On Thursday 23 February 2017 06:49:04 Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 23.02.17 06:07, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 23 February 2017 03:35:54 Erik Christiansen wrote: > > > And for Gene, it is happy to convert: > > > > > > You have: furlongs per fortnight > > > You want: m/s > > > * 0.00016630986 > > > / 6012.8727 > > > > > > (Add --verbose to the invocation if the output is too cryptic.) > > > > > > Erik > > > > I must have forgotten the required smiley on those phrases somewhere > > along the line, my apologies. > > Oops, guilty of same. Shoulda been :^), perhaps. > (This medium is darned flat if we don't put a few in when mixing chat > with info. And I've flunked mind-reading all my life.) > > > In this world, I've had a tendency to use that whenever the subject > > has descended to about the level of pointing a finger and laughings > > ones ass off. ;-) > > > > But I don't believe I am the only one quilty of emitting that phrase > > either. It does have a catchy cadence to it. :) > > It's made its way down under, even - though you don't hear it so much > in the new millennium. > > Here's a conversion you might seriously use, though: > > $ units -1 $ -1 = Skip the reciprocal output. > You have: 280 oz force in # A stepper motor's torque. > You want: N m > * 1.9772345 > > Or maybe the reverse conversion? (In USA, they still sell ozs in tins, > I figure. They're extinct here. ;-) > > Erik > Yeah, ancient but normal here. We tried to get the public to use metric 30 or so years back in the fog of time by selling gasolene by the liter. Everybody that jumped on that bandwagon converted their pumps back to gallons before they went bankrupt because the metric pumps got 5% of the usage the guy on the other corner with gallon pumps was getting. I think if it had been mandatory, it might have worked as the gallon holdouts would have been forced to buy liters when the tank gauge said I'm quitting in another 10 miles. We even have a highway marked in kilo's here and there, but the signs are fading. Damn the fickle public. OTOH I was one of those who searched for pumps marked in gallons at the time, but not THAT hard. Had it been accompanied by roads in kilo's at the same time I think would have worked, but I also think some of our lawmakers would have had an early end to their careers. They should have bit the bullet and just did it. Speedometers in kilo's, the whole MaryAnn.
And its not going to happen here until a target date is set and its all metric or else big fine a day after that date. Thats how they do us broadcasters, $27,500 fine for every day out of compliance. However, changing ALL the road distances to kilo's is a huge expense for the roads maintenance people, in some cases re-surveyed, so it should only be done as routine upkeep, which many of our roads need badly on the road surface itself. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
