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Actually Apple's Safari is the first mass distribution browser to pass the acid2 web standards test AFAIK.

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The EPA is completely full of s*it FYI, just look at there mileage ratings.

What was sold in the US as a "fifth" of liquor was 1/5 of a US gallon: 4/5 of a US quart. See

I could probably only cope with a nipperkin of Scotch (or bourbon...) at this stage.

DAS

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Well too bad you didn't use that time to learn anything about your neighbor. There are 3785.6 mL in a US gallon, not 3000. What you refer to as a fifth is a 750mL bottle, as they no longer make fifths, which used to be, oh my gosh, a fifth of a gallon. A fifth of 3785.6 is 757.12 mL, so a 750mL bottle is pretty close to what a fifth used to be.

NOBODY mentioned liters or so stop trying to start an arguement.. An AMERICAN gallon is 4/5 of a UK or Canadian gallon - also known as an imperial or crown gallon. In other words, it takes 5 yankee quarts to make an imperial gallon. That's all I said - and since they don't make a "fifth" any more, it doesn't matter how close it is to 750ml.

No, as a matter of fact you said a fifth of liquor was a quart. There have now been two people who have pointed out you were wrong; in my case with a cite. The graceful thing to do would be to admit your error. The argumentative thing to do would be to pretend Wikipedia (my source) isn't, by and large, accurate, in which case I would immediately challenge you to find a more authoritative source that agreed with you. Let's just skip that step, and please either find a source that agrees with you, or admit your error.

It makes perfect sense Max, it's supply and demand. You want it, they have it, and your gonna pay for it. Now they can justify their higher price by claiming that the sudden increase in demand has pushed their ability to provide it along with gasoline which is of course to a point completely accurate but in a free enterprise system...

I don't buy liquor, and particularly not in the states. I may be wrong about the "fifth" but not about the relationship between american and imperial measure.

Up here in Canada you didn't buy a "fifth" you bought a "twenty-sixer". Might have been "short" by .6 oz, and actually been a "fifth"

Mentioning ml or litres may help you get to the right ratio as you don't seem to have noticed that the exact relationship has already been pointed out:

This not exactly 4/5.

Or 3.7854 l v 4.54609 = 0.833 (rounded).

DAS

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I have noted a lack of use of the decimal SI system here [in this forum at least] while fractions, which are now seldom used in Europe, are. Up until recently the SI system was taught as a secondary system in the USA or so I have been led to believe, even though it is the universal language of scientists everywhere. Am I right?

Huw

Varies somewhat by industry, and it's a *very* mixed bag even within a given industry. For example: Automotive manufacturing top tiers - all drawing dimensions are in SI by edict. Yet on the street, it's still miles per hour, gallons, etc., and aftermarket sway bars are listed in inch dimensions (i.e., in aftermarket listings, a Ø25 mm sway bar will be referred to as a 1" sway bar - which causes a lot of confusion since

In military hardware that I deal with, it's 98% SAE (or as is commonly said "inch dimensions"), though I get the distinct impression that geographical distances are typically given in km's.

Bill Putney (To reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my address with the letter 'x')

She can't be wrong, she once lived near the US, so she knows more than you or I ever could.

In the US the metric system is basically relegated to science - it is seen as a "french"ystem, and the yanks hate the french.

funny last i checked i was in the U.S.A. and we use the metric (si) sytem excusively in my work. our rulers dont even have english markings. and no i dont work in a lab.

Depends *totally* on what industry you are in (see examples in my earlier post). BTW - I work in a lab, and English units are used almost exclusively (due to primary customer exclusive use of English units).

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The thing is, there just isn't a compelling reason to change in the US. When I read about the state of affairs in Europe, pre-metric, where a country the size of France would have dozens of slightly-differing units, my mind boggles. The important thing about the metric system in Europe wasn't that it was decimal, it was that it was a continent-wide standard.

In the US, the difference between a litre divided into cc's vs. a quart divided into ounces (when 99 out of a 100 people know neither that there are 32 ounces to a quart nor that there are 1000 cc's in a litre) just doesn't matter all that much.

And, incidentally, last time I was in England I found many more mile markers than kilometre markers, too.

I am surprised you found a single kilometre marker. I haven't seen one and I live here. Although the UK is 'fully' metricated we still keep to miles and we still call 50kg a hundredweight. Fuel is priced and sold by the litre yet fuel consumption is almost universally quoted as 'miles per gallon'. I went through school up until eight years old being taught Imperial and then changed to metric yet even today's youngsters use miles and miles per gallon. Time we changed I think.

Huw