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- From: choy@skorpio.usask.ca (I am a terminator.)
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- Subject: Re: Justification for the Space Program
- Date: 26 Dec 1992 00:56:43 GMT
- Organization: University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
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- References: <1992Dec25.130315.12336@cs.rochester.edu> <Bztt8t.9L8@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1992Dec25.182810.20775@cs.rochester.edu> <BztyEy.Crz@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
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- In article <BztyEy.Crz@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
- > The US economy might be growing in dollar terms, but not in real terms
- |> per capita. And one does not benefit if others catch up at one's
- |> expense.
-
- If others catch up, then they can work together with us instead of playing
- catch up. If others never made a single step to catch up, I suppose we would
- benefit?
-
- |> Academic salaries are lower in real terms now than 20 years ago, and
- |> the research which drives the future is being curtailed. The emphasis
- |> on short-term practical results is a vain attempt to keep a reasonable
- |> position, and will soon backfire.
-
- I think people should be trained to make research results practical. Also,
- research reports should facilitate such efforts. Then those who are inclined
- to do research can get a chance to do research without having to worry so
- much about making their results practical.
-
- |> The US now has more government jobs than manufacturing. The universities
- |> are catering to the ignoramuses coming out of the high schools, and standards
- |> are just about dead.
-
- I reflect on my public school. I think the teachers need to do much better.
- They are too afraid students won't work on their own. However, they offered
- little motivation to students to work. Students just followed rules to get
- marks. They didn't have their hearts in work.
-
- >Consider China. The private sector there will grow more than 20% this
- >year, and exceed the size of the public sector; aggregate GNP growth
- >will be in double digits. At current growth rates, China's GNP could
- >exceed the entire OECD's by the year 2010. The per capita GNP could
- >reach current US levels within a generation, at current rates of
- >growth.
-
- |> Does the world have enough resources for this?
-
- We must wait and see. Be more efficient. That's an order.
-
- |> As I have often said
- |> that I consider the US substantially overpopulated for the available
- |> resources available to us, what will happen when China attempts to
- |> get 4 times as much of them?
-
- --
-
- Henry Choy
- choy@cs.usask.ca
-
- "The Log Song", from Ren & Stimpy
-
- "What rolls down stairs alone or in pairs
- Rolls over your neighbor's dog?
- What's great for a snack and fits on your back?
- It's Log, Log, Log!
-
- It's Log, Log, it's big, it's heavy, it's wood.
- It's Log, Log, it's better than bad, it's good!
- Everyone wants a log! You're gonna love it, Log!
- Come on and get your log! Everyone needs a Log!"
-