The U.S. can threaten to selectively default on the bonds that China holds. Who that hurts the most is an open question. Note that inflation is a continuing partial default.
My experience is now 18 years out of date, but as of 2000 AD, extracting gates from layout is a process that is or can be automated for a large part of any chip. RAM blocks are obvious. Much of the chip can be reverse engineered by repeated application of manual analysis and automated layout-to-gate computer analysis.
That said, your EEPROM and fuse objection is entirely valid, and having a clue to what the chip is actually supposed to do is very important.
Japanese and Korean manufacturers have taken over the sedan class by making superior products at lower prices. The claim of "Tesla taking over that market" by selling 100,000 cars (2017) is an unfunny joke. That's only 2 or 3 times the sales of Corvettes, a quite limited market.
Middle class or below living in any dense city is markedly inferior to suburban or rural living. Concrete and crowding do not make a pleasant life. America's suburbs - big houses and comfortable cars - are where the bulk of the American populace lives the good life.
Europe in total war with whom? Internally? No. The animosity between modern European nations is like the animosity between cities with American football teams; it doesn't lead to war. War with Russia or any of a number of mid-East countries is a possibility, but that's a defensive situation, not a result of the removal of a worthless imposed supra-national bureaucracy.
the entire Silicon Valley is flooded for a hydro electric basin.
So some of the most valuable real estate on the planet should be flooded as gravity storage for water? That's an astonishingly unproductive idea.
From a construction point of view, the easiest way to do it would be to damn off the entire San Francisco Bay, which would have the advantage of flooding San Francisco, Oakland, and particularly Berkeley.
Before you cite McCarthyism again, learn the facts. Read Treason by Ann Coulter. (Yes, I know she flames a lot. Filter out the rhetoric and discover what really happened.)
Scientific American has an obvious leftist political bias. Science Daily isn't as bad, but they're hardly neutral.
The Express article claims a global temperature drop of 1.3 C, which is enough to cause some harm to humanity as far as we know. On the other hand, the wikipedia article on the Maunder Minimum casts doubt on the hypothesis that the Maunder Minimum caused that much temperature drop.
If we stop using coal, pushing electric cars is exactly what we'll be doing. However, some will be used as flower pots, and others as homeless shelters.
In almost all organizations, someone has the responsibility to lead that organization. Whether the name remains "CEO" or not, the function is there. By proposing that all CEOs be annihilated, you propose that humans have no organizations, no organized activity, no cooperation between people.
You're an enemy of humanity, an idiot, or most likely both.
The fallacy ad hominem (abusive) is "This guy is evil, therefor his claims are wrong." The first post is This guy is irritating; he may or may not be right. Not the same thing.
It is not accurate to call the microprocessor a breakthrough; breakthrough implies something that happened as a great advance based on a small set of changes over a short period of time. It's easy to chronicle the development of the microprocessor; there were a large number of steps each allowing more functions to be incorporated on a single substrate, and that process took roughly 20 years to go from the transistor to the Intel 4004.
Much of economics is BS because it is interwoven with politics, which corrupts economics.
Some economic results are counter-intuitive, and were not known in antiquity. David Ricardo's 1817 analysis of comparative advantage is an obvious example.
Modern advances in mathematics and computers both have allowed economists to tease principles out of raw data, which would not have been possible 2000 years ago.
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The U.S. can threaten to selectively default on the bonds that China holds. Who that hurts the most is an open question. Note that inflation is a continuing partial default.
My experience is now 18 years out of date, but as of 2000 AD, extracting gates from layout is a process that is or can be automated for a large part of any chip. RAM blocks are obvious. Much of the chip can be reverse engineered by repeated application of manual analysis and automated layout-to-gate computer analysis.
That said, your EEPROM and fuse objection is entirely valid, and having a clue to what the chip is actually supposed to do is very important.
Japanese and Korean manufacturers have taken over the sedan class by making superior products at lower prices. The claim of "Tesla taking over that market" by selling 100,000 cars (2017) is an unfunny joke. That's only 2 or 3 times the sales of Corvettes, a quite limited market.
Middle class or below living in any dense city is markedly inferior to suburban or rural living. Concrete and crowding do not make a pleasant life. America's suburbs - big houses and comfortable cars - are where the bulk of the American populace lives the good life.
Tiny houses suck. One of the greatest pleasures in life is having a nice place to live, and tiny houses don't qualify.
Europe in total war with whom? Internally? No. The animosity between modern European nations is like the animosity between cities with American football teams; it doesn't lead to war. War with Russia or any of a number of mid-East countries is a possibility, but that's a defensive situation, not a result of the removal of a worthless imposed supra-national bureaucracy.
So some of the most valuable real estate on the planet should be flooded as gravity storage for water? That's an astonishingly unproductive idea.
From a construction point of view, the easiest way to do it would be to damn off the entire San Francisco Bay, which would have the advantage of flooding San Francisco, Oakland, and particularly Berkeley.
An Anonymous Coward being sure is worthless. Provide numbers and citations.
That man over there is going to destroy the world. We must kill him now.
What's wrong with that? Among other things, a false assumption, same as your false assumption of global catastrophe.
Before you cite McCarthyism again, learn the facts. Read Treason by Ann Coulter. (Yes, I know she flames a lot. Filter out the rhetoric and discover what really happened.)
Scientific American has an obvious leftist political bias. Science Daily isn't as bad, but they're hardly neutral.
The Express article claims a global temperature drop of 1.3 C, which is enough to cause some harm to humanity as far as we know. On the other hand, the wikipedia article on the Maunder Minimum casts doubt on the hypothesis that the Maunder Minimum caused that much temperature drop.
44Q is the bra size.
If we stop using coal, pushing electric cars is exactly what we'll be doing. However, some will be used as flower pots, and others as homeless shelters.
What are you doing to destroy so many clutches?
In almost all organizations, someone has the responsibility to lead that organization. Whether the name remains "CEO" or not, the function is there. By proposing that all CEOs be annihilated, you propose that humans have no organizations, no organized activity, no cooperation between people.
You're an enemy of humanity, an idiot, or most likely both.
The idea of living on Mars is more than a century old.
Bombard the moon with asteroids first, then colonize the moon.
Typical leftist hatred of human beings.
Tourism is a possible early industry. People running hotels and buses and all the attendant infrastructure could be the permanent residents.
He's a propagandist to the gullible of all ages, masquerading as a science teacher.
The fallacy ad hominem (abusive) is "This guy is evil, therefor his claims are wrong." The first post is This guy is irritating; he may or may not be right. Not the same thing.
I've seen Bugs Bunny cartoons, they're are real as Hollywood Westerns.
I've seen a grease monkey fix cars.
It is not accurate to call the microprocessor a breakthrough; breakthrough implies something that happened as a great advance based on a small set of changes over a short period of time. It's easy to chronicle the development of the microprocessor; there were a large number of steps each allowing more functions to be incorporated on a single substrate, and that process took roughly 20 years to go from the transistor to the Intel 4004.
Much of economics is BS because it is interwoven with politics, which corrupts economics.
Some economic results are counter-intuitive, and were not known in antiquity. David Ricardo's 1817 analysis of comparative advantage is an obvious example.
Modern advances in mathematics and computers both have allowed economists to tease principles out of raw data, which would not have been possible 2000 years ago.