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 From: s@s.s 
  
 Gene Nygaard  wrote in 
 news:at3phv4nac5ls6fs6f2kvdp0a1shp2pjfk@4ax.com: 
  
 > Bertie's unexplained fucking around with followups ignored. 
  
 I'm truly hurt. 
 I go to that trouble and you ignore it? 
  
  
  
 for shame. 
  
  
 > 
 > On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 23:02:42 GMT, Bertie the Bunyip  
 > wrote: 
 > 
 >>"AliCat"  wrote in news:bfhgk3$egsnt$1@ID- 
 >>131018.news.uni-berlin.de: 
 >> 
 >>> 
 >>> "Blippie"  wrote 
 >>> in message 
 >>> news:wKudnYOTMcs7voGiXTWJiA@brightview.com... 
 >>>>The pressure itself can either be 
 >>>> measured in millibars or heptaPascals, which are 
 >>> the same thing. 
 >>> 
 >>> Hectopascals please. It's a big enough mess 
 >>> without you introducing smoe kind of base 7 
 >>> system! 
 >> 
 >>It is hectoPascals 
 > 
 > No, it is not. 
 > 
 > But both errors (heptaPascals and hectoPascals) are just what the 
 > screwballs deserve, for coming up with this hare-brained scheme to 
 > hang onto an obsolete unit by cloaking it in a pseudo-SI name, chosing 
 > one of the worthless prefixes which are not powers of 1000. 
  
 snort! 
  
 God I love usenet. 
  
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