I hope indeed that the 2010 deadline wil stand, regardless.
This is another issue.
But when it comes to terrorism, we must support the USA
without reserve. NATO rightly regards this act as an attack
on all member nations. It is an attack on civilisation and democracy
by barbarians.
Death to terror
2001-09-14
just think of the time someone took to come up with this trivia!
John
OK
THE COINCIDENTAL NUMBERS OF THIS ATTACK
ON THE WTC
The date of the attack: 9/11: 9 + 1 + 1 =
11.
911 is the Universal Number for Help
(USA) 9 + 1 + 1 = 11.
September 11th is the 254th day of the
y
2001-09-13
Pat,
Can you post a copy of your letter here?
John
- Original Message -
From: "Pat Naughtin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, 2001-09-13 20:56
Subject: [USMA:15253] Re: Count on Kilpatrick
> Dear Jim and All,
>
> I read
In a message dated 2001-09-13 21:56:20 Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Alfred, I couldn't agree with you more. I also felt (and still feel) a
double pang, first for the victims and then for the towers. We lost the
equivalent of two small towns.
The towers were more than just
Alfred, I couldn't agree with you more. I also felt (and still feel) a
double pang, first for the victims and then for the towers. We lost the
equivalent of two small towns.
The towers were more than just two gleaming steel boxes. They were largely
self-contained communities where tens of thou
Dear Jim and All,
I read the Kilpatrick article and sent him my piece on how to avoid metric
measures.
He replied:
'Many thanks for your e-mail. I was aware of the growth in metric measures,
but you overwhelm me. I won't be writing about numbers any time soon, but
I'll save your compendium for
> ENGLISH
> http://www.italy-news.net/index_eng.php3
>
> NATO PREPARED TO ACT IN RESPONSE TO ATTACKS
> Officials for NATO affirmed that the terrorist attacks against the United
Stated are equivalent to an act of aggression against all members of the
During OLN coverage of la Vuelta a Espana bike race, commentator Paul
Sherwin mentioned the riders were, "6 kilometers from the top of the hill.
That's about four miles in the old money."
Scott C
Tragedies seem to bring out both the best and worst in people:
some line up to give blood, others line up to steal. There are
already reports of scam artists setting up bogus donation web
sites.
If you want to donate in an easy fashion, just go to Amazon.com
(www.amazon.com). They are collecting
I understood Gene to mean more than twice 1.
One does something once, twice, three times, four times, ... 101 times, ...
In that series, 101 times is certainly more that twice, with no
qualification of "twice" required.
In our quest for clear definitions, let's not forget common, correct Englis
I'm afraid I don't know the answer to that one, Bill.
Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Barbara and/or Bill Hooper
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 10:03
To: U.S. Metric Asso
Gene wrote
> ... for example:
>
> "I have argued in favor of metric-only labeling 100 times. If I argue
> for metric-only labeling "once more" or "one more time" my count will be
> 101 times, which is more than twice."
More than twice WHAT? Certainly 101 is not more than twice 100, which is
wha
> ATF regulations (http://www.atf.treas.gov/regulations/27cfr25.pdf) mandate
> certain sizes for metric beer containers -- specifically 500 mL, 750 mL, 1
> L, 2 L and 3 L.
I wonder how this relates to the new Florida law allowing beer to be sold in
ANY size container (up to 32 fl.oz.), including
Road construction on site is still a mixed bag in NY. Contractors talk English often
but also are starting to use metric. They do adjust though. One project I designed
involves paving with concrete. The Contractor is paving to English widths even though
the specs call for hard metric lanes. Sin
Carleton writes:
"... The balance point of maximum security/maximum liberty
needs to be found. In a complex society it is intolerable
to go entirely in the first direction, and dangerous to go
entirely in the other. "
We have no fundamental disagreement -- you have stated very
succinctly the q
I strongly agree with John on this. The SI issue must not be affected by
this tragedy.
But I'm strongly in favour of rebuilding the World Trade Center Twin towers
to exactly what they were a few days ago - even putting the same offices in
the same floors in the same towers with the same floor pl
I have been absent from the List for some time but I felt that I would like to share
this observation with the list members.
Recently the road in front of my house was resurfaced. The information provided by the
city state that the microsurfacing involved placing "5 to 10 mm" of new pavement ov
The NIST Metric Program has received a technical inquiry that I hope
someone on the USMA Listserv can answer.
To:
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: din6880
really need help on this..I was asked to make a
key 11mmx18mmx120mm using cf1045 din6880 h9 tolerance.I really need to
find out the tolerance for
P.S. I don't think they will rebuild. The area will most likely be turned
into a memorial. And if they do rebuild, most likely they won't build
something that sticks out so high and draws attention to itself as this one
did.
John
Somehow I don't think so. This is New York. New York does no
I agree, its an opportunity for NY to regain the worlds height record but its hard to
think about that now.
Howard Ressel, Metric Manager
New York State Department of Transportation, Region 4
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