This is often posed as a question to the anti-metric brigade to ask why they
never jumped to this man's defence and try to protect his 'freedom of
choice'.
We are still waiting for a proper answer to that question!!
I wonder why??
Regards,
Steve.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
- Original Message
Han,
It does no good. Spambots are just machines, both sending and receiving. No
human ever intervenes.
Just hit delete, or Ctrl-delete/Shift-delete, to clear a block of spam.
Subject lines are usually obvious.
Nat
Found this spam today. This is what I sent back.
Han
(my reaction) You
I am reasonably confidant that V. Linacre wouldn't have a clue about slugs
[nor poundals]. If he did, it would be all the more reason for him to try
to get his head on straight.
Duncan
-Original Message-
From: Han Maenen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: U.S. Metric Association [EMAIL PROTECTED]
See below.
-Original Message-
From: Joseph B. Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: September 22, 2001 03:54
Subject: Re: Fwd: Measures
The proliferation of apparently unrelated units of measurement in our
system
is anathema to
2001-09-22
The 100 day count down begins.
http://www.dm-online.de/euroaktuell/
2001-09-22
http://66.34.95.89/SITO_english/Pag/PagMeteoE.htm
The page is Italian...But, the weather info is all in FFU with no way to
convert to SI. If you click on a city, you can choose SI, but the default
is FFU. Once you chose SI, it seems to remember it for the next
time. I had SI
2001-09-22
Speak English - And Measure in it too. Seems to be the motto of the
new world order.
John
Height: 345678ft 01234567891011inWeight:lbs. kg.
John:
I visited and explored
the site (for which the non-numeric URL is http://www.meteolive.it/). All I could find
was SI -- hard-coded.
When I navigated from
your second link, I also found only SI (except for the use of
millibars).
Bill Potts,
CMS
Roseville,
CA
http://metric1.org
My cohort learnt to add up and take away £sd in year two of infants
school. Piece of cake.
Why is there no mention of multiplication or division?
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