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).
The term Veld, or Veldt, refers primarily (but not exclusively) to the wide open rural spaces of South Africa or southern Africa and in particular to certain flatter areas or districts covered in grass or low scrub.