-Original Message-
From: Han Maenen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: U.S. Metric Association [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: May 2, 2002 18:44
Subject: [USMA:19866] A chilling warning
I found this wake-up call on the USMA site, Published articles on metric
under Metric system information (provided by the
Latest results from UK polling:
Hartlepool caused the biggest upset when the town voted-in the football
mascot H'Angus the Monkey as mayor.
On Thu, 2 May 2002 11:29:22
Nat Hager III wrote:
Marcus,
There's an old expression: if your opponent wants to hand himself, feed him
rope!
There's nothing dark, cynical or perverse about it, it's a normal
competitive procedure. In the short run it gives you some competitive
advantage, in
Hartlepool caused the biggest upset when the town voted-in the
football
mascot H'Angus the Monkey as mayor.
This story makes good news for several reasons:
1. Directly elected mayors are a recent innovation. Some people
criticised the idea on the grounds that silly candidates would get in.
Further to my USMA 19857, I think it would be useful to display the
theoretical 40-term geometric progression on which the 40-term Renard
series of preferred numbers, R40, is based.
The theoretical series is:
1.00 1.06 1.12 1.19 1.26 1.33 1.41 1.50 1.59 1.68
1.78 1.88 1.99 2.11
Bill Hooper made a common error in USMA when he divided when he should
multiplied:
on 5/2/2002 7:51 PM, Duncan Bath at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Q. what's the mass of a fluid ounce of Hg?
A. Ask the BWMA.
One millilitre of mercury (Hg) has a mass of 13.6 grams (from memory).
Since 1
Hartlepudlians certainly treat it as a joke now but, about 20 years ago, they
certainly didn't!!
Anybody that uttered the line, Whae hung the monkey? in Hartlepool within earshot
of the locals would have been lucky to get out of Hartlepool alive!!
Regards,
Steve.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
This is progress! If a horse can be a consul (Incitatus, Roman Emperor
Caligula's horse), why not have a monkey as a mayor? Imagine the campaign
slogans (A bunch of bananas in every fruit bowl...). :-) -- Jason
- Original Message -
From: Ezra Steinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: U.S.
I made a mistake and Duncan caought and corrected it. I feel compelled to
grovel and explain the error in detail below. You do not have to feel
compelled to read it. If you prefer not to, just stop now.
Bill
I wrote, incorrectly, that:
Since 1 fl.oz. = 29.574
The monkey has the pun name: H'Angus.
His manifesto includes: Better sports facilities and more activities
for the town's youngsters feature strongly in H'Angus's manifesto, along
with a pledge to reduce the number of councillors. He has also promised
free bananas for all schoolchildren during
AND, just think: we ALL do it!!
D.
-Original Message-
From: Barbara and/or Bill Hooper [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: U.S. Metric Association [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: May 3, 2002 15:55
Subject: [USMA:19881] RE: Metric Standards and the USMA
I made a mistake and Duncan caought and corrected
2002-05-03
Don't ask me how that happened? I did it just like you guys want, with a
clickable link.
John
- Original Message -
From: James R. Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: U.S. Metric Association [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, 2002-04-29 09:29
Subject: [USMA:19780] Re: Cleveland
2002-05-03
Is the once liquide a legal unit anywhere in the EU that it can be used as
a secondary indicator? Just because the EU 80/181 directive allows for
secondary indicators up to 2010, does not imply that any old unit may be
used. Grant it, the imperial units may be used as they are legal
John:
I no longer have your message. However, when I had it, Jim's comment led me
to take a look at the source code (which is easy to do with HTML messages --
right click on the body of the message and choose View Source). The link to
the pop-up ad was within your message.
Its presence may,
2002-05-03
Han,
It is up to you to contact you local weights and measures department and
inquire if the TABD is in fact obeying the law, or flaunting the law. You
have nothing to lose by finding out for sure.
John
- Original Message -
From: Han Maenen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: U.S.
2002-05-03
Marcus,
My point of 10 g (mL), or 100 g was just an idea, not to be written in
stone. The increments would have to be agreed upon. It was meant to say:
Ok, if we have to compromise, then let us have partial rationalisation.
Let's not be extremely rigid, but allow some flexibility.
2002-05-03
You're confused! That is the US version. In Britain, a pint is 568 mL and
a quart is 1.14 L. Thus, the litre is smaller than the imperial quart.
John
- Original Message -
From: Barbara and/or Bill Hooper [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: U.S. Metric Association [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Right. I didn't click on any link; merely by selecting the message
header in my inbox I ended up seeing the web page along with its
embedded pop-up panel. When links are embedded in text messages along
with text from the sender, they don't normally open automatically. But
perhaps your sending the
2002-05-03
I got this when I tried to open the link:
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /dividends/retrieve.cgi on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an
ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Jim:
The link I discovered was in addition to the visible one. It was right at
the end of the message.
However, I didn't experience the problem you did. First, I read almost all
messages in the Outlook 2000 preview window. Second, after reading your
comment, I double clicked on the subject
2002-05-03
Not quite 100 %. They still used horsepower instead of kilowatts for the
engines power. and to a lesser extent used kilometres per litre instead of
litres per 100 kilometres. Otherwise it is great.
John
- Original Message -
From: M R [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: U.S. Metric
2002-05-03
Actually, it is GM and that means General Motors.
John
- Original Message -
From: Wizard of OS [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: U.S. Metric Association [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, 2002-05-01 17:24
Subject: [USMA:19839] Re: Fwd: More Tasty Bite stuff
what are gm???
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2002-05-03
These two articles should be a wake-up call.
The USMA and others have made it clear that businesses find it uneconomical
to produce both a metric and an FFU package. The theory goes, that since 95
% of the world is metric, that means that standardisation would have to
eventually be
At 20:09 -0400 02/05/3, kilopascal wrote:
2002-05-03
Is the once liquide a legal unit anywhere in the EU that it can be used as
a secondary indicator? Just because the EU 80/181 directive allows for
secondary indicators up to 2010, does not imply that any old unit may be
used.
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