At 18:24 -0500 02/03/14, kilopascal wrote:
2002-03-14
Interesting article.
I have a question I hope someone can answer. Does OIML (The International
Organisation of Legal Metrology) recognise FFU as a legal system?
John
Why don't you put the question directly to the OIML ?
At 4:30 -0800 02/03/13, cellular qwerty wrote:
As far as the driving licence is concerned:
1. Yes. there is a single licence for the European
Union. It is valid in all EU countries. See:
http://www.dvla.gov.uk/drivers/yrfulldl.htm
Let me disagree. There is no - for the moment - any european
At 6:18 -0800 02/03/13, M R wrote:
Then what about the directions (North, south, etc) in
roads, do they use any icons for this.
No, and even if the use of cardinal points is much less important on
European roads than in the USA, it may create confusions : I was last
week in Begium with a
At 10:19 -0500 02/03/16, kilopascal wrote:
Also, is there any movement to allow 500 g to be used as a pound for those
who still want to use pounds? Or to encourage vendors to vend out 500 g
each time a pound is asked for?
No. But in the common language, une livre is still used with the
meaning
At 15:41 -0700 02/03/15, Jim Elwell wrote:
Those who live in all-metric countries: have people come up with a
verbal shorthand for saying centimeter or for saying milliliter?
(Similar to kilo for kilogram.)
Definitely no. At least in French.
Louis
This last sentence is most excellent!! Next time any of us encounters
some
red-neck saying it is un-American to use metric, the obvious reply
is
Well, all of our Armed Forces use it!
Since most of these red-neck types tend to be gun-ho, patriotic
supporters of the military, it will put
I thought cooties (also known as seam-squirrels) were living critters.
All this is grist for the standardization mill.
D.
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From: Bill Potts [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: U.S. Metric Association [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: March 16, 2002 18:05
Subject: [USMA:18802] Re: Short unit
I thiought nits were something fussy people picked.
D.
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From: kilopascal [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: U.S. Metric Association [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: March 16, 2002 20:35
Subject: [USMA:18807] Re: Short unit names -- Humorous Aside
2002-03-16
Aren't nits passed from person
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From: kilopascal [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: U.S. Metric Association [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: March 16, 2002 20:42
Subject: [USMA:18808] Re: Short unit names
2002-03-16
If you are going to use a unit called Q, why not make it equal to 0.1 mm
(100 µm)?
This breaks away
2002-03-17
That is what I meant, in the common language, the slang, not as an official
unit. Thus when a patron asks for a pound, the vendor doesn't worry about
weird numbers like 454, but just uses 500 g for a pound. And thus 250 g for
a half-pound and either 100 g or 125 g for a
Let me disagree. There is no - for the moment - any european driving
license. Each member state issues its own driving license documents.
But they are all designed on the same model, using pictograms for the
various categories, etc. And they are all valid in all EU member
countries
Good
John Kilopascal wrote in USMA 18810:
Personally, I think the UK should de-legalise imperial. That is no longer
support it. Anyone who prefers to use it are on their own. It would mean
every vendor would have the right to chose how he/she wants to interpret a
customers request when a pound is
the word pound should fade out!
even in all metric countries pound is still present except russia, I have
never heard people using such a word!
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From: Joseph B. Reid [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: U.S. Metric Association [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2002 3:52 PM
2002-03-17
But, I think the legal value of a pound in Britain is still 454 g. If the
pound was truly delegalised, then as far as the government would be
concerned, there is no fraud committed if a shop choose to misprice a
pound, if the pound is used as a secondary unit.
For example, quote
2002-03-17
Natürlich!
But, you still have people using it. Just like in Germany, I'm sure you
still here people asking for things in pfund. Don't you? But, to them it
means 500 g. The same should be true for Britain.
John
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From: Wizard of OS [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Its use should absolutely be restricted to the printing industry. It should
never spread beyond it,
Han
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From: Joseph B. Reid [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: U.S. Metric Association [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, 2002-03-17 01:27
Subject: [USMA:18804] Re: Short unit names
the word pound should fade out!
Since that's also what they call their currency,
at least for now, I doubt it would be going anywhere
in the near future.
Stephen
I opponent that!
those pseudo units shown be abolished, I propose the mmHg should be stopped!
I dont see a reason to use them!
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From: Han Maenen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2002 10:54 AM
Subject:
On Thu, 14 Mar 2002 11:42:25
Jim Elwell wrote:
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I think that what John meant was that if you do not take a stand in favor
of metrication you're actually being against it because the status quo
continues!!! Who or how can anyone argue otherwise?
This is exactly the point I think is so
And they are, as are nits. And they are the same thing.
Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Duncan Bath
Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2002 05:24
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject:
Duncan Bath wrote:
I thiought nits were something fussy people picked.
Yes, but that's a metaphor based on the act of picking nits out of someone's
hair.
Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
2002-03-17
I agree with you. To do so, you would have to get rid of all devices that
are calibrated in these units and replace them with ones calibrated strictly
in SI units.
Don't confuse my agreement with a suggestion to make a pound equal to 500 g
meaning I want to retain such a unit. I
on 3/16/2002 7:27 PM, Joseph B. Reid at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I had not noticed that 555 nm and 540 x 10^12 hertz are equivalent
statements.
That's true only for for electromagnetic waves, such as light, in vacuum.
The relationship depends on the speed of the waves. Since the speed of
2002-03-17
You are assuming that red-necks are a rational crowd. If you told them our
military uses metric I doubt they will believe you and will insist you are a
member of some anti-American organisation trying to deceive god-fearing,
wholesome, patriotic, and whatever else Americans into
It becomes a parochial patois.
IF it had a rational SI base [such as 'micron' has] it could be a useful
'tag' [eg. like 'litre'].
D.
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From: Han Maenen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: U.S. Metric Association [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: March 17, 2002 11:38
Subject: [USMA:18829] Re:
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Sent: March 17, 2002 13:03
Subject: [USMA:18835] Re: Short unit names
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 15:41:57
Jim Elwell wrote:
At 02:38 PM 3 March 2002 -0800, Madan wrote:
As for 'inch' vs
Where is the sense we're talking about?
I see no progress or effort taken by Georgie to metricate his beloved
country!
It seems he really wants to face 2010?
It will have a severe impact on american economy, the EU is the US' most
important trade partner!
Americans have to get rid off the
Here in Sunderland and other North East regions, we used to call them dickies!!
Sorry, Bill, couldn't resist!!
Regards,
Steve.
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From: Bill Potts [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: U.S. Metric Association [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, March
On Sun, 17 Mar 2002 14:52:02
Stephen C. Gallagher wrote:
...
Metric users do not have the habit of creating shortcuts for measurement
values. We simply use it as is, i.e. cm is centimeter, mm is millimeter,
etc. It seems to me that this is more of a cultural phenomenon in the US
that sees
Wizard wrote:
I see no progress or effort taken by Georgie to metricate his beloved
country!
That's because he's too busy further enriching the Bush Dynasty's already
obscenely rich friends (and governing in secret).
It seems he really wants to face 2010?
Right now, he's actively facing 2002
Wizard of OS wrote:
Americans have to get rid off the idea it is our heritage, it is Gay
Britain's heritage!
Are you calling us British gay, Wizard of OS?? You
bitch!! I'll scratch your eyes out!! ;-)
Regards,
Steve.
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From:
Wizard
The Omnibus Trade Bill of 1988 applies to the current government. If they
do not live up to its provisions, it is up to us to prod them into
compliance. Such compliance will lead a goodly number of suppliers to get
on with SI or lose out on business opportunities.
Duncan
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