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“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”
Pablo Picasso

Technological innovation is one of the driving factors of our ever changing modern world. It is one of the dynamics of which countries become world leaders and which have remained as economic backwaters.

The current chip ban by the United States is being compared to a Declaration of War.

Does the U.S. Chip Ban on China Amount to a Declaration of War in the Computer Age? Counter Punch October 31, 2022

While it might work in the short run in slowing down the Chinese advances, the cost to the U.S. semiconductor industry of losing China—its biggest market—will have significant consequences in the long run. In the process, the semiconductor industries of Taiwan and South Korea and equipment manufacturers in Japan and the European Union are likely to become collateral damage. It reminds us again of what former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger once said: “It may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal.”
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The specific sanctions imposed by the United States include:

+ Advanced logic chips required for artificial intelligence and high-performance computing

+ Equipment for 16nm logic and other advanced chips such as FinFET and Gate-All-Around

+ The latest generations of memory chips: NAND with 128 layers or more and DRAM with 18nm half-pitch

Specific equipment bans in the rules go even further, including many older technologies as well. For example, one commentator pointed out that the prohibition of tools is so broad that it includes technologies used by IBM in the late 1990s.

The sanctions also encompass any company that uses U.S. technology or products in its supply chain. This is a provision in the U.S. laws: any company that ‘touches’ the United States while manufacturing its products is automatically brought under the U.S. sanctions regime. It is a unilateral extension of the United States’ national legal jurisdiction and can be used to punish and crush any entity—a company or any other institution—that is directly or indirectly linked to the United States. These sanctions are designed to completely decouple the supply chain of the United States and its allies—the European Union and East Asian countries—from China.

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US godfather makes a chip offer you can’t understand Asia Time Nov 5, 2022

A baffled group of chip industry experts, in a symposium discussion published November 4 by the ChinaTalk newsletter, tried and failed to explain Washington’s new export curbs on chip tech to China.

A close reading of the Commerce Department’s specifications shows ignorance about the technologies involved and confusion – if not duplicity – about the ban’s implications for China’s military. The experts’ group concluded that the new policy was rushed into effect in panic mode, without weighing its civilian or military implications.

The new export controls “will restrict the People’s Republic of China’s ability to both purchase and manufacture certain high-end chips used in military applications,” the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security wrote October 7.

That makes no sense, according to the experts, who included Jay Goldberg of Digits to Dollars, Doug O’Laughlin of Fabricated Knowledge, ChinaTalk’s Jordan Schneider and Martin Chorzempa of the Peterson Institute for International Economics. At the laboratory level, they observed, China can make enough advanced chips to power its key weapons systems.
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In fact, China has had missiles that can destroy US aircraft carriers hundreds of miles from its coast since 2015, as Office of Net Assessment Director Andrew Marshall told me at the time.

The 5-nanometer chips that contain 57 billion transistors in Apple’s latest incarnation are powering 5G handsets and Big Data/AI applications, but the computer that guided Apollo 11 to the moon had just 36,000 transistors. Military systems use older chips that China makes at home, according to a 2022 RAND Corporation report.

But if China requires the most advanced 5nm chips for AI-driven military applications – for example, drone swarms controlled by a 5G broadband network and guided by artificial intelligence – China can make enough of them, although at high cost.

The US ban won’t affect weapons systems, but it will delay China’s rollout of autonomous vehicles, data centers and other civilian applications.
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The shoddiness of the Commerce Department’s technical specifications and the exclusion of US industry from the policy loop suggests a sudden onset of panic in the Biden administration over China’s technological advancement.

In January 2020, by contrast, the Pentagon overruled a Commerce Department plan to block exports of chip technology to just one Chinese company, namely Huawei, because US chip equipment firms would “lose a key source of revenue, depriving them of money for research and development needed to maintain a technological edge,” the Wall Street Journal reported at the time.

The Biden administration has made sure that the industry wouldn’t have the opportunity to object.

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Remember Huawei the Chinese company working on 5G technology Trump first targeted during an uptick in our trade war. Biden has continued adding restrictions to negatively impact their business. The company exited smart phones and narrowed its focus on 5G use for industry.

Midea, China Mobile, and Huawei worked together to complete a fully-connected 5G smart factory for washing machines. The factory has the capability to fabricate a laundry machine every 15 secs.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iftlxY_0yDM]

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Huawei’s industrial 5G takes off Asia Time Nov 2, 2022

In short, Huawei is becoming considerably more sophisticated than the 5G smartphone and network equipment maker that incurred the wrath of Donald Trump.

This sophistication was on display at the company’s 13th annual Global Mobile Broadband Forum, which was held in Bangkok on October 25 and 26. The event gathered “mobile network carriers, vertical industry leaders, and ecosystem partners from around the world to discuss how to make 5G a commercial success, as well as other high-priority industry topics like green development, intelligence, and 5G evolution.” It was co-hosted by mobile industry associations GSMA and GTI.

The Day 1 keynote address, delivered by Rotating Chairman Ken Hu, pointed out that while consumer services still generate the largest share of telecom revenue, “B2B 5G applications are also becoming a new engine for carrier revenue growth, producing considerable value in industries like oil and gas, manufacturing, and transportation.”

“These applications are not only innovative – they’re generating real commercial value for carriers. In 2021, for example, Chinese carriers brought in over CNY3.4 billion (roughly USD500 million) in new revenue from more than 3,000 industrial 5G projects. What’s more, these projects also generated 10 times that amount from related data and integrated ICT services.”

“With large bandwidth and low latency, 5G can be integrated with cloud [computing] and AI to provide entirely new services for consumers and businesses alike … presenting an opportunity for carriers to go beyond connectivity and move into cloud services and system integration.”
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On Day 2 of the Forum, Executive Director David Wang spoke about 5.5G, which he called “The foundation of the future.” 5.5G is an upgraded version of 5G that should prove particularly useful for industrial applications.

“The next milestone we must hit on the path to the intelligent world,” he said, “is 5.5G. 5.5G will deliver 10 Gbit/s experiences, support hundreds of billions of connections, and help us achieve native intelligence.”

According to Wang, 5.5G has made great progress over the past two years: “and three things have become clear:

“First, the standardization of 5.5G has been initiated and is right on track, making it more than just a vision.

“Second, the industry has made breakthroughs in key technologies for 5.5G, and ultra-large bandwidth and ELAA [Enhanced Licensed Assistance Access] can now deliver 10 Gbit/s experience.

“Third, the industry has a clear vision for the IoT landscape.

“Looking ahead, our task is to tackle these five new areas – standards, spectrum, products, ecosystems, and applications. That, he noted, will require the promotion of technological research; the development of 5.5G networks, devices, and chips; and cooperation “to build a thriving 5.5G ecosystem.”

He did not mention an ecosystem safe from attempted sabotage by the US government, but the Forum was an optimistic, technology-oriented event.

In conclusion, Wang said, “As our standards, spectrum, products, and ecosystem mature, 5.5G will become a reality, allowing even more applications to emerge. Multi-sensory interactions will transform the way we communicate. Intelligently connected vehicles are set to become a third mobile space and see wide adoption, while intelligent connections across industries will lead to the dissolution of information silos, driving industrial upgrade.

“A new generation of innovative applications is now emerging, and our vision for the intelligent world is becoming clearer. That’s why all industry players need to work together towards the exploration and creation of these applications.”

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we'll find out - the Chinese will get there about a generation before us.

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On to Biden since 1973

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[video:https://youtu.be/Qmd96vMH-fs]

Gonna sit right here and sing myself a tune
That I wrote one afternoon
After everyone had gone
And I know that this won't mean a lot to you
You've got better things to do
But for me I'll just go on

Old dog is lying in the middle of the road
He don't do nothing 'cause he don't want to
And I think I'm gonna like that hound
'Cause the more he sits around
The less I want to do too

Gonna sit right here and watch the world roll by
Till we both just up and die
Watching clouds and eating flies

Don't want to bother no one
Don't want nothing here to change
A dusty road is all we've ever dreamed of
And I think I'm gonna love this life
Maybe someday take a wife
She can join us if she wants to

Ain't nobody gonna tell us what to do
If a car comes we just move
And we both move real smooth like

Old dog is moving must be something in the air
Some bitch is coming up the road now
And I think I'm gonna like that hound
'Cause the more he gets around
The more I want to do too

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@lotlizard

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QMS's picture

Chamber of Commerce against 5G tech is very silly. While the rest of the world is
developing newer and better tech, US only wants to bring the others down to their
warring and sanctioning level. So they make up some BS excuse that 5G endangers
domestic aircraft. Trying scare tactics. The playbook only seems to have a couple pages.

He did not mention an ecosystem safe from attempted sabotage by the US government

Some things go without saying ..

Thanks for the essay!

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Let's see, how well did those Russian sanctions work out? I bet the China sanctions will backfire too.
“the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results”

...quotes like this seem to attach themselves to Einstein at the speed of light, and there’s no evidence he ever said it. (By the way, two other brainiacs and quote attractors, Ben Franklin and Mark Twain, are also credited with coining this idea.)
The “definition of insanity” quote first appeared in 1981, in a document published by Narcotics Anonymous. It was a sort of guide book for addicts who trying to overcome their disease, and it warned its readers that, “insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results.” Narcotics Anonymous was trying to convince its members that continuing to use narcotic drugs and expecting to be able to stop on their own was folly.

https://professorbuzzkill.com/einstein-insanity-qnq/

Thanks for the OT. We're expecting a shower this afternoon.

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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

From the quote box article from Asia Times:

A baffled group of chip industry experts, in a symposium discussion published November 4 by the ChinaTalk newsletter, tried and failed to explain Washington’s new export curbs on chip tech to China.

Personally, I have run out of patience with the stupidity explanation for the current regime of sanctions for supposedly geopolitical "strategy" toward the supposed goal of more power for America. Just as refusing to buy Russian energy has the only practcal effect of harming our supposed allies in Europe, this refusal to sell lucrative items to China is utterly irrational and a contradiction of the previously sacrosanct neoliberal doctrine of globalized trade.

Nixon and Kissinger opened trade with the erstwhile communist world half a century ago with great results from a capitalist perspective. Now that both countries have adopted capitalism, our government is claiming to try to bankrupt them to keep them from bothering adjacent countries, harming our own economy far more than either target.

There must be another goal than the stated one. If you want to establish unified global technocracy, the first step is destroy the American Empire. OF course, this is just a crazy conspiracy theory -- the people running America - Biden and his team -- are just nit wits.

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I cried when I wrote this song. Sue me if I play too long.

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@fire with fire

our government is claiming to try to bankrupt them to keep them from bothering adjacent countries

which is, once again total BS.

The US economic model is to stifle competition. Which can not work in a multi economic
framework. The dumb-think that is the Wall Street great streak in the toilet of world's
sharing of resources is almost too stupid to contemplate. Yeah, the backers of of the US
domination is the 'greatest military in the world', but people don't willingly eat bombs. If this
empire thinks it will dominate by erasing Russia and China, they have another think coming.

Try thinking rationally. What are the choices?

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@QMS

It might well, unbeknownst to us, already by there, some tiny item, a one or two column inch ad or bit of filler buried ever so deep in the back pages, near the bottom of one, in WaPo or the NYT or even some college paper. But who still reads the papers?

TRANSLATION:

be well and have a good one

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

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@enhydra lutris

some super powerful players in that translation piece
thanks beau coup for that install!

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@QMS

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

Imagine all those who have grown up with digital devices and their “convienences”; electronically controlled autos, GPS, ‘smart’ dishwashers, cell phones, refrigerators, furnaces & etc wake up one morning and none of these devices are working. Credit cards also stop working and you rush to the bank (if you can find it without GPS) and find they can’t give you any cash because they have no paper backups of your bank account. The world comes to a screeching halt. Full Stop.

The Russians claim to have a weapon that, with a single high altitude explosion, will disable electronics that are not ‘hardened’ sufficiently to withstand an extreme electromagnetic pulse, over most of North America. The acronym is HEMP but has no relationship to smokables.

HEMP—The Ultimate Cyberweapon
Any nuclear weapon detonated in outer space, 30 kilometers or higher, will generate a high-altitude electromagnetic pulse (HEMP). No blast, thermal, fallout or effects other than HEMP are experienced in the atmosphere and on the ground. A nuclear detonation at 30 kilometers altitude will generate a HEMP field with a radius on the ground of 600 kilometers, damaging all kinds of electronics, blacking-out electric grids and collapsing other life-sustaining critical infrastructures. Detonated at 400 kilometers altitude, the radius of the HEMP field will be about 2,200 kilometers, large enough to cover most of North America.

Let’s hope the recent trend in military provocations and escalations does not ‘bring it on!”

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“ …and when we destroy nature, we diminish our capacity to sense the divine,and understand who God is, and what our own potential is and duties are as human beings.- RFK jr. 8/26/2024

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@ovals49

This will be the reaction to the next stupid US aggression.
Have to say we have a comeuppance coming our way.
This would be the method. All the baby nukes on the Rus
borders may kill many people, but to kill the US empire logistics
will be a major kick in the crotch. Bye bye power structure.

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@QMS
against Russia as an option in “extreme conditions”, whatever that means. Hopefully this statement does not include US/Ukraine imminent defeat on the ‘conventional’ battlefield.

The USA already presented its new nuclear strategy last week. In it, a nuclear first strike is explicitly not ruled out. A waiver of a nuclear first strike would be an “unacceptable risk”, quoted the German-Foreign-Policy website from the US government’s paper on nuclear strategy.
The US is considering using nuclear weapons under “extreme conditions,” the statement said document. German-Foreign-Policy also reports on the accelerated modernization of the US nuclear arsenal in Germany and Europe. New and more precise nuclear weapons are to be stationed in Europe in the coming weeks.

[my bold] Link

Yikes!

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“ …and when we destroy nature, we diminish our capacity to sense the divine,and understand who God is, and what our own potential is and duties are as human beings.- RFK jr. 8/26/2024

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@ovals49

the US regime is desperate to come out victorious from their shady war thing.
Threats will not work with Putin. Doesn't stop them from trying though.
If the US empire thinks blowing off nuclear bombs will defeat the Rus, they have
another think coming. It is most assuredly the quickest way to end the war (what
war?) and end the future of mankind. If this just a dick measurement exercise, then
Biden, Scholz, Zelensky and Ursula von der Leyen are competing to prove who is dotty
enough to ruin civilization.

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@ovals49

Thought to have one or two of those (or similar) on satellites.

They have a couple with polar orbits that pass over the US daily -
seems they were able to hire Russian talent in the EMP and missile tech
area in the early 90's...

Not like you need pinpoint accuracy with something like that. And the more wired
we get, the greater the vulnerability.

"If you have a right to respect, then other people don't have a right to an opinion."

- Thomas Sowell

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I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish

"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"

Heard from Margaret Kimberley

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@ggersh

do so, Sunak has already been installed in office, and nothing furthere really needs to be done

be well and have a good one

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@QMS

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

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@ggersh

I have often thought that we are experiencing the same things that V is about.

IM Doc

From your 1st video

First off, I would like to begin with the defining speech of the movie. From listening to this speech, the parallels it has to the last few years and the lessons within it should be obvious.

This speech transcribed was as follows:

Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of the everyday routine, the security of the familiar, the tranquility of repetition. I enjoy them as much as any bloke. But in the spirit of commemoration - whereby those important events of the past, usually associated with someone's death or the end of some awful bloody struggle, are celebrated with a nice holiday - I thought we could mark this November the fifth, a day that is sadly no longer remembered, by taking some time out of our daily lives to sit down and have a little chat.

There are, of course, those who do not want us to speak. I suspect even now orders are being shouted into telephones and men with guns will soon be on their way. Why? Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there?

Cruelty and injustice...intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance, coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those who are more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable. But again, truth be told...if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror.

I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn't be? War. Terror. Disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. Fear got the best of you and in your panic, you turned to the now High Chancellor Adam Sutler. He promised you order. He promised you peace. And all he demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent.

Last night, I sought to end that silence. Last night, I destroyed the Old Bailey to remind this country of what it has forgotten. More than four hundred years ago, a great citizen wished to embed the fifth of November forever in our memory. His hope was to remind the world that fairness, justice and freedom are more than words - they are perspectives. So if you've seen nothing, if the crimes of this government remain unknown to you, then I would suggest that you allow the fifth of November to pass unmarked. But if you see what I see, if you feel as I feel, and if you would seek as I seek...then I ask you to stand beside me, one year from tonight, outside the gates of Parliament. And together, we shall give them a fifth of November that shall never, ever, be forgot!

Totalitarian states require the citizens to live in a constant state of fear, and a key theme of V for Vendetta is how to move beyond that fear so that it can no longer be used to enslave the population. Put differently, it is incredibly important to be this guy, as without people like him, mass formations will continue forever:
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Think for a moment about how rapidly the censorship has increased over the last 10 years in our country: many trivial but politically incorrect statements can now cost one their employment and California recently outlawed its doctors from deviating from the party line during a private medical visit, something which was previously unthinkable in America.

believe that many of the positive changes we have had for promoting the freedom of speech and red-pilling the population have only been possible due to the anonymity the internet has been able to provide. Likewise, I also believe that much of the fanatical push for censorship we are seeing now is a result of the ruling class realizing unrestrained discourse online is the greatest threat to the unelected corporate governance they are forcing upon the world.

Bingo!

One of the most fascinating aspects of V for Vendetta was its foreshadowing of COVID-19. In addition to the virus’s lab origins moving from the realm of “conspiracy” to accepted fact, it is also now known a the virus contained a genetic sequence that came from Moderna’s patent. This is particularly important because the mRNA vaccine technology was specifically designed so that it would be able to rapidly bring any computer modeled vaccine into production in a much shorter time than any other vaccine platform (which is why Pfizer and Moderna were able to obtain the coveted COVID-19 vaccine market). I am also of the opinion that like the virus in V for Vendetta, SARS-CoV-2 was engineered both to have a large number of mechanisms with which it could harm the body and for there to be a unique drug which could antidote it, although these contentions are much more difficult to prove.

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Biden’s domestic terrorist law says that if you question the election, where Covid came from or any information that the government tells us then you are one and can be punished for it. Doctors who prescribed early treatments are having their licenses revoked. Doctors in California who don’t toe the Fauci line will have theirs revoked too and there are more stuff on the way.

If you don’t know about what’s happening with Twitter since Musk bought it and said that he wants free speech to return big pharma and other advertisers are pulling out of advertising on Twitter because it goes much further than just questioning Covid. We can’t go against the narrative that Russia is bad, Ukraine is good and of course there aren’t any Nazis in Ukraine. Mis, dis and malinformation can only come from the government and its media mouthpieces and come hell or high water that is going to be the law of the land. And guess who is behind the targeting of Twitter? Democrats of course, but who’s really running the show? People who have ties to the Clintons and the other ruling oligarch families. Keep your eye open for what you will be seeing soon. And don’t forget that Biden hasn’t given up on the ministry of truth. I’ve posted about it last Monday.

If anyone is interested I’ll provide more information.

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An incredible article and thank you for mentioning me Smile

Regarding VIRUSES DO NOT EXIST: I learned, a week ago, from duckduckgoing my own name, that VIRUSES DO NOT EXIST was an aborted psyop originating from a certain substack "boostershots substack com".

It was a campaign to push this idea everywhere that was eventually abandoned as of Sep 25. (that's why these claims declined in volume recently)

I believe that it was a younger person experimenting and trying to run their very own psyop. By the way that substack was written, the owner himself did not believe in no-virus theory.

https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/viruses-do-not-exist-was-a-psyop

I’ve been seeing people saying that viruses don’t exist for some time and thought how can people seriously think that. We know that some anti virals work against Covid and other diseases. It’s funny how people can be pushed in one direction or another.

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@snoopydawg

and arguably remotely possible if some person(s) had worked long and diligently enough, this isn't known to be true:

it is also now known a the virus contained a genetic sequence that came from Moderna’s patent.

It is like saying that Moby Dick came from a random scrap of paper upon which somebody had written bahAemllaC.

The sequence that the originator of this tale based this claim was not only backwards, it was on the non-coding strand.

be well and have a good one

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@snoopydawg

remember?

be well and have a good one

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Sanctions are an admission that capitalism doesn't work.

Just saying.

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@Bob In Portland

consider it to be working just fine, though it is a bit too expensive and high maintenance for their liking.

be well and have a good one

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@Bob In Portland

diplomacy does not cut jugular veins
compromise requires an evening
sanctions are a battle lost

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From what I gather the ban includes advanced chips made using American software. Not sure how this will work? Will companies be forbidden from selling any and all software? Right now, three companies dominate that chip production space (design, testing, layout, etc). The Chinese will have to develop their own version of what Siemens (Mentor), Cadence, and Synopsys produce. Or they could just break the licensing schemes. But in time, they will develop their own versions if they invest in those areas of software.

The idea is that this embargo will give the US and allies time to leap frog the Chinese in various areas like AI. From what I have seen over time is that American high tech is more interested in profit margins than innovation. Bunches of them have gone on expensive stock buy-=back schemes instead of new product development, etc. Intel is behind in areas it once dominated like others must rely on government/taxpayer bailouts which lower their costs but not ability to produced newer, bigger, and better.

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@MrWebster  
The only phase of the profit cycle where the U.S. system makes productive investments in things like societal function, scientific progress, and worker health is when it’s again time for mass-killin’ of the Other, in the service of WAR WAR WAR, (Foghorn Leghorn voice) I say, WAR WAR WAR.

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Is US export ban forcing Korean chipmakers to exit from China?
Experts say Washington's ultimate goal is weakening Bejing's chip productivity, especially advanced chips

https://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20221018000616

The US has a new quisling dictator in South Korea. This is best he could do for his chaebol supporters apparently. His military cooperation with the US is provoking escalating tensions with North Korea not seen since "fire and fury." The understandings reached at the Singapore summit between Trump and Kim Jong-un are now a dead letter as the US has sent strategic assets to South Korea, and a massive air exercise involving 250 US and South Korean warplanes just took place. The focus on the Ukraine war distracts from the very real possibility of war in Northeast Asia.

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