In a message dated 2001-08-28 23:52:00 Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This is what I was writing about the other day. Why should an American
company ever consider going metric, when they can easily have an FFU
product made in a metric country (China) in FFU and sell it in
I don't think that product is for other countries, but rather for the
large
Spanish-speaking population in the USA. I see a lot of that around here.
I
also see a lot of French, so things can be exported to Quebec. On those,
the
English is FFU and the French is SI.
Which is funny, because
Many subscribers to this Listserv might not be aware of the ongoing efforts
of the Construction Metrication Council http://www.nibs.org/cmchome.html
to support the metrication of federal construction and to promote the
adoption and use of the metric system as a means for increasing the
Nikolay O. Malyarov weote in USMA 15047:
I am pleased to report, that the authors of the manuscript definitely
favoured SI in their work. All distances are given in km only.
Temperatures are given in °C (°F), elevations in m (ft), and
precipitation in cm (in), wind speed in m/s. Historical
Might be interesting to someone...
Nat
The Irish Times
August 28, 2001
SECTION: CITY EDITION; EDITORIAL PAGE; LETTERS TO THE EDITOR; Pg. 13
LENGTH: 159 words
HEADLINE: Dual Measurements
BODY:
Sir, - An Irishman's Diary (August 24th), got me thinking - why does the
Department of Education
Sir,
What is the BWMA's position about the present official definitions of
the foot, inch, pound, the Imperial gallon etc.? You should know that the
metric system is being used to define Imperial and US units nowadays.
If the BWMA doesn't accept the official definitions, how does it account
for
China has been misbehaving in this respect for years. I have seen
photoframes and other Chinese products with labels etc. in ifp-only. It
seens that they are strictly oriented towards exports to the USA and just
like the TABD, they probably think that metric labels are too expensive,
meaning
I am myself (as many on the UKMA list will testify) in no way, shape or form
a maths whizz, John, yet, what system would you consider to be the easiest
to use??
The one that is always divisible by 10 whatever you measure, or the one that
has to be divided by 4 for pounds and ounces, by 3 for
www.usopen.org http://www.usopen.org
The IBM real-time scoreboard allows selection of metric or imperial. But,
kph instead of km/h. One would think that IBM would know better.
Baron Carter
Baron:
Given that IBM uses bps, rather than bit/s, I know they don't know better.
Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Carter, Baron
Sent: August 29, 2001 12:12
To: U.S.
Bill,
I hear you. I did 'feedback' them on this issue.
Baron
-Original Message-
From: Bill Potts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, 29 August, 2001 14:31
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:15064] RE: Tennis US Open
Baron:
Given that IBM uses bps, rather than bit/s,
On 2001-08-29 14:11 -0500, Carter, Baron wrote:
www.usopen.org http://www.usopen.org
The IBM real-time scoreboard allows selection of metric or imperial. But,
kph instead of km/h. One would think that IBM would know better.
Also, in a player profile (I looked at that of Serena Williams,
Check out this link from the metricsucks.com website:
http://www.metricsucks.com/solution.html
and decide whether or not they are extracting the urine or not!!
(meaning: having a joke, if not familiar with the above expression).
I think the consensus of opinion will decide 100%
Same in the fmr. Soviet Union.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On
Behalf Of Joseph B. Reid
Sent: Wednesday, 29 August 2001 7.22
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:15058] Re: 2002 Olympic Winter Games' weather team
Nikolay O. Malyarov weote
Nuts. I deleted the USMA from the Reply to all address list instead of
Bill and/or Barbara. Those darned 50-50 chances sure are hard to beat.
Jim
Original Message
Subject: Re: [USMA:15010] inches in Florida State science fair
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 20:18:19 -0400
From: James
We *should* say it is 2001-08-28 [any where in the World].
Duncan.
-Original Message-
From: Joseph B. Reid [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: U.S. Metric Association [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: August 28, 2001 17:43
Subject: [USMA:15037] Re: States reversion to English -Reply
Nat Hager wrote in USMA
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