On Sep 1 , at 2:55 PM, <[email protected]> <[email protected]> wrote:
> On the guidance below , John Steele and I (and perhaps Jim Frysinger) are in
> full agreement:
> ---- Original message ----
>> Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 11:42:29 -0700 (PDT)
>> From: "John M. Steele" <[email protected]>
>> ...
>> Lets stick with kelvins for absolute temperature and
>> degrees Celsius for relative. It works, it has lots
>> of precedence, and the symbols are well understood.
>> ...
I won't promote the use of kelvins for Celsius degrees any more since it is
falling on deaf ears anyhow.
But I can't help responding to the argument agains my ideas as stated above.
Your arguments are (and I quote):
"Let's stick with (the old)".
"It works."
"It has lot of precedence."
"The symbols are well understood."
All these arguments have also been used to argue in favor of Ye Olde English
units and against the introduction of SI.
Every one of them merely say "I want to keep what's familiar."
That's the poorest reason in the world to keep Olde English units over SI
metric ones,
and it's the poorest reason to dismiss without thought the suggestions I've
made.
Regards,
Bill
