.....modern metric system.....It shall be simpler and easy when *metric system* gets realised and linked to METRE - the length unit and NOT allowed to be confused and linked to 'yard/mile'.
Let minds meet to ponder over: why the French experience failed?
Brij Bhushan Vij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
20041224H0672(decimal) AM(IST)
Aa Nau Bhadra Kritvo Yantu Vishwatah -Rg Veda.
*****The New Calendar Rhyme*****
Thirty days in July, September:
April, June, November, December;
All the rest have thirty-one; accepting February alone:
Which hath but twenty-nine, to be (in) fine;
Till leap year gives the whole week READY:
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From: Pat Naughtin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Subject: [USMA:31692] RE: Some decimal time... jabs Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 17:54:59 +1100
Dear All,
This is another repeated message that got through to Marcus but didn't make it to this list. Sorry about that.
To: Marcus Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]>
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 2004 December 08 05.33.22 Subject: Re: [USMA:31603] RE: Some decimal time... jabs
Dear Marcus and All,
on 2004-12-08 04.31, mavi fibe at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
<snip> > NO, I'm not rekindling this discussion again, but > simply jumping on some of our dear colleagues' > comments here to drive the point home (or give food > for thought) that there is more to "metrication" than > just promoting "the status quo" IMHO. > > True, ok, when it comes to discussing this this is not > the forum, so, again, I'll refrain from doing so. > > More and more though I'm convinced this "other" cause > is worthy of our (ok, my...) pursuit. > >> However, as longer journeys (as opposed to trips to >> the store) may take >> several hours, expressing speed in km/h makes sense. > > Of course it does! And what does SI offer us to > address that? NOTHING, NADA, ZILCH! So we're stuck > with using minutes and hours as 'acceptable to be used > with SI' because, again, SI simply does NOT have > ANYTHING in its place to offer to the common folk! <snip>
I can see the confusion in some people's minds when they arrive at the USMA
mailing list hoping to get support for their own metrication process and
they find a vigorous debate � for and against � obscure improvements to SI,
the modern metric system. We all know that this is confusing to new readers.
Maybe we should split the list into two components � one for ways and means to adopt and promote metric use in our communities and another to discuss the ways to improve SI. Perhaps, http://groups-beta.google.com/group/misc.metric-system?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8 is a possibility for the second of these.
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin Geelong, Australia 61 3 5241 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.metricationmatters.com
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