Bill Potts [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I notice he uses B$ (byte dollar?), rather than G$. (Currency isn't and
never will be SI [because it doesn't measure things; it counts them], but if
he's going to prefix the dollar sign as though it were SI, he should at
least use the correct prefix.)
I
violation could cause the election to be
invalidated.
The deadline for voting is midnight UTC (8 pm EST, 5 pm PST) Nov 25.
To succeed, the proposal needs at least 2/3 YES and at least 100 more YES
votes than NO votes. If it fails, it cannot be proposed again for six
months.
John David Galt
of the standard kilogram block of
platinum/iridium, I urge the authorities to correct their original mistake
by reducing the size of the kilogram so that 1000 cc = 1 kg of water, thus
defining the kilogram in terms of the meter and integrating the whole
system of measurements better.
John David Galt
Harry Wyeth wrote:
The very best way to demonstrate the feel of a kilogram is to
show a liter water bottle, filled with water!
Terry Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Yes I agree. That is a good demonstration.
Explain the beauty of the connection between the two.
It is definitely worth
I suggest creating two separate groups:
us.issues.metric-system -- Advocacy for and against getting
(or possibly the USA to fully adopt and use the
talk.politics.usa.metric-system) metric system like everyone else.
sci.measurement.metric
Lieca N. Brown wrote:
However you measure it, many countries have adopted the metric system.
Britain finally did it-after 800 years. Some did it reluctantly, wanting to
ROFL! How can anyone say it took them 800 years when there wasn't any such
thing as the metric system before 1789?
Pat Naughtin wrote:
Bastard units
Bastard units are those that are neither fish nor fowl. These are composite
units made up from parts of various methods without definable parentage.
Examples are grams per mile, pounds per tonne, watts per square inch, ounces
per square metre, and micrograms
I have been researching US non-metric definitions.
Handbook 130 says a US gallon is 231 cubic inches.
http://ts.nist.gov/ts/htdocs/230/235/h130-03/07_IV_PackLabReg.pdf
Federal standard 376 says it is 3.785412 liters
http://ts.nist.gov/ts/htdocs/200/202/fs376-b.pdf
There is a small
There have been a dozen postings on this subject, the last being
USMA 24594, but none have mentioned the question of safety. I have
suffered several shocks of 120 V, noticeable but not lethal. I have
also had one or two shocks of 240 V, and they were memorable. I
remember having seen
James Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Because the ground (earth) connections at homes may or may not be very
effective (they get worse in times of drought), power companies often
run a neutral wire to each house to ensure that the secondary
transformer ground potential is the same
Terry Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] asks:
When is the earliest date when we can start campaigning again for a usenet
newsgroup?
The earliest that the moderator of news.announce.newgroups will accept an
RFD for one is six months after the RESULT message for the last vote was
posted. I'd have to
kilopascal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The US tax on gasoline is so low, that most DOT's operate in the red. In
fact, in Ohio there have been a number of needed road projects postponed
indefinitely due to lack of funds. If the DOT needs money, they have to
borrow it. That means future earned
G. Stanley Doore wrote:
Although deka and hecto are SI, they are unnecessary. Stick with units in 1
000s or 1 000ths to simplify use and understanding, particularly by the
general public.
Ma Be [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
? Please allow me to respectfully dispute the 'unnecessary' qualifier
kilopascal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In American football, yards are a very important part of that game. People
who follow football are interested in how many yards someone has done
something, not how many lines. If football was changed to metres, people
would have to get use to those lines
There is no such thing as a 'decimillimetre'. You cannot combine
prefixes. You would need to say 0.1 millimetre or 100 micrometre.
^^
Shouldn't that word be micron? At least in the USA, a micrometer is a
gadget for measuring small
John Nichols wrote:
For next years class I need a few real world examples of IFS problems
any ideas for ones suitable for construction assignments.
Terry Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I particularly like the acre foot. I am sure you can have fun with that.
The worst problems come when
John David Galt wrote:
Originally (in revolutionary France), the metric system did include a metric
clock, defined so that
1 day = 10 metric hours = 1 000 metric minutes = 100 000 metric seconds.
This was so confusing that it was abandoned after 16 months -- even before
the metric (aka
It's time for a new kilogram standard, researchers say _ one that won't
depend on the vagaries of a single chunk of metal. So physicists are
striving to replace le grand K with a fundamental physical measurement to
last forever.
I agree. Let's remove a subtle but annoying inconsistency from
Brij Bhushan Vij [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Greetings for Captain and crew of Maverick:
This may be an expected intrusion, from an Ex-Air Forcean!
Yes, Knots and Nautical miles have lived far too long and it is TIME we
did some review. I have been feeding 'some NEW thought' to reform the
You mean you haven't see fuel consumption rated in dekalitres
per megameter (daL/Mm)? g
(Actually, I'm trying to decide whether or not that would
be an improvement over L/100 km.
I think my preference, though, would be for L/Mm.)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The Honda Accord would then be
Ma Be wrote:
First of all, there should be a *LEGAL* deterrent developed to PREVENT the
use of weird sizes, like 227, 28, 29, 454... (you get the picture),
simply because:
1) These are crappy imperial sizes in disguise.
2) Such absurd sizes can only confuse consumers
3) Such stupid
They wouldn't have jailed that guy in Britain recently for selling meat
by the pound. And it's a violation of human rights that they did.
Anyone who makes a laughing stock out of his own country deserves to be
locked up for many, many years.
Leaving the choice of units up to the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Both dollars failed by plan. The plan that introduced them did not allow
for the phasing out of the paper dollar bill. If the paper dollar had been
phased out in 1979 when the SBA dollar was introduced, people a long time
ago would quickly adapted to it. But, the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The one dollar bill. A waste of taxpayer... well, dollars. If the treasury
department had been firm in its commitment to kill it by not printing them
anymore, we'd all be using the Sakkawea coins by now.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The treasury department was
1. Why don't you adopt DVB? DVB is a already well estd. and proven standard.
For the same reason America has adopted the DMCA and NET Act: Hollywood is
spending megabucks to force conversion to formats that aren't compatible with
any existing ones because it allows them to take away our rights
Wizard of OS wrote:
To be perfectly honest, America is almost going a worng way and 95 % of all
broadcasts are bull shit
Somehow I have trouble treating someone as an authority who can't spell.
Don't you know the difference DVD and VHS? every I see a VHS I have to throw
up
Certainly. VHS
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