This is an old article I had tucked away in my bookmarks reading it now makes when it was published look like an understatement. FTA: "Eight years ago, with the publication of Susan Jacoby's The Age of American Unreason, our country had a debate about whether its citizens were becoming less intelligent. This year, we had a debate about how big Donald Trump's penis is. While we have not resolved the latter, we have answered the former. Former means first, and latter means second."
Apple Inc. is removing its most advanced encrypted security feature for cloud data in the UK, a stunning development that follows the government ordering the company to build a backdoor for accessing user data.
The UK government has demanded to be able to access encrypted data stored by Apple users worldwide in its cloud service. Currently only the Apple account holder can access data stored in this way - the tech giant itself cannot view it. The demand has been served by the Home Office under the Investigatory Powers Act (IPA), which compels firms to provide information to law enforcement agencies.
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So break this down for me.
Ukraine is giving something, I assume they get what in return? And is Ukraine simply giving up the land lost in the war?
And what's Putin's play in all this? Sure he got some territory but he'll be happy with the deal US/Ukraine made and walk away for the time being?
#38 | Posted by brass30
Here's a good video explaining what is happening on a macro and more micro level in regard to the deals and Rare Earth Elements. Most of them are in regions that are under Russian control or currently very close to being so. I am not sure Putin ends up with territory.
Anyone else notice how hapless and witless Fishpaw is? Can't even manage a cohesive fact based rebuttal or comment.
Fish... You know that thing you have ranted against in the past? Indoctrination? You have been indoctrinated and for a long time. I know you won't believe this but you have been slurping at the right wing sewer of propaganda, misinformation and deflections for years. I accept there is probably no help for folks like yourself but here is a video that may help you and those in your situation: A Killing of the Mind
Something on Automation. I believe it is 100% needed but it is NOT inexpensive and still requires people. In fact it requires people that are not your average factory workers today. You have to outlay a massive amount of money to build the machinery and it requires years of time and THEN you have maintain it. I know lot about manufacturing and automation. One of the things I am involved with is automation. Americans are not great workers by and large. The farther right they are, the more useless they seem to be IMHO. Not to mention loud, obnoxious and entitled.
The average machine where I presently work is now over $500k. Most are like $750k. These are basically standard off the shelf machines in the industry. Annual maintenance on them is in the order of $150-200k. Then you have to have operators to run them. An operator can be trained to setup and run them competently in 3-4 years. And the top manufacturers are in Germany, Switzerland, Czechia and Australia. There is one American maker and they are sub par. All the parts are made overseas as well. The other thing is the average person who is learning to run these machines is NOT well paid and I have to say about half of them shouldn't be running them but you work with what you can get.
Another example, a long time ago I worked at a Tech startup funded by the owner of a US machine maker. I actually helped them out from time to time. They made custom automated manufacturing solutions primarily for Automotive. The average machine they worked on at the time was about $10 million and they had to layout the cash to build these machines until paid by the customer. The build time was typically 3-5 years. The company had messed up on a machine that delivery was refused on and lost in court basically because of owner arrogance which was a blow. About a year later they were put out of Business by Delphi who refused to accept and pay for a machine that machined brake rotors. That machine today would probably run $35-40 million but back then was $12 million. The problem they claimed is it didn't meet the specification even though they had several check points along the way. The sad thing is that machine was built to the spec but the Delphi engineer building the spec messed up and the product was not to spec. But a small company that had fronted millions already couldn't take on a billion dollar company in court. Sadly I work with the putz that messed up that spec.
I could go on and on.