[USMA:53026] KM/J
Page 6 of our May - June issue of Metric Today bottom left corner has a Malaysia postage stamp with article that focuses on an unusual gauge labeled km/J. The article writer proposes a possible explanation. It is really much more simple than the proposed guess. The j simply stands for jam, the Malaysian word for hour, according to http://translate.google.com/#en/ms/hour (Under the National Language Act 1967, The script of the national language shall be the Rumi [Latin] script: provided that this shall not prohibit the use of the Malay script, more commonly known as the Jawi script, of the national language.) David Pearl MetricPioneer.com 503-428-4917
[USMA:53027] RE: KM/J
David, Thanks for that explanation! I think we should include your answer in a future Metric Today. Don -Original Message- From: owner-u...@colostate.edu [mailto:owner-u...@colostate.edu] On Behalf Of cont...@metricpioneer.com Sent: Sunday, 07 July 2013 08:01 To: U.S. Metric Association Cc: metricsystem10 Subject: [USMA:53026] KM/J Page 6 of our May - June issue of Metric Today bottom left corner has a Malaysia postage stamp with article that focuses on an unusual gauge labeled km/J. The article writer proposes a possible explanation. It is really much more simple than the proposed guess. The j simply stands for jam, the Malaysian word for hour, according to http://translate.google.com/#en/ms/hour (Under the National Language Act 1967, The script of the national language shall be the Rumi [Latin] script: provided that this shall not prohibit the use of the Malay script, more commonly known as the Jawi script, of the national language.) David Pearl MetricPioneer.com 503-428-4917
[USMA:53028] unsubscribe
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[USMA:53029] From Malaysia: Good things must be picked up in life - the Metric System
Good things must be picked up in life - Lok Wing Kong Sat, 06 Jul, 2013 09:09 PM PDT We must pick up good things in life be it a country or individual human being. The followings are some examples: (1) U K and its past colonies have picked up the metric system, which is better than the imperial system http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/sideviews/article/good-things-must-be-picked-up-in-life-lok-wing-kong/
[USMA:53030] All metric description on CNN.com
DELAYED 1 DAY WAITING FOR INTERNET ACCESS. Nice to see all metric in CNN note: The Palm islands comprise approximately 100 million cubic meters of rock and sand. In total, 210 million cubic meters of rock, sand and limestone were reclaimed (through dredging) to create the islands, with 10 million cubic meters of rock used in the outer ring alone. The rocks used for both islands were transported from 16 quarries throughout the UAE and the materials used are enough to build a wall that could circle the world three times. Description of Palm Islands in http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/04/travel/engineering-feats/index.html?hpt=hp_c4 Spot checking the notes for the other 25 slides revealed only a few non-metric unit usages and those were parenthetical! Jim -- James R. Frysinger 632 Stony Point Mountain Road Doyle, TN 38559-3030 (C) 931.212.0267 (H) 931.657.3107 (F) 931.657.3108
[USMA:53031] FAA must Metricate
What if that poor tired Vietnamese pilot, forget he had hit the convert button, after crossing into our air space, but still read meters instead of feet as he aproched the landing strip? Will FAA emit to that? At any rate its time for FAA to get on board! Bruce E. Arkwright, Jr Erie PA Linux and Metric User and Enforcer I will only invest in nukes that are 150 gigameters away. How much solar energy have you collected today? Id put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we dont have to wait til oil and coal run out before we tackle that. I wish I had a few more years left. -- Thomas Edison♽☯♑
