Why are we having so many fora on this issue??? Why is this taking so darn long to
materialize (FPLA amendment)?
Discussions after discussions after discussions... What is the US Congress waiting
for this amendment to be implemented?
Can it be the case that one still does not have the
Dear John Ward and All,
We found these two web sites last week. The first was:
http://www.cbtl.org/food/conversions.htm
Which led to:
http://www.onlineconversion.com/cooking.htm
We found that the 'onlineconversion' ideas of metric conversion particularly
useless to a practising cook. Why
Dear Han,
Your expression 'lineal km' strikes me as being redundant (if not
tautological).
Since length, in SI, has only one unit the metre and the metre is the
only dimension for length, then you don't need to note that km measures
length by adding ^1 to km to form the symbol km^1.
If you
Dear List:
On a somewhat related topic of bowlderized usage, I have noticed that American
reporters or other Americans on TV or radio will use expressions such as a third
of a kilometer based upon (I assume) the existing usage with miles. In this
context, a kilometer becomes an opaque (albeit
Hello could anybody tell me if there are any metric
chat rooms on the internet? I would need a room where I could use my
microphone. I have software in my computer that turns text in to speech so
I can read what is on the screen. I would be really interested in metric
chat rooms, where
John:
To the best of my knowledge, there are no
metric chat rooms.
I suspect that's because anyone with
anything worthwhile to say about the metric system and the process of
metrication would rather do it in the form of a reasonably well-thought-out
message thanby way ofthe chat room
