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Chris KEENAN
UK Metrication Association: http://www.metric.org.uk
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Good letter, Chris.
Congratulations.
Bill Potts, CMS
San Jose, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
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Yes Chris, a good letter, but what does the following sentence mean?
In 1970 I sat the first all-metric GCE O levels.
Also, what were the entire contents of the letter Dr John Whittaker (letter,
December 20)? I tried searching the site for an archive of this letter, but
no luck.
This is a wonderful example of how people refuse to change.
"I don't care what the new number is... I like calling it 'Number 7'".
There are obviously two groups of people in the world... those who can
handle change and those who can't.
Unfortunately those who can't tend to be the majority.
Have
My wife gave me enough lumber for Christmas this year so that I could
finally build a work bench.
She was kind enough do have some precutting done at the lumber yard
(mainly to fit the lumber into our car) and, since she is as pro-metric
as I am, the cuts were all done in rational SI.
Here's
...
Even though it's all the same $0.10/liter chemicals, with
varying amounts of
perfume and marketing hype.
Dear Nat and All,
Wouldn't it be better to write this as 0.10 $/L rather than $0.10/liter.
You're right Pat, it would. Same as density in g/ml.
Nat
One of the comments made on our mailing list rang particularly true with
me: that US adoption of the metric system will not occur, save as a
last-ditch action to improve our economic competitiveness in case of
economic emergency. As long as we can afford the luxury of being the
world's
Good point on carpenters making do with the materials they have. I was in the U.K. a
month or so ago. Talking to a couple of relatives I have there in the construction
business, I was quite surprised how using metric units has become routine to them.
They were even using metric units to
On Sat, 30 Dec 2000 09:02:44 -0500, "kilopascal"
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2000-12-30
Yes Chris, a good letter, but what does the following sentence mean?
In 1970 I sat the first all-metric GCE O levels.
Thanks, John. 'GCE' was 'General Certificate of Education', 'O'-level
= 'Ordinary level',
On Sat, 30 Dec 2000 02:42:32 -0800, "Bill Potts"
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Good letter, Chris.
Congratulations.
Many thanks, Bill. Just a pity it wasn't printed after most people are
back at work next week!
Chris
On Fri, 29 Dec 2000 11:55:54 -0800, "Bill Potts"
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From the daily "HeadlineNewsMail," from CNN.
Note the use of "15 centimetres," with neither a comment nor a change to
American spelling.
Britons are facing their iciest winter since 1994
with heavy snow and
Chris Keenan wrote:
Weather forecasts (at least on the BBC) tend to use centimetres now.
I know that. However, my point was that this was a CNN news item, not the
BBC. Therefore, it continues to be encouraging that CNN leaves more and more
metric stuff as reported to them.
Bill Potts, CMS
San
I saw an item about the expected blizzard in the eastern USA and a man in
New York gave a comment. The subtitle translated what he said in Dutch and
gave it as 30 cm, before the man had spoken, so I expected him to say that
there would be a snowfall of 12 inches.
However, he said that he
I have been immigrating internationally so I have
much international sense. However, there are so many
people around who know very few or even no things
outside their usual area of activities. They are "the
frogs on the bottom of the wells" who can see very
limited things and not know what
John
Keiner ist hoffnungsloser versklavt als derjenige, der irrtümlich glaubt
frei zu sein.
There are none more hopelessly enslaved then those who falsely believe they
are free!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
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