I think though that the tide of American products is quickly changing to
metric. Has anyone noticed that most mouthwash is now hard metric?
Scope and Listerine and even the store brands next to them are in hard
metric sizes. It seems that within a few short years almost all liquid
products will
Please read this This is what happens when metric conversion is only partial.
Saskatchewan
CBC News
Bussing is a big issue for Trustees
REGINA - School trustees wrap up their annual convention in
Regina today, but they still have a
Well, they should kiss that one off! ;-)
(I take it that Canadian English doubles the "ess" for this word,
whereas American English does not.)
Jim
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Gregory Peterson wrote:
Please read this This is what happens when metric conversion is only partial.
This was official resolution being proposed during the Saskatchewan School Trustees
Association Convention 2000
(see page 10 in the .pdf document).
All Canadian on the List... we need to stop this from happening. Please send the SSTA
a message!
All Americans and International folks on the List,
No, Bill, they weren't allowed to use calculators. Those few who knew that a
cubic foot is 1728 cubic inches presumably multiplied 12 x 144 by hand.
People seem to pride themselves on their ability to do useless arithmetic.
-Original Message-
From: Bill Hooper
Subject: [USMA:9411]
Saskatchewan wants to teach acres in the schools? Tell them that acres are
NEVER taught in US schools, because they are way too complicated! Do they
really want kids to spend time memorizing that an acre is 43560 ft3, 160
rd2, 10 ch2, 1/10 fur2, 100 000 li2, 4840 yd2, or 1/640 mi2? Sheesh!
Interesting that the cask sizes Nat saw are quite close to the traditional
US units, hogshead (238 L) and butt (477 L). I left those off my table
because I had assumed they were extinct. Why would the winery go to all the
trouble of using gallons when wine is sold by the liter?
-Original
As we've noted before, US authorities recently considered and rejected a
request to allow products to be labeled in centiliters. I believe their
argument was that it is a needless complexity that would confuse consumers.
PRO
As Gustaf notes, the centiliter would certainly be simpler for labels,
Some of you know that I have begun studying French as a beginner, no less.
My Tuesday and Thursday classes each of 1 hour and 15 minutes began on
October 3.
I am not attempting to begin again the thread about whether to say height in
meters or centimeters except to make the following comment.
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 19:38:27 Gustaf Sjvberg wrote:
I am sick and tired of seeing cans measured in milliliters. The
ml-desease seems to have reached Sweden, influenced by import
legislations to certain countries.
Worst of all are the standard 33cL sodacans that are measured as "330
mL".
Dear
Also, how do non-USA postal authorities figure letter/package rates
(rate/mass units)? I assume that most, if not all, are by certain
blocks of grams (ie, rate/25 g).
--
Regards,
Michael G. Koerner
Appleton, WI
From October 2000 issue of ORBITAL DEBRIS QUARTERLY NEWS, NASA JSC,
http://www.orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/newsletter/v5i4/v5i4.html#news3
Note total lack of WOMBAT/FFU
Reentry Survivability Analysis of Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (EUVE)
By R. O'Hara
A reentry analysis of the Extreme
Gustaf,
The reason mL (or ml) is used in North America (in my opinion) is simply to make SI
and metric look friendlier! Currently we don't have hard-metric soda cans - I have
heard the arguement that this is because all the vending equipment is currently
designed to work with the
Chris,
This guy sounds like an American masquerading as a Englishman.
But I must tell you, last week I attended a business luncheon where I was
seated next to an Englishman who was a guest. He was charming and seemingly
intelligent. From the conversation I think he had quite a high-paying
For all those following this.. the resolution was passed so that the Saskatchewn
School Trustees Association will now begin discussions with the Ministry of Education
on reintroducting Imperial into the classroom.
greg
Thanks for your comments. I'm not sure what was reported on the
news -
Greg,
I would tend to connect this to the right wing conservatives in the Canadian
Alliance which, if I am correct, basically control politics in SK.
Norm
- Original Message -
From: "Gregory Peterson" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "U.S. Metric Association" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 2000November29
Ladies and Gentlemen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
I have just learned that you are considering the return of Imperial measures
to Saskatchewan's classrooms.
I am an American citizen and I plead with you not to do so. My wife and I
vacation in Canada so that we can have our metric "fix". I know that
Norman Werling wrote in USMA 9432:
I am not attempting to begin again the thread about whether to say height in
meters or centimeters except to make the following comment.
In my workbook on the subject shown, the «passeport» passport shows the
«taille» height handwritten as «1 m 85». I cannot
Opening sequence with the President on a test for an opening of a show with
calls to come in from school children. There is a question about the
temperature on Mars. He is supposed to pass it on to experts but he answers
and then the press secretary says he was wrong. He replies that he
I noticed that and was about to comment here myself. There's enough
"metric" going on in that show to make it unlikely to be a fluke. No
other prime time show I know of uses metric as frequently.
Also, the show continued to the point where the Galileo 5 mission
stopped communicating minutes
At 13:12 -0500 00/11/29, Norman Werling wrote:
In my workbook on the subject shown, the «passeport» passport shows the
«taille» height handwritten as «1 m 85». I cannot be certain if there is
truly spacing before and after the m because it is handwritten. I guess one
would say it out loud as
I have both British (EU) and Canadian passports. Neither shows height (or
mass).
Bill Potts, CMS
San Jose, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Nikolay O. Malyarov
Sent: November 29, 2000 10:15
To:
Greg,
I think that I cannot send them a message; it could even backfire. They may
say: "What has that to do with you in Europe? Mind your own business!"
So I better tell you what I think. Can they do that legally? What does the
law say about the formal teaching of Imperial in Canadian schools?
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