Here it goes!! Remember the gigantic sucking sound Ross Perot spoke about?
Intel just got Chinese approval for a 2.5 billion dollar 12 inch 90 nm semiconductor wafer fab unit to be build in Dalian China.
It’s times like this that make me glad I’m old and also make me sad I’m not even older. The galactic stupidity in this nation has reached such epic proportions the slide into third world status can’t be far behind.
On that note the wife and I were out looking at property today and it occured to us that America just doesn’t sell what we want. The David Koresh style survivalist compound way back up in the woods would be just fine. Then again you can’t find that in a “free ring tones” world. Even in New Hampshire $689,000 buys you a yuppie 2 acre granite countertop, designer bath place we just went yuck to. I could picture the moms driving their kids down to the end of the street in their SUVs and waiting for the bus to come.
I want individuality. I want creativity. I want Yankee ingenuity to mean something once again. I want the police to have the “problem” of suburban kids wanting to “hang around” at the town square.
The sign of the times though is this.
ITT Technical Institute advertizing for careers.
Careers in the last “industry” we have left.
“Criminal justice”.
One generation ago ITT promised careers in electronics.
…papers in the process of research for my Master’s paper and the closing credits in one paper surprised me a great deal. The authors thanked their two sources of funding – DARPA and the Chinese NSF.
Maybe I’m just being small-minded, but I found that a little odd, especially considering the topic was materials with engineered electromagnetic properties.
Nope, nothing to see here folks. No party of Davos, no one world government. Go back to sleep Amerika!
Back in the eighties I worked for a semi-conductor major manufacturing company on the edge of high tech.
A group went out for an install of a million dollar machine which never got there. It magically was among the “missing”.
Bilderberg anyone?