On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 19:18:23 GMT, Richard Clark
wrote:

On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 18:21:49 GMT, Gene Nygaard
wrote:
Now I have a challenge for you, Mr. Metrologist:

Hi Gene,

What are your credentials? Can one expect you have at least a degree
in English? ;-)

I am a wheat farmer who has already proved not only our resident
engineer/programmer and Capital-M Metrologist wrong, but our Chief
Peacekeeper Missileman Engineer as well. Isn't that enough for one
week?

Of course, from that job, I'm well aware of what a bushel is on the
Minneapolis Grain Exchange and other commodities markets, or at the
local grain elevator. It isn't a unit of volume at these places. And
while it is a certain number of pounds for each particular commodity,
it most certainly is not unit of force, either.

Not only did I prove Mr. Metrologist wrong, but I also proved that he
has no integrity. He won't even admit that I did so, even though I
followed his ground rules to a T, specifically citing a NIST web page
showing him to be wrong.

My degrees weren't in English, however--though I did enjoy some
English classes, and such a degree would have been quite relevant to
our discussion of linguistics earlier. What are your credentials in
linguistics? In the law, another primary subject matter of our
discussion? In history?

Now, find somebody on the NIST web pages with better credentials than
mine and yours to tell us what the official definition of a pound
force is. Still bet you can't do so.

Gene Nygaard
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Gene_Nygaard/