I recommend you read the actual text. USMA has an image at
https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fusma.org%2Flaws-and-bills%2Fh-r-596-39th-congress&data=04%7C01%7Cusma%40lists.colostate.edu%7Cd446f3d92fd1485f7bd608d8a9fc6d07%7Cafb58802ff7a4bb1ab21367ff2ecfc8b%7C0%7C0%7C637446248924971842%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=sVDhbRYPuRCFZv%2BO%2FrthJlDBwOGSMBB1HIwUUYVgifY%3D&reserved=0.
It only legalizes metric it does not compel anyone to trade in it; it does not
illegalize Customary, in fact other laws require it for various things..
However, it does say a court may not refuse a contract case because the
contract is in metric. I would like to see a law that either party may require
the exchange to be denominated in metric, and perhaps it could derive from 1988
declaration by Congress (if they had any backbone) that metric is preferred for
trade and commerce, but no existing act says that.
I do my e-mail through a browser window, and my ISP does not offer a way to use
ISO date/time stamps. Further they convey your date/time to me in US style (and
EST time zone) regardless of how you specify it.
On Saturday, December 26, 2020, 01:17:33 PM EST, gct <[email protected]>
wrote:
John thanks for correction.
https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fusma.org%2Fa-chronology-of-the-metric-system&data=04%7C01%7Cusma%40lists.colostate.edu%7Cd446f3d92fd1485f7bd608d8a9fc6d07%7Cafb58802ff7a4bb1ab21367ff2ecfc8b%7C0%7C0%7C637446248924971842%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=aFCiVxCqaCy4GAcCo7euk9eCaXVZHmB2uFAyh2O8F10%3D&reserved=0
says
1866
The use of the metric system made legal in the United States by the Metric Act
of 1866 (Public Law 39-183). This law made it unlawful to refuse to trade or
deal in metric quantities.
i am pretty sure i saw it prohibits refusing to accept a court document because
it is in metric.
If you think about it : let x0 and x1 be 2 entities about to transact. x0 and
x1 have the inalienable right to pursuit of happiness, if they want to transact
in metric or any other system, they have an absolute right to do it and don't
need government permission.
a conflict only arises when x0 and x1 want to use 2 different systems. The law
should explicitly favor metric if 1 party want it, otherwise law is useless.
Also, we as a human species are not going to be able to deal with global
problems like climate change without global science literacy.
It is important to contact your representatives and express your disgust with
obscurantist foot/pound
Also, John it is a good idea John to change your email setting to use
international date standard and stop using stupid date format with day in the
middle. US passport does not use the twisted stupid date format with the day in
the
middle.
On 2020-12-26 08:11, John Steele wrote:
> I agree with your general sentiment, but I have to refute a couple of points
> you made:
> *The metric act of 1866 ALLOWS trading in metric; it does not "prohibit
> refusing to trade in metric." A court may not abdicate its adjudication role
> because a contract is metric.
> *The FPLA amendment passed and was signed in 1992 by George H.W. Bush, taking
> effect in 1994. The delayed effective date was to avoid unreasonable burden
> on manufacturers. It generally requires dual labeling, both metric and
> Customary, on MOST consumer goods, but there are specific exceptions, items
> where each package is a random weight (typically meat) or the item is weighed
> at retail (typically produce and deli) where only Customary is required,
> metric is optional as a supplement (and rarely used). There are other special
> cases for product not covered by FPLA. Wine and spirits must be metric, while
> beer must be Customary, etc.
> On Saturday, 2020 December 26, 10:41:55 AM EST, gct <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> you asked a very good question. I don't have children, i have met people who
> went thru US school system and don't know what is a km.
> we need a law that explicitly requires teaching the following before
> obscurantist foot/pound
> US congress passed pl 39-183, the metric act of 1866, which went into
> effect in 1866 and prohibits refusing to trade in metric and prohibits
> refusing to accept a court document because it is in metric.
> US congress passed the fair labeling act of 1994, which was signed by
> president Clinton, requires metric units on all labels.
> US is member of la convention du metre.
>
> From a scientific viewpoint All the units of
> electricity and magnetism are derived from the meter, kilogram, Coulomb and
> second. Till exempel, the volt is defined, such as if an electric charge of
> 1 Coulomb changes electric potential by 1 volt, there is energy exchange of
> 1 joule. As a consequence, an electrical current of 1 amp thru 1 volt for 1
> sec delivers energy of 1 joule, which is the kinetic energy of 2 kg moving
> at 1 m/s. ON THE OTHER HAND, THERE IS NO RELATION BETWEEN AMPERE, VOLT,
> JOULE AND THE STUPID OBSCURANTIST FOOT/POUND. If you use the volt as a unit
> of electrical voltage, you are using the metric system, 1 volt = 1
> Joule/Coulomb and the joule is derived from meter, kilogram and second,
> THERE IS NO RELATION BETWEEN AMPERE, VOLT, JOULE AND THE STUPID
> OBSCURANTIST FOOT/POUND.
> Similarly, the unit of magnetic field, 1 Tesla is defined as if an
> electric charge of 1 Coulomb is moving at a velocity of 1 m/s perpendicular
> to a magnetic field of 1 Tesla, it experiences a force of 1 Newton
> perpendicular to both the magnetic field and velocity vectors.
>
> 1 Newton is the force that accelerates 1 kilogram by 1 m/(s^2). THERE IS NO
> RELATION BETWEEN Tesla, Newton AND THE STUPID
> OBSCURANTIST FOOT/POUND.
>
> Einstein's famous equation, E = m x c^2 works only in metric and other
> coherent systems: m is in Kg, c = 3 x 10^8 m/s , E = energy in joules, 1 wh
> = 3600 (watt-sec or joules). 1 more reason to dump the stupid moronic
> idiotic foot/pound system and switch to metric.
> Thus in the metric system, 1 Kg of matter that gets completely converted
> into energy, would generate 9 x 10^16 Joules or (9 x 10^16/3600000) = 2.5 x
> 10^10 KWH
> To apply Einstein's famous equation in non-metric units, the unit of energy
> would be defined as the kinetic energy of 2 units of mass moving at a speed
> of 1 unit of length/sec and the speed of light in vacuum expressed in units
> of length/sec.
> Since we already have 1 Volt x 1 Amp x 1 sec = 1 Joule of electrical
> energy, for non-metric units, you would have to define another obscure unit
> of energy.
>
> As a direct consequence of Maxwell's equations, the electric and magnetic
> fields of an electromagnetic wave traveling in vacuum, which are 3
> dimensional vectors, are perpendicular to each other and the ratio of their
> magnitude E/B = c , the speed of light in vacuum 299792458 m/s so if the
> magnetic field B=1 tesla,the electric field E=299792458 newton/coulomb.
>
> it is important to shove facts of science in the face of obscurantist
> ignorants.
>
> i am thinking about putting a petition on change.org .
>
> Den sön 13 dec. 2020 13:01J McClellan <[email protected]> skrev:
>
>> Does anyone know that status of our kids learning the SI in American
>> public schools and what grade it might be introduced?
>> GO METRIC, AMERICA!
>> The World Is Waiting...
>>
>>
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