads in living that have been made in Scandinavia.

Size has nothing to do with some of it. For example, England went form the old British system of units to the metric, or International System of Units, decades ago. England, I am sure, even Not 2 would consider to be a larger, less "maneageable" country. They went over to the International System seamlessly, no muss, no fuss.

Everytime we attempted to do that here, the parochial mentality of your average American got in the way.

Consequently, there are still only three nations left in the world whose official system of weights and measures for commerce is not the metric system. We join Ethiopia and South Yemen as the third leg of that stubborn triumverate.

No, sir, Not 2. Size has little to do with what can be accomplished by a people determined to do something, and who are intelligent, articulate, worldly, and foresightful, in my opinion.

Jeff