> To Ron Fellows
>
> I have deleted
several of these missives in recent days, as I consider them
>
spam.
............................
>
> Martin Snow
>
> PS wouldn't imperial scales be far more valid (homemade of course) as
just
> about everything we measure was built that way, the inaccurate
post
> revolutionary peasants metric system has only been forced on us in
recent
> years.
>
> No doubt I will get flamed for daring to
suggest a return to common sense
> and something divisible by 3.
>
so it is common nonsense elsewhere (f.i. outside the british
metropole and/or ex - or actual - colonies ) to use something
divisible by 2,4,5,10,25,---- a.s.o. ???
the duodecimal sistem is certainly useful,
or was, meaby for some peasants, too, but as time goes by the decimal
(and/or binary in computing) system seems to have won the modern
battle-
i still remember Jags cars in the
60's with an inverted polarity in all electrical systems (positive at the
chassis...)...
and still wonder why there where only in
those days TV sets with a vertical line of controls on the right side of the
box, probably to exclude the left handed people from their possible
customers ? (the more modern TV set models now have buttons centered, generally
under the potbelly) .
cheers
Pat ( from
Mexico)