At 27 03 06, 07:48 PM, Pat Naughtin wrote:
I also know that this is a difficult issue for any system, such as the
metric system, which has as its basis the use of prefixes and units that are
joined to form multiples and sub-multiples. By their nature such systems are
at least duo but mostly
Let's hope they pass a lobbyist influence bill soon. It is not really fair that one influential group gets to hold back progress for the rest of us.On 2006 Mar 18, at 12:16, Carleton MacDonald wrote:And, as the highway bill a few years ago proved, all it takes is one member of Congress to slip one
Dear Mr. Dickson,
I read with interest the story on your radio station's pulling an Orson
Welles-style announcement concerning the metric system in Indiana for April
Fool's Day
(http://www.southbendtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060331/News01/60331008).
True, the current orientation
On 2006 Mar 31 , at 5:03 PM, Jim Elwell wrote:Another way of saying this is that Table 3 of BIPM's SI document (Derived Units with Special Names) should be expanded with reasonable expediency, to help control the proliferation of such names.Jim's point is well taken, but most of the rest of this
Has anyone seen the Cavit Wine commercial on television? It's ALL METRIC (no conversions, no dual-units). I've seen it on both the National Geographic Channel, and The Science Channel. The commercial can be viewed at http://www.cavitcollection.com/ . The television version has a narrator with an
I found a clever way to increase metric visibility among wireless Internet users. I have the broadcast SSID on my wireless network set to display "GO METRIC!" as the network name. Since there are 2 cafes on the block, laptop users will see the GO METRIC! SSID whenever they search for a network
As the Guiness brothers would say : BRILLIANT! :-)
On Apr 1, 2006, at 00:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I found a clever way to increase metric visibility among wireless
Internet users. I have the broadcast SSID on my wireless network set
to display GO METRIC! as the network name. Since there
