I found this on their site http://www.footrule.org
BRITISH WEIGHTS AND MEASURES ASSOCIATION
ANTI-CONSUMER GROUPS
(Footrule Jan 2001)
In its pro-metrication propaganda the Department of Trade and Industry makes
great play of the alleged support for official policy from "Consumer Groups".
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001 19:07:04 +00100 (MET), [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I found this on their site http://www.footrule.org
BRITISH WEIGHTS AND MEASURES ASSOCIATION
ANTI-CONSUMER GROUPS
(Footrule Jan 2001)
Han:
Why do you give the BWMA this publicity? Ignore them! They are
flailing around
My virus protection software just caught a virus in the attachment to an
email message.
The source of the message was [EMAIL PROTECTED] (who may, of course, be an
innocent carrier).
The name of the attachment is AnnaKournikova.jpg.vbs.
The virus type is VBS/SST.
It came to my old email
Chris Kovacs has apparently detected the inadvertent sending of the Anna
virus and has provided the following link for information on it:
http://www.cnet.com/software/0-3746.html?tag=st.cn.1.tlpg.3746
Bill Potts, CMS
San Jose, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
-Original
Dear Jim and All,
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But how many scientists, so you suppose, could pass a broad-spectrum,
closed book quiz on units such as sverdrups, dobson units, janskies,
rayleighs, dobson units, practical salinity units, faradays, parsecs,
etc. You may notice that my suggested SI units were
Pat and all
Then couldn't we also concentrate on making SI the accepted and jargon as P
incorrect and therefore socially unacceptable?
Baron carter
-Original Message-
From: Pat Naughtin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, 12 February, 2001 14:46
To: U.S. Metric Association
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From: "jpcarette" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, 2001-02-12 08:59
Subject: Re: It only took me until my late fortie [Yahoo! Clubs: Metric
America]
If the year is given first, all over the world the standard is to have
then the month, then
Unfortunately, you are right on the mark, Pat.
Jim
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Pat Naughtin wrote:
Dear Jim and All,
And I wonder how many of our scientists 'could pass a broad-spectrum, closed
book quiz on' SI 'units.'
Given a choice between SI and intra-laboratory jargon, too many
Dear Andy and All,
ISO 8601 is essentially about the order that you use to present information
about dates, that is, it suggests that you go from biggest to smallest:
Year -- month -- day.
ISO 8601 is very flexibly on how you do this. These seem OK under ISO 8601.
2001 Feb 13
2001Feb13
Dear Jim,
Perhaps you could remark that you don't mind what people do, or say, in the
'privacy of their own laboratories', but if they wish to 'come out' into the
public domain, they should use SI if they wish to be understood.
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin CAMS
Geelong, Australia
on 2001-02-07 10.38,
The following link provides still more information:
http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2684605,00.html
Incidentally, it was McAfee Virus Scan 5.11 that caught it on my system.
Bill Potts, CMS
San Jose, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
Title: ZDNet Discussion: Password-stealing virus hits AOL
2001-02-13
This is not spam. If it bothers you to
receive this, and don't like it, then hit yourDELETE button and send it to
the recycle bin. If you send me a letter of complaint,I will do the
same, so don't waste your time
Another help is to realise that ISO 8601 retains the US sequence of
month-day. For US citizens it should have a familiar ring and thus be easy
to get used to.
Han
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From: "kilopascal" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "U.S. Metric Association" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday,
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