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Damned-Virus-Data Miner providers
Aug 6, 2012, 1:22:27 AM8/6/12
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On 4 Aug, 16:44, RichAsianKid <RichAsian...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I enjoyed Sailer's article here
>
> http://tinyurl.com/bnrevof
>
> I am one of those who couldn't care too much about medals or medal
> count, for many reasons listed above, but did tacitly support Beijing's
> 2008 and London's 2012. It can't be rationally justified but I have
> reflexive sympathy for the host. But that's me and to the extent I care
> about medals. (Don't believe me? Think this thought experiment yourself
> [vis-a-vis real athletes']: how much money are you _personally_ willing
> to give up and how much income are you willing to forgo to have your
> country earn an extra medal. US $100? $10000? $1 million? How much is a
> medal worth to you on a practical, personal level? Don't need to answer;
> question's rhetorical)
>
> I also think a lot of talk about China vs America is misplaced when in
> fact China is no match for America. Sailer's article perhaps implied
> institutional reasons; but even if China edges out America (which it
> seems to be struggling to do) never forget China has over 3x population
> of America. Take another example such as South Korea which is doing
> extremely well as third place (so far; doubt it will hold on)
> superseding Russia. In 2008 I thought South Korea did 6x as well as
> China and 2x as well as America on a per capita basis, and much better
> than Japan. You can do the rest of math on your own.
if there are international awards and certification being recognised,
why students us the method to study by hard
like usng photostating machine method wich en up in the end some
people did sa that these people need to take
some form of exams or questions. This also goes or Olympic as there
are not muchoftalents being trained to get
silver or gold and they just tr to secure bronze, that's
all.............
Big fuckers afterall and they can fuck themslves with all these small
awards.........
onlooker 5
> I enjoyed Sailer's article here
>
> http://tinyurl.com/bnrevof
>
> I am one of those who couldn't care too much about medals or medal
> count, for many reasons listed above, but did tacitly support Beijing's
> 2008 and London's 2012. It can't be rationally justified but I have
> reflexive sympathy for the host. But that's me and to the extent I care
> about medals. (Don't believe me? Think this thought experiment yourself
> [vis-a-vis real athletes']: how much money are you _personally_ willing
> to give up and how much income are you willing to forgo to have your
> country earn an extra medal. US $100? $10000? $1 million? How much is a
> medal worth to you on a practical, personal level? Don't need to answer;
> question's rhetorical)
>
> I also think a lot of talk about China vs America is misplaced when in
> fact China is no match for America. Sailer's article perhaps implied
> institutional reasons; but even if China edges out America (which it
> seems to be struggling to do) never forget China has over 3x population
> of America. Take another example such as South Korea which is doing
> extremely well as third place (so far; doubt it will hold on)
> superseding Russia. In 2008 I thought South Korea did 6x as well as
> China and 2x as well as America on a per capita basis, and much better
> than Japan. You can do the rest of math on your own.
if there are international awards and certification being recognised,
why students us the method to study by hard
like usng photostating machine method wich en up in the end some
people did sa that these people need to take
some form of exams or questions. This also goes or Olympic as there
are not muchoftalents being trained to get
silver or gold and they just tr to secure bronze, that's
all.............
Big fuckers afterall and they can fuck themslves with all these small
awards.........
onlooker 5
RichAsianKid
Aug 9, 2012, 6:32:55 PM8/9/12
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swim or dash one ms faster, while animals claim all these same
credentials by yards and miles?
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