From: liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid   
      
   john larkin  wrote:   
      
   > On Wed, 24 Dec 2025 19:22:04 -0000 (UTC), "Don"  wrote:   
   >   
   > >john larkin wrote:   
   > >> Cursitor Doom wrote:   
   > >>> john larkin wrote:   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>>https://finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-china-built-manhattan-project   
   > >>>>-141758929.html   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>>Lots of ebay stuff, I suspect.   
   > >>>   
   > >>>Then once they're in a position to mass produce these chips, they'll   
   > >>>sell them or give them away to 'less responsible' countries. We need   
   > >>>to act fast; there's still just about enough time to nuke 'em.   
   > >>   
   > >> Imagine making 3 nm chips on a tofu dreg machine.   
   > >   
   > >    "Early on in World War II, Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring,   
   > >    one of Adolf Hitler's top lieutenants, said that Americans   
   > >    could only make refrigerators and razor blades-they would   
   > >    never be able to produce the military equipment and   
   > >    supplies necessary to defeat Nazi Germany."   
   > >   
   > >       
   > >   
   > >    It is difficult to get a man to understand something when   
   > >    his salary depends on his not understanding it.   
   > >    - Upton Sinclair   
   >   
   > At one point, Ford's Willow Run plant was finishing a B24 bomber every   
   > hour.   
      
   Mass production is fine for a stable product but in wartime the   
   requirements were changing so rapidly that the assembled aeroplanes had   
   to be dispersed to thousands of small workshops to have modifications   
   and extra items fitted.  I hope the US still has workshops like that   
   because the UK certainly doesn't.   
      
      
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