Posted on 05/05/2008 11:50:22 AM PDT by george76
Do they sell whiskey in "tenths"? :)
The Romans were still able to kick anyone’s ass in year 300 A.D. But the end was near for them.
Read it. Vastly simplistic.
Fifty years ago, Jewish Americans, one to two generations from Eastern Europe, were overrepresented in elite colleges and on honor rolls relative to their population size. East Asians and Indians appear to be following in their footsteps. By my observations, if the immigrants from India in our country were representative of their nation, India would be the number one nation in the world, far greater than the United States, China, Russia, or any other nation. However, we seem to be getting the best and the brightest. This is clearly not the case with regard to Latin American immigrants.
The only advantage of the Imperial System is that we grew up with it.
They’ve been predicting the demise of the U.S.A. since the day after Yorktown.
Ask a three year old to break a stick of gum in halves, and he will be right to within 5%. Now try asking him to break off a tenth... He will not have a clue.
The human mind naturally breaks things down into halves, quarters, etc. Nobody has a good, instinctive feel for a tenth.
Now, if our numbering system was based on binary or eights, then the decimal systems would make a lot of sense. Unfortunately, we were cursed with ten fingers, so we have a ten-based numbering system that makes no sense at all. The metric system expands that nonsense into measurements.
So, if the rest of the World adopts Base-8 numbering, maybe we can take another look at the Metric System.
If China is so exceptional, why is it that I get bombarded with email from degreed Chinese professionals who want a job in the US?
And of course, all the great inventions, procedures, innovations etc. all come from outside the USA.
he must be thinking about Newsweek’s circ
“Largest ferris wheel in the world,”
I didn’t know that was a main requirement for who leads the world.
“Yes we are in decline. The best students in our math and science programs at universities are all asians and indians. How many White Americans would you see enrolled in such programs nowadays?”
Actually I see quite a few “white” students in the sciences, but what’s your point? If you’re saying there are tons of foreign nationals coming to the US for an education in the sciences, then that must mean we have excellent science programs in our universities.
Sounds like a crusade.
I wonder if you’ll have as much success as the US did back in the late 70’s getting rid of the English measurement system.
1) We have been very successful at exporting capitalism and it is paying off. More countries are becoming less impoverished and more affluent. Entrepreneurship is one the rise in areas like Singapore, China and India. Thats a good thing as the marketplace becomes more crowded but with a lot to choose from. We need to be wary as competition is going to get more intense and the American worker ignores this at his/her own peril. Just in the pharmaceutical industry alone we face fierce competition with emerging Asian companies. In my R&D department we have a significant number of staff who are recent Chinese immigrants and they are some of the hardest workers as a group I have seen.
2) Even Rush Limbaugh lament that none of the Presidential candidates are promoting American exceptional-ism. Both Reagan and Bush appealed to the inherent greatness of this nation in their campaigns. Democrats are always talking down the nation as a cynical means of acquiring power to “change” things. But McCain isn't much better. But Fareed Zakaria said one line that is a load of BS is that he thinks that Obama IS talking to it, I guess he was been out of the country Ooohing and Aaahing the big ferris when that he missed the whole Jeremiah Wright fiasco and the lines about bitter Americans with their guns and religion.
We were in Macau last February. The casinos did not look larger than Vegas by a long shot, but they were claiming that in 2006 they exceeded Vegas in total dollars gammbled. A lead they will not soon surrender.
They didn’t have nukes. Changes the way the game is played.
Step One is we all lop off our pinky fingers. You first!!!
.........AND Yao Ming.
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