Title: Non metric costs
on 2005-06-22 14.10, Daniel at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can't imagine how much extra production costs are involved with making products like fasteners, where duplication abounds from producing both metric and English, keeping the inventory separate, then the cost to st
Very good comments on what I said. I don't know why I never
thought about bringing my own metric only tape measure with me when I go to Home
Depot. I think I'll make sure I do that next time I need to have something
cut at the store, and I liked your comment about cooking. I do actually
u
Yes I do. When I purchased a new
electric range I asked the sales rep if the digital thermostat could be set to
Celsius. After saying that she had no idea she asked if I was from
Europe. When I told her I was not and have lived in Florida my entire life
she just looked at me like I was a
Pat,
I have a request for you. Can you repost that article you wrote about "if
you don't like metric don't use the following products"? Does the USMA have
a copy posted to their website? I even looked on metric1.org and didn't
find it there either.
Am I right in assuming that this article
Your posting brought something to mind. The US
doesn't seem to be much of a nation concerned with exporting. Just look at
our trade deficit as proof of that. We do however import a lot of goods,
especially manufactured goods. Obviously every thing we import is going to
be metric. If it
In a message dated 2005-06-21 23:10:42 Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I had
someone come over from the phone company to check the wiring. We had a
conversation like this:"The cord from the jack to the modem should be
20 feet long at the max.""What's that in meters?""
Next question is, when was the clock changed to start at midnight and
noon,
with all hours the same length, instead of at dusk and dawn, with
different
lengths of hours?
I would guess that having hours of the same length came about with the
invention of the mechanical clock using gears ins
I had someone come over from the phone company to check the wiring. We had a
conversation like this:
"The cord from the jack to the modem should be 20 feet long at the max."
"What's that in meters?"
"I don't know. Where are you from?"
"New York, California, and Ohio."
I'm in North Carolina. Do any
-Original Message-
From: Tom Wade VMS Systems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Jun 21, 2005 6:53 AM
To: "U.S. Metric Association"
Subject: [USMA:33305] A Pound of Bananas
> You mean he didn't upgrade his equipment which was required under the
law. Note that this still didn't prevent him from
Dear Josh,
Please realize that one of the greatest obstacles
to successful resolution to the United States's trade with the European Union is
the fact that we, the U.S., have not fully embraced the use of (SI) the
International System of Units (the metric system). The U. S. has begged
fo
On Tuesday 21 June 2005 00:47, Bill Potts wrote:
> 24-hour time has been with us ever since the day was divided into 24 hours.
> A more relevant question is why and when it was subdivided into two 12-hour
> periods. I don't know the answer to that. Students of horology probably do
> know it, though
What was the end result of their convictions? Except for Steve Thoburn, are
the rest back in business now conducting their business lawfully or do they
continue to defy the law?
Dan
- Original Message -
From: "Terry Simpson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association"
Sent:
In order to keep within the law a trader has to be able to sell fruit and
vegetables to their customers by metric weight. But, for example, prices can
still quite legally be displayed as a price per pound provided that the
price per metric unit of weight is also displayed with equal or greater
prom
Tom,
I understand that Steve Thoburn actually did possess metric scales. So the
cost of the equipment wasn't an issue for him. I heard that although he had
the metric scales he wouldn't use them unless his customers asked for their
produce in metric. Instead he continued to use the older imper
I know that many of those hits were from me.
Norm Werling
- Original Message -
From: "Bill Potts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association"
Sent: Friday, June 17, 2005 03:04
Subject: [USMA:33225] SI Navigator has just passed 75000 visits
For those who may be interested, I j
Thanks, Bill, my confusion as I saw Daniel's name on his response but thought
it was the original question.
Marion
-- Original Message --
Received: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 09:47:20 PM PDT
From: "Bill Potts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association"
Subject: [USMA:33300] RE: military tim
>This is still a play on words.
No, it's not. He could have sold a pound of bananas without breaking
the law, therefore you can't say this what why he was prosecuted. Now,
if the law had banned the use of imperial units completely, then you
would be correct, as using those units would have inevi
My reference to the filing on health and safety part was from information
from a UKMA member.
Don't get me wrong - I was not suggesting that feet and inches should be
shown with the removing of metric signage. I was saying that both should be
used. There is plenty of information displayed b
It was the UK government that decided to metricate in 1965 well before
joining the EC. Safety information was "filed" in metric as a result of
that, not because of the EU.
In Britain today we cannot guarantee everyone (especially children) will
know their height in either system so they both h
I think its more to do with an EU directive forcing safety information to be
filed in metric. When it gets to the "ordinary person" they appear to be
allowed to use feet and inches (or both ft,in and metres). I'm not sure why
this hasn't happened in other areas - then you won't get the likes o
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