2002-05-04 Bill,
The reason I didn't respond to the comments Jim made for 5 days was because I was in Texas from Monday to Friday. I posted that info on the article about 15 min before I had to leave for the airport. What is amazing me about this is that the only thing Jim (and you) commented on was a minor little pop-up and not one word about the contents of the article. I would think someone would have commented how the 10 km race was marked along the way with mile markers and not kilometre markers, thus causing a participant to become confused, which cost her a possibility of being the winner. I would have expected someone to write to the PD to complain about the use of miles in metric events. I hate to say it folks, but it seems the US is aggressively, subtlety and consistently sabotaging SI. I see it everywhere I go. And here, all we do is talk about drips and drops and ...OH, MY GOD, I GOT A POP-UP. While our enemies are changing signs from metric to imperial in England, we are doing nothing. While we are fighting against the USMA using A series paper, we have American interests now forcing US paper sizes in the world. We are in a position that for every step forward we are taking, we are being pushed back two. And no one seems to care. The game isn't won on the sidelines, it is won on the field. John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Potts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, 2002-05-03 20:09 Subject: [USMA:19886] Re: Cleveland Marathon & 10 km - English/metric error costs woman a chance to win > John: > > I no longer have your message. However, when I had it, Jim's comment led me > to take a look at the source code (which is easy to do with HTML messages -- > right click on the body of the message and choose View Source). The link to > the pop-up ad was within your message. > > Its presence may, indeed, be a mystery to you, but it was certainly there. > With a text message, its presence would, of course, have been an > impossibility. > > Bill Potts, CMS > Roseville, CA > http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > > Behalf Of kilopascal > > Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 16:50 > > To: U.S. Metric Association > > Subject: [USMA:19884] Re: Cleveland Marathon & 10 km - English/metric > > error costs woman a chance to win > > > > > > 2002-05-03 > > > > Don't ask me how that happened? I did it just like you guys want, with a > > clickable link. > > > > John > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "James R. Frysinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Monday, 2002-04-29 09:29 > > Subject: [USMA:19780] Re: Cleveland Marathon & 10 km - > > English/metric error > > costs woman a chance to win > > > > > > > This is a new one for you, John. This time your message included a > > > pop-up ad for cleveland.com/careers. Ads on the USMA mail list? > > > > > > Jim > > > > > > > kilopascal wrote: > > > > > > > > 2002-04-29 > > > > > > > > Over the week-end, Cleveland sponsored.... > > > > > > -- > > > Metric Methods(SM) "Don't be late to metricate!" > > > James R. Frysinger, CAMS http://www.metricmethods.com/ > > > 10 Captiva Row e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Charleston, SC 29407 phone/FAX: 843.225.6789 > > > > > > > >
