[USMA:10898] Automobile Association

I just tried the route planner on the website from the British Automobile Association for a trip from Amsterdam to Paris. I was pleased that the distances were in metric. No ifp in sight on their continental route planner. But things can also be different. Yesterday evening I saw the James Bond f

[USMA:10891] Re: Gruyere cheese

Dear John and All, I have made some remarks below. on 2001-01-31 15.49, kilopascal at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I think we need to get it through > some peoples heads that anything more than one place after the decimal in > centimetres for most applications is a sign the person coming up wit

[USMA:10897] Re: Teaspoons, tablespoons and ladles.

Dear Baron and All, I wonder if its the same Asian cookbook as one of my favorites, 'The Complete Asian Cookbook' by Charmaine Solomon, which was published in Australia by Summit Books in 1976, right in the middle of Australia's change to metric. Charmaine says: 'The Australian Standard measuri

[USMA:10894] Re: Fwd: Re: UK news article with only FFU

> Here in Jacksonville, Florida, I see February 21, > 2001, and I also see 2-21-2001, but I really never > observe, locally, any other way of writing the date. Dear Andy and All, In a widely ignored notice the Australian Government expressed its support for the -mm-dd format in 1998, that i

[USMA:10896] Re: Contradictions in road traffic regs

Dear Duncan and All, We have available here, in Australia, electronic odometers that can be set in a mode that has two decimal places, which means the odometer 'clicks over' every ten metres. This can be very handy when you are distributing materials for a farm fence, for instance. Cheers, Pat

[USMA:10893] Re: HEAVY METAL

Dear Carleton and All, on 2001-02-02 07.18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Only a small comment on metric, but this opinion comes from the same mindset > as the anti-metric people. I already wrote back to the paper: > > Editor: > > Mr. David Martin's arguments against the Sa

[USMA:10895] RE: 24 h atomic clock

> That's the more expensive of the two clocks I reported seeing at Sam's > Club a month or two ago. I got the cheaper of the two, without the > automatic radio update but with Celsius temperature readout -- because > it showed Celsius. I'll use my nts-updated linux network here at home > for accur

[USMA:10892] Avoirdupois

Dear Chris and All, In all this kafuffle arising from the activities of the UKIP, the BWMA, and their 'metric martyrs', I have been struck by the fact that they seem to be supporting the 'Avoirdupois pound' that was formally introduced to England - from France - in 1824. Is it not the case that

[USMA:10890] Re: Teaspoons, tablespoons and ladles.

Dear John, Joe, and All, on 2001-02-02 00.58, Joseph B. Reid at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > John wrote in USMA 10794: > >> While looking for some songs to download from Napster.com, I came across a >> German Polka, sung by Peter Alexander. The song is entitled: Kochlöffel >> Polka. Kochlöffel

[USMA:10889] Fw: How hard would it be? [Yahoo! Clubs: Metric America]

- Original Message - From: "downtobusiness" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, 2001-02-06 22:14 Subject: How hard would it be? [Yahoo! Clubs: Metric America] > How hard would it be to go out and recruit just one more person right now to participate in some way in

[USMA:10888] no SI at the American Red Cross

While putting together a Cub Scout meeting on disaster planning (boy, do I know how to have fun), I used the American Red Cross website to gather information on first aid kits, emergency food stores, how long (formerly) refrigerated food keeps, etc. The site is really gre

[USMA:10887] Re: Real Canadian Superstore - in store signs

On Tue, 6 Feb 2001 21:32:34 -0500, Stephen C. Gallagher wrote: >I believe they are. But what about Hong Kong? For the nearly >100 years that Hong Kong was a British Colony, I'm sure that >a lot of British terminology, including imperial measurements >were embedded there, no? I've seen laundry

[USMA:10886] Re: Real Canadian Superstore - in store signs

>For the same reason grocery store managers are afraid to include >the price per kg... the prices look unrealistically high, compared to >the old pound price. In the winter in Canada it is not unusual to see >prices for fruit and vegetables jump 3 or 4 times over the summer >price so seeing $

[USMA:10885] Re: Real Canadian Superstore - in store signs

>- Original Message - >From: "Daniel Bishop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: February 5, 2001 19:53 >Subject: [USMA:10869] Re: Real Canadian Superstore - in store signs > >What I'd like to know is why they think people who speak Chinese as a f

[USMA:10884] RE: Fwd: The North Atlantic Oscillation, units of measurement

I first did it the way most scientists probably would have: doing a keyword search on journals in the field after failing to find it in the more common desk references. I doubt that many students would do that. In fact, one of the most common "turn offs" mentioned by students for deciding NOT to g

[USMA:10883] Re: Need for metric product info

If the Smithsonian Institution is serious about honoring NIST, and recognizing the transition to SI in the US, the Institution will itself actually use SI to label its exhibits, and not merely put on a small exhibit which counts and names corporations that have converted. Modern *

[USMA:10882] RE: Fwd: The North Atlantic Oscillation, units of measurement

To avoid the 0.5 hours spent hunting the internet, bookmark this website: http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/index.html I have mentioned it before, but it is the most exhaustive I have seen for units SI and otherwise. A sverdrup acording to this site is: "a unit of flow sometimes used in ocea

[USMA:10881] Fwd: The North Atlantic Oscillation, units of measurement

The following was sent to the editors of Science magazine, published by AAAS, and to the lead author of the subject article. Jim -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: The North Atlantic Oscillation, units of measurement Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 17:56:44 -0500 From: "James R. Frysinger

[USMA:10880] Demand increases for Metrics

2001-02-06 A co-worker found an issue of DESIGN NEWS on top of one of the file cabinets today from 2000-04-03 and showed me the following article: FEATURED PRODUCT Trapezoidal screws have centralizing threads PowerAc(TM) trapezoidal screws from Nook Industries have centralizing threads that ma

[USMA:10878] Fw: It only took me until my late fortie [Yahoo! Clubs: Metric America]

- Original Message - From: "downtobusiness" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, 2001-02-06 00:54 Subject: Re: It only took me until my late fortie [Yahoo! Clubs: Metric America] > Well, I am interested in what is rational, logical. But I am also interested in knowi

[USMA:10879] Fw: It only took me until my late fortie [Yahoo! Clubs: Metric America]

- Original Message - From: "downtobusiness" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, 2001-02-06 00:59 Subject: Re: It only took me until my late fortie [Yahoo! Clubs: Metric America] > Justin, thanks for your comments. And I am glad to hear about your anti-conscription

[USMA:10877] FW: non-metric Canadian units

You've just described one of our major problems. Prior to 25 years ago there was no question. A gallon was the Imperial gallon and a quart was a quarter of that, etc. We used Imperial measurement, never American. When a person speaks of a gallon now there is nothing but confusion. Since Imp

[USMA:10876] Utah DOT

Document from Utah DOT from last summer... Nat http://www.dot.state.ut.us/esd/otheresdpages/cecu/08%2D23%2D00.htm UDOT/CECU (Consultant Engineers Council of Utah) LIAISON COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES for August 23, 2000 Place: UDOT 4th Floor Conference Room Date: August 23, 2000 Time: 9:00AM Prep

[USMA:10875] Re: Strange Conversion Factors in CNN/AP Article

The following letter was sent to AP and to CNN. Satellites reveal shrinkage of polar ice sheet February 2, 2001 Web posted at: 11:43 AM EST (1643 GMT) http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/science/02/02/sci.meltingice.ap/index.html WASHINGTON (AP) -- ... Now, satellite studies show that about 7.5 cubic

[USMA:10874] Re: Real Canadian Superstore - in store signs

I suspect that the price per hg is not used simple because it is not believeable to the Imperially minded consumer - 22¢ (per unit) is just too good to be true! Consumers are used to seeing 99¢/lb, $1.49/lb, $1.99/lb, $2.49/lb, etc. For the same reason grocery store managers are afraid to inclu

[USMA:10873] Re: Real Canadian Superstore - in store signs

Kilopascal wrote in USMA 10868: >We discussed this practice before, but I think it needs resurrecting. If >pricing per pound is preferred to pricing per kilogram because pricing per >pound looks cheaper, then pricing per hundred grams (hectogram) should >appear even more desirable. 99 ¢/lb woul