Gayne C. Young of ³Outdoor Life² made a shocking discovery: Australians
speak differently!
For one thing, an Australian referred to a barramundi fish as a ³barra².
How confusing can that be? Like calling a refrigerator a fridge, or a
telephone a phone, or Santa Claus Santa.
And another thing,
Horror! Reporter has culture shock!The American view of the world! Anything
not as America does it is non-standard, wrong, etc, etc. Reminds me of an old
quip my mother once told me, about when I was in the Scouts, and we were
marching in some parade. I was out of step, and got severely
I was wondering why the fisherman wasn't using 130 N line. I thought Australia
was metric. :)
Yes, some Americans have had little exposure to the rest of the world.
From: Michael GLASS m.gl...@optusnet.com.au
To: U.S. Metric Association usma@colostate.edu
Dear John,
Australia is at least 90 % metric and this is gaining all the time. However
there are particular activities where the old pre-metric words are protected
because they are a jargon. Furlongs in horse racing (even though these are now
defined as exactly 200 metres) and nautical miles
Attached is my letter to Senators Durbin and Kirk, and to Rep. Johnson.
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Here is a PDF version of my letter to Illinois Senators Durbin and Kirk, and
Rep. Johnson.
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On Jan 4 President Obama signed the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act
of 2010. It is many pages long, but says nothing that I have been able to
find
on the importance of metrication for US industry. It discusses STEM (science,
technology, engineering, and mathematics) at great length, but
Can you send a link or something? All I get is an unrendered html mess.
From: mech...@illinois.edu mech...@illinois.edu
To: U.S. Metric Association usma@colostate.edu
Sent: Wed, January 5, 2011 6:24:43 PM
Subject: [USMA:49430] Fwd: NIST Tech Beat for January
The NIST TechBeat is attached to my copy with blue links to the sources.
I don't know why you do not see the links?
Original message
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 15:32:22 -0800 (PST)
From: John M. Steele jmsteele9...@sbcglobal.net
Subject: Re: [USMA:49430] Fwd: NIST Tech Beat for January 5,
Search for NIST TechBeat dated Jan 5 for the original links.
Original message
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 15:32:22 -0800 (PST)
From: John M. Steele jmsteele9...@sbcglobal.net
Subject: Re: [USMA:49430] Fwd: NIST Tech Beat for January 5, 2011
To: mech...@illinois.edu, U.S. Metric Association
Never mind. I tracked down both TechBeat and the text of the law via Google.
The word metric is used in the business sense of metrics 10 times, and once
as
metric measuring strategy (again business metrics). It is used zero times in
the sense of the SI, as are SI and International System
Well, sort of ...
http://www.apple.com/macbookair/features.html
Ezra
Damn, I wished a thought of that. It would even better if it was by weight for
the perfect coffee, I will have to bring in my scale;)
Id put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we
dont have to wait til oil and coal run out before we tackle that. I wish I had
a
On 2011/01/06, at 13:22 , ezra.steinb...@comcast.net wrote:
Well, sort of ...
http://www.apple.com/macbookair/features.html
Ezra
Consider this quote from the advertisement.
4.86 millimeters (0.19 inch)
4.86 millimetres ÷ 25.4 = 0.191 338 58
whereas
0.19 inches x 25.4 = 4.626
This
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