It's Over

Well, it's finally over. See that empty desk in the lower right hand corner of the picture? Thats gonna be my empty desk as I leave the exam early.

Thats right, no need to study hard for my upcoming exams any longer. It seems that the increasing competitiveness of university entrance has finally gifted us with High-Tech Cheating.

According to this article all I have to do to ace my exams is fumble around for a spare few thousand dollars to hire some Chinese "guns" to do the work for me. Imagine the carnage of a few muscular Asian 'gun men' using their ancient martial art of Lei Tai to run into your exam room and beat answers out of weeping academics with chain whips. Far from this, however, these guys actually hide in a van outside schools where "a student in the examination hall used a wireless microphone to read out the questions and received the answers from the van".

Awesome.

But how does one simply carry a wireless microphone into an exam? Well, "'cheating shoes' with transmitting and reception ability" allow you to read out the questions into a small microphone. Surely they could have been a little more imaginative with their merchandise? We all know Agent 86 from Get Smart used the old phone-in-a-shoe trick to overcome the plans of the evil Chaos agents, and this was back in 1965. Personally I'm gonna hold off until they bring out microphone implanted skateboards, or at least something equally less obvious to take in with me.

So good in fact are these Chinese masterminds, they have even began almost boasting to the police "adding that they (the shoes)-- along with cheating wallets and hats -- had proved very popular this year". Yeah, nothing beats committing a crime than committing a crime that brings monetary gain. Although there is the opportunity cost of spending the next 12 months in a Chinese prison to weight up.

Ahhh exams... so glad I don't have to worry bout them for another year after this.

Oh and also be mindful if you ever need to search the word 'exam' in google images, the first few entries involve rectal and testicular exams... maybe not the type of exams you'll need cheating hats and wallets for.

Beros.

Imagine that.

Imagine your at a beach with some friends.

This is a very popular beach which during the summer is always full of people.

Suppose this beach is of limited length, and the all people are evenly distributed along it.
There are two ice cream sellers on this beach and each day they decide where along the beach they should set up their stall to get the most customers. Now if you think this over for long enough you will realise that eventually the ice cream sellers set up right next to each other in the middle, splitting the total customers in half.

But this sucks for you, clearly if they two stalls are 1/3 of the way in on either side they will still have the same amount of business but the you and your friends don't have nearly as far to walk.

Free markets lose man. The best ideas come from seeing whats wrong with something and finding something better. I can't wait for the next big economic idea, hopefully it will deal with equality in some way.

Yeah anyway,
I know I haven't blogged in a while, mostly because Sean hasn't nagged me enough... but this will be a self inspired blog. Really I should be studying for exams next week but they still seem light years away.

taka's anyone?