Pat Naughtin wrote:
The batsmen and women would not thank you for your suggestion.
With a ball coming toward you at between 30 and 40 metres per second,
the extra 117 millimetres gives you about 60 milliseconds of extra
reaction time. When you are confronted with the world's fastest bowlers
I
Pharmacy confused teaspoons with milliliters:
http://www.wftv.com/news/4213038/detail.html
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> I'm trying to find evidence of any medical errors relating to a mix of 'ye
> old mediæval units' and modern SI being used. I've so far not found
> anything
> on the web though
Wu is one of my congresspersons and thus I sent him the
following email a moment ago:
It has come to my attention via the listserver of the US
Metric Association (see below) that you (one of my congresspersons) oppose the
USA using metric, such as in American Football. I find such oppositio
Unfortunately, no one will pay attention to the kilometre information (such as they are) on our highway signs until the automobile industry gives everyone metric odometers and distance signs have been converted to SI.
Kind of like no one using the golden dollar coin because they still insist on pri
Dear Richard
Here is an example for you to do with children:
http://www.keepkidshealthy.com/medicine_cabinet/preventing_med_errors.html
Phil Hall
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From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: U.S. Metric Association
Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 8:52
PM
Subje
I'm trying to find evidence of any medical errors relating to a mix of 'ye
old mediæval units' and modern SI being used. I've so far not found
anything on the web though. If anyone knows of any could you please
respond with a link about any such errors?
I'm sure I can find something somew
Dear
Friends:
After a long battle
with spam I have reluctantly changed my TAMU email address
to
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Could you please
change your address book tot his new address.
John M. Nichols
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Title: Re: [USMA:33942] RE: I-93 New Hampshire
on 2005-08-20 04.45, Phil Chernack at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Pat,
>From the MUTCD:
http://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/HTM/2003r1/part2/part2e2.htm
Guidance:
For major and intermediate interchanges (see Section 2E.29 ), Advance Guide signs should be place
Title: FW: [USMA:33943] Cricket
Dear Brij,
Further to my previous message, here is a link that you might find useful: http://www.abcofcricket.com/cfb1/cfb2/cfb3/cfb3.htm
The 'Laws of Cricket' were initially written in 1774 and they were written in the measures of the times: feet chains and ya
Title: Re: [USMA:33942] RE: I-93 New Hampshire
on 2005-08-20 03.49, Phil Chernack at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Then again, there’s the real opportunity:
1.6 km (1 mile) or just 1.6 km.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nat Hager III
Sent: Friday, August 19, 200
Title: Re: [USMA:33942] RE: I-93 New Hampshire
Pat,
From the MUTCD:
http://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/HTM/2003r1/part2/part2e2.htm
Guidance:
For major and intermediate interchanges (see Section
2E.29), Advance Guide signs should be placed at 1 km or 0.5 miles and at 2
km or 1 mile in advance of
Title: Cricket
on 2005-08-19 22.45, Brij Bhushan Vij at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Friends:
>> The cricket pitch has to be 1 chain long or mark out this length as 20.117
>> metres...
> JUST call it 20 metre distance, as I have attempted to raise this issue for
> ease in learning-teaching aids
Then again, there’s the real
opportunity:
1.6 km (1 mile) or just 1.6 km.
From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nat Hager III
Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005
12:44 PM
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:33941] I-93 New Hampshire
Up in Fr
Up in Franconia
Notch NH, laptop tethering on a park bench on my new Verizon cellphone.
(this is pretty neat, never could do this on my old ATT
phone!)
Notice occasional 1
mile (1.6 km) signs along I-93. I still say they're missing an
opportunity, not labeling them as 1 mile (1600 m) or
At 18 August 2005, 05:59 PM, Michael Payne wrote:
"We" are the United States as a
nation.
Then "we" do not export or import a dollar. That is done by
individual companies, and a blanket statement such is "we do not try
to sell our products outside of North America," is just plain
wrong.
Kind of
At 19 08 05, 06:18 AM, James J. Wentworth wrote:
Also, Jim, isn't
the very term "Trade Deficit" a misnomer? When we run a
$50 billion trade deficit with China, for example, it doesn't mean that
we've borrowed the $50 billion from them, it just means that we've bought
that much more in goods and
Friends of Metrication:
A metric America might flood the world's markets.
Let rays of the 'rising sun' enter *blank minds of teacher-student
community* rather filling the wallats of interested industrialists. YES,
America who went first in metric change can be the last in chain to GO
METRI
Friends:
The cricket pitch has to be 1 chain long or mark out this length as 20.117
metres...
JUST call it 20 metre distance, as I have attempted to raise this issue for
ease in learning-teaching aids for children.
Brij Bhushan Vij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(Kali5106-W18-04)/D-231+1 (Friday)2005 Aug.
Also, Jim, isn't the very term "Trade Deficit" a
misnomer? When we run a $50 billion trade deficit with China, for example,
it doesn't mean that we've borrowed the $50 billion from them, it just means
that we've bought that much more in goods and services from them than they've
bought from
--- Phil Chernack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As far as New Jersey is concerned, the law dates
> back from the 1940s when
> there were certain insurance concerns. As it seems
> to be very popular, it
> is a law that gets talked about but never repealed.
It actually never really bothered me wh
Title: Re: [USMA:33905] Two recent posts
Or they could just use a metre tape measure and measure 20
m and be done with it. Who would notice or really care about the
difference of 117 mm?
Dan
- Original Message -
From:
Pat Naughtin
To: U.S. Metric Association
Sent: F
Title: Re: Metrication in Australia
Pat,
Are you going to edit the wikipedia site to include your
observations?
Also, what modern day devices are made using pre-metric
screws that these would be needed?
Dan
- Original Message -
From:
Pat Naughtin
To: U.S. Metric Assoc
Title: Re: [USMA:33901] Re: Metrication in Australia
The problem with this is that in the US we have a
different, incompatible , series then Withworth. American screw sizes sold
in Australia would be incompatible with products requiring
Withworth.
Dan
This may also be
one of the issues
2 The writer is also correct in that the metric bolt sizes were more
expensive than the pre-metric bolts. But what the writer failed to report
was that the metric bolts were of higher quality than the old bolts.
Wouldn't there be several manufacturers of bolts of either type? I can't see
th
The same situation occurs in cricket. The cricket pitch has to be 1 chain
long. As few ground keepers own such an old thing as a chain, they usually
mark out this length as 20.117 metres (or 20 117 millimetres). I suppose
that many English ground keepers do the same in the UK.
I extremely doo
Title: Re: [USMA:33905] Two recent posts
on 2005-08-18 19.54, Harry Wyeth at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
American football? Please, please, let us all drop the idea of changing this US icon. It just makes people think we are nuts. Let's deal with important stuff, like encouraging the use of met
Title: Re: [USMA:33905] Two recent posts
on 2005-08-18 19.54, Harry Wyeth at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Whitworth bolts? In progressive Australia? These went out of style in the US decades ago! I recall an auto magazine back when I was in college deploring the fact that old Volvos from pre-met
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