[time-nuts] ebay warning

J. Forster jfor at quikus.com
Wed Feb 22 02:28:18 UTC 2012


Progressive government has distorted "equal opportunity" to mean "equal
outcome". This is the creed of the "99ers" and a recipie for societal
suicide.

The correlary is:

"From each, according to his ability,
To each, according to his need".
-Karl Marx

YMMV,

-John

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> ...while the gifted kids are ignored.
>
> On 2/21/2012 6:07 PM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
>> I suspect we do better educating special needs children than most of
>> those 25
>> countries.
>>
>> On 02/21/2012 02:33 PM, Tom Knox wrote:
>>> Sadly I heard recently that the US is 27th in Math and 25th in Science.
>>> I
>>> challenge the old DXers too name 25 countries smarter then we are. I
>>> cannot.
>>> I guess that means we are not much better at geography.
>>> Thomas Knox
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> From: albertson.chris at gmail.com
>>>> Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:39:31 -0800
>>>> To: time-nuts at febo.com
>>>> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] ebay warning
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Steve<steve-krull at cox.net>  wrote:
>>>>> Be cautious when straying off the tourist track over there. The Silk
>>>>> Market
>>>>> in Beijing for example. Showing interest in knock-off Rolex's in one
>>>>> stall
>>>> I bought a knock-off Rolex.  But not exactly there.   The seller was
>>>> careful and kept them in the back.  They had several different grades.
>>>>   He started at the top with one that looked OK but I wanted an
>>>> obvious
>>>> fake.
>>>>
>>>> At first China only offered low skill, low wage assembly line type
>>>> labor.  But now they graduate more engineers than the US does each
>>>> year.   We (in the US) are on the wrong end of an "education gap".
>>>> This happened with Japan years ago.
>>>>
>>>> Look at ham radio in China.  Here is it for the most part old men who
>>>> remember the days of vacuum tubes and CW.   In China it is a hobby for
>>>> the young middle class, mostly trained engineers.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Chris Albertson
>>>> Redondo Beach, California
>>>>
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