Regarding the treadmill, there was a good one in the exercise club we
belonged to before we moved to a new locale which had a km/miles switch on
the front panel. I think it was a Quinton brand, which I had never heard
of, but it was also just about the best one in the place quality-wise.
HARRY
Now that the Federal Election has been called we have about 1 month to get the
attention of the parties, the leaders, or (at the very least) the candidates for your
riding and press them about Canadian metric conversion.
If you are tired of seeing pounds in the grocery store
If you are tired
Norman Welling wrote:
To do so the accuracy level ...
That should be "degree of precision."
My height happens to be 183 cm. That is accurate and also precise enough
for such a measure.
If I were to say that my height was 185.377 cm, that would be very precise
(excessively so), but it wouldn't
Ma Be wrote:
I wouldn't respond either. You would get my attention if you could show me
how going metric would make me money. If I don't deal with fractions anyway
and just muddle through FFU, so why would I care which method takes less
time or is easier. I want to know what is easier on
Norman Werling wrote:
This past Friday night an investigator referred to a distance of 10 meters
as the distance an accident victim had been thrown by the car.
Another drop!
I just downloaded the spec sheet for a Kodak overhead projector, and all
the units are in SI. I also recently returned
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Sent: Tuesday, 2000-10-24 18:08
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Subject: Yahoo! Clubs Metric America
How can we most expeditiously achieve
full metrication in the U.S.?
We want your opinion.
2000-10-24
This bit of humour is funny. And it uses metric.
Enjoy
John
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From: Homenuk, Mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, 2000-10-24 07:28
To: 'Barnes'; 'Chris Ricky'; 'David Volk'; 'Greg Michel'; 'John';
'Keith'; 'Paula Pavelka'; '[EMAIL
2000-10-24
Well, all I can say, if you didn't see IT, you must be blind.
John
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Brad Ackerman
Sent: Tuesday, 2000-10-24 18:20
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:8742] Re: FW: mutumbu
John Scvhweisthal wrote:
Some of you might get a kick out of this. Can you find the
error in one of these below?
1 million microphones: 1 megaphone
This one should be 1 million million (i.e., 1 trillion) microphones.
Bill Potts, CMS
San Jose, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
Well, then. Coca-Cola's answer would appear to destroy the last vestige of
any argument that government need not involve itself to have a successful
change to metric.
Norm
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From: "EQueries ICA" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: 2000October24 16:00
After reading a couple of posts about metric on TV shows I just can't help
but wonder if anyone likes any of the Star Trek series. On The Next
Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager you hear metric units in virtually
every episode. They never use King George III Units.
Also, I noticed metric
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000 19:52:47 -0500, Bob Price wrote:
After reading a couple of posts about metric on TV shows I just can't help
but wonder if anyone likes any of the Star Trek series. On The Next
Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager you hear metric units in virtually
every episode. They
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