Oh Sail32…
You are too funny! Be careful though, many people will think you are being serious and may reconsider your credibility.
But, even if you are being serious I can excuse your post since you are resorting to the Canadian Standards as your basis.
You need to be using a real standard like the United States Customary Units. I would even be willing to accept the Imperial System from the Weight and Measurement Act of 1824, or the I.S.U. system.
Now I need to qualify this statement because many of our Canadian brethren have their minds right. I mean, really now…some Canadians can’t even settle on a common national language and are even more schizophrenic than Americans when it comes to the metric system because they want to be “European”,” or at least call themselves part of the Common Wealth when it comes to weight and measures.
Something to always keep in mind Sail32, just because an obscure body like the Standards Council of Canada , or should I say the Le Conseil canadien des normes (too funny) doesn’t reference the volume to weight relationships of units such as ounces and grains doesn’t mean you can stand on your statement with your arms folded. It’s funny to watch their machinations as they keep sliding the conversion date out. We were talking about it the other day because the “new” transition date is now in 2013 (any bets?) It affects our labeling and validation, which is going to cost me a lot of money.
In the Customery Units system, or any real system for that matter there is a direct relationship for setting the standards universally that directly links Volume measurements to Mass. Even the “worshipped” metric standard has made changes over the years and have had to resort to a universally accepted standard to set units for the meter. Originally it was 1/10,000,000 the distance from the equator to the theoretical North Pole. But that is not a constant. So now it is 1,650,763.73 times the emission line of krypton 86 as radiates in vacuum. Simple huh?
Now it gets interesting… How do you get weight in the metric system (actually in the “English” system as well)? Uh oh… It appears it is a unit of volume (hmmmm water again)…
But that can’t be so because you have told us that let me see, how did you say it? And I quote
“ Sorry, but MAKO’ scale is wrong. Mixing units of volume, mass, and distance, does not work.” I’d give you the phone number of the International Committee for Weights and Measures, but I don’t seem to have it on me right now. They need to be warned immediately because they are currently in the process of trying to tie the weight standard to the Planck Constant which “horror of horrors” is even worse than what you wrote above. They are fact trying to use the constant which is basically the proportional constant between the energy of a photon and its’ frequency.
Now you might be saying, “huhhhhhhhh?
?” I mean how can you do that? I mean that is a unit of length!!!!!!!!!!! It gets even worse!!! They are proposing using circuit resistance to measure it!! I mean that is voodoo and witchcraft and electrical stuff…
I would propose that you and the other Canadians who will be confused by this ( or should I say, “Canadiens qui sera troublé par cela”?) cut your losses now and convert to the P.P.U. stystem immediately!
The P.P.U. system has a standard that will not change as long a Paladin draws breath.
Regards,
Mako
(Keeper of the P.P.U. this side of the Atlantic)