Hudak, Michael wrote:
Sheesh, you guys have to do everything backwards..... Drive on the wrong side..... Next thing you'll have us using metric....... :-)
As usual, you Septics are the backward ones -- not only do you drive on
the wrong side of the road (or from what I've heard, on any part of the
road that doesn't have a bigger vehicle on it physically forcing you to
not occupy that space... B-P) and have this atavistic need to ruin
perfectly good words by leaving out letters (just what is a kidnaper
anyway, and do I really want to know exactly how you nape kids?), but
you also have weird units that no-one else on the planet uses (I have
managed to establish, after nearly 20 years of research, that a US
gallon is based on a thing called the Winchester wine gallon, but can I
find a proper definition of a Winchester wine gallon? Can I heck!), and
you still can't appreciate that the rest of the world uses SI
units, not "metric", which is a much vaguer collection and includes a
lot of stuff that has been thrown out by the BIPM. Dear, dear, dear...
;-)
You probably won't celebrate mole day either then....
http://www.moleday.org
Fun idea, but we'll have to
wait 16 years and have Mole Month instead. An evil thought that comes
to mind is the possibility of asking the organisers of Mole Day what
they want to do about Kilogram-mole Day, which is 3 days later...
<eg> I was rather surprised to find that the gram-mole is still
the basic SI unit (according to BIPM); I would have expected the
kilogram-mole to become the new standard since it fits better with the
kilogram being the basic unit of mass. And there's a problem: we need a
new name for the kilogram; it's crazy to have a basic unit include a
multiplier as part of its name. A kilogram is a thousand grams, fine,
but these days a gram is defined as 1/1000 of a kilogram -- so it's
like describing the number 1 as "1000 thousandths". Mad -- but not as
mad as some Imperial/"US customary".units... <g>
Phil
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