[Boatanchors] W= J/s AND Siemens

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Several comments in this thread have terminally irritated me (not 
specifially those copied below - I just didn't save the earlier ones).  Systeme 
Internationale, also know as (or AKA as in Police criminal reports) the 
Rationalized Meter-Kilogram-Second system, or RMKS, is a system for losers.  In fact, 
the French, who are are its main proponents, have not won a war without 
outside help since the time of Julius Caesar.  That has been several months.  
Roughly 23592 to be exact.  The Metric System basically sucks.  The basic 
units are poorly sized for practical use.  The names change sporadically, 
randomly and without warning.  The only one that's fairly useful is the klick.  
Half a klick is beyond normal pistol range.  So a half Klick perimeter is 
moderately safe.  One klick is good rifle range.  And ten klicks is good 
tactical Nuke blast radius.  Beyond that, the Seimen sounds vulgar if not 
downright obscene.  The Tesla is too large for small field measurements and too 
small for large field ones.  The degree Centigrade (or Celcius or Kelvin) is too 
large (only 100 cover the freezing point of water to well above the lethal 
range for humans).  The Millimeter is too coarse for basic machining. but 
too fine for common measurements.  I could go on and on with bad examples.  
And I don't really give a damn what the New Zealund educational sytem thinks 
of it.  In New Zealand since the 16th Century there have been more murders 
than the Nazis, the Japanese, and the Soviets accomplished in the 20th, and 
with a much smaller potential victim base.  So I don't have a high opinion of 
New Zealund.

All of the metric based threaded fastener systems are poorly designed for 
survival in the real world.  Thread pitch is too fine and bolt head 
dimensions are too small.  

Speaking as an engineer with considerable experience in building equipment 
to survive in hostile environments, the whole Metric edifice is not worth 
the powder to blow it to Hell.  Which is where it belongs.  Anyone incapable 
of quickly and easily learning the English system has a very low IQ and 
belongs in the Democratic Muslim Party with Obama, Pelosi, and the rest of the 
terrorists on the planet.

If I haven't made it crystal clear, the metric system was designed by 
idiots for idiots.  Thank God that one country on the planet has not yet 
succumbed  to its idiocy.  However, I expect it is only a matter of time before the 
entire planet goes dark.  The last election, although promising, still left 
several of the terrorist Democrats in position.

In a message dated 11/15/2010 9:24:25 PM Central Standard Time, 
jfor at quik.com writes: 
> would think you guys would call it a 1.6 Meter Pentium.
> 
> -John
> 
> ==============
> 
> 
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: boatanchors-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> >[mailto:boatanchors-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of rbethman
> >>On 11/15/2010 1:41 PM, Henry Mei'l's wrote:
> >>>(BTW: A not too serious question: If a Siemen is an Ohm (Omega),
> >>>standing
> >on
> >>>its head (Mho)  -- does that make a  Nemeis an Ohm ? ;0)
> >>It would appear that "some" do not know what the SI (International Units
> >>Standards), actually read and mean.
> >>A Siemen is CONDUCTANCE therefore it is the "old" mho.   It is NOT an
> >>Ohm!
> >
> >Bob, Henry was just having a little gentle fun with us as he often does.
> >(Note the winking smiley at the end.)  Please don't take things so
> >seriously; it's just not worth it.  I suspect that Henry can work in SI
> >quite comfortably, enough to play with it just as comfortably.  He's
> >certainly willing to play with his first name enough.
> >
> >SI, Imperial, whatever ... I'll stick with what I'm comfortable using
> >where
> >appropriate but if I know people won't have a clue what I'm talking about
> >(120 MC Pentium?  What's that?), I'll go to what's known in that arena.
> >For
> >example, for a long time, ham bands were referred to in metric 
> wavelengths
> >but antennas were measured in feet and inches.  I haven't looked recently
> >if
> >the latter has changed in the ARRL handbook et al to metric but a current
> >production antenna I'm looking at purchasing pieces of is measured in 
> feet
> >and inches.  These are also the (probably inaccurate therefore useless)
> >units I use for calculations for antennas as do many others.
> >
> >Getting back, however, a Mho and a Siemen are the same thing.  A Mho is
> >often if not always represented by an inverted omega, the symbol used for
> >the Ohm, or an omega (Ohm) standing on its head (Mho.)
> >
> >So now can we get back to our usual bickering?
> 

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