willard

I knew there was a reason I chose engineering. Hang in there!

I agree. Hard to beat making det cord leashes and/or collars for all the neighborhood cats. "Here kitty kitty!"

(thumps forehead on wall)...... I give up. You're right, I'm wrong, pounds multiplied by gravity doesn't equal slugs. Everybody who reads that entry in Wik will automatically know that there is a difference between pound-force and pound-mass. And Wikipedia is the end-all for information, they are never wrong, and anyone who adds something to Wikipedia is always correct. Go ahead and use Wik for a reference. Just don't be surprised when an instructor hands your paper back and tells you it is unacceptable. Have a nice day

I watched both of my grandmothers get old and dependent upon others even though they lived alone. Their famliy was close by, just a few miles away. These programs do much more than just deliver a meal. They check in on the folks. Often these older people will tell a stranger about feeling ill or maybe a pain they have been having that, for whatever reason, they didn't want to tell their family. Most of the time these older folks will have lost all their friends to old age so a visiter from outside the family is a rare and welcome treat. This program is one that you can put a cost on, but the value is priceless.

Yep. I know many here would argue the point, but generally speaking any government agency is considered reliable enough to use as a source for data. I know what your getting at, but once again I stress that from the first letter of the first word of my first post I have been speaking of the most commonly used form of pound which is weight. Pound as mass is much less frequently used.

Well, you could tell them that you will pitch in $50 towards it if they wait until you feel the prices have settled in. If they still can't wait let 'em spend it. If they wait they'll save the 100 over retail, plus the 50 you pitch in...that's a good chunk just for waiting a while. If they don't wait they save nothing. Good luck!

NASA uses pounds as both a unit of mass and a unit of weight. Same with Kilograms.

I already aknowledged that I slipped and included grams as weight when I shouldn't have. Since a ton is 2000 pounds, it also is a measure of weight....in the most commonly used sense If I said my car is 3000 pounds, you wouldn't say that statement didn't make sense because you assume, like 99% of the population, that I am talking about a unit of weight...a measurement of force. If you said, "Yeah, but what does it weigh?" I would probably say something smartassed like,"I don't know. That depends on where you're at." Both of us would be technically correct, yet both remarks were pointless. Some people have to go one step beyond and bring up an obscure definition that most people have never heard of. Yes, I have done calculations using poundals, but not very often. Almost always we are using kilos, newtons, kN, etc. Thanks for the shovel, but I really don't need one. I live in an apartment and the owners don't take kindly to me digging holes in the floor.

Nice shovel. What's the implication?

One that I'll always remember went something like this... "Use care to cut plastic for well fit. Do not cut plastic!" I was, like, WTF??? Sorry it has no sexual overtones.

I just spit hot cocoa all over my keyboard when I read that!

You would call her a...a...a....a WHORE!

Nope. Point I was trying to make, that you obviously didn't get, was that people who already know there is a difference between pound-force and pound-mass will know that there is a mass unit called a pound, but those who do not know of the difference will come away from reading that entry thinking that pounds are always units of mass. No, you couldn't nitpick about the relation of the earth and sun and prove it to be opposite what we already know and have proven to be fact. Because that seems to be their biggest fan base. There is a reason every college class I have been in that required a written project specifically stated that Wikipedia is not a reliable enough reference to be included in a bibliography.

You mean it's not real?? God, I feel like such an ass standing outside Wal-Mart trying to unlock that ladies car with a tennis ball. We tried everything. She even got in from the passenger side to make sure the lock would still go up and down.

Cool! If you wanna be evil, write him a note and tell him you dumped the powder out of three cartridges then put 'em back in with the rest...at random.

Nothing in the foot-slug-second system However, in the EQUALLY VALID foot-pound-second system, the pound is the mass unit and the poundal is the force and weight unit. See THIS, and tell your physics professor he needs to study more. If you don't believe me, ask a physics professor Do you really expect most people who read that entry in Wikipedia to realize that there is such a system as the poundal system? You know it, I know it, my Prof knows it. But I'll betcha Mary Jane Rottencrotch down the street doesn't know it. Sure, you can pick nits and prove that technically I am wrong, but in the real world most people don't care much for nits. (BTW, pound was a unit of weight long before it was a unit of mass) As for my Professor, I would love to someday be so overwhelmingly intelligent and superior to all that I could actually tell someone of his accomplishments that they don't know what they are talking about.

Broke my back, that hurt like a bitch. Bruised the bone in my upper arm, that hurt a long time (Dr. had some twenty syllable word for it) Had teeth broken/knocked out. Yep, it hurts. Got some sheet time from road rash. Only hurt when I moved, which was a lot. Tripped and landed flat on me belly in a patch of them damn little cactus plants that grow all over Wyoming...YOUCH! But the worst pain, the absolute WORST pain that I wouldn't wish on anyone, was when I was scalded by boiling water. I would rather die than go through that again.

Go right to http://www.cypres.cc/Sites/englisch/Frameset01_engl.htm That's the website for the Cypres units. Lots of good info there.

Welcome to SC, where even the funny papers lead to insults and feverish exchanges. Anybody want some popcorn?

slug is a unit of mass pound is unit of weight 32.2 is gravity at sea level One slug (mass) times 32.2 feet per second per second (gravity) equals one pound (weight) What is inaccurrate about that?

The gram most IS certainly a unit of mass, as is the pound in the foot-pound-second system of units, in which the poundal is the unit of force (and weight). In fact every one of the units mentioned by Wikipedia may be used as a mass unit in a physically consistent system. So there. The passage I quoted from Wikipedia contained both units of mass and units of weight. I slipped and included grams as weight, they are indeed mass. Units of weight are dependent upon gravity to give them their values, units of mass are not. One kilo is one kilo regardless of whether it is on the ground or in space. That one kilo weighs/exerts one Newton at 9.8 m/s^2 gravity. "Mass is an inherent property of an object and is independent of the subject's surroundings and of the method used to measure it. Also, mass is a scalar quantity and thus obeys the rules of ordinary arithmetic...... Mass should not be confused with weight. Mass and weight are two different quantities. The weight of an object is equal to the magnitude of the gravitational force exerted on the object and varies with location." Physics for Scientists and Engineers, 6th Edition Serway & Jewett BTW, I didn't need to consult an physics professor. It was a physics/engineering professor who pointed out the boo-boo in Wikipedia to our class.

I thought I'd seen every radical right/left wing comment possible in this forum, but this takes the fucking cake! Obviously kangaroos are communist nazi's and to state otherwise is to be blatantly kangaphobic! Edited to remove personal attack Blues, Dave How dare you call kangaroos communist nazis! Of all the low-down sneaky tricks to pull. I bet you go around to schools and tell all the little chidren that kangaroos are commy nazis! Kangaroos are FASCIST nazis!

Yep. Kilos*9.8=Newtons, a unit of weight. Slugs*32.2=pounds. It's a fairly simple concept, so if the eds missed that it makes me wonder what else they slipped up on.

"In the SI system of units, mass is measured in kilograms (kg). Many other units of mass are also employed, such as: grams (g), tonnes, pounds, ounces, long and short tons, quintals, slugs, atomic mass units, Planck masses, solar masses, and eV/c2." This was pulled from their definition of mass. Pounds are units of weight, not mass. Same with grams and tons.

And those mints they put in the urinals....don't they have any other flavors? They all taste the same and don't really do much for your breath.