It's called S-A-L-E-S, and has nothing to do with S-I.
"U.S. Metric Association" wrote:
>
> USMA Digest 482
>
> Topics covered in this issue include:
>
> 1) Re: NASA SI pressure
> by Gene Mechtly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 2) CNN leads with metric on ship sizes
> by "James R. Frysinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 3) Fwd: CNN leads with metric on ship sizes
> by "James R. Frysinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 4) Lehrer News Hour, 2001/03/10 @ 6 minutes after the hour
> by "Norman Werling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 5) Re: NPT vs. PG
> by [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 6) In(ch)decency by the Japanese comp. AIWA
> by "Han Maenen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 7) Re: NPT vs. PG
> by "Han Maenen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject: [USMA:11522] Re: NASA SI pressure
> Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 14:21:13 -0600 (CST)
> From: Gene Mechtly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: U.S. Metric Association <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> CC: Metric Forum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> On Thu, 8 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > ... shown on NASA TV. I saw the crew going back into the air lock.
> > Pressure in the suits and air lock was in psi. As 7 psi, 9 psi, 14.7 psi.
> > As you seem to have found a path to NASA, perhaps you could bring this
> > disgraceful and, I say, illegal use to their attention.
> Bob,
> Responding to your nudge, I downgraded psi *indirectly* in my
> recent e-mail to NASA's Chief Engineer.
> Let's hope he acts according to U.S. Law and NASA Policy by
> actively promoting SI and limiting waivers.
> Gene.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject: [USMA:11523] CNN leads with metric on ship sizes
> Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 16:07:21 -0500
> From: "James R. Frysinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: U.S. Metric Association <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Attached is a gif image provided by CNN at
> http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/sub.collision/session1.html
> regarding the Greenville/Ehime Maru collision. The image is only a bit
> over 10 kiB in size so most people should have no trouble displaying it
> inside Netscape or the like. The image shows the relative sizes of the
> two ships and gives their length over all (LOA) in meters and then in
> feet.
>
> Jim
>
> --
> Metric Methods(SM) "Don't be late to metricate!"
> James R. Frysinger, CAMS http://www.metricmethods.com/
> 10 Captiva Row e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Charleston, SC 29407 phone/FAX: 843.225.6789
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject: [USMA:11524] Fwd: CNN leads with metric on ship sizes
> Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 16:23:18 -0500
> From: "James R. Frysinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: U.S. Metric Association <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> This time, I'll actually attach the file. (Sorry, I've been doing 10
> rounds with my ISP people and I must have gotten distracted.)
>
> Jim
>
> ---------- Forwarded Message ----------
> Subject: CNN leads with metric on ship sizes
> Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 16:07:21 -0500
> From: "James R. Frysinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Attached is a gif image provided by CNN at
> http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/sub.collision/session1.html
> regarding the Greenville/Ehime Maru collision. The image is only a bit
> over 10 kiB in size so most people should have no trouble displaying it
> inside Netscape or the like. The image shows the relative sizes of the
> two ships and gives their length over all (LOA) in meters and then in
> feet.
>
> Jim
>
> --
> Metric Methods(SM) "Don't be late to metricate!"
> James R. Frysinger, CAMS http://www.metricmethods.com/
> 10 Captiva Row e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Charleston, SC 29407 phone/FAX: 843.225.6789
>
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
> --
> James R. Frysinger University/College of Charleston
> 10 Captiva Row Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
> Charleston, SC 29407 66 George Street
> 843.225.0805 Charleston, SC 29424
> http://www.cofc.edu/~frysingj [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cert. Adv. Metrication Specialist 843.953.7644
>
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>
> Subject: [USMA:11525] Lehrer News Hour, 2001/03/10 @ 6 minutes after the hour
> Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 21:33:23 -0500
> From: "Norman Werling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: U.S. Metric Association <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> CC: "US Metric Assn." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Lehrer News Hour:
>
> This evening at about 6 or 7 minutes after the hour, a reporter kept on
> referring to a 3-mile zone in Kosovo.
>
> I cannot believe for a millisecond that a fire-free zone would have been
> established using miles as a measure. I have to believe that in reality it
> is a 5 kilometer zone.
>
> Please verify this as I am certain this would be the case because even
> America's military uses kilometers. Please stop changing from the
> International System of Units to WOMBAT (Way Of Measuring Badly in America
> Today).
>
> I watch the Lehrer News Hour on Atlanta's Channel 8 from about 18:30 to its
> end and then I catch the first half when it is repeated on Atlanta's Channel
> 30 beginning at 19:00.
>
> Norman Werling
> Stone Mountain, GA
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject: [USMA:11526] Re: NPT vs. PG
> Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 17:00:36 +0000
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: U.S. Metric Association <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> On Wed, 7 Mar 2001 15:28:33 -0500 , Adrian Jadic
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >This refers to electrical pipe and not industrial plumbing pipe.
> >
> >I beleive it is a lot easier to change the standard for electrical
> >installations, as these ones are usually either installed new or just
> >removed and never have to be partially replaced because they leak.
> >
> >The electrical industry is already dominated by IEC standards as they have
> >proven to be superior to the NEMA ones. They must be moving "to the next
> >level" by upgrading the standard.
> >
> >Plumbing is different though. Maintenance work would become a nightmare of
> >adaptors etc. As much as I would like to see a replacement I doubt there
> >would be one. The only way, would be to invent a totally new plumbing system
> >with different sizes and/or attachments which is superior to the existing
> >one.
>
> If the UK can convert to a metric pipe system, I don't see why other
> countries (including European) should have so much difficulty.
>
> --
> Chris KEENAN
> UK Metrication Association: http://www.metric.org.uk/
> UK Correspondent, US Metric Association
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject: [USMA:11527] In(ch)decency by the Japanese comp. AIWA
> Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 19:10:39 +0100
> From: "Han Maenen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: U.S. Metric Association <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> To-day I was in a shop where TV's are sold and I saw the TV-SE2130 from the
> Japanese company AIWA. On the box the diameter of the screen was expressed
> as 21 inches (Dutch and English), pouces, pollici, pulgadas and Zoll. NO
> metric in sight. A sticker on the TV screen said 21", again with NO metric
> at all. &*#@$+%^@*!!!!!!!
> Japan is supposedly a metric nation and what do her companies do? They stab
> us in the back!
> This is the kind of thing that is being reported to the BWMA.
> However, and this would always be omitted by the BWMA: the shop had stuck
> information to the TV too and there was the diameter of the screen in cm,
> *without* inches. I am going to find the AIWA website for an e-mail address.
> Then I will send them a protest message see below).
>
> Of course, if the metric-only directive had been in force, AIWA could not
> have indulged in such antics. This abuse is one more reason to refuse ANY
> further extension in the future. I wonder whether AIWA was part of the
> coalition, I think they were.
>
> Han
>
> Sir,
>
> To-day I was in a TV-shop in the Dutch city of Nijmegen and I saw one of
> your TV's on sale, an SE2130.
> On the box the diameter of the screen was expressed as 21 inches (Dutch and
> English), pollici, pulgadas, pouces and Zoll. A sticker on the screen also
> said 21". The shop had also information stuck to that TV but they gave the
> screen size in the units we really use for measuring TV screens, in
> centimeters only.
>
> Please, explain to me why AIWA wants Europeans and other non-American
> peoples to adopt American measuring units. Isn't Japan, where your company
> comes from, a metric nation?
>
> I have never understood why any screen size should be expressed in this
> medieval unit called 'inch' anyway.
> Most English speaking nations have adopted the metric system by now.
>
> Please metricate your boxes, stickers and instructions, by replacing the
> inches in English by the diameter in cm with inches in brackets, like 54 cm
> (21") and in all the other languages by metric sizes only. No-one wants
> inches here.
>
> Yours sincerely,
>
> Han Maenen
> The Netherlands
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject: [USMA:11528] Re: NPT vs. PG
> Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 19:27:35 +0100
> From: "Han Maenen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: U.S. Metric Association <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Yes, we should do what Chris proposes, by repeating
> what we did in the nineteenth century: adopt the British standard pipes, but
> now with a difference!
>
> Han
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2001 6:00 PM
> Subject: [USMA:11526] Re: NPT vs. PG
>
> On Wed, 7 Mar 2001 15:28:33 -0500 , Adrian Jadic
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> This refers to electrical pipe and not industrial plumbing pipe.
>
> I beleive it is a lot easier to change the standard for electrical
> installations, as these ones are usually either installed new or just
> removed and never have to be partially replaced because they leak.
>
> The electrical industry is already dominated by IEC standards as they have
> proven to be superior to the NEMA ones. They must be moving "to the next
> level" by upgrading the standard.
>
> Plumbing is different though. Maintenance work would become a nightmare of
> adaptors etc. As much as I would like to see a replacement I doubt there
> would be one. The only way, would be to invent a totally new plumbing system
> with different sizes and/or attachments which is superior to the existing
> one.
>
> If the UK can convert to a metric pipe system, I don't see why other
> countries (including European) should have so much difficulty.
>
> --
> Chris KEENAN
> UK Metrication Association: http://www.metric.org.uk/
> UK Correspondent, US Metric Association
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