Even the radical chic New Yorkers made fun of the metric system as a foot ball (as two words, to indicate how to measure length and ball like a bouncing ball). It's an exercise in radical chic, giving marginalized academics a frisson of pretend anti-colonialism, seasoned with a dose of edgy anti-Semitism.
RLD isn't filename extension, it is the abbreviated name of release group. RecLoad Definition. RLD file is a RecLoad Definition File for OSIsoft PI System Connectors. OSIsoft PI System is a real-time, event-driven enterprise infrastructure that uses an Office Business Application (OBA).
or veldt. 1. the open country, bearing grass, bushes, or shrubs, or thinly forested, characteristic of parts of southern Africa. This is well enough in the old settled lands, but on the veld it is curiously inept. Coming from the veld, apparently, and not from town, said the picket Commander.