Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 13/02/2008, Erik Max Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> And the rest of us just use SI. (And if you bring up the >> _kilogram-force_, I'll just cry.) > > Don't cry, I just want to say that I've hated the kilogram-force > almost as much as I've hated the electron-volt. Who is the lazy who > comes up with these things?
The electron-volt is a weird little miscreant that ended up becoming popular. The kilogram-force is a unit that could only demonstrate that its inventors completely missed the freakin' point. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 18 N 121 57 W && AIM, Y!M erikmaxfrancis Sit loosely in the saddle of life. -- Robert Louis Stevenson -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
