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Summer-like heat is scorching the Southern Hemisphere -- in winterwww.sciencenews.org
... It's winter in the Southern Hemisphere " but you wouldn't know it from the thermostat.[emphasis mine]
On August 26, a remote stretch of the coastline in Western Australia experienced the highest winter temperature ever recorded anywhere in the country: a blistering 41.6 Celsius (107 Fahrenheit).
In Bidyadanga, an Aboriginal community in Western Australia, the overnight low temperature on August 28 was a staggering 27.2 C (81 F).
That's in winter, when the long-term average nighttime temperature has been around 15 C (59 F). Such heightened nighttime temperatures can disrupt sleep, leading to decreased cardiovascular and mental health (SN: 8/6/23). ...
So, how did Pres Biden deal with corporate america giving chip manufacturing to Taiwan?
President Biden Signs CHIPS and Science Act into Law
www.whitecase.com
... On August 9, 2022, President Biden signed the CHIPS and Science Act (H.R.4346), which seeks to bolster the US semiconductor supply chain and promote research and development of advanced technologies in the United States.1
The Act is comprised largely of provisions extracted from the US Innovation and Competition Act (USICA) and its House alternative, the America COMPETES Act, which Congress failed to reconcile in conference negotiations this summer.
The CHIPS and Science Act encompasses the most popular provisions of the USICA and COMPETES bills, but modifies and adds to those provisions in important ways. Key provisions and updates in the CHIPS and Science Act are as follows: ...
Another view...
Trump says Taiwan stole America's chip industry. But that's not true
www.cnn.com
... Former US President Donald Trump raised eyebrows last week when he accused Taiwan of snatching America's crown in the $500 billion business of making computer chips.
In an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek, the Republican presidential nominee repeated his assertion, first made last year, that the island democracy and US ally had taken "almost 100%" of the industry from the United States. "We should have never let that happen," he added.
Except, it didn't. Industry experts tell CNN that, far from stealing, Taiwan grew its own semiconductor industry organically through a combination of foresight, hard work and investment.
School children on the island know that the father of its world-beating chips sector is Morris Chang, a 93-year-old Chinese-born American, who started Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) in 1987 at age 55 after a long career working with semiconductors in the US.
At the time, the industry leaders were Intel (INTC), Motorola (MSI) and Texas Instruments (TXN), where Chang had previously worked. But in starting TSMC (TSM), Chang had an entirely different business model in mind, which was completely revolutionary at the time.
"We had no strength in research and development, or very little anyway. We had no strength in circuit design," he recalled in a 2007 oral history project recorded for the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.
"We had little strength in sales and marketing, and we had almost no strength in intellectual property. The only possible strength that Taiwan had, and even that was a potential one, not an obvious one, was semiconductor manufacturing," he said. ...
@#23 ... You're a mouth breathing idiot. ...
If I remember correctly, that current has stated that it craves replies.
Could that be why it seems to go out of its way to post provocative comments and threads?
Because it just wants (needs?) attention?
Maybe it needs an emotional support animal.
Maybe we should give that current alias an 4-ton elephant as a support animal...
How do you get a grumpy 4-ton elephant to a new home 120 miles away?
abcnews.go.com
Though, I suspect the current alias would not be the winner in that transaction.
Dreams...
A song along those lines, a version you never hear on the radio...
These Dreams w Alison Krauss, from Night At Sky Church (2010)
www.youtube.com
@#3 ... black people of being crazy about watermelon ...
Wow, that one lead me to a dark place...
The ---- Caricature
jimcrowmuseum.ferris.edu
... Before its death, the ---- developed into the most blatantly degrading of all black stereotypes.
The pure ----s emerged as no-account n-----rs, those unreliable, crazy, lazy, subhuman creatures good for nothing more than eating watermelons, stealing chickens, shooting crap, or butchering the English language. (p. 8) ...
@#3 ... accusing Natives (as a group) of all being alcoholics ...
Stereotypes about Native Americans and Alcohol Debunked by UA Study (2016)
deptmedicine.arizona.edu
... In contrast to enduring stories about extraordinarily high rates of alcohol misuse among Native Americans, University of Arizona researchers have found that Native Americans' binge and heavy drinking rates actually match those of whites.
The groups differed regarding abstinence: Native Americans were more likely to abstain from alcohol use. ...
@#9 ...Because scouts start early looking for promising athletes? ...
It's for the money. The kids be damned, imo.
Private equity takes on youth sports
www.axios.com
So, for the wealthy behind private equity, do the casualties on the middle- and high-school fields mean more profit for them?