Bill Potts wrote:
As you're using an 8-bit encoding scheme for your messages,
you can enter the actual euro character, (Alt+0128).
I have two questions:
1. If I press the Alt key and let go, it puts me into the menu bar. If I
press and hold the Alt key and then press keys 0,1,2,8 in succession
Gee thanks.
haha.
-- Original Message ---
From: Bill Potts [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: U.S. Metric Association [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 17:13:43 -0700
Subject: [USMA:26593] Re: using metric in a land that does not compute
Careful, or we're likely to start calling you
John Woelflein wrote:
Bill neglected to tell you that you must use the number pad number buttons
along with the Alt key, not the numbers that run across the top of the
keyboard.
I didn't wish to insult anyone by pointing out what I assumed just about
everyone with a PC already knew. That approach
1. You must use the numbers on the numeric keypad. If you have a laptop, you
need to press NumLock first.
2. There is no specific Alt Gr on U.S. keyboards. However, there is a right
Alt key, which operates like the Alt Gr key if you configure for the U.S.
International keyboard (which is the way
Yup. Never thought of that as currently I'm on a laptop.
-- Original Message ---
From: Bill Potts [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: U.S. Metric Association [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 11:04:05 -0700
Subject: [USMA:26614] Re: M$
John Woelflein wrote:
Bill neglected to tell
this system is out of date today - use BMI
BMI = mass/hight in m²
e.g. 90/1,85² = 26,3
Slightly overweighted
bye
Pat Naughtin wrote:
Dear paul,
Have you heard of a 'Rule of thumb' that says that your ideal body
mass is equal to your height minus a metre. Say thast you are 1.85
metres
CONCLUSION:
French were always more sophisticated than English.
Have you ever seen English money, then you undersand
why only this nation
could have invented the FFU.
bye
Michael, Michael, Michael. You never seem to give up trying to bash the
British. I've mentioned it to you before.
Stop
Once Britain is fully metricated, our descendents will make a similar
assumption and imagine that Americans invented them.
once? yes, good question!
I see litte effort from the British side.
I don't understand the stupid pint beer and milk law. This is not a
progressive think!
bye
Brian White:
When in Europe a few months ago, IIRC every time I saw euros it was 45e or
whatever. I was in Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Russia.
As you're using an 8-bit encoding scheme for your messages, you can enter
the actual euro character, (Alt+0128).
Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
This is a great idea! I wonder why all economists haven't widely adopted
this (economics is alleged to be a science, you know.)
I can just imagine having the following conversation:
Dad, can I have a dekadollar to go out with my friends?
No, sorry kid, I don't have a centidollar!
But
Michael-O wrote:
CONCLUSION:
French were always more sophisticated than English.
Have you ever seen English money, then you undersand why only
this nation could have invented the FFU.
English notes are not as colourful as French Franc notes. In that respect,
the French love of beauty triumphs
On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Pat Naughtin wrote:
... I have attached a list, of 21
features,...
The International System (SI) is universally accepted because:...
SI uses standard prefixes to change from smaller to larger units.
Pat, I believe it is more correct to say:
SI Prefixes may be
Could this be due to local pressure from all the researchers and
scientists in the area? Or is there a strong metrication movement in NC?
It certainly wouldn't be from catering to Canadian tourists in the area
(quite a long way from the border!).
David Shatto
Los Angeles
On Tue, 5 Aug 2003
Dear All,
The Guardian Weekly recently published this accout of the current state of
play among the world's timekeepers. Fascinating stuff.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,985020,00.html
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin LCAMS
Geelong, Australia
Pat Naughtin is the editor of the free online
Irish Times today. It shows that the Fahrenheit scale is still very much
alive in the UK. It always seems to crop up when it gets hot in the summer.
So in winter people may say that it is 5 degrees below zero (Celsius); but
during a heat wave it suddenly is 95 degrees Fahrenheit.
People placed
John:
If you were to change your message encoding
from "US ASCII" to Western European ISO, you'd be able to correctly transmit
Québecois (only the first e has an acute accent, by the way).
As the ASCII encoding uses only 7 bits,
accents aren't possible (too small a symbol set). Nor, for
Title: Message
Sure.
I liked the following, from their "You are here" link:
Nat
The Watley Review is dedicated to the
production of articles completely without journalistic merit or factual basis,
as this would entail leaving our chairs or actually working. Names, places and
events are
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Terry Simpson wrote:
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26211-2003Aug6.html
where's the metric part or did I missed something??
Good question. What is the answer?
Found the following at the local Costco:
salad dressing Le Parisien (Salt Lake City, Utah) Original
Vinaigrette 1 liter
The labeling is not really great (33.8 FL. OZ. (1 ltr.)), but it is
clearly a hard-metric product, and made right here in SLC! I also saw at
the store the Vidalia
On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Brian White wrote:
...
So...if I pushed on a metal square...really really hard. I'd say that's
pressure I'm applying. If I measured the force hitting that little
square...could I not say that the force I was measuring was the force of my
pressing it really really hard?
Hi,
sometimes I watch some documentaries about the technology deployed by the us
military.
Actually, the original voice is turned down but I can still alsmost only
FFU.
WHY??
bye
I *know* this rule of thumb
but just like I said and Brian emphasized this is out of date.
Bill Potts wrote:
Michael:
You might want to think before you reply in the future, rather than
criticizing someone for something that's not at issue anyway.
Pat's quick rule of thumb was based on an
I'm puzzled by your reference to French Canadians. English Canadians use
metric too.
You may be allowing yourself to be influenced by the practices of some
manufacturers. My Black and Decker electric lawnmower, for example, shows
blade size in inches in English and in centimeters in French.
Bill
Elaborating on the article of the Watley Review supplied by Nat
Hager, I would suggest to those interested to go to
http://www.watleyreview.com/2003/072903-1.html
What the article does not say is that the writer Georges Perec
published in 1969 a 320-page book which does not include the letter
Dear Michael,
What you say is true and BMI is widely used in the health professions.
However, my 'Rule of thumb' has the advantage of simplicity.
on 2003-08-14 09.51, Michael-O at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
this system is out of date today - use BMI
BMI = mass/hight in m²
e.g. 90/1,85² =
Not so.
I entered 256 K to Fahrenheit and got 256 Kelvin = 1.13 degrees
Fahrenheit as the response.
Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Behalf Of Carl Sorenson
Sent: Wednesday, August 13,
Dear All,
Here is a piece that I wrote for 'Australian Style', an editorial magazine.
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin LCAMS
Geelong, Australia
**
Money and writing
Pat Naughtin
Bankers and other regular handlers of money are remarkably conservative.
Recently (2001), the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)
A few days ago, I bought a food scale so I can more closely monitor the size of my
meals to maintain my 70 kg (grin) of mass. It has a WOMBAT/metric switch on it, and
from the start, I decided to use only grams in weighing my food. It is a pleasure to
weigh in grams on a regular basis; there
Jason,
Enforcement of labeling requirements is the duty of local inspectors
except in higher profile cases of widespread illnesses or deaths which
are more likely to draw federal prosecutors into the process.
Tell me the name of your City and County and I'll search for your local
inspector(s) in
Pat Naughtin wrote:
By the way, I note that you use the abbreviation ml for millilitre. Is this
the practice generally in the USA, or is it restricted to the
pharmaceutical
industry? In Australia mL is recommended and it is the most used, ml is
seen, but it is much less common than mL.
The SI-10
Brij,
I struggle to read your messages. Would you please consider making use of
paragraphs, and put an empty line between each paragraph?
--
Terry Simpson
Human Factors Consultant
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.connected-systems.com
Phone: +44 7850 511794
Jim Elwell
The labeling is not really great (33.8 FL. OZ. (1 ltr.))
It is also illegal. There must be a reference to a quart.
The FPLA says:
If at least 1 pint but less than 1 gallon, in terms of the largest whole
unit (quarts, quarts and pints or pints, as appropriate), with any remainder
in
isn't it agains the law to use Fahrenheit?
Is it pursued with death?
Han Maenen wrote:
Irish Times today. It shows that the Fahrenheit scale is still very
much alive in the UK. It always seems to crop up when it gets hot in
the summer. So in winter people may say that it is 5 degrees below
Bill Potts wrote:
The statement in your subject line draws an unwarranted conclusion.
All you can conclude from the Washington Post article is that the
Washington Post uses cubic feet.
You are correct. My statement is unsupported by the reference. Thanks for
pointing that out.
However, I had
NO I don't think so. One reason that I have is ' personal limitations' like
resources and availability of these at your command. And, then the sincerity
of purpose that I feel lacks. I have said more than once about this!
Metric News Group is agood idea, but ...the end result
Brij
Gene Mechtly wrote in USMA 26509
Please note that the SI unit of pressure is newton/meter2, force/area
(N/m2, or pascal); kg/cm2 is mass/area which is *not* a pressure.
Gene.
And in USMA: 26517 on 2003-08-06 23.26, Joseph B. Reid at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Quite right. kg/cm2 is a hangover
Folks,
I've just updated my Metric Methods site a bit and I invite your
comments.
Also, I've set up a spam filter with my ISP that just might make my
[EMAIL PROTECTED] email address useable. My [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], and [EMAIL PROTECTED] addresses remain quite useable
and the
It twas I...said the fly.
I said it wasn't part of the USMA's purpose as Michael said the USMA should
lobby for international roadsigns in the US.
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From: Bill Potts [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: U.S. Metric Association [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Mon, 11 Aug 2003
Interesting...but I can't see how 2 $/kg (which looks akward not unlike some C
programming haha..) is better than $2 kg. Now...$2/kg would even be better
in my mind. But even so...
When in Europe a few months ago, IIRC every time I saw euros it was 45e or
whatever. I was in Denmark, Sweden,
disappointing and then
January 2006 nationwide metric transition!
ha ha
Nat Hager III wrote:
The only positive thing I see in this is that 14 states are still
using metric or dual units, as of October 2002.
Nat
http://www.odot.state.or.us/techserv/engineer/pdu/Metric%20to%20english/
Look at this Quebec web site and the use of M$ in the link:
http://www.mtq.gouv.qc.ca/fr/index.asp
Never saw that one before.
John Woelflein
Do you Yahoo!?
Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software
Title: Message
That's probably because it's satire (but
then, you were implying that -- I hope).
If you go to their home page (at http://www.watleyreview.com/), you'll see that their
motto is "Journalism, Schmournalism."
'Nuff said.
Bill Potts, CMSRoseville, CAhttp://metric1.org [SI
Maybe that's because ofle Parti Québécois back in the 1970s got rid of most English on public signs, etc., and began using the comma for a decimal marker and placing the dollar sign after the amount for money in ads, and so on. Seems like the PQ wanted to associate itself with Franceand distance
A few minutes I saw a news item on TV, about a group of young Americans
visiting the man-made caves in the extreme south of my country. For anyone
from the group who thinks about travelling to the Netherlands in the future,
these caves are very interesting. The Tourist Office in Maastricht should
I for one didn't know it, until about 3-4 years ago when you clued me in
this group!
Just one of those things you miss...
:-)
Nat
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Bill Potts
Sent: Thursday, 2003 August 14 14:04
To: U.S. Metric Association
To give you a briefer response than the one provided by Gene, the SI unit of
pressure is the pascal (Pa). Tire pressure and oil pressure should be
measured in kilopascals (kPa).
The average person doesn't need a full explanation -- just the conversion
factor from pounds per square inch (6.894
Here is an American sign showing km, apparently it is on Durham Freeway NC
147.
www.geocities.com/trianglesigns/pictures/durhamco/metric.jpg
Somebody said that the BWMA defied anyone to find one and bet money on it.
--
Terry Simpson
Human Factors Consultant
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Title: Message
The only positive thing I see in this is that
14 states are still using metric or dual units, as of October
2002.
Nat
http://www.odot.state.or.us/techserv/engineer/pdu/Metric%20to%20english/Exec.%20Deputy%20Director's%20memo%20to%20the%20dept.%20on%20conversion.htm
Hahaha..you guys seem to be the ones with the issues concerning kg/cm2. I'm
just fine with it...especially relative to the other choices--a dummy L-H
gauge that really isnt'a gauge (it's binary), or a gauge in PSI.
-- Original Message ---
From: Bill Potts [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
Paul Trusten wrote:
US serving sizes are often quoted in units of produce
http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/foodlab.html
Here is a rather poor image of a UK (and hence EU) compliant label.
http://www.fst.rdg.ac.uk/foodlaw/label/c1-ex1.htm
Krishna Kambhampaty wrote:
I assume Ko and Mo (used in a table) refer to kilobytes and megabytes?
I didn't find the table. However, K would be wrong for kilo, which should be
k. If they're talking about file sizes, Ki (for kibi) and Mi (for mebi)
would be preferable (see
Michael-O wrote:
ok ok, the Imperial System has been invented in England?
The term 'Imperial system' is British but the units are not exclusively
British. Some of the units were common (in various versions) all over
Europe.
Once Britain is fully metricated, our descendents will make a similar
g (Although Pat Naughty has a certain charm.)
I like it too :D
There is an enormous potential for creating Metric Martyrs on the daily
street market in Henry Street, Dublin. Many things are sold by the piece
there, but when something is sold by the measuring unit, there are only
these age-old scales and age-old weights to be seen. I must assume that
these
Michael:
You might want to think before you reply in the future, rather than
criticizing someone for something that's not at issue anyway.
Pat's quick rule of thumb was based on an assumption about BMI. As BMI is
derived from height and mass, then height can be derived from BMI and mass.
His
Hi,
I am wondering what you people think of the best metrication process.
How elaborated should it be?
Is metrication the pure measuring or a way of life?
This idea came to me as Bill (?) said, that metric (int'l) roadsigns aren't
a part of SI/metrication.
Here is my point of view:
It is not
Terry Simpson wrote:
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26211-2003Aug6.html
where's the metric part or did I missed something??
bye
I replied to Pat privately, but it's no secret. My ideal mass is 70 kg, but
I'm 1.73 m tall. It's close!
My current BMI is 23.4.
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From: Michael-O [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: U.S. Metric Association [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 4:05 AM
Subject:
I tried 10 acres to ha
Worked beautifully, giving me a response of 10 acres = 4.04685642
hectares.
By the way, although the word to is omitted (by them) for actual searches,
it's required for the calculation.
Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
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--
Terry Simpson
Human Factors Consultant
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.connected-systems.com
Phone: +44 7850 511794
I was talking about the coins only, I've never seen the bills and I hope I
*will* never see them!
ok ok, the Imperial System has been invented in England?
bye
Terry Simpson wrote:
Michael-O wrote:
CONCLUSION:
French were always more sophisticated than English.
Have you ever seen English
The google converter is pretty cool. If you enter liter it says liter
and if you say litre it is different.
It recognizes cubits, parsecs, light years, degrees Fahrenheit, degrees
Kelvin (but not just Kelvins), leagues, fathoms, troy ounces, etc.
Carl
Michael,
The French can be sophisticated but also very unsophisticated. That is also
true for the British and all other peoples on this planet. If we were really
that sophisticated, we would measure the power of cars in kilowatt, and not
in horse power as is done only too often yet.
The British
Different shapes for coins is a very good idea.
They could have made in
Round : 1 cent, 10 cents 1 euro coins
Square: 2 cents, 20 cents 2 euro coins
Hectagon : 5 cents 50 cents coins
Atleast they have different colors for different sets
of coins and that is good.
Madan
--- Terry
I was just wondering what was going on with our group. I haven't received ANY mails
for the last 2 or 3 days.
It might have been my fault since I was trying to improve on the spam control feature
of my angelfire account setting it to high. However, unbeknownst to me I may have
shut out
M R wrote:
Different shapes for coins is a very good idea.
They could have made in
Round : 1 cent, 10 cents 1 euro coins
Square: 2 cents, 20 cents 2 euro coins
Hectagon : 5 cents 50 cents coins
the sizes are a mess!
ever seen Euro coins?
bye
Atleast they have different
Han Maenen wrote:
Michael,
The French can be sophisticated but also very unsophisticated. That
is also true for the British and all other peoples on this planet. If
we were really that sophisticated, we would measure the power of cars
in kilowatt, and not in horse power as is done only too
http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/08/14/power_030814
check the top time!
it's 24 h clock
in the text unfortunately pm
but at the bottom
30 Celsius!
bye
Careful, or we're likely to start calling you Thunder Thighs. g
Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Behalf Of Brian White
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 16:55
To: U.S. Metric Association
Duh..that's because you quoted a Canadian news report from the CBC.
-- Original Message ---
From: Michael-O [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: U.S. Metric Association [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 23:24:12 +0200
Subject: [USMA:26623] Power disaster hits North America
Brian White wrote:
Duh..that's because you quoted a Canadian news report from the CBC.
I know about the celsius but the resT?
I don't understand why canada and other commonwealth countries still stuck
to AM/PM
even in UK 24 h is spreading
bye
You yourself said that it was half 24h and half am/pm.
That's about where Canada stands.
-- Original Message ---
From: Michael-O [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], U.S. Metric Association [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 23:46:21 +0200
Subject: Re: [USMA:26624]
Dear Bill,
I think that the term for your creativity should be prefaced with:
'Independently and some time later . . .'
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin LCAMS
Geelong, Australia
--
on 2003-08-14 11.44, Bill Potts at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
By the way, when my spell checker encounters Naughtin, it
It even converts with a decimal comma!
hi hi
Dear Louis,
So what happened to all the talk of 'metric down-sizing'? It looks like this
is a case for an argument about 'metric up-sizing!
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin LCAMS
Geelong, Australia
Pat Naughtin is the editor of the free online newsletter, 'Metrication
matters'. You can subscribe by
Dear Paul,
The Australian approach to this would be to replace the 551 mL with 600 mL
an increase of about 9 %.
As a food iten this would then parallel increases made to other container
sizes here. For example:
454 grams rounded to 500 grams is about 10 % (1 pound)
568 millilitres grams
Here's something brand new from Google - it converts weights and measures!
quote from CNET
Google's math
By Stefanie Olsen, Staff Writer, CNET News.com
August 13, 2003, 10:35 AM PT
Google on Tuesday added a feature to its popular search tool that allows
visitors to calculate mathematical
Oh..so that explains it. Michael has never even been to the UK? How about
the US?
It's easy to generalize about places you've never been Michael. I say go out
and travel, then you'll learn a little.
-- Original Message ---
From: Michael-O [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: U.S. Metric
Dear paul,
Have you heard of a 'Rule of thumb' that says that your ideal body mass is
equal to your height minus a metre. Say thast you are 1.85 metres tall
take away one metre and the remaining number, 85, should be your ideal body
mass.
In your case, as you are 70 kilograms, does this equate
I became acquainted with Greg Peterson through his Canada Metrication web
site several years ago. Eventually he joined in the USMA list and was a
contributor for a year or so.
Last summer, my wife Nancy and I visited the Petersons in Saskatoon, SK.
Greg was born in 1971 and if you read the
I've been to the US and love the US!
Travel?
want my IBAN and BIC?
Brian White wrote:
Oh..so that explains it. Michael has never even been to the UK? How
about the US?
It's easy to generalize about places you've never been Michael. I
say go out and travel, then you'll learn a little.
FWIW, last I was up in rural Quebec chilling out (Hull, north to
Trans-Canada highway, and down to Mont Tremblant) and saw a lot of x.xx$
style pricing and comma decimal points. Wasn't paying a lot of
attention though, as I don't see it's critical to metric.
Nat
-Original Message-
CONCLUSION:
French were always more sophisticated than English.
Have you ever seen English money, then you undersand why only this nation
could have invented the FFU.
bye
John Woelflein wrote:
Look at this Quebec web site and the use of M$ in the link:
http://www.mtq.gouv.qc.ca/fr/index.asp
Look down at the page:
Dernière modification de cette page : 2003-06-25
ins't this great!
John Woelflein wrote:
Look at this Quebec web site and the use of M$ in the link:
http://www.mtq.gouv.qc.ca/fr/index.asp
Never saw that one before.
John Woelflein
All I can say is WOW. Not only is the $ symbol trailing the money but with SI prefixes. I used to do this casually in some of my work to the consternation of my colleagues but it didn't last long.
Trust the Quebecois to innovate, again.
I assume Ko and Mo (used in a table) refer to kilobytes
Marcus,
FYI - Most spam programs will allow you to add addresses or domains to a
safe list, so messages from that address/domain are passed regardless
of content. I have USMA on my safe list, either by adding:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
or by adding the 4 non-spaming top-domains: .edu, .gov, .mil, .org
MessageJust curious, what are the remaining states that use metric in road
construction?
I understand that California and New York still use metric, and that
Pennsylvania is dual,
who are the others?
- Original Message -
From: Nat Hager III
To: U.S. Metric Association
Sent:
Michael Ossipov wrote:
This idea came to me as Bill (?) said, that metric (int'l) roadsigns aren't
a part of SI/metrication.
I don't know who said that, but I wasn't the one.
Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
That's the only reason I even bit for a second, at a sleepy 05.00 in
the morning, about the White House spokesman. Stranger things have been
occuring the last few months!
Nat
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Paul Trusten
Sent: Monday,
Bill Potts wrote:
That's probably because it's satire
It is a pleasure to read US satire, and it busts the stereotype that
Americans do not understand irony. I enjoy www.theonion.com (the name
'Chicago' comes from the Indian name for a local onion).
For example:
[liter]
Coca Cola introduces new
Paul Trusten
My blueberries are packaged in US Dry Pints, which are translated
to be 551 ml. Why not just call it 500 ml of strawberries?
Some of us are optimistic that the FPLA revision will result in many
manufacturers choosing to be metric only. The current dual unit FPLA obliges
them to
Helen Bushnell wrote:
Michael-O wrote:
sometimes I watch some documentaries about the technology
deployed by the us military.
Actually, the original voice is turned down but I can still
alsmost only FFU.
WHY??
Because of a lack of respect for the intelligence of their
audience and because our
Folks,
Yesterday I placed an invitation for the members of this list to review
my web site and to make comments. Two people have found the time to do
so, which I greatly appreciate.
As a result of those comments, I have so far added two pages to my list
of recently revised pages. Now the list
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Brian White wrote:
I converted my oil pressure gauge in my Miata from PSI to kg/cm2.
...
Brian,
Please note that the SI unit of pressure is newton/meter2, force/area
(N/m2, or pascal); kg/cm2 is mass/area which is *not* a pressure.
PSI is pounds (force)/inch2, not pounds
As you appear to be the Mazda owner, I'd say it's up to you, not us, to take
it up with them. g
Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Behalf Of Brian White
Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 19:34
Ok..that's all fine.
You guys should take that up with Mazda who provided a kg/cm2 oil pressure
gauge. g
And like I've said before, bar is much more handy in automotive scenarios.
-- Original Message ---
From: Bill Potts [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: U.S. Metric Association [EMAIL
More Francophone than Anglophone Canadian tourists visit Miami, and the
symbolic-style international speed limit signs make any language barriers
moot. -- Jason
- Original Message -
From: Bill Potts [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: U.S. Metric Association [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, August
Hello All,
In the US, to what agency/agencies does one report metric packaging
violations? There is a local barbecue sauce company that labels its bottles
only in ounces (not even fluid ounces, but dry ounces!). They also don't
include a nutritional information panel as required by the FDA
At 9:44 -0800 14/08/03, David Shatto wrote:
This is a great idea! I wonder why all economists haven't widely adopted
this (economics is alleged to be a science, you know.)
I can just imagine having the following conversation:
Dad, can I have a dekadollar to go out with my friends?
No, sorry kid,
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