[USMA:53769] US Swimming pool depth markings currently only in legacy feet.

2014-05-04 Thread Parker Willey Jr.
In our travels, I was swimming in a pool recently at an RV park in California. I noticed that there are markings on the sides that show the depth only in legacy feet. Situation: A child from another country visits and sees markings of 3 feet and doesn't understand that it is not 3 meters.  He

[USMA:53770] Re: Error-prone abbreviations in medicine

2014-05-04 Thread John M. Steele
Many of the classic symbols and abbreviations used in medical and pharmaceutical fields are extremely arcane.  There is complete assurance they would NOT be understood by patients and are a poor way for doctors to communicate with pharmacists.  It is like they both have to learn Greek to keep

[USMA:53771] Re: Postings by the FTC

2014-05-04 Thread John M. Steele
I see our comments finally made it to FTC site.  The comments are numbered 1-9 but I notice three (of the numeric sequence) are not posted.  Wonder if they were private or considered frivolous. You were smart to submit as a pdf file.  My formatting was completely eliminated and reduced to one

[USMA:53772] Conversion or Completing Conversion

2014-05-04 Thread contact
If I remember correctly, there was some recent discussion about whether USMA advocates United States conversion to the SI or advocates completing United States conversion to the SI. I just received our May - June 2014 Metric Today newsletter in the mail and I was surprised that nobody remembered