versus cubic
decimeter). km is still pronounced kilometer, and cm is still
pronounced centimeter, so the written prefixed symbols don't solve the
problem.
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I suspect there's a good reason to leave out your height (while still
retaining it in the passport database).
It makes it harder for people to use stolen passports. They can alter their
appearance (to some extent), but then be caught on the basis of a
discrepancy in height.
Bill Potts, CMS
To be more specific on femto and atto, the Danish words from which they are
derived are femten (fifteen) and atten (eighteen).
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Pat:
You're using typographical quotes again -- and they're coming through as OE
diphthong for the opening quote and 1 prime for the closing quote.
Are you composing in Word? If so, you need to turn off the option to
automatically convert symmetrical quotes to typographical quotes.
Bill Potts
and hp fall outside the scope of SI, so they're
not really relevant to the discussion.
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symbol for per if those of us who support it are not going to use it?
Abbreviations such as mpg and hp fall outside the scope of SI, so they're
not really relevant to the discussion.
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You're right. I should have addressed it to Madan.
I should have known that you would not support a nonstandard form for an SI
unit.
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My own view is that, when we speak, we should speak clearly.
Saying kilometers per liter involves only three extra syllables, relative
to kay em pee ell. The extra time taken to say it is a fairly small
fraction of a second -- and there is no doubt as to what is meant.
Bill Potts, CMS
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I'll only admit to one.
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Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 15:37
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Subject: [USMA:18948] Re: Fwd: RE: Fwd
is
chilowattore) and kilowatt hora (h not pronounced) in Spanish.
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covering the U.S.
Unfortunately, the volume on Canada is also FFU-only. (I guess they didn't
notice that Canada converted years ago.) Maps within all the books have
dual-unit scales.
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I was allowing for the possibility that Madan doesn't know how to enter a ü.
In the absence of umlauted characters, ue is the standard German substitute
for ü. I thought you knew that.
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It's Irish for so long. The saying is also Irish, sometimes incorrectly
referred to as Gaelic (to which it is similar).
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kilopascal
Sent
.)
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Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 12:52
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To Bill John
).
Possibly Deutsche Welle's English announcers say yoorgen. However, in
German, it's pronounced yewrgen. (The ü is pronounced the same as the French
u in, for example, tu.)
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The long o umlaut, as in böse, has its French equivalent in deux.
Tschüss,
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Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 19:49
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You're correct, Bill.
ah, bay, tsay, day, ay, eff, gay, hah, ee, yot, kah, ell, emm, enn, oh, pay,
koo, air, ess, tay, oo, fow vay iks, ipsilon, tset.
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use.
The only place there ever really was an once liquide is Canada (prior to
metrication there). With Canada's metrication, once liquide should have
become history.
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They also use the awful Stundenkilometer. It's even in the dictionary.
Even though it rolls off the tongue better, I don't like it.
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, as
full of meaning as it could possibly be.
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Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2002 12:11
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Subject: [USMA:19040] Fwd: Re: Fwd: RE
extortionate!
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Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2002 14:58
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Subject: [USMA:19045] Fw: [ISO8601] Good News... Almost
Louis:
I've looked at the excerpts on your web site. It looks very good.
Congratulations.
By the way, I've formatted my reply in plain text. That way, the links you
provided are clickable (which they were not, at least in MS Outlook, in the
HTML version).
Bill Potts, CMS
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http
of normalization, where the denominator in the expression is
unity (i.e., 1 of something, requiring only the unit's symbol).
There's a very common exception -- L/100 km. (Price/100 g is not, of course,
an exception, as currency units are not SI.)
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Joe Reid wrote: The alternative symbol L for litre was not authorized until
the 16th CGPM in 1979. I believe it originated in Australia.
Well, of course --- L for Landofwonder (down under). g
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is of the same order of magnitude as the specified rate of
consumption.
Neither of the alternatives (0.09 L/km and 90 L/Mm) has quite the same feel.
Also, given that highway and trip distances are given in kilometers, people
are not used to thinking in megameters.
Bill Potts, CMS
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formatting.
Not that there's going to be much call for apples in messages about SI. g
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Smartypants. g
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Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 11:06
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Subject: [USMA:19177] RE: Fwd: Re: What is an SI
Actually, he was quoting Marcus Berger's response to me.
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Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 16:09
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bankrupt a statement as I've seen in a long time.
Although the human race will inevitably be extinct one day, I do care about
the generations that will be born between now and then (including, of
course, my own grandchildren and their descendants).
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and selfishly leave them a hellish legacy.
What you propose is monumentally selfish and uncaring. It boggles the mind.
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Sent: Wednesday, April
we don't make it available as a PDF file. However, I
have converted it and emailed it as a favor for someone. The conversion
takes less than five minutes (including my own futzing around -- removing
the book-fold attributes).
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to metricate traditional
proverbs, sayings, metaphors, and other figures of speech. They are what
they are and they reflect the time in which they acquired their proverb
status.
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pole.
Note that the ten-foot pole is most likely a barge pole.
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Subject
Han Maenen wrote:
and the Seven Miles Boots never became xxx Kilometer Boots.
Interestingly, the English version of that is Seven-League Boots -- and
even older unit that the mile.
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I wrote:
... -- and even older unit that the mile.
Oops. That should be an even older unit than the mile.
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Just follow the instructions at
http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/listserv.htm.
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Sid Bennett
Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 08:50
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the commission.)
We'll just have to keep chipping away, spreading the word and setting the
example.
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Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 16:22
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I use the ITU-recommended notation on my business cards, stationery and
brochures -- and have done so for several years now.
I also use the ISO 8601 date and time formats (other than when using an
alphabetical month) in a monthly newsletter of which I'm the publisher.
Bill Potts, CMS
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in.
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Joe:
You've inadvertently exchanged the SI values for the Canadian. and U.K.
cups. (Or the Canadian Metric Practice Guide has.)
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I'm not sure I understand your response to Duncan.
He posed the matter as a question, not a statement. Did you miss the
question mark?
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, with similarly
astounding fuel economy. If it turned out to be only half as good as that of
the 1 L 2-seater, it would still be fantastic.
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I'm puzzled as to why you found it necessary to send us all an HTML message,
containing the web page, when M R had already given us a link to it.
Possibly you think that nobody else on this list is capable of clicking on a
URL. However, to use your own words, I guess you don't care.
Bill Potts
John Schweisthal wrote:
What puzzles me is why it bothers you so much.
Why what bothers me so much?
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?/xml/story.ssf/html_sta
ndard.xsl?/base/business/10189496011215120.xml.
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kilopascal
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 15:13
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cursor positioning and the use of the Delete key, it
can be reassembled as a complete and clickable URL -- and yes, it does take
you directly to the article.
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John Schweisthal wrote: I'll use a little discretion.
Just for fun, John, try using a lot.
It's hard to overdose on discretion. g
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I'm certainly glad to see that your web search brought up both Jim
Frysinger's site and my own site (SI Navigator).
Something's working right. g
I see Jim has already responded.
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V.i.s. means voter information services.
However, vis (without the periods) simply means visible.
The larger number is the full diagonal measurement of the CRT. The smaller
is the visible diagonal, as measured when the CRT is in its housing.
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, it does, but Don Hillger doesn't have the
means to change the configuration for his particular list, independent of
the other lists hosted by the same software.)
The advantage of the current setup is, of course, is that it's easy to send
a private reply -- simply by clicking on Reply.
Bill Potts
bank.
The numbers Louis needs to provide are the transit number and the account
number. Although those are enough for the actual transfer, the bank you use
will almost inevitably require the name of Louis' bank, too.
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situations.
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Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 15:56
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Subject: [USMA:19619] RE: Answer from MT editors
2002
currently edit and publish an 8- to 10-page
newsletter (2 ledger-size sheets plus, about half the time, an additional
letter-size sheet -- both 90 g/m2) which, in the 10-page form, still
qualifies for the 34 cent rate.
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, which I bought at OfficeMax, are legal
size. I don't remember seeing any other kind there (which, I admit, could be
because I wasn't particularly looking for them).
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Oops. That should be your disagreement is inappropriate!
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Bill Hooper wrote:
Sorry about the slip-up above. That should have been:
1 light-year = about 10 petametres (10 Pt)
I guess it's getting very slippery around here. Pt should be Pm (which you
got right on a subsequent line). g
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Bill Hooper wrote:
At least I wish I had not made a mistake that came out to be on
olde English unit: Pt (pint) . So, if 1 light-year is equal to a pint,
how many quarts are there in a parsec? :-)
Pint? My first thought was Peseta.
Cheap light years, those.
Bill Potts, CMS
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is, with the exception
of the United States, used around the world.
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http://www.kartenmeister.com/html/measurements__coinage.html
I got the same result as John -- several times.
I also did a Google search, which was not helpful, as it gave me the same
URL as the one you supplied.
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Unfortunately, that's not very useful, in that it's a press release with a
link back to the Spamkiller site -- still yielding a Page not Found message.
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Thanks, Nat.
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Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 09:16
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Subject: [USMA:19782] RE: Off topic
in the message body (and on the basis of a host of
other criteria), it's possible that Outlook 2000 can already do everything
Spamkiller can.
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Huh?
The Imperial quart is larger than the liter. The pint (20 Imperial fl oz)
certainly is not.
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, an example of dictionaries providing definitions that are other than
rational.
Oh well.
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, as Kinko (either because of his hair or his crazy
antics -- I forget which), so he chose that as the name.
There are Kinko's centers all over Tokyo. I knew someone who thought,
because the name looks Japanese, that it was a Japanese company.
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gm? Gigglemeters, I think. g
Like a laugh meter, only less so.
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Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 14:24
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As it was in your own words, it should have been g, not gm.
I think that may be why Wiz questioned you.
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, indeed, be a mystery to you, but it was certainly there.
With a text message, its presence would, of course, have been an
impossibility.
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header of John's message to open
the message in its own window. In neither case, did I get an
automatically-opened link.
I knew there was at least one reason I like MS Outlook.
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in tons,
but doesn't say whether those are metric tons or short tons. However, as the
mass is only an approximation (intended to impress more than to inform), I'm
not too concerned about it.
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Jim:
I found it in less than 15 seconds (by doing a Google search on tony bennett
christian metric).
It's at http://christian-voice.org.uk/CV02Jan.htm#4.
Like you, I would have preferred it if John had provided the URL (and had
changed the formatting of his message to text only).
Bill Potts
that the birth rate in Britain is negative.
Maybe they've discovered the secret to retroactive birth control (which is
what some people wish for when their kids turn out to be brats). g
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had Word 2000 set to millimeters for a long time now, and that's the
way I did it.
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Oops.
That should be as long as you close Word normally.
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Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2002 18:53
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Madan wrote:
2. Also 'typo' is a short form for 'typing error'.
It is, in fact, the standard abbreviation for typographical error, which
has a more general meaning than typing error (including, for example, an
error in manual typesetting).
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used when
expressing Internet domain names (e.g., metric one dot org, for
metric1.org). (Just as an aside, it is not used [contrary to popular belief]
when expressing things like ITU Recommendation numbers, such as V.42
[pronounced, simply, vee forty two]).
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http
Joe Reid wrote:
Some purists insist that the decimal marker dot should be
half-high to distinguish it from the period.
Of course, that would conflict with the use of the raised period as a
multiplier in units such as newton meters (and, in vector analysis, for dot
products).
Bill Potts, CMS
Marcus Berger wrote:
the pure SI solution range may not
always be the best (powers of 3 only, among other things).
Powers of 3? That's a new one.
Surely you mean only positive and negative powers of 1000.
(Let's not forget the exceptions, of course -- deci, centi, deka and hecto.)
Bill
are normally similarly encoded.
Yahoo email is probably deficient in that respect.
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I wrote:
Surely you mean only positive and negative powers of 1000.
That should, of course, be only powers of 1000 and their reciprocals.
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John Schweisthal wrote:
Maybe the purist will say the multiplication symbol could be a * (at mid
height) or an x instead of a ·. Thus, no confusion.
Except in vector analysis, which has dot products and cross products and
must, therefore, use both types of operator.
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to spite
your face.
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Wizard of OS
Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 02:46
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Subject: [USMA:20111] Re: new computer
John
be used.
In summary, the fact that they use miles for their reward scheme is
nothing for us SI aficionados to get worked up about. However, you'll be
glad to know that Cathay Pacific does its reward reckoning in kilometers (or
it did the last time I flew with them -- about 10 years ago).
Bill
Obviously Leonardo meant 1 airmile per 84 m -- based on the 500 airmile
reward for taking the 42 km ride from the airport.
By the way, the singular is lira. Lire is the plural. Not that it matters
since Italy adopted the euro.
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, I think, as their site as changed recently) must
be an amerophile (or a poor speller). g
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in the Windows Explorer view and choose Rename.
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methodically towards the furtherance of metrication than
indulge in a vehement knee-jerk reaction to every little thing.
Gotcha!!? How juvenile.
Plot? How silly.
Yes, Samantha, you may certainly top up my Chardonnay ... and I'll have the
salmon main course. Smooth flight, so far.
Bill Potts, CMS
the raised dot and the raised
small x in their proper context and I do see a problem with eliminating them
(or either one of them). And, of course, they neither favor nor restrict the
use of SI units.
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It's good that he was found guilty, but bad that someone had posted a sign
with mtrs on it.
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Metric Today's format.
Congratulations Jim (and Darren) and thank you. And, lest we forget,
continued thanks to Valerie Antoine for the editing job she does, on a
volunteer basis, issue after issue.
Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
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John Schweisthal wrote:
How exciting! Is this another one of those drips I keep hearing about?
No, I don't think anyone's been talking about you, John.
=[:o)
Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
). There's no English
(Anglo-Saxon). Modern English is descended from Anglo-Saxon, which is a very
old language and very unlike the English of today (i.e., totally
incomprehensible, except to some scholars who specialize in such things).
Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator
I don't know and I'm not planning to find out. It's just interesting that
it's one of the options offered.
Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of kilopascal
Sent: Sunday, May
of this message to alert him
to the possible problem
Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of kilopascal
Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 10:51
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA
Book | Find People, then enter loyola.edu in the email
field and click on Find Now.)
I've checked mine and it has no addresses with that domain name.
Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED
of recovering from a computer virus,
$9.95 per year is incredibly cheap insurance.
Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Stephen Davis
Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 11:32
To: U.S. Metric
John:
It was packed in India. What's nice is that they didn't pander to the usual
U.S. desire to see two more units on the package (ounces only and pounds
plus ounces). Rather, they seem to have simply shipped what, at their end,
is simply the standard package.
Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
As I'm also registered, I had no trouble either (once I'd reattached the
html that had been severed from the URL by line wrap).
For the benefit of others, we should note that registration on the New York
Times site is free.
Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator
I guess you'll just have to stop reading aloud.
Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Wizard of OS
Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 14:13
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject
years ago).
It's amazing that nobody else noticed my error.
Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Gene Mechtly
Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 16:40
To: U.S. Metric Association
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