[USMA:31934] change the subject

2005-01-14 Thread Bill Hooper
The discussion under the subject heading of CADOT reversions has been off the topic of the reversion of the California transportation department for some time. (It seems now to be all about UK and EU rules for highway signs and construction.) Please, ladies and gentlemen, when the discussion ta

[USMA:31933] RE: CalTrans Reversion (was CADOT)

2005-01-14 Thread Phil Chernack
Bill, Here in New Jersey, the Motor Vehicle Commission is an agency in the DOT. It used to be in Law and Public Safety (Attorney General's office) but was moved to DOT a few years back. So, it varies from state to state. Tom, States are responsible for all design and construction of highways. Th

[USMA:31932] RE: CalTrans Reversion (was CADOT)

2005-01-14 Thread Bill Potts
No apologies needed. It was simply for your information. Whenever you get a Page Not Found message, try again. That page is there; believe me. The state DOTs have nothing to do with Drivers' Licenses. That's handled by the state DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles). DOTs handle design, constructio

[USMA:31931] RE: Irish Times

2005-01-14 Thread Stephen Humphreys
Title: Message  << The Irish Times has a section in which people can comment on events. I found one titled: Is the two week awareness campaign enough? 52% said YES, 48% said NO. >>>     It would be handy to see if there is a survey of how many people in Ireland supported the changing of spee

[USMA:31930] Irish Times

2005-01-14 Thread H. Maenen
The Irish Times has a section in which people can comment on events. I found one titled: Is the two week awareness campaign enough? 52% said YES, 48% said NO. The comments stretch over 10 web pages. I will try to find out if it is in the free section of the electronic paper. The greater part of the

[USMA:31929] RE: CalTrans Reversion (was CADOT)

2005-01-14 Thread Tom Wade VMS Systems
>It's a nit, I know, but there's no such entity as CADOT. It's Caltrans >(which you need to know if you're going to do a Google search, for example). Apologies. Subject corrected. >My sense of it is that it's a complete reversion. A Google search on >Caltrans metric provides the following link t

[USMA:31928] RE: good reason to go metric

2005-01-14 Thread Stephen Humphreys
Title: Message US7ASCII is the 'base' character set.  It misses many many characters.  Avoid at all costs unless you are dealing with a system that has to deal with many distributed legacy systems. Western ISO 15 used to be the best character set to use. UTF8 or AL32UTF8 is the way to go as

[USMA:31927] Re: CADOT reversions

2005-01-14 Thread Stephen Humphreys
Names and dates of relevant *UK* legislation, please - and penalties for non-compliance. >> You know they eminate from EU legislation. You also know the acts. You know that only certain things are "allowed" to be in imperial and you also know that by "derogation" it means "not for now" rather

[USMA:31926] Re: CADOT reversions

2005-01-14 Thread Stephen Humphreys
<> Acts passed by the European Onion - via treaty and/or passed by the european parliament having been concocted by the commissioners (it's a great idea! An unelected bunch think up new rules and 'their' parliament' says yes or no to them. Personally what I like best is when they are sacked for

[USMA:31925] Re: "UK measures"/FFU's

2005-01-14 Thread ewc
Hi Bill (Hooper)   You seem to be arguing (with rather unnecessary force) that CGPM can have no political dimension to its activities - in the same way that NATO & the UN have no political dimension to their activities.   As Clint Eastwood put it  :  "Go ahead - make my day"   rob   (Robert T

[USMA:31924] Re: Origin of tons

2005-01-14 Thread ewc
Hi Pat The most up to date answers to all your questions as to WHAT happened are pretty much as in A) R D Connor 'The weights and Measures of England 1987' (HMSO) & B) R D Connor and A D C Simpson'Weights and measures in Scotland: a European perspective' 2004 (National Museum of Scotland)

[USMA:31923] RE: Senator Boxer Constituent Survey

2005-01-14 Thread Bill Potts
Title: Senator Boxer Constituent Survey Done. Thanks for drawing it to our attention. Bill Potts, CMSRoseville, CAhttp://metric1.org [SI Navigator] -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Scott HudnallSent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 2