I plan to keep my copy of the almanac. The only reason I bought it was
that I saw the metric article while browsing. However, I shall indeed
write the publisher to tell him/her/it that this was both my first, and
last, purchase of their product, and why this is so, perhaps appealing
to some
I posted a query on the Usenet group eunet.aviation and got the
following reply:
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I'd appreciate it if people could tell me the usage of metric units v.
imperial units for aviation across Europe. I've heard conflicting
stories about
2000-11-25
This reminds me of something I saw in the store this morning. I went to a
local cheap discount store in our area called Marcs. Marcs sells over stock
items, discontinued items and everything else at low prices. As I was
scanning the aisles I noticed they had Vaseline Petroleum
2000-11-25
This just goes to show everyone, that no matter where you go in the country
you will see the same attitudes. People may vary in their beliefs on
different subjects, but when it comes to what America is and who America's
enemies are, it is all the same.
John
-Original
2000-11-25
This is not really the same thing. Americans who live in Europe or
elsewhere and have adopted local customs will eventually feel comfortable
with them. This does not apply to Americans who never leave the country, or
those that go overseas on bus tours. People who are chauffeured
2000-11-25
The facts are in, Wine makes you smarter. So, drink more wine. And
remember, wine is sold in rational metric sizes. Wine is a metric product.
John
Brain Ages Well with Wine, Japan Research Says
Reuters
2000-11-25 03:51 h
TOKYO (Reuters) - Wisdom comes with age but the odd
Interesting note - I was on an upstate NY winery tour last weekend (Seneca
Lake - "Deck the Halls" weekend) and noticed the casks in the wineries were
all metric (labeled 225L, 500L, etc). Unfortunately it looked like the
winery record keeping (handwritten labels, etc) were still gallons.
Nat
The discussions about Americans' attidudes being overly nationalistic and
"America is always right" (there is a lot of truth in what John wrote!)
reminds me of an article I read about how difficult is is for Americans to
renounce American citizenship. While it is one thing to become a citizen
of
John Schweisthal in USMA 9340 wrote:
In another e-mail she asked: "just a blink from France! what hour ist it in
Ohio? and what day? here it's fryday 24, and the end of the day of work
:6.10 PM !
Sylvie
Here she distinctly wrote 6:10 PM instead of 18:10 h. I didn't think am/pm
was known in
From: "Hillger, Don" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [USMA:9271] FW: Metric conversion
Can anyone on the list tell me if there is a metric-to-English
calculator that will give a non-decimal readout in feet and inches?
My inclination is NOT to assist someone who wants to convert from metric to
I agree with Scott's observation (below) that our Florida election problems
can be viewed as a signal-to-noise ratio problem. In my earlier suggestion
that there is ALWAYS some error in ANY measurement or count, that error
would be the noise in Scott's analysis, while the real difference in total
This is an interesting measurement problem. According to the central
value theorem, if the process used to count is susceptible to random
errors, then the error ("noise") is some number times the square root of
the number counted. The question is, what number should that square root
be multiplied
I have taken a cursory look at a site that has been reviewed in Science.
The site can show, among other things, fracture zones, slip faults, etc.
but is a bit slow; one must be patient. The scale provided along with
the map is in kilometers only.
www.aquarius.geomar.de/omc/omc_intro.html
Jim
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