Does anybody know if house hold plastic bags such
as garbage bags that are made in China and imported in to the U S or Canada or
Austrailiathe box they come in does it have the sizeof the bag in metric
or both metric and FFU units? John
Mercer.
Shopped in my local drugstore this afternoon and noticed that the Vaseline skin care
products are labelled in rational metric sizes first with the U.S. customary
indication following in parentheses. This is even better than what PG is doing
currently.
The main thing I'm noticing, though, is
I just checked the box of 180 kitchen
garbage bags we bought at Target (their own brand). They were made in the USA
and have both FFY and metric. The metric even has the thickness, expressed in
micrometers (µm), using the correct prefix (Greek letter mu).
Possibly I'd have to go to Wal-Mart
I'm sure this will annoy everyone on the list, but better to be
informed...
Nat
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/homerealestate/2001819394_homehay2
1.html
More mediatized of these metric martyrs was
certainly Steve Thoburn, merchant the four-season
one of Sunderland, in the North-East of England: after -
somewhat vigorously - having refused to convert its
balances to post the weights in grams and kilogrammes,
it finally had been imprisoned,
False.
But here are some responses to his earlier columns.
Looks like we have some more comrades out there.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/asktheexpert/2001808526_homehay07.html
At 03:25 2003-12-22, Nat Hager III wrote:
I'm sure this will annoy everyone on the list, but better to be
informed...
Doesn't Canada and Brasil produce small planes that are fully metric in
design and components?
Do any other countries or companies produce planes besides Boeing and Airbus
that may be metric?
Euric
- Original Message -
From: Carleton MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: U.S. Metric
I usually see this product marketed in FFU in the
US. The bags are most likely made in metric in China, and sent in bulk to
a US (or elsewhere) factory then boxed for consumer or industrial use. It
is here that the packager decides what units to describe the bags in.
Euric
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Yes, Brazilian's Embraer Co. DOES design ALL its aircraft in metric, *internally*.
However, it might be the case that it has to deal with non-rational dimensions as a
result of components not being rationally-designed (I mean metrically, that is).
As far as I know it hasn't abandoned its
Chimpsarecute wrote:
I'm sure Wal-Mart feels the same way. Just out of curiosity, what do you
have against Wal-Mart?
On the assumption that your private response was meant to be public (after
all, it contains nothing of a private nature), I'm posting my response back
to the list.
I could give
Dear Darrell Hay,
I was delighted to read your piece in the Seattle Times (Surrey, B.C., Home
Depot measures up to our way of thinking 2003-12-21), which was passed on
to me by a friend in the USA.
Let me share this unpublished piece with you for your amusement.
**
Don't use metric!
Pat
Dear All,
Can anyone direct me to a site that has the physical dimensions of the
international standard size of audio and video cassettes? I've tried
searching but, thus far, I have had no success.
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin LCAMS
Geelong, Australia
--
MyWhite-Rodgers programablethermostat
instructs me to program it in Fahrenheit before switching it over to
Celsius. Imay understand why that is required. Itmay
bebecause there are9 °F to each5 °C. Thus if one wants
to change it up or down,usuallyone hasto punch the up or down
arrows
Pat Naughtin wrote:
Dear All,
Can anyone direct me to a site that has the physical dimensions of the
international standard size of audio and video cassettes? I've tried
searching but, thus far, I have had no success.
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin LCAMS
Geelong, Australia
what for??
both are
My
Honeywell thermostat doesnt have this requirement. Set it to Celsius and program it normally, in increments of
one degree.
cm
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Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of
Norman Nancy Werling
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003
20:24
To:
I just
had a White-Rodgers installed and I switched it to C and then programmed it no
problem.
Phil
-Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Norman Nancy
WerlingSent: Monday, December 22, 2003 8:24 PMTo: U.S.
Metric AssociationCc:
On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 08:27:31PM -0800, john mercer proclaimed:
Hello everybody. I am a bit of a history buff. I believe that the
law making the metric system legal in the US was made law on July. 28
1866. Is there anybody who could do some research and tell me what
day of
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