----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Joy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 6:36 AM
Subject: Re: [USMA:22351] Re: questions to Canadians
| Howard,
|
| Canada is too close to the US to convert 100%. Also goods made in Canada
| are made by US companies for the US market, just as some goods made in
| China for the US market have inches on them.
|
| Britain, on the other hand, is too close to Europe to stay with ifp.
|
| We are fortunate not to have anyone bordering on our shores, nor be
steeped
| in 'tradition' to slow us down, so we can get on and enjoy the benefits
of
| the metric system.
|
| Regards
|
| Mike Joy
| Perth, Australia
|
| ----- Original Message -----
| From: "Howard Ressel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 8:10 PM
| Subject: [USMA:22351] Re: questions to Canadians
|
|
| I was in Canada yesterday and went to a grocery store. It is interesting
| that milk is sold in 2 L gable top containers but juice is 1.89 L
| containers (although it appears to be the same size container). There are
a
| lot of products labeled only in metric but in soft odd sizes. It is
strange
| seeing an ad or a sign for (and this is a made up example) Tide L\laundry
| detergent 454 g. With all the trucks coming in to the US and few going
the
| other way. With all those Canadian products coming into the US I'm
| surprised there is not more influence on developing rational sizes of
| Canadian produced products for use in Canada and shipment to the US.
|
| It was also disappointing that the price on produce was more prominently
| displaced in pounds than in grams. Grocers in England have been arrested
| for such offences, what is the law in Canada?
|
| Howard Ressel
| Metric manager, NYSDOT Region 4
|
|
| >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 09/24/02 08:35PM >>>
| In a message dated 2002-09-24 13:02:37 Eastern Daylight Time,
| [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
|
|
| > At 18:38 +0200 02/09/24, Louis JOURDAN wrote:
| > >At 12:20 -0400 02/09/24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| > >No, there's also an ALT button on the right side. This one lets you
| > >use additional characters, mostly accents plus that thingy that
| > >hangs under the C
| >
| > We call it "c�dille". Nice, is it not? When "hanging" under the C, C
| > is pronounced as S. Who said tha French was difficult?
| >
| > BTW, I am just typing a "�" ("C c�dille") on my keyboard. How does it
| > appear on your screen?
| >
| > And just to remain on-topic, there is no SI unit with a "C C�dille".
| > What a chance!
| >
| > Louis
| >
|
| It came through perfectly. Actually, I correct myself: there is only
one
| alt key, on the left, which acts normally. The right side alt key also
| acts
| as an alt key but also shifts the characters on some of the keys.
|
| cm
|
|
|
