On Sat, 13 Jan 2001 00:05:40 -0500, "kilopascal"
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2001-01-12
If I am not mistaken, Monday (2001-01-15) is the day that Stephen Thoburn is
to appear in court.
You're not mistaken, john - you've only to look at the top of the page
at http://www.metric.org.uk to confirm
2001-01-13
Steven Thoburn and every other trader were informed well in advance of the
changes and the consequences of disobeying the laws. If his court trials
cost him a significant amount of money, then it is his own fault. He
claims: "In or out of Europe, I just want to be left alone to get
2001-01-13
I have seen the new 2 kg Tide boxes of tablets more and more in the shops.
In one store they occupied an end of Aisle display. Yet, the in store ad
showed them as 4.41 lb size instead of the 2 kg size.
In the detergent aisle, I noticed something very dumb. A box of SURF and a
box
I made a pleasant discovery yesterday about linux (kernal 2.2.16). The
linux command df (report filesystem disk space usage) has a "metric"
switch available. Whereas the normal df command reads out in kilobytes
and megabytes, adding the -H or --si switch as in "df -H" or "df --si"
alters the
On Sat, 13 Jan 2001 22:14:35 +0100, "Leonardo Boselli"
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Seen on an Italian supermarket (and bought by my wife):
A box of washing powder labeled: 9,113 kg ...
Usually normal boxes are 4 , 4.5 or 5 kg , so I expected an 8 9 or
10 kg box.
The product is made in Italy (By a
On 13 Jan 2001, at 16:07, James R. Frysinger wrote:
I made a pleasant discovery yesterday about linux (kernal
2.2.16). The
It is not kernel related, but it is rtelated to the application ( df or du
).
Anyway since it count the blocks that are actually 1024 bytes, you
end in having a mixed (
I deeply suspect that such labelling as 2 lb 3 oz (0.99 kg) is not done out
of ignorance, but done deliberately to set comsumers up against the metric
system. Making metric look stupid is one of the ifp goons' tactics. Just
read all those 'funny' and 'humourous' anti-metric diatribes which have
Kilopascal wrote in USMA 10448:
I have seen the new 2 kg Tide boxes of tablets more and more in the shops.
In one store they occupied an end of Aisle display. Yet, the in store ad
showed them as 4.41 lb size instead of the 2 kg size.
In the detergent aisle, I noticed something very dumb. A
2001-01-14
Procter Gamble, like any large company doesn't always march internally to
the same beat. I'm sure PG does not have a metric policy per se, but the
choice of sizes might be the decision of a few pro-metric or pro-global
managers. This doesn't mean that those who decide the sizes are
2001-01-13
US regulations require size declarations in both FFU and SI. There is no
requirement that FFU be first nor that it be rational. A package may be
labelled as 16.9 fl.oz (500 mL) or 500 mL (16.9 fl.oz.). I've seen some
packages labelled as 17 fl. oz. 503 mL. It is even permitted to
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