Re: Workstation Aesthetics

On Fri, 28 Jun 2024 18:55:24 -0500, chrisv wrote:

There is a price to pay for protectionism, and normally I am against it.
 But there is a far worse price to pay for giving all of your money to
your arch ememies, until they get strong enough to kill you.

Even worse is giving all your technology to your arch enemies. Nixon's
attempt to play China against the USSR was a very bad mistake.  The USSR
had pavilions at the '64 World's Fair and Expo 67 in Montreal. Both the
pavilion designs and the technology on display were impressive. Taiwan's
pavolions were mostly gift shows and the PRC didn't attend either.

By the early '70s Chinese machinery was showing up at some of the industry
shows and it was crude. It looked like they hacked it out of cast iron
with axes. 50 years later there have been some improvements. TSMC is the
leading foundry in the world located on an island that the PRC wants back.
So far their proposed facilities in the US haven't happened. Even then the
proposal was for last year's technology.

Democrats, Republicans and business executives all lined their pockets
while selling the country down the river.

Imagine how expense it will be, how "hurt" we will be, to go to war with
China over Taiwan.  I will make the "hurt" from the tariffs look like a
mosquito bite.

That would be a disaster for the US.