[time-nuts] ebay warning

Peter Gottlieb nerd at verizon.net
Wed Feb 22 02:06:49 UTC 2012


...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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