Andy asked kilopascal who relayed it to USMA in message 10954:
Well, give me some help. I guess I am now persuaded to send email which
reads: "Please join me on 2001--02--21" but how do I make sure that people
do not misunderstand when, in many cases, it would be easy to misunderstand.
If we
in a 1982 Florida law which I sponsored as the request of the Florida
Metric Council. And we did start to phase in the dual signs. But a few
years
later Governor Martinez tore them all down.
I tend to think that doing the signs all in one weekend, as in Canada,
is
probably a better plan.
2001-02-11
I received this today and I thought some of the list members might want to
subscribe to this news service just to see if they use SI or FFU.
John
- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, 2001-02-11 19:42
Subject: ITALY-NEWS NEWSLETTER
Barry Burke, President, ITEA
copy to: Kevin Jost, SAE editor
Dear Mr. Burke,
I came across a "focus" essay in the latest issue of "automotive
engineering international" (by the SAE) regarding your organization's
educational standards. The SAE Executive Vice President, Max Rumbaugh,
exhorts us,
2001-02-11
2001-04-05 is written in CHRONOLOGICAL order, from the year down to the
second, if need be. Changing the months to letters doesn't make it less
confusing, it makes it dumb. You are dumbing down something already simple
to accommodate those who refuse to understand. If they don't
2001-02-11
People who right these "standards" promote what they are comfortable with
and care nothing about the future. They probably feel that the future
generations will deal with the changes to metric only. Even those who claim
to be educated and in the know will promote non-SI, because
