SG math has added value:LA Times

last SG · 2008-03-14T20:41:48+00:00

Guess those folks in USA were just being polite, unlike others who show comtempt by criticising other countries. International Math Olympiad 2007 as posted b...

Gedanken SG

Singaporean children study too much useless subjects in school I think.

They should train people to be critical and analytical.

But then a critical and analytical person would not be likely to follow state propaganda and policies either.

To be fair, critical and analytical skills may be demonstrated in a mathematical setting.

However, how that's utterly and completely failed to produce a population that doesn't blindly swallow the propaganda hook, line and sinker is a mystery for the ages.

Gedanken SG

Ithought the smart ones will leave politics behind and get on with their own lives. Anyway, there is no such thing as a government without propaganda and unpopular polices isnt it?

The "smart ones" are willing to live with a guy helping himself to four times the salary of his counterpart who manages an economy that's a shitload bigger. Go do the math - pun intended.

TCH05 SG

The "smart ones" are willing to live with a guy helping himself to four times the salary of his counterpart who manages an economy that's a shitload bigger. Go do the math - pun intended.

I am sure it wont be as bad as living with a guy who is using your money to pay for prostitution and sending your relatives to fight a meaningless war.

4getmenot SG

For some reason lionnoisy sees the need to be noisy about just about every "achievement" done by Singapore, no matter how minor. Unfortunately he seems to have lost all sense of perspective on how minor these achievements truly are.

Case in point, when we commissioned our Underground Ammo dump in mandai, he excitedly touted it as some kind of world first or as some revolution in engineering when actually the art of building underground military facilities have already been long perfected in the cold war to far larger and more complex extent in Cheyenne Mountain by the Americans.

When this was pointed out to him, he tried to paint Mandai UAF as the equal of Cheyenne Mountain, which is not to say, quite a lost cause to begin with... and to make things funnier, when the vast disparity between what Mandai UAF is rated to survive (250 tons exposive force) versus Cheyenne Mountain (30 MEGATONs at 1nm), as well as the sheer difference in size and complexity between the two complexes (Cheyenne Mountain is designed to house an entire military base, along with the American Government with all its support facilities and survive nuclear attack, and sustain it for extended periods in an NBC environment, Mandai UAF is simply an ammo dump) was made known to him, he started to hint that maybe (in his wildest dreams) that Mandai UAF ought to be able to survive a 30 MEGATON blast.

It is quite obvious he does not really know what he is talking about.

dun blame the lion.. hes just too noisy and blind ... he'll probably gonna abandon this thread now like he did to his previous ones ...and start a new one with a hu-ha..

Gedanken SG

I am sure it wont be as bad as living with a guy who is using your money to pay for prostitution.

Does it beat being told, "It's a state secret" when you ask where your money's going? How do you know your money isn't being used for hookers? For that matter, does it beat being told, "We're just going to hold you money for a while longer - in the meantime, just keep working"?

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Double post.

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