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W dniu 05.08.2020 o 17:07, Seymour J Metz pisze:
Must you be so obtuse? The structure that they devised is extremely hard to
change. Look at how long it took for everyone to switch from
PKB
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Touche!
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W dniu 05.08.2020 o 17:07, Seymour J Metz pisze:
Must you be so obtuse? The structure that they devised is extremely hard to
change. Look at how long it took for everyone to switch from the Julian
Calendar to the Gregorian calendar.
Yes, Europe has had treaties, and before the ones that you
Having a written constitution helps set the foundation for our Republic. It's
pretty straightforward. The Feds are charged with controlling 'enumerated'
responsibilities. The states are responsible for everything else. Where the
boundaries overlap or converge the courts decide. This is not a
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> Contrast the US with the E
The thing many non-Americans don't understand (and many Americans, too, I'm
afraid) is that the states in the USA are not provinces. They're called
"states" because they were individual countries that decided to form a
~partial~ union. The US Constitution defines what are the powers of the
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Except speed limits only became
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No colonies were involved in speed limits.
We agreed and standarized a lot of things long before EU membership
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> > Federal limits, state limits... This is something I don't understand.
> > Standar
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Federal limits, state limits... This is something
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Federal limits, state limits... This is something I don't understand.
Standarization is good thing and common rules are easier to follow.
I just checked - 85mph in Texas, even for trucks. And 55mph in District
of Columbia
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I think what baffles the rest of the world is the point of states
Re: Still COBOL After All These Years?
So they make pointless differences because they can. Bingo.
You know we (Poland) are independent country and we have some kind of
states (województwo), but driving rules are common and much more
similiar to other countries in EU than your states one to anot
Once the argument over who has what powers became really hot :)
MKK
On Wed, 5 Aug 2020 08:04:37 -0500, Joe Monk wrote:
>"Federal limits, state limits... This is something I don't understand."
>
>It is a concept called federalism. The state has certain powers, and the
>federal government has
So they make pointless differences because they can. Bingo.
You know we (Poland) are independent country and we have some kind of
states (województwo), but driving rules are common and much more
similiar to other countries in EU than your states one to another.
And we have the same voltage and
OBOL and English was Re: Still COBOL
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"Federal limits, state limits... This is something I don't understand."
It is a concept called federalism. The state has certain powers, and the
federal government has certai
"Federal limits, state limits... This is something I don't understand."
It is a concept called federalism. The state has certain powers, and the
federal government has certain powers.
Joe
On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 7:16 AM R.S. wrote:
> Federal limits, state limits... This is something I
Federal limits, state limits... This is something I don't understand.
Standarization is good thing and common rules are easier to follow.
I just checked - 85mph in Texas, even for trucks. And 55mph in District
of Columbia (not to mention Guam). From the other hand Residential Areas
limits vary
Technically the 55mph limit wasn't a federal law; Rex is right that speed
limits are set and enforced by each state. But in the '70s Congress (the
Federal Congress) passed a law that Federal highway money would not be
forthcoming to states that allowed their speed limits to exceed 55mph. Most
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> (I know it's off-topic)
> My opinion: I like american cars and roads.
> However I don
On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 7:23 AM R.S. wrote:
> (I know it's off-topic)
> My opinion: I like american cars and roads.
> However I don't understand common speed limit 55 mph which is in my
> opinion too low for the road on desert.
>
Pretty much "inertia". Back when 55 was first introduced, it
in South Dakota - are reasonable.
Rex
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My
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(I know it's off-topic)
My opinion: I like american cars and roads.
However I don't understand
COBOL After All These
Years?
(I know it's off-topic)
My opinion: I like american cars and roads.
However I don't understand common speed limit 55 mph which is in my opinion too
low for the road on desert.
BTW:
Here in Poland default limit on highway is 140 km/h.
However in Germany default
(I know it's off-topic)
My opinion: I like american cars and roads.
However I don't understand common speed limit 55 mph which is in my
opinion too low for the road on desert.
BTW:
Here in Poland default limit on highway is 140 km/h.
However in Germany default is ...your sanity. No speed
of
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On Thu, 23 Jul 2020 07:58:07 +1000, Wayne Bickerdike wrote:
>Centigrade was derived f
On Thu, 23 Jul 2020 07:58:07 +1000, Wayne Bickerdike wrote:
>Centigrade was derived from Celsius, however, both described only the
>freezing point and boiling point of water at NTP.
>
If "was derived" implies a historical sequence, I think you have it reversed.
>My physics teachers said don't
Worth watching, thanks! Usually I'd rather read than listen, but this
guy really moves along. That's about half an hour of info packed into
12 minutes.
On 7/23/2020 6:17 PM, Tony Thigpen wrote:
I know this has just about run it's course, but I came across this
interesting youtube video
I know this has just about run it's course, but I came across this
interesting youtube video about "why the US did not adopt the metric
system" by a legitimate historian.
https://youtu.be/yseldOMcT4Q
Tony Thigpen
Bob Bridges wrote on 7/23/20 10:13 AM:
I would be willing to follow such a
I would be willing to follow such a convention, if there's a consensus for it,
or possibly even if it's requested by only a few. Personally I enjoy such
discussions - obviously - but I can see not everyone would.
But what constitutes OT? These things have recently started with a discussion
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On Wed, 22 Jul 2020, at 22:58, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
> Should an outfitter sell climbing ropes rated in Newtons?
I have a feeling that things like safety harnesses (for people working at
height), fall-arrest systems etc are rated in Newtons etc.
It's probably because it's not just the static
DU
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> WTF? It's true that both used (past tense) the freezing and boiling point
> of "water" at STP, but since when weren't they defined outside of 0-100?"
>
> Because:
>
> The centigrad
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> Centigrade was derived from Celsius, however, both described only the
>
ds is a measure of pressure
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> > You have the same mass versus weight issue wi
Horse Power??
Tony Thigpen
Paul Gilmartin wrote on 7/22/20 10:20 PM:
On Thu, 23 Jul 2020 00:31:03 +, Gibney, Dave wrote:
Foot pounds is a measure of pressure
???
Torque?
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Yes, and whyat is lbf?
On Thu, 23 Jul 2020 00:31:03 +, Gibney, Dave wrote:
>Foot pounds is a measure of pressure
>
???
Torque?
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>> Yes, and whyat is lbf?
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Foot pounds is a measure of pressure
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Foot pounds is a measure of pressure
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Actually, the pound is a unit of force in English units. I believe weight is
measured in stones.
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> You have the same mass versus weight issue with pound.
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>I took me a while befo
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See! SI is a "FANTASTIC" improvement over old stuff. It's all
standardized and everyone talks in the same way. (NOT!)
Thank you France.
Vive la pound, and inch, and mile...
On Jul 22, 2020, at 4:58 PM, Paul Gilmartin
<000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
>
> (BTW, what's the SI unit of Specific Impulse? And the formula for ∆v? Ugh!)
>
>
From wikipedia:
“The most common unit for specific impulse is the second, as values are
identical
See! SI is a "FANTASTIC" improvement over old stuff. It's all
standardized and everyone talks in the same way. (NOT!)
Thank you France.
Vive la pound, and inch, and mile...
(This post was posted with sarcastic mode set to "on".)
Tony Thigpen
Paul Gilmartin wrote on 7/22/20 5:58 PM:
On Wed,
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>
> Kelvin (absolute temperature) is converted from Celsius. Centigrade doesn't
> exist.
>
> On Wed, J
On Wed, 22 Jul 2020 17:05:29 +, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>I took me a while before I realized that, of course, kg is a unit of mass, not
>of weight; you weigh tings in kilogram-force (kgf or kgF).
>
Which of the following would you envision and welcome as an idiomatic
alternative?:
o ... how
, July 22, 2020 4:54 PM
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Kelvin (absolute temperature) is converted from Celsius. Centigrade doesn't
exist.
On Wed, Jul 22, 2020, 13:46 Jackson, Rob wrote:
> We have definitely devolved . . . l
Bob Bridges
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> I just think the wor
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> A kilogram is not a weight, Bob. Never has been; never will be. I'm not
> one to be anal-retentive. This point is m
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A kilogram is not a weight, Bob. Never has been; never will be. I'm not one
On Jul 22, 2020, at 1:41 PM, Bob Bridges wrote:
>
> Who doesn't? You may not, but lots of other people do. What am I missing,
> here?
As long as you stay near the earth’s surface, you can treat mass and weight as
equivalent. But kilograms measure mass, not weight. If I go into orbit around
On Wed, 22 Jul 2020, at 19:41, Bob Bridges wrote:
> Who doesn't? You may not, but lots of other people do. What am I missing,
> here?
That kg is a measure of mass, ie how much there is of something. One kg of
sugar on earth is the same amount as 1 kg on the moon.
Weight depends on gravity.
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When I was a kid a hundred years ago, the cano
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We have definitely devolved . . . like we always do on
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On 2020-07-22 14:38, Bob Bridges wrote:
For weather I don't feel the need to distinguish between 67°F and 68°F. "High
60s" is close enough for most conversations.
I suppose you already know this, but when someone (I forget who) first worked out the
normal human temperature, he
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For weather I don't feel the need to distinguish between 67°F and 68°F. "High
60s" is c
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Who doesn't? You may not, but lots
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Who doesn't? You may not, but lots of other people do. What am I missing,
here?
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For weather I don't feel the need to distinguish between 67°F and 68°F. "High
60s" is close enough for most conversations.
I suppose you already know this, but when someone (I forget who) first worked
out the normal human temperature, he measured a number of people and arrived at
an average
I just think the word "Celsius" is ugly; "centigrade" is comparatively
euphonious. A personal bias.
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My high school physics teacher would be rolling in his grave about now. You
don't weigh
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If we're going to express sympathy for imperial units, I've always thought the
furlong was pretty useful. Not so much when you're driving a car, but for
walking it works
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On Jul 22, 2020, at 11:15 AM, Bob Bridges wrote:
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> Interesting; centigrade is the one system I use nowadays without
On Jul 22, 2020, at 11:15 AM, Bob Bridges wrote:
>
> Interesting; centigrade is the one system I use nowadays without having to
> think much about it. It's so easy: 0s are cold, 10s are cool, 20s are
> warm, 30s are hot.
If 30s are hot, what do you call 40s? We hit 106°F last week, which is
What about cubits and stadia?
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If we're going to express sympathy for imperial units, I've always thought the
furlong was pretty useful. Not so much when you're driving a car, but for
walking it works pretty well.
Portages in Minnesota and Ontario are measured in rods, but I could never get
my head wrapped around them.
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Interesting; centigrade is the one system I use nowadays without having to
think much about it. It's so easy: 0s
Yeah, except that Fahrenheit degrees are smaller. For the same accuracy,
you'd have to resort to digits to the right of the decimal point. Feh!
On 2020-07-22 12:15, Bob Bridges wrote:
Interesting; centigrade is the one system I use nowadays without having to
think much about it. It's so easy:
Centigrade? It always thought it's Celsius. :)
Joe
On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 11:16 AM Bob Bridges wrote:
> Interesting; centigrade is the one system I use nowadays without having to
> think much about it. It's so easy: 0s are cold, 10s are cool, 20s are
> warm, 30s are hot.
>
> I get
Interesting; centigrade is the one system I use nowadays without having to
think much about it. It's so easy: 0s are cold, 10s are cool, 20s are
warm, 30s are hot.
I get kilometers but I think in miles. For short measurements I like
centimeters and millimeters, but I couldnt tell you how tall
I wondered whether someone would catch me on that. Yeah, I know AltaVista gave
up the ghost a while ago. I still ~think~ "AltaVista"; I type "alta" in the
address bar and select Yahoo from the list.
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Not as bad as the pint. I thought I was being short changed when I first
ordered a beer in the USA!
On 21 Jul 2020, at 10:57 pm, Tom Russell wrote:
>> Do we really want to stick with a system of units that few of us understand,
>> with the
>> same name denoting different quantities depending
I guess everyone knows I can't type worth a flip. :-)
Tony Thigpen
Mike Schwab wrote on 7/21/20 4:58 PM:
100 KPM (Kilometers per minute) would be about 6,000 KPH (Kilometers per
hour), about Mach 6, or 3 times the speed of the Concorde.
On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 1:24 PM Tony Thigpen wrote:
100 KPM (Kilometers per minute) would be about 6,000 KPH (Kilometers per
hour), about Mach 6, or 3 times the speed of the Concorde.
On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 1:24 PM Tony Thigpen wrote:
> Too many things
>
> That context was with regard to driving in Canada and should have been
> 100 KPM, not
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Well, "the whole nine yards" is about cloth, so I guess it fits the two known
items. :-)
As for things being in SI and not US, but labeled as US, yes, I too am seeing that. If
you b
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Well, "the whole nine yards" is about cloth, so I gue
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> Too many things
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> That context was with regard to driving in Can
Well, "the whole nine yards" is about cloth, so I guess it fits the two
known items. :-)
As for things being in SI and not US, but labeled as US, yes, I too am
seeing that. If you buy washers (for bolts) at the big box stores, they
have larger holes than the ones at the true hardware store.
On Tue, 21 Jul 2020, at 17:00, Tony Thigpen wrote:
> It's all perspective and how precise you need to be. And what we are
> measuring.
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> The only thing I know that is measured in yards is cloth and football.
What about "the whole nine yards"?
> In home improvements, boards and such are
Too many things
That context was with regard to driving in Canada and should have been
100 KPM, not 100 knots. :-(
Last time I was in Canada, we still were stuck with mostly 55mph limits
in USA while Canada seemed to have a standard of 100kpm so I equate the two.
My point was that I
On Jul 21, 2020, at 11:12 AM, David Spiegel wrote:
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> "... 100 knots is about 55mph ..."
> Assuming you meant Kilometers/Hour (based upon the context), it's actually
> 62.5 MPH.
>
Well, if the posted limit is 55 mph, 62.5 mph seems about the right speed to
go.
But duck-duck-go tells me
Hi Tony,
"... 100 knots is about 55mph ..."
Assuming you meant Kilometers/Hour (based upon the context), it's
actually 62.5 MPH.
Regards,
David
On 2020-07-21 12:00, Tony Thigpen wrote:
It's all perspective and how precise you need to be. And what we are
measuring.
The only thing I know
It's all perspective and how precise you need to be. And what we are
measuring.
The only thing I know that is measured in yards is cloth and football.
In football, we never measure in feet or inches, just yards. We just
care if it crosses the line.
For construction, we never use yards, it's
Hi Tom,
Don't forget that Metric was foisted upon us (as was federal
bilingualism) by Justin's father as a political move after he quelled
the FLQ Crisis.
It also was a sneaky way to get more tax revenue. That is, 1 penny/liter
gasoline tax seems more palatable than an extra 4.5 cents/gallon.
> Do we really want to stick with a system of units that few of us understand,
> with the
> same name denoting different quantities depending on context?
I agree with Shmuel. As a Canadian I was always mildly amused that the
Americans had different quarts and gallons from us. They were wrong
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I agree that cups are useful! The only time I find Imperial useful is
reading US recipes that use cups. Other
I agree that cups are useful! The only time I find Imperial useful is
reading US recipes that use cups. Other than that Imperial is brain
damaged! And I say that having grown up in the UK to a family which used
Imperial all the time in my youth.
I used to go to the sweet shop and ask for a
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