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Re: Break-even point for home electric generator powered by natural gas? What about NG-powered AC compressor? Chris Lewis 12-06-2005
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Posted by Chris Lewis on December 7, 2005, 11:32 am
> Y'know what really seems to bug most Canadians? That the rest of the world
> does know a damn thing about them, and frankly doesn't care.

Your sentence construction only makes logical sense if you _meant_
"doesn't know a damn thing". Which is wrong actually. The rest
of the world does know quite a bit about Canada, tho, liberally
sprinkled with the usual stereotypes (singing mounties and the
rest). An opportunity for humour and considerable kidding, not
being bugged about.

What you're actually seeing is a sense of disgust at how
appallingly bad the US educational system is. The worst
in the 1st world. Which is particularly annoying since
we've always been your largest trading partner - eg:
your largest supplier of petro fuels for most of the past
few years.

Instead, we see the results of an educational system that
all too often results in students not being able to pick out
their _own_ country on a map.

Or a president who can't pronounce "condom" ;-)

The level of knowledge in the rest of the world seems about
right. It has advantages: We're less likely to be shot at.
[Some American travellers have taken to wearing Canadian
flags or pins. Less hassle. Do US Passports/travel
advisories still say "If in trouble, and you can't find
a US embassy, try a British or Canadian one"? There were
a couple of Americans in Tehran in 1978 who found that
advice quite useful. Oh, right, you probably don't know
about that.]
--
Chris Lewis, Una confibula non set est
It's not just anyone who gets a Starship Cruiser class named after them.

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Posted by Steve Scott on December 7, 2005, 12:13 pm
You're exactly right on this point, Chris. It's a real shame what 40
years of ever more liberal educators have done to the US educational
system.

On Wed, 07 Dec 2005 16:32:41 -0000, clewis@nortelnetworks.com (Chris
Lewis) wrote:

>What you're actually seeing is a sense of disgust at how
>appallingly bad the US educational system is.


--
Science seeks to make theories that
are so beautiful, elegant, and logical
that Nature is flattered and acquiesces





Posted by Chris Lewis on December 7, 2005, 12:55 pm
> You're exactly right on this point, Chris. It's a real shame what 40
> years of ever more liberal educators have done to the US educational
> system.

Oh come now, Steve, our liberal educators can out-liberal your
liberal educators any day of the week[+], and have been doing it
far longer. Yet, our kids do considerably better.

It's way too easy to blame it on the "liberal boogyman", when the
real problem is governmental and societal neglect.

Even Heinlein fell into that trap.

[+] By US standards, we don't have _any_ non-liberal educators.
Heck, the current ruling party[*] isn't even afraid to call themselves
"Liberals". How liberal can you get? ;-)

[*] Past 11 years. Election next month. Perhaps the conservative
party will take over. Tho, by US standards, they're liberal.
Hell, by US standards, our fascist party is liberal too. Americans
don't realize how far right their government is compared to the
rest of the world. Most of the rest of the world considers the
Democrats and Republicans so far to the right to be indistinguishable
from Genghis Khan.
--
Chris Lewis, Una confibula non set est
It's not just anyone who gets a Starship Cruiser class named after them.

Posted by clifto on December 7, 2005, 2:53 pm
Chris Lewis wrote:
> Your sentence construction only makes logical sense if you _meant_
> "doesn't know a damn thing". Which is wrong actually. The rest
> of the world does know quite a bit about Canada, tho, liberally
> sprinkled with the usual stereotypes (singing mounties and the
> rest).

One halloween when I was a kid, I went as Sgt. Preston.

> What you're actually seeing is a sense of disgust at how
> appallingly bad the US educational system is. The worst
> in the 1st world. Which is particularly annoying since
> we've always been your largest trading partner - eg:
> your largest supplier of petro fuels for most of the past
> few years.

At this moment I'm safe to say that Canada's chief export is cold air.

--
If John McCain gets the 2008 Republican Presidential nomination,
my vote for President will be a write-in for Jiang Zemin.

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