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Comment Re:Oh the Humanity! (Score 1) 901

I must admin I'm not sure about that. I'm a student of aerospace engineering at a german university and we never use imperial units. Wikipedia says: "Pound (mass), a unit of measurement incorrectly abbreviated as "lbs" in plural ("lb" is both singular and plural)". Therefore it seems I was right and lb is equivalent to kilogramm (kg) and a unit of mass not force. Ok, just found another article that says it's used as a unit of force too... weird.
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ISO Rejects OOXML Protest Appeals 258

snydeq writes "ISO and IEC gave OOXML the greenlight after organization leaders rejected appeals from four countries to protest the vote that approved OOXML as a standard. According to an ISO press statement, appeals by the national bodies of Brazil, India, South Africa and Venezuela did not garner support from two-thirds of the members of the ISO Technical Management Board and IEC Standardization Management Board, which is required by ISO/IEC rules to keep the appeals process alive."

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