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Post by kungfuzu on Aug 20, 2024 17:25:37 GMT -8
Increasingly, institutions in the USA are only proficient at propaganda and PR, which is pretty much the same thing. But this talent is degrading fast. They can't even lie well these days.
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Post by kungfuzu on Aug 24, 2024 19:55:06 GMT -8
It is coming to pass. 
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Post by Brad Nelson on Aug 25, 2024 7:14:12 GMT -8
Mind you, it's not a "rescue." It's just "delayed transportation."  I would say the Starliner program is finished. Thrusters are complicated, indeed. But they had these figured out in the 60's. Scrubbing a mission because of doubt about the reliability of thrusters is basically doubt about the competence of the rest of the systems. Listen to this woman-speak: If your "core value" is safety, then stay on the ground, idiot. |
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Post by kungfuzu on Aug 25, 2024 11:20:37 GMT -8
It is now standard operating procedure for the "spokesmen" of any bureaucracy to speak in meaningless platitudes. In fact, one might think the real meaning of what these fools and liars say is the opposite of what they are saying.
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Post by kungfuzu on Sept 10, 2024 8:41:06 GMT -8
This is astounding. After reading the comments to the article, it would appear that many people agree with us as regards the coming DEI apocalypse. Scissor tail |
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Post by Brad Nelson on Sept 10, 2024 8:52:52 GMT -8
Yes, love reading the comments: Can't top this one: The only thing that could put icing on this cake is if there were women drivers involved. |
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Post by Brad Nelson on Sept 19, 2024 11:41:19 GMT -8
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Post by kungfuzu on Sept 19, 2024 12:26:06 GMT -8
While I am vehemently against ESG, I think this piece is somewhat disingenuous. The writer goes on and on about Intel's promotion of ESG, but buries the real reason for Intel's decline in one sentence midway through the piece,
We all remember when Intel was THE chip company. They were way ahead of all their competitors. AMD was almost a joke compared to Intel. No longer. For what ever reasons, Intel dropped the ball years ago and let others outdistance them in both design and production. This type of failing is not unusual in business.
The author mentions,
I don't know where he comes up with the idea that Taiwan's fabs are in tropical jungles. Have a look at a map of Taiwan and see that the Western plains of the island are, well, plains. Tainan and Kaohsiung are not located in tropical jungles. I have been there and didn't notice any such thing. As to water, I assume it is much cheaper in Taiwan than Arizona. But I would guess that most of Taiwan's water supply is gathered during the typhoon season. As such the country has had to build large reservoirs as it would be almost impossible to supply the population with water otherwise. My point is that it does not rain everyday in most of Taiwan. Water infrastructure costs money. By the way, the differences in climate between the north and south can be very large.
That said, I have always wondered what was truly behind the huge investment in fabs in Arizona. Anyone who knew the slightest thing about chip manufacturing understood that lots of water was used. Of course, if I were TSMC I would be happy to suck up over $10 billion in subsidies from the US government. But there must be more behind this.
P.S. I wonder if the author has sold Intel short. He is, after all, a money manager.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Sept 19, 2024 18:06:44 GMT -8
Not being inside the company, I don't know the dynamics. Did they become worse at designing chips because they were emphasizing ESG? Or were things going tits-up already and they then emphasized ESG because, somewhat superstitiously, they really did believe the hype that "diversity makes us more profitable." I know that sounds bonkers. And it is hard to imagine a bunch of executives playing to an ESG score for anything but covering their asses and/or getting government money.
But it really could be possible that some people really believe that DEI will make their company better. We know more than a few rank-and-file believe that. But has this perhaps made its way up into the highest echelons of corporate America?
I don't know. But I suspect it has to some extent.
Maybe as compared to Arizona. But I see your point.
The rain in Taiwan falls mainly way down yon.
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Post by kungfuzu on Oct 18, 2024 13:27:57 GMT -8
I used to make fun of the Japanese about this type of thing some forty years back. Whenever I passed any public work site, it looked something like the photo "Government at work" in the middle of piece linked to below. Now we are worse. Your government at work I am beginning to think that anyone who applies for a government job should be rejected outright. |
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Post by Brad Nelson on Oct 18, 2024 17:33:10 GMT -8
Yep. And you found the money quote.
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Post by kungfuzu on Oct 31, 2024 14:42:11 GMT -8
This is another red herring which corporations are using to try and fool the public into believing that DEI is no longer important in their recruiting. The question which comes to mind is why are the people in the DEI dept. being reassigned to "human resources?" Isn't human resources the place where DEI reigns supreme? That's like moving the fox from the hen house to the chicken coop. In fact, the people from the DEI dept. should have been fired, but if they had to be kept in the corporation, they should have been assigned to janitorial services. Boeing closing DEI department |
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