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Intel To Invest $7 Billion in Factory in Arizona, Employ 3,000 People (cnbc.com)

Intel CEO Brian Krzanich met with President Donald Trump on Wednesday, where the company announced it will invest $7 billion in a factory employing up to 3,000 people. From a report: The factory will be in Chandler, Arizona, the company said, and over 10,000 people in the Arizona area will support the factory. Krzanich confirmed to CNBC that the investment over the next three to four years would be to complete a previous plant, Fab 42, that was started and then left vacant. The 7-nanometer chips will be produced there will be "the most powerful computer chips on the planet," Krzanich said in the Oval Office with the Trump administration. Most Intel manufacturing happens in the U.S., Krzanich said. "America has a unique combination of talent, a vibrant business environment and access to global markets, which has enabled U.S. companies like Intel to foster economic growth and innovation," Krzanich said in a statement. "Our factories support jobs -- high-wage, high-tech manufacturing jobs that are the economic engines of the states where they are located."Farhad Manjoo, columnist at The New York Times, tweeted; "As far as I can tell the decision had nothing to do with Trump, but they decided to announce with Trump. Why? There was no federal subsidy or any other credit. So it's just a marketing decision to give Trump credit."

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  1. From Intel by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    To Trump:

    Please give us government money.

  2. As far as a journalist can tell? by mveloso · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Journalists are idiots, who only know what they're told.

    Why would Intel be sharing its CapEx decision-making process with a journalist?

    If the Journalist really knew, he'd go back through his "notes" and find the list of where Intel's proposed fab was going to be, then hunt down the decision-making process.

    But he can't, so he basically is saying "I don't believe them because I have no information."

    What an f-tard.

    1. Re:As far as a journalist can tell? by epiphani · · Score: 4, Interesting

      You'll note there's nothing to not believe. The journalist was simply pointing out that there is no apparent reason for this announcement to come from Intel's CEO while he's in the Oval Office. Nothing in the announcement, brief, or subsequent details suggests this has anything at all to do with Trump. Except the location of the announcement.

      H's just confused about why it took place in the Oval Office. There's two possible reasons really:

      (1) Trump did something to prompt this decision. In which case, I would expect, based on Trump's personality, that he'd be telling everyone who will listen how he did it.
      (2) Trump didn't do anything except arrange for the announcement to come from inside the Oval. I personally think this is the case - it gives people (like you) that want to believe he's doing something a talking point, valid or not - and two, it gives Intel the perception of being both pro-trump and meh-trump at the same time.

      The short version here is that we're being fed something. I hesitate to call it bullshit, because nobody said anything weird - but it certainly looks like people are trying to play some kind of game here.

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    2. Re:As far as a journalist can tell? by quantaman · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Journalists are idiots, who only know what they're told.

      Why would Intel be sharing its CapEx decision-making process with a journalist?

      If the Journalist really knew, he'd go back through his "notes" and find the list of where Intel's proposed fab was going to be, then hunt down the decision-making process.

      But he can't, so he basically is saying "I don't believe them because I have no information."

      What an f-tard.

      The past few months has been a steady line of CEOs coming to Trump to re-announce existing job creations, things that most definitely had nothing to do with Trump. But since Trump is a crony capitalist they recognize it's important to buy favour with Trump by giving him credit.

      The default assumption for any new job announcement credited to Trump should be that it's more of the same, jobs created for other reasons but credited to the President to curry favour.

      Unless there's evidence to the contrary there's sufficient information to assume this has nothing to do with Trump.

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    3. Re:As far as a journalist can tell? by Grishnakh · · Score: 1

      Exactly. Building multi-billion-dollar fabs in Arizona is not something new for Intel; it's a favorite site of theirs for whatever reasons (probably real estate costs, availability of qualified workers, cheap electric power, lack of bad weather and natural disasters, etc.). They would have built this fab there anyway.

    4. Re:As far as a journalist can tell? by meta-monkey · · Score: 4, Interesting

      The short version here is that we're being fed something. I hesitate to call it bullshit, because nobody said anything weird - but it certainly looks like people are trying to play some kind of game here.

      Yes, this is PR, and Trump has said that one of the jobs of President is "chief cheerleader." So if you make jobs in the country, Trump is going to give you an bouquet. If you make jobs leave the country, he's going to give you a brickbat. Whether the decisions had anything to do with him or not are irrelevant.

      Economies are self-fulfilling prophecies. If people believe the economy is going to get better, they go out and spend money. This makes the economy better. If people believe the economy is going to get worse, they stop spending money. This makes the economy worse.

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    5. Re:As far as a journalist can tell? by meta-monkey · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Trump is a cheerleader for economic growth. If you make jobs, he's going to give you good publicity. If you make jobs leave, he's going to give you bad publicity. This encourages companies to do business in the US, which grows the economy. Doesn't matter if it had anything to do with Trump's policies or not.

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    6. Re:As far as a journalist can tell? by zaft · · Score: 2

      Read down in the article. The building was actually completed as a shell in 2014. So there would be plenty of reasons to finish it (buying equipment is hella expensive) and very little incentive to abandon it and move elsewhere.

    7. Re:As far as a journalist can tell? by LinuxInDallas · · Score: 1

      Fucktard? If that's the best comment you have then simply don't post.

    8. Re:As far as a journalist can tell? by rtb61 · · Score: 1

      The reason, security. The only way for governments to maintain secure computer systems is to have them fully fabricated within the country, every single part, with random audits and inspections at manufacturing centres, basically there is no other way to do it. Trusting another country with your computer infrastructure is basically handing over control of your countries computer infrastructure to that other country, a really unwise decision. The US government has flat out fully proven it can not be trusted with this, not by enemies and most certainly not be allies. Is the US especially bad, no, basically no country can be trusted in this regard and only idiots would allow it to occur. Countries who are incapable of producing their own, end up being digitally owned by the countries they rely on to do it for them. A crack down in the US was inevitable, not made locally, does not enter government service will be the long term outcome and that tied to security, a logical sound decision, it's just the way it is.

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    9. Re:As far as a journalist can tell? by Hognoxious · · Score: 1

      Who did and made you king, lardass?

      If you're so smart tell me why international trade happened in the first place and send me a postcard from Stockholm.

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    10. Re:As far as a journalist can tell? by Hognoxious · · Score: 1

      This encourages companies to do business in the US, which grows the economy.

      Some questions to ponder for you and the DeVry droputs who modded you up:

      1) If that was the case every country in the world would put up infinite tariffs and they'd all be better off. Why haven't they done this? Is it because it never occurred to them because they're not as smart as Trump?

      2) Stepping back a level, why did international trade even start in the first place?

      3) Have you heard of David Ricardo?

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    11. Re:As far as a journalist can tell? by radl33t · · Score: 1

      I like it better when liberals pick winners, but all is well as long as we destroy democracy and blur the lines between government and business.

    12. Re:As far as a journalist can tell? by T.E.D. · · Score: 1

      The short version here is that we're being fed something. I hesitate to call it bullshit, because nobody said anything weird - but it certainly looks like people are trying to play some kind of game here.

      We do have a word for that: marketing. This here is a big steaming pile of it.

    13. Re:As far as a journalist can tell? by meta-monkey · · Score: 1

      blur the lines between government and business.

      That line was wiped out a long, long time ago, friend.

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    14. Re:As far as a journalist can tell? by meta-monkey · · Score: 1

      every country in the world would put up infinite tariffs

      The extreme absolute is a good tell for cognitive dissonance. "If shoplifting is bad, why doesn't every store in the world brutally torture and publicly execute every shoplifter?"

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    15. Re:As far as a journalist can tell? by meta-monkey · · Score: 1

      No, you are the one who is the fucktard.

      I won the argument! On the internet!

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    16. Re:As far as a journalist can tell? by Hognoxious · · Score: 1

      A handwaving bullshit answer to one question out of three. Bravo, ask your mom for a cookie or twelve.

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  3. reasons enough: tax cuts and deregulatory policies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Does Farhad Manjoo actually read the rest of the NY Times?

    Wake up NY Times and start acting like a real fourth estate.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/08/technology/trump-intel-chip-factory-arizona.html?_r=0

    "The factory, which will complement two other factories that Intel has in Chandler, Ariz., has been under consideration for several years. But Mr. Krzanich said that the tax cuts and deregulatory policies pushed by Mr. Trump had prompted the company to move forward with its plans."

  4. "the most powerful computer chips on the planet" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Does that mean they'll be 0.002% faster than the last generation of chips? I knew Intel's chips weren't improving at any great pace, but even I was surprised when I saw HardOCPs benchmarks comparing a five generation old Sandy Bridge 2600K to the latest Kaby Lake 7700K:

    http://www.hardocp.com/article/2017/01/13/kaby_lake_7700k_vs_sandy_bridge_2600k_ipc_review/2

    I'm not feeling any need to upgrade my i7 3770, and if I did I'd probably go for a Ryzen since the market desperately needs some competition.

    If Ryzen turns out to be good Intel will no doubt just bribe all the OEMs to use their chips, just like they did when AMD got well ahead of them with the Athlon.

  5. BK is doing the right thing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Intel always builds its new fabs in chandler - so this really ISN'T news. What would be news would be if Intel were for some reason to break with this and not invest in chandler first.

    Considering how Trump trashed Boeing's share price - is it any wondering BK and the Intel board are giving the vainglorious moron the chance to bask in Intel's reflected glory ?

    This is the definition of a propaganda piece - roughly akin to when Kim Jong Un 'directs' nuclear tests or 'gives guidance' to actual surgeons in hospitals...

    1. Re:BK is doing the right thing by HornWumpus · · Score: 1

      One set are prototype fabs, the other are production.

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  6. Re:Trump scare maybe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    I know you're trying to do yet more painting of Trump in a bad light by spreading "fake news" and "alternative facts", but if you'd bothered to keep up you'd know that two Republican senators voted no on Devos leaving a tie which had to be broken by Pence.

  7. He's making it up as he goes along! by martinX · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "As far as I can tell" = I have know information, no source and don't know anything about the industry, but I'll make something up anyway.

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    1. Re:He's making it up as he goes along! by Troy+Roberts · · Score: 1
      So, he has an opinion that he gave on his twitter feed. So, fucking what?
      Do you think that Trump somehow made a deal? The only information the article has is:

      It comes as the technology industry has pushed back against the Trump administration, amid mounting pressure to move manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. There will be no incentives from the federal government for the Intel project, the White House said.

      Intel has a number of semiconductor fabrication plants in the US. In fact, they have 4 in Chandler, AZ. So, I think it is a good bet the Trump had little or nothing to do with the decision, but Intel is taking advantage of the politics.

    2. Re:He's making it up as he goes along! by martinX · · Score: 1

      No idea if Trump made a deal. That's kind of my point. The twitterer is a journalist so he could at least use some of his journalistic superpowers to find a bit more out. Turns out this is a recycled deal that Intel has trotted out before. Would take a real journalist seconds to check this.

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  8. Re:Why the comment from the fake news outlet? by HornWumpus · · Score: 1

    It had to have cost a fortune.

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  9. Re:Trump scare maybe by martinX · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You heard something about someone, so from that you extrapolate that the Intel chief is scared of Trump and so will commit $7 billion to avoid Trump saying something mean about him on Twitter.

    Dumbest thing I've read today, but it's early.

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  10. Re:Trump scare maybe by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 2

    Two "moderate" Republicans voted against Devos that tied the vote (50-50) in the Senate and Vice President Pence cast the tie breaking vote in favor of the Republicans. These "moderates" only announced their opposition after it became obvious that nomination vote would succeed without them. Not a tweet out of Trump.

  11. Re:Water crisis? Let's build a plant there.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Um, they aren't exactly using tap water here, genius. It's ultrapure water, and it's used in a closed cycle.

  12. Re:Why the comment from the fake news outlet? by swb · · Score: 3, Interesting

    He's an H1-B apologist.

    His column in the Times today was explaining how much Silicon Valley needs immigrants for their hard work, inspiration and outside-the-box thinking.

    Which is just fine -- but really, the complaint isn't about too much innovation in the Valley, the complaint is about run of the mill non-innovator jobs being outsourced to H1-Bs in the name of corporate profits.

    Of course he didn't mention that issue at all, choosing to cast the issue as predominantly one of racism and ignorance killing the innovation hub of America.

  13. Re:Why the comment from the fake news outlet? by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The funny thing about the NY Times is that their editorial board endorsed Hillary, but their anti-Hillary reporters kept the email and FBI stories alive for months until the election.

  14. Re:"the most powerful computer chips on the planet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I think Intel is genuinely on alert with respect to AMD. Intel's recent actions have led me believe that the Ryzen really is a very good CPU. Have you noticed in the last six weeks or so that Intel has been hammering the airwaves with ads? Not since the days of "Intel Inside" have I seen so much hype. These advertisements feature a Pee Wee Herman type guy walking around some business district yacking about how Intel powers all the self driving cars, Intel powers the cloud, etc. etc. It's without substance. It's all rah rah hype --- "Hooray for Intel".

    Intel is clearly trying to reestablish their brand, and would not waste money on these ads if AMD wasn't about to unleash some serious competition.

  15. Re:Trump scare maybe by SuricouRaven · · Score: 1

    Speculation is all we have to go on. Maybe there were sneaky backroom deals made, or perhaps it's just one executives strange 'seemed like a good idea at the time,' or perhaps just an attempt to curry favor with those in power right now. Who knows? I don't.

  16. Because... by LetterRip · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Trump is an extremely vindictive and extremely vain man - if you stroke his vanity then he will likely provide benefit (influence government contracts; direct regulators to do favorable actions) and if he feels he has been slighted he will be highly vindictive.

    So giving him credit plays into his vanity.

    1. Re:Because... by Vitriol+Angst · · Score: 1

      Well it does kind of work in a way, every business that has a few jobs to keep in USA will show up at his door; "See, this is for you!"

      It will create the impression that his influence is working. The number of jobs be damned.

      But 2017 will of course be an economic boom year, and we can thank Trump for that.

      2018 however, the economy will tank, and we can blame Obama for that.

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    2. Re:Because... by Obfuscant · · Score: 1

      2018 however, the economy will tank, and we can blame Obama for that.

      Does this mean we've officially ended the last eight years where we blamed Bush for everything?

  17. America is a disaster... by DogDude · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm confused. Trump says that American is a broken, dangerous disaster, but the CEO of Intel says, "America has a unique combination of talent, a vibrant business environment and access to global markets, which has enabled U.S. companies like Intel to foster economic growth and innovation". Which is it? Is American a horrible, horrible place where billionaire's daughters are treated "unfairly", or is it an awesome place where Intel can be formed and grow?

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    1. Re:America is a disaster... by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 1

      Trump voters believe that the USA is a massive clusterfuck. People who deal with the real world knows that's not true.

    2. Re:America is a disaster... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Trump voters believe that the US government is a massive clusterfuck. People who deal with the real world knows that's very true.

      FTFY
      HTH
      HAND

    3. Re:America is a disaster... by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 1

      then libs hold the record for consistently using the world's largest paintbrush.

      I'm a moderate conservative. I don't need a broad paintbrush.

    4. Re:America is a disaster... by Altrag · · Score: 1

      You obviously don't have all of the alternative facts.

    5. Re:America is a disaster... by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 1

      Trump voters believe that the US government is a massive clusterfuck. People who deal with the real world knows that's very true.

      Will be once Trump gets done running the government into the ground.

    6. Re:America is a disaster... by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 1

      You obviously don't have all of the alternative facts.

      I just make it up as I go along. If it works for Trump, it should work for me.

    7. Re:America is a disaster... by angel'o'sphere · · Score: 1

      Hm, as a non american I think you have it somehow reversed.

      The USA *are* a massive cluster fuck and Trump voters think it is not.

      But that is just me, seeing your comment on "alternative facts" below ;D

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    8. Re:America is a disaster... by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 1

      Yes, yes, of course, since the US government was functioning SO well up until now...[eye-roll]

      The Alt-Right had a website that portrayed California as being a racist hell hole where everyone lived in ghettos, armed to the teeth and ready to kill each other at the slightest provocation. If you drilled down into the details of these comments, most observations were made by white people who lived in California during the 1980's, currently live in outside of California and have no clue about social conditions in California today. I thought it was a satire website until several Slashdotters insisted that the website was true and I was lying to cover up for the failed California socialist utopia. What a load of bullshit!

      Seriously, do you even read what you type and think about it, other than correcting spelling and grammar, before clicking 'Submit'?

      Slashdot exists to keep me amused while I'm waiting for a script to finish at work. In short, I don't take it seriously and no one should take my comments seriously.

      I shudder to think of what the world might be like today if there had never been a USA.

      According to a science fiction story that I've read in an old issue of Analog Magazine, Native Americans would have colonized Europe and wonder what the world be like if the savage Europeans had colonized the Americas first.

    9. Re:America is a disaster... by Hognoxious · · Score: 1

      Trump voters think there are levers under the Oval Office desk for security, prosperity and happiness and that Obama didn't pull them out of spite.

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  18. taxes, regulations by ooloorie · · Score: 1

    As far as I can tell the decision had nothing to do with Trump

    Lower corporate taxes and fewer regulations seem like good incentives, and it's not just Trump but also the GOP Congress that's been around for a while.

    1. Re:taxes, regulations by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 1

      The rest of the country can go BOOM! like Texas a few years ago.

      http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/04/27/article-2315751-1981B3C1000005DC-728_634x450.jpg

  19. Re:Trump scare maybe by gatkinso · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Oh bullshit. The checks and balances built into the American political system seem to be working just fine.

    He might do shit that you and I don't - and trust me I really don't like him - but he is not Hitler 2.0 even tho he might want to be, nor will he sell the nation off to the highest bidder.

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  20. Re:Trump scare maybe by ShanghaiBill · · Score: 1

    Republicans in Congress know that if they don't fall in line with President Bannon, they'll get primaried in their next election.

    Only two Republicans went against Trump on DeVos. Susan Collins has nothing to fear and everything to gain with her vote. She is popular in Maine, and the core of the Maine Republican Party is far more moderate than at the national level. She has far more to fear in the general election against a Democrat. Lisa Mirkowski also has little to fear. DeVos wants to divert more resources toward charters and vouchers, and that does nothing for Alaskans. You can't use a voucher when the closest alternative school is 300 miles across the taiga/tundra.

  21. Re:reasons enough: tax cuts and deregulatory polic by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    "[...] But Mr. Krzanich said that the tax cuts and deregulatory policies pushed by Mr. Trump had prompted the company to move forward with its plans."

    Tax cuts and deregulatory policies that Trump only talked about. No executive order will change or enact these items. The Republicans are too busy arguing among themselves on how to repeal and replace ObamaCare that they don't have time for anything else. We're overdue for a recession. I look forward to buying stocks on the way down.

  22. Re:Why the comment from the fake news outlet? by imgod2u · · Score: 1

    While what you're saying is true. There is an actual issue with the current form of H1-B reform. That is to say *all* job positions regardless of talent level must consider "Americans first" in a vague way. That ambiguity is what's troubling and what leads to a lot of potential problems as it's left to the executive branch to enforce and interpret.

    Let's say you have a dire need for data scientists and good ones. POTUS can now have his agencies force you to hire less talented people instead of those more talented from abroad, or ones who are here in the US as students who are seeking jobs.

    So while we do need to address the issue of H1-B farms, the current proposed solution is kludgy, ill-defined, knee-jerk and probably won't have the desired effect...which is kinda inline with all things Trump.

  23. How many H1B workers? by SysEngineer · · Score: 2

    In Hillsboro over 30% of software programmers are guest workers. That is about 5% of the households in the area. With such a high concentration of H1B tech workers, that is increasing housing in the area displacing the retired, disabled and the working poor.

    1. Re:How many H1B workers? by SysEngineer · · Score: 1

      If I do not speak up for the disabled, who will?
      With the ideology in the Trump administration, H1B is on the chopping block.
      Do a FOIA from USCIS and you will see the truth.

  24. This is terrible news! by Lucas123 · · Score: 1

    No, I'm not sure why it's terrible news, but you know... it makes Trump look good.

    Terrible news!

  25. Re:Trump scare maybe by Applehu+Akbar · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Repug

    What are you, 12?

    This is why we would would prefer discussing technology to politics in this forum.

  26. They Want Export Bans Lifted by Kagato · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The US Gov't blocked Intel from selling their most powerful CPUs to China. Intel would like to roll that back since all it did was get China to create a high power domestic that they can now export to compete with Intel.

    1. Re:They Want Export Bans Lifted by mentil · · Score: 1

      Many of the highest-performing supercomputers (including China's most powerful) run on HPC cards made by video card companies (Nvidia/AMD). Considering the annual gains on performance of GPUs vs CPUs, this makes sense, and the FLOPS comparison makes the decision easy. Besides, Intel's most powerful chips are made in (IIRC) Germany and Malaysia, so I'm unsure how the USA would stop a European subsidiary from selling to China.

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    2. Re:They Want Export Bans Lifted by radarskiy · · Score: 1

      Intel has no fabs in either Germany or Malaysia. There is some packaging and test in Malaysia, though.

      If you are thinking of design, the cellular modem group (purchased from Infineon) has a major design center in Munich, and the Penang design center formerly did work on big cores.

  27. Re:Water crisis? Let's build a plant there.... by Applehu+Akbar · · Score: 1, Informative

    Power and real estate are cheap in Phoenix and it doesn't have earthquakes. It also lacks the taxes and regulations that have made it impossible to do business in California.

  28. Re:Why the comment from the fake news outlet? by HornWumpus · · Score: 1

    She didn't get her pardon. Those stories aren't over yet, despite the media attempts at whitewashing during the election.

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  29. Re:Trump scare maybe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Would it be unreasonable to speculate that the writer is a complete moron who has no clue?

  30. Re:Why the comment from the fake news outlet? by HornWumpus · · Score: 1

    What? You are confused. There was no media more in the tank for Hillary than the NYTimes. None that spent their credibility more like drunken sailors, thinking they would get 'first question' for eight years, during which they could rebuild some credibility.

    Done now. They can't unring that bell.

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  31. Re:Why the comment from the fake news outlet? by HornWumpus · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Attacking a strawman of your own construction, while ignoring the 'highest salaries get the visas' aspect of the changes.

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  32. Re:Trump scare maybe by UnknowingFool · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Most likely Intel was going to hire those people regardless of who became President as they need to increase their lines. A public announcement will get Trump off their backs.

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  33. Re:Trump scare maybe by naris · · Score: 1

    No, it's more like Intel had decided to spend $7 billion on the fab for business reasons not involving Trump (most likely long before Trump became president, and possibly even before the election) so they decided that, hey -- we should announce it now while we are meeting with Trump so he will be more supportive of us and not use Twitter to tank our stocks!

  34. Re:Why the comment from the fake news outlet? by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 3, Informative

    The media normalized Donald Trump who wasn't serious about winning the presidency. Now we got a 70-year-old man-child in the White House who is running the government into the ground (that's not a compliment).

  35. Re:Trump scare maybe by NatasRevol · · Score: 1

    Mostly because they were in states that are blue & more scared for their job than they are from trump.

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  36. Re: Uhhhh... by Type44Q · · Score: 1

    No. Any further questions?

  37. Just curious, were you asking this of Tesla? by mpercy · · Score: 1

    http://www.reviewjournal.com/n...

    RENO — The massive Tesla battery factory being built in Northern Nevada will be a thirsty resident, with some preliminary estimates saying it will require the equivalent of nearly half of the groundwater rights allocated to its Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center neighborhood.

    The project, the cherry atop Gov. Brian Sandoval’s economic development agenda to date, promises high-paying jobs and a diversification from a long-sagging gambling economy to one powered by high-tech manufacturing and technology.

    But the $5 billion, 5 million-square-foot facility going up just down the road from Reno-Sparks in Storey County exemplifies the challenges of balancing economic growth with the availability of natural resources needed to sustain it.

    State and local economic development officials say through smart use of technology and recycling the most precious resource — water — the region is up to the task.

    Skeptics, while not opposed to the huge project per se, question whether there’s as much water as projected in the basin along the Truckee River to meet demands without harming the river and downstream users.

  38. Re:Trump scare maybe by Gr8Apes · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the Flying Spaghetti Monster agreed to detour around the plant if the Intel CEO cozied up to Trump. We just don't know! YOU DECIDE!

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  39. Re:Trump scare maybe by AvitarX · · Score: 1

    Or maybe it's that at $2.1/million/job, there isn't so much to be saved going elsewhere.

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  40. Re:Trump scare maybe by Ravaldy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I know you're trying to do yet more painting of Trump in a bad light by spreading "fake news" and "alternative facts"

    Nobody needs to paint Trump, he does that very well on his own. He literally is the greatest at it.

    Heck, look at how many times he has had to backtrack on what he said previously. If you don't know, then you are just another peasant that's been conned into voting for someone who does not have your best interest at heart.

  41. Re:Why the comment from the fake news outlet? by HornWumpus · · Score: 1

    Still better than the alternative was.

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  42. Re:Why the comment from the fake news outlet? by swb · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'd guess the H1-B visa system will have one of two possible primary biases.

    Primary Bias A: Visas are harder to get, and some "key innovators", really smart people that even most morons would agree should work here, can't get a visa.

    Primary Bias B: Visas are too easy to get, and a lot of run-of-the-mill IT jobs get outsourced, costing people their jobs.

    What's wrong with having Primary Bias A?

    The number of actual key innovators is numerically small and presumably they are filling high-end jobs and have significant resources lobbying on their behalf, increasing the chance they will ultimately get in. And by default you are making it much harder to outsource potentially thousands of good-paying "information age" jobs through visa abuse.

    It seems like we have a choice -- we can protect many American jobs by making visas tougher to get, potentially risking that some smart guy doesn't get to work for an American multinational that buries its profits in Ireland. Or we can make them easy, bulk import foreigners, outsource jobs and render Americans unemployed on the outside chance that 1 in every 10,000 we import is some genius who makes a bunch of multinational executives fabulously wealthy.

    Sounds like a hard choice.

  43. Re:Water crisis? Let's build a plant there.... by Grishnakh · · Score: 1

    You are incredibly stupid. Intel has been building fabs in Chandler AZ for literally decades now, so obviously these aren't problems. Power is dirt cheap in AZ, and water is too (that's why they have so many "water features"), though you could argue that the water situation is not sustainable. Land is cheap too. AZ hasn't had an earthquake in forever; it's very geologically stable. There's no natural disasters there ever, unless you count dust storms. And it's close to California and the port of LA.

    Workers wit "better moral and work ethics"? Apparently not workers who are educated in the English language if you're an example of them. If upper-midwest workers were so great, then that region would be competing with California. Guess what? It's not; it's a backwater.

    And milder weather? You're a moron. It never snows in Phoenix, so they never have problems transporting product in and out. Snowstorms are common in the midwest and upper midwest.

  44. and?? by smithcl8 · · Score: 1

    How will this help the poor white folks of OH, WV, MI, and IN? Wait, they wouldn't have the skills to work there anyway.

    1. Re:and?? by ChrisMaple · · Score: 1

      A rising tide lifts all boats -- except the ones with holes in the head.

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  45. Not Most Powerful Chips in 3-4 Years by mentil · · Score: 1

    3-4 years from now, competitors will already be on 5nm process, so Intel's finished 7nm plant won't be using the latest process. If production starts more on the 3-year side, they might be releasing 7nm chips a few months before AMD releases 5nm chips. Regardless, AMD will be on 7nm in 2 years, and if Ryzen is as competitive as rumors say, then Intel will be 1-2 years late. Assuming of course that this Fab 42 is Intel's first 7nm plant. They may end up using it to produce chipsets rather than 7nm CPUs that're being manufactured at another plant years earlier.

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    1. Re:Not Most Powerful Chips in 3-4 Years by ChrisMaple · · Score: 1

      AMD is completely dependent on the technology of others like Global and TSMC. Intel can fail at developing a new process and still fall back on external vendors.

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    2. Re:Not Most Powerful Chips in 3-4 Years by Hognoxious · · Score: 1

      Is that because Intel use metric nanometres?

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  46. Re:Trump scare maybe by Vitriol+Angst · · Score: 1

    All successes in jobs in this country will be hailed as due to fear of tweet.

    All jobs that move offshore will be 'pfft' -- stink jobs, that leave bad taste in my mouth.

    It is best if you read this message as if Russian politburo babushka who has seen it all and is no longer impressed.

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  47. Re:Trump scare maybe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    If that's the dumbest thing you've seen today, then you must have missed Trump using the POTUS official twitter account to attack a company for having the audacity to make a business decision affecting his daughter.

    It's not speculation anymore, Trump has PROVEN he will use his position as POTUS to punish companies on a whim. So speculating that this was done out of fear is not crazy. Not anymore.

  48. Re:Trump scare maybe by meta-monkey · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Mostly because they're beholden to the teacher's unions.

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  49. Intel will probably close an older fab in Chandler by billrp · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Fab 12 opened in 1996, and I suspect they will close that when Fab 42 opens, so there might not be any actual net increase in employers once construction is complete.

  50. Re:Trump scare maybe by tattood · · Score: 1

    This is why we would would prefer discussing technology to politics in this forum.

    Because there is never any name-calling in the tech-related comments?

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  51. Obama Backtracks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I will end wars in the middle east.
    I will close Gitmo
    You will be able to keep your doctor and your insurance
    We will fund shovel ready jobs
    This will be the most transparent and honest administration ever
    We will be able to lower the seas.

    Do I really need to go on? The fact that you all seem to need to make up stories every day about how bad Trump is, instead of reporting the truth about him, makes me think he isn't all that bad. Its the opposite of last president where he would tell a woman that her mother shouldn't get medical treatment and take a pain pill instead and the media pretended it didn't happen.

    No one is any longer convinced of your crap.

    1. Re:Obama Backtracks by Ravaldy · · Score: 1

      It's easy to point out a few things he didn't accomplish or managed to finish but that doesn't speak about his capabilities as a leader or what he actually accomplished under a minority congress. If you know anything about Obama's presidency you wouldn't even have tried to post such petty non-sense.

      On the flip side, you boast a leader that has shown nothing but distrust in his first 2 weeks in office. Not only does he prioritize his own interest and business but he also believes its more important to use his press secretary to announce things such as "he does not walk the white house in a bath robe", or argue a photo that shows a small crowd at his inauguration. Additionally he has selected a number of leaders who just don't give a damn about the little people.

      The irony is that in the position I current occupy, I will highly benefit from Trump's actions yet I do not approve of them. Unfortunately the people have been conned and will need to find out the hard way that their vote was counter productive to their well being.

      And if you so strongly believe, why not post under your actual account name instead of anonymously?

    2. Re: Obama Backtracks by Ravaldy · · Score: 1

      I second this. I once considered the lefts claims and even sided with them. Now it seems they cry wolf too much.

      I think you miss understand the meaning of the expression "crying wolf" or you believe the fake news and alternative facts provided by this administration.

      All I'll say is that left and left-center have come out and expressed their distrust in a president that is not loved by the majority (didn't win popular vote and has the lowest approval rating after inauguration of any president in history). This is something the right wing rarely do because they don't even believe their own crap.

    3. Re:Obama Backtracks by Ravaldy · · Score: 1

      You lack arguments and facts, just like the Trump administration. I'm not surprised you support them since facts clearly matter little to you.

      But all that doesn't matter because at the end of the day, you, the American low to medium income consumer will be paying for his mistakes, not the rich.

  52. Re: Why the comment from the fake news outlet? by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 1

    Of course you have no proof of your accusations.

    Sure I do. Just read the news. Something new comes out of everyday to support my accusations.

  53. Re:Trump scare maybe by Serge_Tomiko · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This has nothing directly to do with Trump. The world is forcing the US to transition to a UN mediated fixed exchange rate system with a supranational reserve currency that will function like Keynes' Bancor. The USD will drop in value, which will make imports much more expensive (probably around 20%, which is greater than most profit margins).

    To the extent Trump is a part of this, it is because Congress has for 10 years dragged their feet to enact appropriate measures, and there will likely be a great deal of pain in the short term. Trump both distracts the populace from this huge problem, particularly with stupid shit like Devos. I mean, look at yourself. The Department of Education shouldn't even exist. Education has only gotten worse since it was created, in my lifetime and I'm not old. Sure, she's a stupid choice and her nonsense about school vouchers couldn't be more ridiculous. But, at the end of the day, education is a local matter and what she believes or desires is irrelevant.

  54. Re:Why the comment from the fake news outlet? by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 2

    Still better than the alternative was.

    Hillary was safe and predictable. Trump is not. OTOH, I'm going to do quite well when the stock market corrects and/or crashes in the near future.

  55. Re:Trump scare maybe by NatasRevol · · Score: 1, Insightful

    But clearly not the children of their constituents.

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  56. Re:Why the comment from the fake news outlet? by Altrag · · Score: 2

    Hilary was predictable. I'm not so sure about safe.

    Trump's election was because he was unpredictable. When the predictable option is bad, the unpredictable one is at least a ray of hope.

    Of course he's now doing everything he can to smash that hope, but it was there long enough to get him into office.

  57. Re:Why the comment from the fake news outlet? by HornWumpus · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Hillary was more predictable, but not safe in any way. She was predictably going to ignore the constitution, grow federal power and skate by on lies regarding her crimes, now she will likely get some justice.

    The current .com bubble is going to pop, no matter who's in charge. But the huge correction will be in China.

    The real key is the Supreme Court. Which is now safe for at least another 20+ years. Which means we won't have to shoot the bastards.

    Also note: Any SC justices only have to be less openly partisan the Sotomayor. A very low bar to pass. Going to be particularly fun watching Ginsburg's replacement.

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  58. Re:Why the comment from the fake news outlet? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Cancer is also predictable.

  59. Re:Uhhhh... by HideyoshiJP · · Score: 1

    Probably not. They've sold plenty of Xeons made in places like Costa Rica.

  60. Intel a chronic cheater on benchmarks by Burz · · Score: 1

    And they were found guilty of bribing vendors not to use AMD chips.

    Intel partners with software companies, and gets them to use their compiler that switches off optimizations on non-Intel CPUs 'just because...' regardless of capabilities.

    And now they're pushing Trump's deregulation pro-pollution agenda. That's the last straw from these crooked people.

  61. Re: MAGA! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    That's fake news, it's 89.4%

  62. Re: Thanks Obama by saloomy · · Score: 1, Insightful

    There is nothing President Trump can do that some media out there won't paint as badly for him as fast as possible. If Trump had personally financed a subsidiary, the NYT would still find some dog shit to smear him with. Where's the bright side of media? The puff pieces they put out that at least give Americans hope their country is still the greatest place to live? These Media wars are so bad, it's like watching that scene in The Godfather when Michael says "We have reporters on payroll, we can paint this cop as a crooked cop". Here, it's the parties that are the rackets, and Trump is just the next cop on the street.

  63. Re:Trump scare maybe by Hognoxious · · Score: 1

    Only from the emacs-culated.

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  64. If you want good ones, just pay for good ones by raymorris · · Score: 1

    The old way was that employers would pinky swear that there were no Americans to fill the jobs, and the regulatory agencies could audit it (but very rarely did).

    The new way is you get priority by offering a salary higher than those "just out of school" data scientists normally make. You say you want "data scientists, and good ones". Fine, you can have them, you just have to pay a salary commensurate with "data scientists, and good ones". And you DON'T have to go into a lottery against Infosys with their applications for underpaid code monkeys.

    Specifically, the priority level of your application is:
    (The salary you're offering) / (The average salary of data scientists in your area).
    So if you want good ones, pay a good salary and you get them - without having to win the H1-B lottery.

  65. 3,000 by cstacy · · Score: 1

    Hire 3,000 refugees? That's a lot of Starbucks trips!
     

  66. Re:Trump scare maybe by Z80a · · Score: 1

    It's not about Trump, but people being so worried about their jobs, they're willing to vote on trump to get em.

  67. Re: Why the comment from the fake news outlet? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Listen folks this had NOTHING to do with Trump. It was only announced with Trump and there is even photos online of them announcing it together. They were going to do this anyways and Trump is usually always present when Intel makes announcements. Folks don't believe the constant stream of news articles announcing new jobs for America after an executive meets with Trump, its all coincidence! Folks Trump probably doesn't even cross the minds of these companies and their executives when they make decisions. I mean what power does Trump even have in America?

    -NY times

  68. Re:Trump scare maybe by martinX · · Score: 1

    I clearly remember Bushitler, so Trump must be Hitler 3.0.

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  69. Re:Trump scare maybe by martinX · · Score: 1

    Oh, no, he TWITTERED THEM. He attacked them with Twitter. Say it ain't so! Quick, get out while you can!

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  70. Re:Trump scare maybe by ChrisMaple · · Score: 2

    There is some reason to believe that the US will be a more business-friendly place during the lifespan of this fab, i.e. lower taxes and fewer draconian regulations. Ireland has ceased being a tax haven due to EU pressures, and any place with a high Muslim population is a risk for physical damage. Intel has had 3 months to weigh the pros and cons, and a Trump administration may have been enough to tip the balance to Arizona.

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  71. Re:Trump scare maybe by ChrisMaple · · Score: 1

    Ooh! Ooh! I'm bleeding from that tongue lashing.

    Look here, snowflake: words are not punishment.

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  72. Re:Trump scare maybe by ChrisMaple · · Score: 1

    The UN fairies are forcing nothing. When the US stops supporting the UN, the UN will dissipate like a kicked puffball.

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  73. Re:Why the comment from the fake news outlet? by ChrisMaple · · Score: 1

    Trump's nominations for department heads, and those already confirmed, are as a group the best in the last 190 years. He's a patriot. He's the first President since Reagan who has an understanding of economics and power politics. His picks especially stand in contrast to Obama's p(r)icks, who were explicitly dedicated to destroying America's culture, economy, freedom, and military strength.

    You, on the other hand, can't see beyond your ideology.

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  74. Re:Why the comment from the fake news outlet? by ChrisMaple · · Score: 1

    Treason. Influence peddling. Perjury.

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  75. Re:Trump scare maybe by Swave+An+deBwoner · · Score: 1
    No big deal. His wife has bigger balls. She sued a blogger for what she claims messed up her plans to cash in big over the next 4/8/12 years of her First Ladyness.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/07/opinion/melania-trump-inc-imperiled.html

    Mrs. Trump contends in the suit, her “brand has lost significant value, and major business opportunities that were otherwise available to her have been lost and/or substantially impacted.” The suit offers no specific examples of lost business opportunities.

    The timing of the story was particularly injurious, according to the lawsuit, considering that Mrs. Trump “had the unique, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, as an extremely famous and well-known person, as well as a former professional model and brand spokesperson, and successful businesswoman, to launch a broad-based commercial brand in multiple product categories, each of which could have garnered multimillion-dollar business relationships for a multiyear term during which plaintiff is one of the most photographed women in the world.”

    There is no benign way to look at that claim. Mrs. Trump evidently believes her new title affords her a chance to rake in millions of dollars.

  76. Re:Why the comment from the fake news outlet? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Treason. Influence peddling. Perjury.

    Treason: If it was as simple as giving aid and comfort to our enemies, then Trump is guilty. Putin certainly loves him and help get him elected.

    Influence peddling: You think the Trump's aren't using this to directly enrich themselves? Really? The clinton foundation was at least somewhat transparent.

    Perjury: Sadly he hasn't been under oath yet, though he should be guilty because of his blatant and continual flat out lies to the people who elected him..

  77. Re:Why the comment from the fake news outlet? by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 1

    Trump's nominations for department heads, and those already confirmed, are as a group the best in the last 190 years. He's a patriot. He's the first President since Reagan who has an understanding of economics and power politics. His picks especially stand in contrast to Obama's p(r)icks, who were explicitly dedicated to destroying America's culture, economy, freedom, and military strength.

    As we say in California, "What are you smoking and where can I get some?"

    You, on the other hand, can't see beyond your ideology.

    What ideology would that be?

  78. Re: Uhhhh... by thesupraman · · Score: 3, Interesting

    No...

    But also don't forget that up to means that 3000 laborers will work on construction, followed by a hundred or so people running the actual fab.

    Still.. The tax breaks are the same either way.. so it's all good (for Intel).

    Pretty much the same for all these big announcements.. the central feature of them is reporting the size of facility construction crews and quietly ignoring the face that they are highly automated production requiring just a handful of long term staff.

    No large business does labor intensive work in the us.. the tax breaks are just not enough, and god forbid they don't maximise profits at the cost of jobs and long term skills development.. That would be un American!

  79. Re:reasons enough: tax cuts and deregulatory polic by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 2

    Mr. Trumpâ(TM)s action on the fiduciary rule, which Democrats and consumer groups immediately denounced as a gift to Wall Street, could have a more concrete impact. His memorandum directs the Labor Department to review whether the rule may "adversely affect" investors' ability to access financial advice — and if it does, it authorizes the agency to rescind and revise the rule.

    The fiduciary rule would have saved consumers $17B per year by forcing financial advisers to consider the best interest of their client and not themselves. You're okay with Wall Street ripping you off in your retirement accounts?

  80. Re:Intel will probably close an older fab in Chand by ChrisMaple · · Score: 1

    They also might find a customer for Fab 12.

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  81. Re:BK-Trump Lovefest by ChrisMaple · · Score: 1

    [Citation needed.]

    Engineers, generally being competent people who have to think for a living, tend to be conservative. I can understand the Intel workforce not being happy with their CEO getting into bed with the gov't, but they'd be even more unhappy if he cozied up to a Clinton.

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  82. Re:Why the comment from the fake news outlet? by CaptainDork · · Score: 1

    I'm with you on this, and I agree with a post near mine that points out that Clinton is no Elizabeth Warren.

    However, I think Trump will be great medicine for America.

    Let's swing that goddam needle all the way to the right and get it out of our collective systems.

    I'm 71 years old, and a political junkie. This is all amazing.

    Things are getting wild at the speed of dark.

    Popcorn stock is up.

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  83. Re:Why the comment from the fake news outlet? by CaptainDork · · Score: 1

    Hillary had more baggage than a goddam airport.

    She was Obama 2.0 (so, I'm agreeing with you).

    The real risk-takers now are the Republicans and the Trump private portfolios.

    2018 should be interesting.

    I am making no predictions.

    I totally blew up my political credibility this election cycle.

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  84. Re:Why the comment from the fake news outlet? by CaptainDork · · Score: 1

    We don't have any enemies. The last list of enemies was World War II.

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  85. Re: Why the comment from the fake news outlet? by CaptainDork · · Score: 1

    Especially Daily Mail

    Wikipedia Bans Daily Mail As 'Unreliable' Source

    .

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  86. Re: Thanks Obama by tonywong · · Score: 1

    Trump DOES get credit for this, Intel lobbied hard to get Dodd-Frank repealed and Trump is going to do so. Intel gives credit to Trump for jobs while Intel gets to buy conflict minerals again.

    https://boingboing.net/2017/02/08/leak-trump-will-allow-us-comp.html

    +1 for big business. -1 for the good of humanity. Fits Trump's intentions perfectly.

  87. Re: Uhhhh... by jandersen · · Score: 1

    But also don't forget that up to means that 3000 laborers will work on construction, followed by a hundred or so people running the actual fab.

    In fact, 'up to' means exactly the same as 'less than or equal to'. When somebody promises that you can get 'up to X', it means nothing - 0 is less than whatever X is, so I can promise to pay you 'up to $10 million' for a pack of chewing gum, even if I'm never going to pay more than $.1 for it.

  88. Re:Seriously, Pee Wee Herman type guy? by hoover · · Score: 1

    The ratings may have gone nothing but upl for the BBT, but the quality has been constantly declining since at least the end of season two. It's just not as funny as it just to be, not enough geek / nerd content and too many love stories. ;-)

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  89. Re: Trump scare maybe by Hognoxious · · Score: 1

    Says the vi-rgin.

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  90. Re:reasons enough: tax cuts and deregulatory polic by radl33t · · Score: 1

    Those are just idiot fees for people who don't manually oversee their own investments in low cost index funds. We love taking advantage of idiots in this country, cough, ahem.

  91. Re:Trump scare maybe by dalutong · · Score: 1

    States with teachers unions have, on average, better schools. So unions don't seem to be killing schools. So what's wrong with them?

    https://www.washingtonpost.com...

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  92. Re: Trump scare maybe by meta-monkey · · Score: 1

    Huh. It's almost as if this is just about the political indoctrination of children, and not education at all!

    It's clear our schools have simply becomes tools for right-wing nazi indoctrination. We need to purge the last remaining 3 school teachers who aren't democrats so our education system can get back to what it was meant to do: turn out highly educated Gender Studies and Transafrican Demieskimo Theory majors ready to enter the workforce.

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  93. Re:reasons enough: tax cuts and deregulatory polic by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 1

    Those are just idiot fees for people who don't manually oversee their own investments in low cost index funds.

    Millions of people have no choice but to participate in the Wall Street casino since corporations moved away from pensions to 401Ks. While corporations saved billions in yearly costs, future retirees are losing billions in yearly fees.

    We love taking advantage of idiots in this country, cough, ahem.

    Which is why government regulations are needed.

  94. Re:reasons enough: tax cuts and deregulatory polic by radl33t · · Score: 1

    yes, I am plainly expressing the justification that large amounts of US citizenry accept. It is ok to use power, leverage, and expertise to steal.

  95. Re: Why the comment from the fake news outlet? by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 1

    Especially Daily Mail

    Wikipedia Bans Daily Mail As 'Unreliable' Source

    Does it really matter in today's fact free political environment?

  96. Re:Trump scare maybe by q4Fry · · Score: 1

    One of them was Lisa Murkowski (sp?) of Alaska.
    Alaska is pretty red.

    And recently governed by Sarah Palin. I'm out of mod points, but I'm still bumping this AC because s/he has a good point. The rest follows:

    The other was from maine which split between clinton and trump.

    MAYBE they voted the way they did because they actually have a conscience.

    When you reduce it to nothing more than craven self-interest you encourage the worst behavior since there is no upside to ever being principled.

  97. Why use NYT to keep score? by micahraleigh · · Score: 1

    Only 20 to 40% of Americans think the NYTimes is unbiased ... so why are they the score keepers on this.

    And why is the premise that unless the government is forking out money Trump had no say in it. This presupposes government corruption is what fuels and improves the economy (when the US became a world power long before there was a FED or any other federal government economic aparatus).

  98. Re:Why the comment from the fake news outlet? by HornWumpus · · Score: 1

    Not an honest question, you are wasting your time arguing with a brick.

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  99. Do the added jobs include ... by Agripa · · Score: 1

    Do the added jobs include the ones lost when they shut down their oldest fab, #12, which produces 65nm and is located in ... Chandler, Arizona?

  100. Re: Why the comment from the fake news outlet? by CaptainDork · · Score: 1

    Probably not much.

    People who are interested in fact-checked news from sources that have actual journos know where to go.

    Those who prefer to live in the warm, comfortable, bubble of confirmation bias are not going to go there.

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  101. Re:Trump scare maybe by dcw3 · · Score: 1

    Oh bullshit. The checks and balances built into the American political system seem to be working just fine.

    HRC campaign fail

    FTFY. As if she and the DNC didn't know how the system works. She didn't set foot in Wisconsin...why?

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  102. Re:Why the comment from the fake news outlet? by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 1

    I honestly think there was a 80%+ chance that Hillary would've started WWIII

    Uh, no. This WWIII nonsense started after Trump won the election and his supporters tried to dispute the perception that Trump would probably start WWIII by accident. He's doing a fine job in pissing off allies and making enemies happy.