On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 18:04:26 GMT, Richard Clark
wrote:

Given the low intellectual bandwidth offered by your specious claims,

Still dreaming that somebody is going to come to your rescue, and show
us some NIST web page giving an _official_ definition of a pound as a
unit of force, aren't you?

Wake up and smell the coffee! It isn't going to happen, for several
reasons, including

1. Your research skills are better than those of most others
following this thread, and

2. You are better able to distinguish "swallow's tongue" conversion
factors from official definitions, and

3. They don't have a reputation to reconstruct, and

4. They don't know people at NIST that they can call on for help in
this search for the official definition, and

5. You've got them all convinced that you are an expert in this area,
and everyone expects that you could easily prove your point, and

6. A lot of people who know more about this than you do have
unsucessfully searched for an official definition, and

7. Dr. Barry Taylor, the NIST expert in this particular field who
must be a METROLOGIST if you are a mere capital-M Metrologist, is the
one who gives us the conditional definition which is a clear indicator
that an official definition does not exist.

Face the facts. Hard as it might be to believe (even for me, when I
first came to this realization!), THERE IS NO SUCH OFFICIAL DEFINITION
OF A POUND FORCE. Nobody has ever gone to the trouble of officially
defining these ******* offspring of pounds as units of mass, and
nobody will bother doing so in the future.

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