[Boatanchors] W= J/s AND Siemens

Mon Nov 22 07:29:36 EST 2010

I must defend WA5CAB.  If you review the post on this forum, you will find that he has always been helpful and provides lots an lots of good information.  I don't consider his post a rant.  I tried to find some helpful information in your post except for a few spelling tips on words we all recognize regardless of the slight alterations of letters!, there was little info except maybe your political inclination.

Jim, wd4air 

> How did we get from the proper capitalization of kHz or KHz or MHz or mHz to
> when the French last won a war on their own or the murder rate in New
> Zealand?  (By the way, a google search of murder rates indicates that our
> own murder rate is 2.5 times that of New Zealand.  But what's the connection
> between ?)
> 
> It amuses me that we're even discussing the original issue, as it's always
> been a source of embarrassment to me that many, many of the hams in general
> and on the internet lists are nearly illiterate!
> 
> For example:
> 
> It's VERTICAL, not VERTICLE.
> It's RADIOS, not RADIO'S (true for plurals in general:  An apostrophe
> indicates a possessive or a contraction, not a plural)
> It's MANUAL, not MANUEL.
> It's New Zealand, not New Zealund.
> 
> Seems to me that we ought, as a group, to master fifth grade English before
> discussing ad infinitum a fine point of usage!
> 
> As for the rantings of WA5CAB, I hope it was all a joke.  If not, I'd like
> to see the source that indicates that a nation that now has about 4 million
> people killed hundreds of millions over the past 400 years.  Doesn't sound
> right to me!
> And, since their murder rate is so low now, what's the  significance of what
> happened all those centuries ago?  How many of you drive Japanese or German
> cars right now?
> 
> The extreme political views do not belong on this forum!  How favoring the
> metric system, on which I have no views one way or the other, makes Obama a
> terrorist is the ravings of a lunatic.
> 
> I would suggest that the moderator of this list discuss with WA5CAB
> acceptable decorum and subject matter.
> 
> Ron K2RP
> (A Democrat and NOT a terrorist)
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: boatanchors-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> [mailto:boatanchors-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Ray
> Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2010 10:29 AM
> To: WA5CAB at cs.com; boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] W= J/s AND Siemens
> 
> What have the French done that is note worthy anyway to their own good?
> 
> You are right on  and I am not nationally prejudiced as I am French.   Just 
> very annoyed
> at their attitude and snobbyness (yes that is a word)
> 
> Ray Cote
> ========================================================
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: WA5CAB at cs.com
> Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 11:34 PM
> To: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] W= J/s AND Siemens
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
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