[Info-vax] Where is EISNER:: and who funds it?

[alanfe...@gmail.com]

Greetings!

Sorry, everyone, for getting, uh, overly grumpy.

Many of you were gleefully pouncing on me and I overreacted. I made some mistakes and I must take responsibility for them. That's not to say that everything I wrote was wrong.

I do find Fahrenheit to be fine for normal ordinary everyday use when I'm wearing my layperson hat. Some think rather poorly about F. So be it. Use whatever temperature scale you want. I won't bother you about it. But if someone says Google keeps their data centers at 80 deg., I don't think it should be a big deal to realize that Fahrenheit was the scale used. And one shouldn't be disparaging about using F. And don't bring science into it. I'm talking layperson ramblings and doings here and just temperature scales, not pounds and ounces and whatnot. Sorry, I can't help myself: OpenVMS has a SYSGEN parameter whose units are micro-fortnights!

And yes, there really is such a thing as negative temperature. Look it up.

I don't care about lbs. vs. lbf. Almost no one does.

The meaning of pounds or kg or mass or weight or whatever depends on the context: If you go to the moon you will weigh less, but you won't have lost any weight! That said, I'm not interested in documenting all the subtleties about mass and weight and kg and pounds that we all already know. That's what dictionaries and encyclopedias are for. And then there's mass in relativity. That's a whole other can of worms!

Yes, 20 deg. C = 68 deg. F, and 30 deg. C = 86 deg. F. Easy! I have a Celsius thermometer and need to do such conversions from time to time. OK, there's some additional math involved. I can do it. And I don't bitch about it.

And yes, -40 deg. F is the same as -40 deg. C, not -40 kelvins. 

And what's with kelvin and kelvins anyway? What was wrong with degrees kelvin or deg. K? Are we going to have Celsiuses and Fahrenheits next? I looked it up. The "plural" _is_ kelvins. So be it. Actually, there is a benefit. You don't have to delve into special-characters space to make the o superscript.

And the elements: I meant those manufactured that aren't found in nature. In that dept., the US and Russia have the most. Germany is next, then Japan. The exact counts depend on how you interpret the disputes and the multinational collaborations. If you're going to bash America over temperature scales, I'm going to respond with moon landings and manufactured elements.

I will work on improving my proofreading. I think I just convert mistakes into correct words and phrases in my head and don't realize it. One is one's own worst proofreader!

And I do greatly appreciate the help I get here in cov. . . .

Hopefully I haven't goofed yet again. Apologies in advance if I have.

Stay safe, everyone!

Alan  (^_^(