[time-nuts] ebay warning

[Tom Knox]

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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