Terry,
Jim no longer works for NIST. I don't have his home e-mail address.
Don
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From: Terry Simpson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wed 2/12/2003 4:37 PM
To: U.S. Metric Association
Cc:
Subject: [USMA:2
> Of Terry Simpson
> Sent: 07 February 2003 18:03
> Subject: [USMA:24775] RE: 5.59504e+141radient angles
> Less than 14% (or perhaps 11%) is not marked.
> The steepest road averages 33%.
>
> You can see references to the old and the current method at these two
> official pages:
>
> www.highwayco
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Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
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>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
>Behalf Of Terry Simpson
>Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 15:38
>To: U.S. Metric Association
>Subject: [USMA:24828] Jim Mc
> Of Pat Naughtin
> Could you let us know some more details about its source, please.
Put the following line in your browser:
news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I am trying to contact Jim McCracken but the email address that I have for
him:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
just bounces.
Can anybody advise?
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Terry Simpson
Human Factors Consultant
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www.connected-systems.com
Phone: +44 7850 511794
Sorry Carleton,I must not have made my
self clear on my point the previous post. These recipes are in
FFU. However, the site has a feature to allow me to convert them to
metric. I presume that if the site used Metric as standard, most US users
would still convert back to FFU. http://vege
I've been thinking about this for a few months now. December 23,
2005 is the 30 year anniversary of the passage of the US Metric
Conversion Act of 1975.
Think about that. THIRTY years. That's a long time.
Has anyone on the list given thought to the following:
A) What kinds of regards we ca
Dear Bill, John, and All,
I have interspersed some remarks.
on 2003-02-12 17.29, Bill Potts at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Liter bottles of wine are very rare. However, liquor comes in 187.5 mL, 375
> mL, 500 mL, 750 mL, 1 L and 1.75 L bottles. Wine is more typically in 187.5
> mL, 375 mL, 750 mL
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 12:56:19 -0600
To: "Parker, Joshua" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: John Nichols <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: U.S.Comments
It is not the web masters it is the correspondent who could not copy a
number correctly
Not a big deal just a thousand fold out.
John Nichols
At 12:47
Probably not:
Few people want to convert a metric recipe to FFU.
But lots of old cookbooks in English-speaking countries are in FFU and there's more of
a need to convert them to metric.
Carleton
In a message dated 2/12/2003 7:14:11 AM Eastern Standard Time, "Brenton"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writ
Do they accept mail-order??
Nat
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of John Nichols
Sent: Wednesday, 12 February 2003 9:16
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:24820] Fwd: Re: Fwd: Milk by the liter
One of my students pointed out th
One of my students pointed out that you can buy 3L bottles of Jack Daniels
in Canada and JD confirmed this point.
From: "Bill Potts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [USMA:24817] Re: Fwd: Milk by the liter
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 22:29:43 -0800
X-Maile
http://allrecipes.com/cb/ref/convert/conversions.asp <<< After
reading this, wouldn't it be easier to use Metric as the
default,and have a button to convert to US, UK or AU differing
standards?
US standard 1 cup = 3/4 cup, 2 tbsp and 1 dsp
in Australia.US standard 1 cup = 3/4 cup, and dsp in the United
Kingdom.US standard 1 cup = 200 ml and 2-15 ml spoons any where...I
was trying to convert the US standard recipes to metric and found an interesting
stumbling block, when trying to u
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