Well, regarding the two parties, I would agree that our current president
has done zilch to advance our cause, but I am fearful that Bush will be
even less receptive to metric progress. Certainly we should give the man a
chance, and encouragement, and everything else we can. But I would be
Check this Panasonic link out for the Audio Optical cable. I wonder what
3.3 ft would be in metric? :-) Clearly Panasonic think we are too dumb to
understand.
http://www.prodcat.panasonic.com/shop/listmodels.asp?categoryid=1143
Bill Potts wrote in USMA
John Schweisthal wrote:
Isn't it funny that the British who complain about the French, use French
spellings in English rather than American. Yet, they complain
about "French" measures. Go figure!!
On the subject of spelling, the practice that annoys me is the
I propose that all US citizens on the list make their feelings known to
Panasonic. That may make them see the light,
Han
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-Original Message-
From: The_Toadman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, 2001-01-15 08:07
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Andy did not make the S.O.B. comment [Yahoo! Clubs: Metric
America]
Sorry, Andy -- I know you didn't make the SOB comment. I replied to the
wrong message.
Several days ago the question was asked on here about the water
equivalent of snow. I said that I would look at what the FMH-1 (the
handbook for the NWS) says. It does not give a number. Rather, show and
other frozen pptn is measured directly (aarghh, in inches!) and
designated stations report
2001-01-15
If you notice, the corporation name at the bottom of the web page is
Panasonic Corporation of America. This is an American division of a
Japanese company. Most likely run by Americans. If you get an American
marketing manager, who has to promote a Japanese product, such as a 1 m
2001-01-15
Here is the BBC news on the metric martyr case.
Glckliches Neues Jahr!
Happy New Year!
John
Keiner ist hoffnungsloser versklavt als derjenige, der irrtmlich glaubt
frei zu sein.
There are none more hopelessly enslaved then those who falsely believe they
are free!
Johann Wolfgang
2001-01-15
The link is to SI navigator. Since I accessed the web site through Bill's
site, it is Bill's site that linked. Let me just copy the article. The
article just mentions the trial, but no verdict. Bill may want to provide
the link for those who want to go to the BBC page directly.
2001-01-15
Here is the link:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1118000/1118558.stm
Glckliches Neues Jahr!
Happy New Year!
John
Keiner ist hoffnungsloser versklavt als derjenige, der irrtmlich glaubt
frei zu sein.
There are none more hopelessly enslaved then those who falsely believe
From: kilopascal [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: U.S. Metric Association [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: January 15, 2001 13:32
2001-01-15
If you notice, the corporation name at the bottom of the web page is
Panasonic Corporation of America. This is an American division of a
Japanese company.
I propose
Considering the [lack of] precision with which snow can be measured, it
seems to me that the rule of thumb 1 cm snow = 1 mm rain should be adequate
for ordinary purposes.
Duncan
-Original Message-
From: James R. Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: U.S. Metric Association [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The first thing that can be done is to 'ride herd' on the government itself.
When a government agency uses other that SI take them to task on the basis
of the Omnibus Trade Bill of 1988. Keep their feet to the fire!
Duncan
From: kilopascal [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: U.S. Metric Association [EMAIL
Panasonic [EMAIL PROTECTED]
One of your product's specifications mentioned 3.3 feet.
You insult me, an American living in Georgia, by not using measures of the
International System of Units, SI-metric.
I presume that you are describing a product whose length is one meter. It
is the height of
In a message dated 2001-01-14 09:26:46 Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Why is your venom only directed at the Repubs?? Clinton-Gore had EIGHT YEARS
to encourage metrication. I can't remember a single "high profile" effort by
Clinton-Gore to encourage metrication. Am I missing
2001-01-15
As I said before, this government will use NAFTA to promote US standards and
measures. Bush won't push metric on American business. The first step is
to push FFU on the world. If and only if the world rebels against FFU and
DEMANDS that the USA use only SI when dealing with the
2001-01-15
I didn't write this. These are posting
on the Yahoo site that I receive via e-mail. I just forward them on to the
listserver. ButI agree. Neither the Democrats or the
Republicans in the last 10 years have done anything to promote metric.
What little they did promote, they later
That's a difficult one to predict. I think it depends on how much W.
emulates his father, who did after all sign the 1992 Executive Order. I
think he signed it because of his background as a foreign diplomat, which
unfortunately W. is lacking.
I guess we'll just have to hope "like father like
Just a short note from Australia!
Please could everyone just "clip" the part of a message to which they are
replying? Yesterday we had multiple responses to a message about washing
powder, each of which included the original message, and sometimes the
address info also. I think that to quote
I'm off to Canada (Montreal, Moncton, Toronto) for the next 12 days, where
the metric baby is stuck halfway born. Still better than the States!
If anyone wants to write he or she can do so privately, but if I stay on the
list I'll have to spend too much time on working e-mail and not doing work
-- Forwarded message --
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 17:08:28 -0600 (CST)
From: Gene Mechtly [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "Tom Kacich, Editor" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Burn Corn; Save Heating Dollars
To the Editor:
Burning corn for home heating is cheaper than burning natural gas
The Guardian has a better-than-most article at
http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/theissues/article/0,6512,422591,00.html
and the Independent at
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/UK/Legal/2001-01/metric160101.shtml
Chris
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Metrication information: http://www.metric.org.uk/
UK legislation, EC
I've been having further problems with my metric.org.uk re-dircting
this evening; I think it's working again, but I may have missed some
list posts earlier. If anyone had anything they wanted me to see,
perhaps they could forward it again.
Today saw the largest number of hits ever for my site:
I did, using their comment javascript box.
Jim
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I propose that all US citizens on the list make their feelings known to
Panasonic. That may make them see the light,
Han
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