Path: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu!spool.maxwell.syr.edu!drn.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!postnews.google.com!g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "Richard" Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server,comp.programming,comp.lang.cobol,comp.software.testing Subject: Re: JPMorgan Chase to strengthen offshoring to India Date: 12 Dec 2005 16:07:50 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 12 Message-ID: <1134432470.189635.322230@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> References: <11pb67jijipsc6a@corp.supernews.com> <1134329192.033316.120800@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <11ppo0gbjf6vp3d@news.supernews.com> <11ps18iijdamg3d@news.supernews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 210.86.64.211 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1134432475 17361 127.0.0.1 (13 Dec 2005 00:07:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 00:07:55 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <11ps18iijdamg3d@news.supernews.com> User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050920 Firefox/1.0.7,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=210.86.64.211; posting-account=0SHTWwwAAADrGOQp9af3Cljn9xJEV0pa Xref: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu comp.databases.oracle.server:257611 comp.programming:152779 comp.lang.cobol:109386 comp.software.testing:36571 > Meanwhile, since most of our tools, etc., are being made in China, we are > slowly converting them to the English system of weights and measures. You probably meant to say 'Imperial' system as the English system is now mostly metric. But then you probably meant 'American' because 16 fl.oz in a pint, AF spanner sizes and UNF threads were never 'English'. > After de-metrification, it's only one small step... Hmm, they may print the labels with US measure conversions of the metric sizes - eg "Load not to exceed 440.924495207592 pound"