[quote]texasguy wrote:
fortunately, the Chinese are poor as fuck and we can harness their abilities for pennies on the dollar. [/quote]
Unfortunately, America has been running up astronomical debt and a big part of our international IOU is to China! The people may be poor, but the country is not. America, much like Americans, seems rich, but we’re all in debt.
“The country holding by far the most U.S. debt is Japan which held $644.3 billion at the end of December 2006. In recent years the People’s Republic of China has also become a holder of over $1 trillion in total foreign reserves, of which about $349.6 billion are U.S. Treasury securities.”
[quote]deapee wrote:
I didn’t see the point in high school, I didn’t see the point in college, and I don’t see the point of that now. Last time I used pythagoreans theorem was 1999.
So the chinese are better at solving stupid equations that 1% of the worldwide population needs to know how to solve. 3/4ths of that 1% are the people that write the books.[/quote]
It’s the 1% of the population that is worth a damn in this world. These are the guys who win wars and put men on the moon. The rest of us are just scratching our balls until we die.
mike
[quote]wressler125 wrote:
Aparently education in the UK has taken a sad turn. Not sure what the higher education system looks like, but I was thinking about a semester abroad in Ireland. Might be something worth looking into.[/quote]
That isn’t a surprise. I just read an article about how a bunch of British schools are now refusing to teach about the holocaust because some local Muslim families are getting pissy.
mike
[quote]Cat Nip wrote:
texasguy wrote:
fortunately, the Chinese are poor as fuck and we can harness their abilities for pennies on the dollar.
Unfortunately, America has been running up astronomical debt and a big part of our international IOU is to China! The people may be poor, but the country is not. America, much like Americans, seems rich, but we’re all in debt. [/quote]
a debt that nobody will claim really isn’t a debt at all. national debts float more than dead hookers off the jersy board walk.
[quote]entheogens wrote:
Even if you are not an engineer, I feel that math teaches one how to develop a logical method for problem solving that is transferable. Now logic is not ALWAYS the main ingredient in problem solving but it often is.[/quote]
You do realize there are classes on logic. I had to take two of them for my computer science degree.
In fact, after taking those classes, I had the distinct impression that my brain had become better programmed.
I bet I’d felt the same way after learning basic math, and maybe algebra and geometry as well. After that - with functions, statistics, trigonometry, calculus, differential equations - math just become too ANALytical to be much good in every day life.
[quote]texasguy wrote:
Cat Nip wrote:
texasguy wrote:
fortunately, the Chinese are poor as fuck and we can harness their abilities for pennies on the dollar.
Unfortunately, America has been running up astronomical debt and a big part of our international IOU is to China! The people may be poor, but the country is not. America, much like Americans, seems rich, but we’re all in debt.
a debt that nobody will claim really isn’t a debt at all. national debts float more than dead hookers off the jersy board walk. [/quote]
See sometimes average people are smarter than genius’s