This wont age well
Intel chief pens congratulatory letter to President-elect Biden urging work on immigration and domestic manufacturing
Intel CEO Bob Swan has penned an open letter to President-elect Joe Biden congratulating him on his win, and urging his incoming administration to continue investment in domestic semiconductor manufacturing. "Rising costs and foreign government subsidies to national champions are a significant disadvantage for US semiconductor …
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Tuesday 24th November 2020 23:19 GMT Claverhouse
Re: Stop it
Joe Biden once spoke about jailing employers who hire "illegals," said sanctuary cities shouldn't be allowed to violate federal law, and argued a fence was needed stop "tons" of drugs coming into the country from "corrupt Mexico." 2008
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/05/10/politics/kfile-biden-drugs-fence-2006/index.html
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Joe was for a wall --- as was Hillary, who began the building of a Great Wall --- before he was against it, which was connected to Donald being for it; and he has promised not to take down a piece of that already up.
https://text.npr.org/899266045
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Joe wasn't just about doubling the number of death penalty offences and shoving black predators in prison as everyone thinks ! He reformed the banking industry de-regulating the hell out of it and by making personal bankruptcy for people owing banks money more difficult, and supports the RIAA to protect modern youth from Napster.
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Wednesday 25th November 2020 00:00 GMT Anonymous Coward
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The "Wall" is a fake substitute for the required balance of work visas and sanctions against "illegal employers" - nothing more revolutionary than what Canada already does - employers must pay for seasonal workers transport, housing, and health insurance, and face serious sanction for employing outside the rules. Long term immigrant employees require appropriate long term visas, and have a continuous legal path to citizenship.
What's required on and around the border are (not a wall but) factories that can hybridize US capabilities with cheaper Mexican labour to create world exportable products. Out of every US dollar spent on Mexican imports, 40 cents comes back to purchase US goods in Mexico. The figure is about 5 cents for US dollars spent on Chinese imports.
Trump presidency started off by bashing Mexico as a villian (easy) instead of introspection as to why US industry could not partner with Mexico to create exportable products (much harder). Now we have a stillborn FOXCONN plant in Wisconsin because it was easy to do in the short run and made for good publicity.
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Wednesday 25th November 2020 18:59 GMT bombastic bob
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nobody said there was anything wrong with immigrants nor immigration.
The problem is the use of H1B visas and similar kinds of immigration for the EXPLICIT purpose of "watering down" the pool of available employees such that wages are artificially DEPRESSED, particularly in regions of the U.S. where *EXPENSES* are artificially INFLATED. So while living expenses in the region of Silicon Valley would be INCREASING, the potential INFLUX of people [which makes rents go up, i.e. more people, less housing] who are willing to work for LOWER wages, causes OVERALL wages to DECREASE for everyone else, and existing employees are stuck in their jobs without raises and without other jobs to move into [or get laid off and replaced], unable to keep up with rising costs of living in one of the MOST expensive regions of the USA.
Did THAT explain the problem, here? Intel OBVIOUSLY wants something _LIKE_ this.
(if they want to reduce costs they could open up an office in Alabama or New Mexico or some other place where it costs WAY less to live, and people would WILLINGLY work for less when they end up with MORE disposable income after making those "much lower" cost of living payments every month)
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Tuesday 24th November 2020 23:12 GMT Lars
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I very much agree with "investing more in American education", you simply have to, or you are going down the drain, and that journey I am afraid started years ago.
This vid is worth checking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7lO0TlwUZw
(The Real Story Behind Skyrocketing Student Debt)
But education is not a short term solution nor can one expect companies to wait for that.
Regarding "cheap Indian bods undercutting American workers" I feel is a rather cheap explanation, and not enough to explain the reality.
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Wednesday 25th November 2020 18:59 GMT bombastic bob
Re: Stop it
education as in STEM - yes.
education as in "indoctrination" - no.
I wonder how much "unaffordable" student loan debt has been accumulated for "fill in the blank" studies and "liberal arts" majors... when STEM and/or 'school of business' classes would get you an actual JOB.
So a qualified agreement with you, that proper STEM education as early as 1st grade and kindergarten would be a HUGE help in making any population "employable" in the future, and eliminate the excuse that some employers have used when justifying over-use of H1B visa hiring to depress wages...
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Wednesday 25th November 2020 11:20 GMT Binraider
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Seconded. American Education is why you have a 52/48% vote split despite one of the two choices being globally despised, undiplomatic figurehead.
Ironically, elements of Republican policy I do appreciate; protectionism from the race-to-the-bottom; (allegedly) bringing manufacturing jobs back into home territory instead of being reliant on imports.
Silicon manufacturing I suspect is a losing battle to bring back to the West because you can run your production plant cheaper in Malaysia, Taiwan or China.
You might have better success in investing in other industries; energy being a particularly obvious one; to stop haemmorraging cash to the middle east on oil while developing new, skilled manufacturing and engineering jobs at home. (One of Biden's key objectives if I'm not mistaken).
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Tuesday 24th November 2020 19:34 GMT DS999
Only a moron believes the election was stolen from Trump. He's lost every single court case over the election because they have presented zero proof of fraud because you can't provide proof of something that didn't happen. As a result Rudy and his minions are getting laughed out of every court they visit. The only "proof" exists in extreme right wing media where fact checking isn't done, and people like you are dumb enough to believe the lies you are fed.
Trump is looking so hard for a "win" in court that he declared a summary dismissal yesterday as a win because it means it can be appealed to the Supreme Court more quickly. He's really going to be pissed when he finds out the Supreme Court decides which cases they will hear, and there's no way they're going to hear a case where there were no facts provided and therefore nothing to dispute about the lower court's ruling.
Trying to have hundreds of thousands of legally cast ballots thrown out without a shred of evidence would be "stealing the election". Trying to have state legislators overrule the vote of their citizens to send Trump electors to the Electoral College would be "stealing the election". These both things Trump has/is trying - and fortunately failing miserably at!
There is already talk that him bringing in those Michigan legislators to try to talk them into overriding the vote is a federal crime he'll be charged for when he is dragged out of the White House kicking and screaming on the 20th of January. At least I hope he'll have to be dragged out, it would make for great TV!
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Tuesday 24th November 2020 20:46 GMT Fruit and Nutcase
At least I hope he'll have to be dragged out, it would make for great TV!
The President Gets Evicted From The White House - The President Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53nyFuGdlEk
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Wednesday 25th November 2020 06:07 GMT veti
Presumably his last act in office will be to pardon himself for everything he's ever done, so "federal crimes" are neither here nor there.
Yes, he can do that. Most presidents do it, to pay back various favours, and although they don't normally include themselves on the list there's nothing to prevent it.
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Wednesday 25th November 2020 08:39 GMT Potemkine!
In democracies, when someone gets more votes than his/her opponent, he/she's elected. I know it doesn't happen each time in the US, but nobody who is serious considers the US as a model of democracy. I understand you are disappointed that your rigged system of yours didn't ensure once again the (far-) rightwinged candidate to win despite losing the popular vote, and this despite the many efforts of the GOP to suppress voters, but it's time for you for a reality check.
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Wednesday 25th November 2020 09:39 GMT Peter2
Few democracies operates purely on a "total number of votes" system, ie proportional representation.
Both the US and Britain run on varients of the first past the post system, where winning one area gets you that seat so it is possible to get odd numbers while not winning that many seats.
For instance in Britains election in 2015 1.1 million people voted for the greens; they got one seat. 1.4 million voted for the SNP; they got 56 seats. 3.8 million voted UKIP; who also got 1 seat.
If we switched to a system where the total number of voters across the country was all that mattered then the elections would consist of metropolitan parties offering bread and circuses in roughly the form of saying "we'll pay for free public transport in the cities out of national taxation and spend nothing on rural areas if you vote for us, and there will not nothing the rural types can do about it"
Which political theroists are well aware of, which is why no democracy anywhere in the world is setup that way.
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Wednesday 25th November 2020 12:46 GMT Lars
"Few democracies operates purely on a "total number of votes" system, ie proportional representation."
Wrong Wrong.
MOST democracies operates purely on a "total number of votes" system, ie proportional representation.
Most democracies do not have a two party system or a first past the post or an electoral college.
That could all be called the "English Disease" forced upon, or adopted by some unlucky countries.
And the result of that disease is so damned well visible to day in the two countries most severly hit by it in recent years.
Sick people who don't know they are sick tend to stay sick.
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Tuesday 24th November 2020 21:31 GMT Anonymous Coward
That letter in full...
Dear Trumo-Biden
Tim Cook smells of wee!!!!! He says his chips are smaller and better than ours but he’s a big grey liar and it’s not fair Apple have made better chips than we did and it’s not fair and Tim Cook smells of wee and I know I have an iPhone but urrrgh! Urrgh!!! Poo! bum!!!!!!!! and and we make processors and it’s not fair that Apple do and theirs are smaller and faster and put him in jail. Put him in jail! Or I will hold my breath until I am sick!!!!. And I want to employ lots of cheap people so I can buy another big boat. Bigger than Tim Cooks boat and he smells of wee. Tim pee-face Cook!!!!! Why are they faster, mom? Why mom?
Lots of love,
Bob.
Ps I voted for you even though mom said you were a poo face.
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Wednesday 25th November 2020 12:23 GMT luis river
AMD on correct way.
Intel CEO Bob Swan has penned an open and "love" letter to President-elect Joe Biden. The Intel situation is difficult, Bob think than political can help them for turn on more black number sales, AMD believe in superior tech shall be sufficient for market dominance, that is the difference !!!
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Thursday 26th November 2020 10:57 GMT nautica
A far less 'wordy' account of the entire article--
So, in a nut-shell...Intel is directly copying a page from Boeing's play-book.
Take-away: when a technology firm finds that technology is hard, which it is, technology--by engineers--is abandoned, for politics and cost-cutting--which is easy for MBAs and lawyers. No pesky engineers needed.
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Thursday 26th November 2020 15:29 GMT nautica
For all you people who want to know the 737 Max 'secret handshake(s)'...
From a current post on The Register--
"Boeing 737 Max will return to flight after software updates, says EU's aviation regulator"
https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2020/11/25/easa_737_max_return/
..."Remember, these are the Max aircraft concerned, 737-7, 737-8 and 737-9 (RYANAIR BADGING = 737-8200) and the equivalent International Air Transport Association codes are B37M, B38M and B39M"
Three notes:
1) I have given Ryanair special emphasis because it is well deserved;
2) Do not, under any set of circumstances, consider this information as permanent. There is NO doubt that Boeing, Ryanair, and untold others will work very hard to make it very hard for you to avoid being informed when you will be forced to fly on a 737 Max; and
3) Once more, the 737 Max codes are--
737-7, 737-8, 737-9;
737-8200 (RYANAIR)
B37M, B38M, B39M (ATA--Air Transport Association--codes)