On 2003 Aug 18 Monday 00:07, Michael-O wrote:
> just read some atricles.
>
> 100 % metric!!
New Scientist has always (since I first remember it in the 70s) been SI - it
is British!
They used to be in A4 format, but changed to the US size some years ago.
--
Chris KEENAN
UK Metric Association
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Thanks Terry for filling in the blanks to clear up that one.
Pulling this (a bit) back on topic, I always thought kilowatt-hours were
strange enough, but here (and in earlier posts) we have kilowatt-hours per
year... mashing THREE time units (including second, of course) together!
This reminds me
Electricity consumption per capita (kilowatt-hours)
http://www.undp.org/hdr2003/indicator/indic_177_1_1.html
24779 Iceland
24422 Norway
15620 Canada
14994 Qatar
14588 Finland
14471 Sweden
13995 Kuwait
13050 Luxembourg
12331 United States
10725 United Arab Emirates
9006 Australia
8813 New Zealand
Michael.
Given that nations like Nigeria, Somalia, Afganistan bring this average to
a very low number, I'd bet Europe is right up there with the US in power
consumption.
If not even, then pretty darn close.
I'd check your facts before you go ranking.
What's with you anyway?
At 01:21 2003-08-18
just read some atricles.
100 % metric!!
Yah BUT using -re notation.
bye
http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/tech/article.jsp?id=3897&sub=Security%20and%20Defence
How can someone be so ignorant:
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/breaking_news/6556100.htm
Q: What's wrong with the power grid?
A: The aging grid has been overtaxed by consumers and businesses demanding
ever more power for air conditioners, computers and the like. Altogether,
the av
Terry Simpson wrote:
capable of representing all the characters, and that is optimized so that
>the majority of the receiving e-mail programs can interpret and render the
>content properly."
I'm still using Office 2000 (and, therefore, Outlook 2000), having seen no
really strong reason for paying
Gene, I thank you very much for this information! I will contact both of
them on Monday. -- Jason
- Original Message -
From: Gene Mechtly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: U.S. Metric Association <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Eugene A. Mechtly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Metric Forum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent:
Jason,
I find two inspectors listed for Fairbanks:
Scott Bowen; 907-451-2862; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
and
Dewey Emerick; 907-451-2862; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gene.
Thanks for the assistance. I am now using ISO-8859-15 (select "Latin 9 ISO"
in Outlook). Unlike ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-15 contains the euro symbol.
Selecting the option:
'Auto-Select encoding for outgoing messages'
will change the encoding back to us-ascii if there are only ascii characters
in the m
I confess I just went to the US version of the weather page on the site
and saw only Fahrenheit temperatures. (The Canadian and UK versions used
Celsius only.) Based on this I leapt to the conclusion (erroneous, from
what you saw for yourself) that the entire US version of the site
exclusively used
I just had a look at www.australia.com and found the
USA version contained much metric. Look however at
www.southaustralia.com and you will see that our tourist commission have not only used
only US Customary measurements, but also used US Customary spelling too.
Below is taken from htt
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