Look, China, Iran , they # 2 and # 1 civilization last 8000 yrs, for 1000 yrs .. no reason they can't be at the top (again) .. China already there, Iran on the way
Spengler realized now how wrong he was belittling our beloved Persia .. seem, he now changing horse .. well, better late than never.
Trump's UN speech today was really not in tune with our beloved American greatness .. seems he in war with the world, only friend seems to be Natanyahu .. Trump (probably) not watched this clip, a pivotal mistake that changed American destiny.
in reality - the main chip design firm is an english one (ARM) which is owned and operated by a japanese tv production house, the biggest and most modern fab house is in south korea and is run by samsung and the biggest producer for the microcontrollers that are used in everything now is a dutch company called NXP, which bought out their main competitor from the US (freescale) but recently got bought out by the american competitor to samsung (Qualcomm)
the modern electronic world is massively globalised and runs margins so low that intel didnt even bother participating in many of the markets because they dont see any profit in it.
it also only employs a relative tiny handful of engineers and mostly relies on borderline slave labour for assembly - it barely benefits the average joe in the country its happening, these companies are all globalised and dont pay taxes.
as for the skills required to design things - thats also been opened up and you can buy CPU designing kits with all the software for less than $100 US.
any child on the planet can participate in this, to babble on about america vs china or boast that iran will learn it soon is absurd - kids in the russian tundra or african wilderness do this stuff.
in reality - the main chip design firm is an english one (ARM) which is owned and operated by a japanese tv production house, the biggest and most modern fab house is in south korea and is run by samsung and the biggest producer for the microcontrollers that are used in everything now is a dutch company called NXP, which bought out their main competitor from the US (freescale) but recently got bought out by the american competitor to samsung (Qualcomm)
the modern electronic world is massively globalised and runs margins so low that intel didnt even bother participating in many of the markets because they dont see any profit in it.
it also only employs a relative tiny handful of engineers and mostly relies on borderline slave labour for assembly - it barely benefits the average joe in the country its happening, these companies are all globalised and dont pay taxes.
as for the skills required to design things - thats also been opened up and you can buy CPU designing kits with all the software for less than $100 US.
any child on the planet can participate in this, to babble on about america vs china or boast that iran will learn it soon is absurd - kids in the russian tundra or african wilderness do this stuff.
in reality - the main chip design firm is an english one (ARM) which is owned and operated by a japanese tv production house, the biggest and most modern fab house is in south korea and is run by samsung and the biggest producer for the microcontrollers that are used in everything now is a dutch company called NXP, which bought out their main competitor from the US (freescale) but recently got bought out by the american competitor to samsung (Qualcomm)
the modern electronic world is massively globalised and runs margins so low that intel didnt even bother participating in many of the markets because they dont see any profit in it.
it also only employs a relative tiny handful of engineers and mostly relies on borderline slave labour for assembly - it barely benefits the average joe in the country its happening, these companies are all globalised and dont pay taxes.
as for the skills required to design things - thats also been opened up and you can buy CPU designing kits with all the software for less than $100 US.
any child on the planet can participate in this, to babble on about america vs china or boast that iran will learn it soon is absurd - kids in the russian tundra or african wilderness do this stuff.
in reality - the main chip design firm is an english one (ARM) which is owned and operated by a japanese tv production house, the biggest and most modern fab house is in south korea and is run by samsung and the biggest producer for the microcontrollers that are used in everything now is a dutch company called NXP, which bought out their main competitor from the US (freescale) but recently got bought out by the american competitor to samsung (Qualcomm)
the modern electronic world is massively globalised and runs margins so low that intel didnt even bother participating in many of the markets because they dont see any profit in it.
it also only employs a relative tiny handful of engineers and mostly relies on borderline slave labour for assembly - it barely benefits the average joe in the country its happening, these companies are all globalised and dont pay taxes.
as for the skills required to design things - thats also been opened up and you can buy CPU designing kits with all the software for less than $100 US.
any child on the planet can participate in this, to babble on about america vs china or boast that iran will learn it soon is absurd - kids in the russian tundra or african wilderness do this stuff.
noddy wrote:so no facts - just dick waving and prejudices.
in reality - the main chip design firm is an english one (ARM) which is owned and operated by a japanese tv production house, the biggest and most modern fab house is in south korea and is run by samsung and the biggest producer for the microcontrollers that are used in everything now is a dutch company called NXP, which bought out their main competitor from the US (freescale) but recently got bought out by the american competitor to samsung (Qualcomm)
the modern electronic world is massively globalised and runs margins so low that intel didnt even bother participating in many of the markets because they dont see any profit in it.
it also only employs a relative tiny handful of engineers and mostly relies on borderline slave labour for assembly - it barely benefits the average joe in the country its happening, these companies are all globalised and dont pay taxes.
as for the skills required to design things - thats also been opened up and you can buy CPU designing kits with all the software for less than $100 US.
any child on the planet can participate in this, to babble on about america vs china or boast that iran will learn it soon is absurd - kids in the russian tundra or african wilderness do this stuff.
raspberry pi's are quite expensive in amongst all the cheap ARM computers now - you can get them as low as $5 from china, its amazeballs.
the $100 one I was talking about is the next level above using a computer someone else designed, its actually a meta-toolkit for designing your own cpu, not just writing software for an mass produced existing one.
the durian terrorists gaffa tape a tiny IED to a shop bought camera drone that can only handle a couple of hundred grams excess weight and the media loses its crap about terrorists gaining access to drone tech.
in the hacker world there are guys building drones which can carry 100+ kg payloads.
The implications are obvious, even if most economists have been surprisingly reluctant to acknowledge them. Anyone who believes there has been a significant amount of wasted investment in China must accept that reported GDP growth overstates the real increase in wealth by the failure to recognise the associated bad debt. Were it correctly written down, by some estimates GDP growth would fall below 3 per cent.
Historical precedents suggest the potential magnitude of this overstatement. Japan’s economy in the 1980s, for example, had distortions that resemble those of China today. Although not nearly as extreme, Japan too suffered from a very low consumption share of GDP and an overreliance on investment that, by the 1980s, had veered into substantial misallocation.
In the early 1990s, Japan’s reported GDP comprised 17 per cent of the overall global total, and few doubted that its soaring economy would become the world’s largest by the end of the century. Instead, once credit growth stabilised, Japan’s share of global GDP began to plummet, and has since fallen by nearly 60 per cent.
This time it is different . . .
May the gods preserve and defend me from self-righteous altruists; I can defend myself from my enemies and my friends.
The implications are obvious, even if most economists have been surprisingly reluctant to acknowledge them. Anyone who believes there has been a significant amount of wasted investment in China must accept that reported GDP growth overstates the real increase in wealth by the failure to recognise the associated bad debt. Were it correctly written down, by some estimates GDP growth would fall below 3 per cent.
Historical precedents suggest the potential magnitude of this overstatement. Japan’s economy in the 1980s, for example, had distortions that resemble those of China today. Although not nearly as extreme, Japan too suffered from a very low consumption share of GDP and an overreliance on investment that, by the 1980s, had veered into substantial misallocation.
In the early 1990s, Japan’s reported GDP comprised 17 per cent of the overall global total, and few doubted that its soaring economy would become the world’s largest by the end of the century. Instead, once credit growth stabilised, Japan’s share of global GDP began to plummet, and has since fallen by nearly 60 per cent.
BEIJING (Reuters) - China’s ruling Communist Party on Sunday set the stage for President Xi Jinping to stay in office indefinitely,
with a proposal to remove a constitutional clause limiting presidential service to just two terms in office.
Setting the stage for post demise turbulence.
May the gods preserve and defend me from self-righteous altruists; I can defend myself from my enemies and my friends.
BEIJING (Reuters) - China’s ruling Communist Party on Sunday set the stage for President Xi Jinping to stay in office indefinitely,
with a proposal to remove a constitutional clause limiting presidential service to just two terms in office.
Setting the stage for post demise turbulence.
Hopefully stability up until then.
should see mostly over the lifespan hurdle - the next round of suckers can deal with the petulant little emperor that replaces him
BEIJING (Reuters) - China’s ruling Communist Party on Sunday set the stage for President Xi Jinping to stay in office indefinitely,
with a proposal to remove a constitutional clause limiting presidential service to just two terms in office.
Setting the stage for post demise turbulence.
Hopefully stability up until then.
Unlikely, if history is any guide.
Comrade Putin started out as an economic reformer and ended up a kleptocrat.
China has its own pathological example in Comrade Mao.
noddy wrote:
should see mostly over the lifespan hurdle - the next round of suckers can deal with the petulant little emperor that replaces him
His demise will probably leave a vacuum with lots of opportunists attempting to fill his place. A period of great instability.
May the gods preserve and defend me from self-righteous altruists; I can defend myself from my enemies and my friends.
BEIJING (Reuters) - China’s ruling Communist Party on Sunday set the stage for President Xi Jinping to stay in office indefinitely,
with a proposal to remove a constitutional clause limiting presidential service to just two terms in office.
Setting the stage for post demise turbulence.
Hopefully stability up until then.
Unlikely, if history is any guide.
China has abandon rule of law completely. And Xi has completely given up on consensus rule and become a dictator for life.
Comrade Putin started out as an economic reformer and ended up a kleptocrat.
China has its own pathological example in Comrade Mao.
noddy wrote:
should see mostly over the lifespan hurdle - the next round of suckers can deal with the petulant little emperor that replaces him
His demise will probably leave a vacuum with lots of opportunists attempting to fill his place. A period of great instability.
"I fancied myself as some kind of god....It is a sort of disease when you consider yourself some kind of god, the creator of everything, but I feel comfortable about it now since I began to live it out.” -- George Soros
Dictator for life is still a shorter reign than a perpetual deep state/media complex.
“Christ has no body now but yours. Yours are the eyes through which he looks with compassion on this world. Yours are the feet with which he walks among His people to do good. Yours are the hands through which he blesses His creation.”
Nonc Hilaire wrote:Dictator for life is still a shorter reign than a perpetual deep state/media complex.
It will lead to a far more insatiable situation in the long run. Xi has now become a war making in the making. When things go south because companies no longer see China as a good place to invest money there will have to be outsiders to blame.
"I fancied myself as some kind of god....It is a sort of disease when you consider yourself some kind of god, the creator of everything, but I feel comfortable about it now since I began to live it out.” -- George Soros
China has a long history of not tolerating any dissent in media. Today that includes all PRC social media, WeChat, Weibo, etc. More so with the ascension of Xi Jinping.
Everything from Reason to Alternet would have been long shut down in China. Facebook, Google, Youtube, Instagram, Snapchat, etc are all blocked.
This forum could not exist in PR China.
May the gods preserve and defend me from self-righteous altruists; I can defend myself from my enemies and my friends.
6.15 million Chinese citizens had been banned from taking flights for social misdeeds.
I seem to remember the system also punishes you for flying under the radar - its not just about avoiding negative points its also about acquiring positive points.
this is the worst dystopian outcome that is possible. horrifying.
6.15 million Chinese citizens had been banned from taking flights for social misdeeds.
I seem to remember the system also punishes you for flying under the radar - its not just about avoiding negative points its also about acquiring positive points.
this is the worst dystopian outcome that is possible. horrifying.
Quite. It is apparently not sufficient that one's silence implies consent.
May the gods preserve and defend me from self-righteous altruists; I can defend myself from my enemies and my friends.