cna news :

SINGAPORE – All management staff in Singapore Airlines (SIA) will from July take a salary cut of at least 10 per cent, including its chief executive, who will take a 20 per cent cut.

when economy recover? when? elites..

aiyoyo

Spore context — fighter Ps must have all F-15 skills + balls carrying payload to infinite range. This limits our small pool much further?

your “more sincere manner”?…

////is not a waste of TKL’s and our time?////

yeah, i can sense your sincerity in that statement above.

lol…

‘mice is nice’ might be interested to know the answers you have diligently posted.

But a more mature and logical person should ask these questions in a more sincere manner.

You are too kind and patience.

so true, but you should have posed this qestion to the 1 who 1st mentioned it.

well, how to take such reply seriously. lol…

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hi Curious,

huh, what about people who are tasked to forecast economy? they are omnipotent?

i support barter!! say no to credit!!

//how to acertain the economy really recover for good,//

You can only if you are omnipotent.

// & not just grow another bubble that will burst again some years down the road?//

Try using barter and do away with inflationary, quantitative easing, a euphemism for resorting to the printing press to monetize debts.

can you make sure your last question …

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now, can i ask why is the elephant charging in my direction?/ ///

is not a waste of TKL’s and our time?

i also sidetrack abit eh…
i to elephants are afraid of mice? 8)

do you think the elephant so cooperative will show passport?

I was side tracking not refering to any of your post, no worries

why is the elephant charging in my direction?
good question, I too do not have the answer
now to side track…..

And how do you tell an elephant from Sri Lanka from an elephant from Sabah?

Answer: Look at his passport. : )

i like your humour in post #101,

////Dr Goh Keng Swee, who was the architect of Singapore’s economic miracle, once gave the following answer to the kind of questions posed by you, “You will know an elephant when you see one charging at you”.////
in response to my post #97

////what are the higher paying jobs that will appear?
how do you know that many will move on?
how to acertain the economy really recover for good, & not just grow another bubble that will burst again some years down the road?////

now, can i ask why is the elephant charging in my direction?

c) See reply @93 – Spore insolation is 4.6 kWh/day, which isn’t really that great but yes we don’t have winter months, etc…

Any ideas how garmen can be convince to pump real $$ into such schemes? Translating to local JOBS, of course. Know HDB is currently championing solar, but seems rather a closed door affair. Again, the public sector “mentality issue”?

Forgot to add your points on “..short-term employment..”, “…without a larger market to sustain this business..”, etc. True, true, true.

But what is rational for, say, development of our Bionix IFV? How much development cost? Only market = SAF. How many did we built eventually? What is/was the export status thus far? Like NEWater, we die-die must develop it, is it? Cheaper to upgrade the M113′s? What was the returns in dollars & cents? Ok, I am not privileged to calculate how many can be made with $60b — but probably can replace the entire SBS bus fleet + extras! (Aside, do these thingys need COE on our roads?)

Yes, the Government is creating some jobs. This effort should be multiplied 20 to 50 times to get the desired effect. It has to be more than just teachers.

I am hopeful that this will happen within the next few years. Here are some reasons for my confidence:

a) The advance of science and R&D is quite staggering. 10 years ago, most people were sceptical about producing potable water at economic cost. We have now been able to achieve it.

b) Barack Obama is also investing a lot of money and his credibility in this effort. We will be able to benefit from some of the research being done there.

c) Singapore has sun all year round. So, we should be able to get greater efficiency in our infrastructure of solar panels and other equipment

d) I like the concept that solar energy that is not used immediately can be supplied to the power grid to be used by other users. This saves on the cost of storing the energy in battery.

I agree with the suggestion by theforgottengeneration that we should be investing in the R&D for this effort. It will create many engineering and supporting jobs and also build our knowhow for the future, and for export.

Dr Goh Keng Swee, who was the architect of Singapore’s economic miracle, once gave the following answer to the kind of questions posed by you, “You will know an elephant when you see one charging at you”.

respect your views, but here are my speculations:

(1) of course it is still expensive. We should ask why we didn’t pump R&D money back 5-10 years so that NOW it can be affordable. Still relying on foreign tech as short cut? You TKK (wait long long). Too many scholars in wrong positions doing f***. Yeah, too much $$ in investments too.

(2) Yes Spore is too small, but there is actually a shortage of PV supply worldwide now. Export potential = employment, get it? Also, any tech used locally always has potential for further development. Question you should ask is what has our gahmen done about it? Compare with experience in Germany, Europe, Japan & USA. Expensive but people still adopting – why and how? They willing to cough out billions for a better tomorrow, we blow our billions where huh?

Of course cost, potential, future earnings, etc… always true in any venture. And admit PV is expensive. But then it is just a priority of where one put one’s money. If $60+b from TH losses used in an Apollo program, we could have plant our flag on the frea***** moon instead of top of Mt Everest! Do your sum, you know how many HDB blocks $60b could have solar-powered, even with current 1G tech? I say ball-park of couple of 10,000′s BLOCKS! To install, maintain, upgrade, train, manufacture, service, etc… for 10,000′s installations, what is the “short-term” potential employment/market/industry? Plus, less reliance on fossil fuels. (Oil prices going up now, right?). Now, if we only take $1b out from GIC/TH for tech development …. wah, $1 with 9 zeroes… too much risk. Better re-buy BoA.

I found my own job by growing sugar and selling them

I also sub-edit for an English newspaper and I write and take press photographs too.

I am thinking of teaching writing and journalism and I mean in English to the local English journalists. For foc.

My pay as a journalist is very low as my employer is struggling. 180 sing dollars per month.

But, life is good to me.

I enjoy my job.