From: jl@glen--canyon.com   
      
   On Thu, 5 Feb 2026 23:23:24 +0100, Jeroen Belleman   
    wrote:   
      
   >On 2/5/26 17:11, john larkin wrote:   
   >> On Thu, 5 Feb 2026 14:52:49 +0000, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid   
   >> (Liz Tuddenham) wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Don Y  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> I fully expect this to happen during Trump's administration.   
   >>>> He probably realizes he won't be able to do anything about it,   
   >>>> especially after his designs on other foreign countries and   
   >>>> alienation of his main allies.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> ["No, you haven't been ATTACKED by China so Article 5 doesn't   
   >>>> require us to come to your aid..."]   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Of course, more and more manufacturing is TRYING to be on-shored.   
   >>>> But, I suspect that is nowhere near enough to address the   
   >>>> potential of Taiwan going off-line -- even briefly.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> I'm thinking back to how screwed up the supply chain got during   
   >>>> COVID and wonder what manufacturers and investors will do when   
   >>>> the future is far less certain than a "pandemic".   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Opinions?   
   >>>   
   >>> We have sleepwalked into this and the few who have raised the alarm have   
   >>> been (and still are being) ignored and ridiculed.   
   >>>   
   >>> There is a wider problem: we have become 'travel junkies' and rely too   
   >>> much on transport.  "I can get it cheaper from..." doesn't take into   
   >>> account the hidden costs such as liability to supply disruption, loss of   
   >>> control over the design and the fundamental need to teach underlying   
   >>> principles and train people in making things themselves.   
   >>>   
   >>> We haven't got the factories.   
   >>> We haven't got the machines.   
   >>> We haven't got the people who know how to operste the machines.   
   >>> We haven't got the machines to make the machines.   
   >>> We haven't got the people who know how to make the machines   
   >>> We haven't got the material.   
   >>> We haven't got the undustry to make the materials.   
   >>   
   >> We? Does that refer to the UK?   
   >>   
   >> I think there is a trend in the USA to not going to college and   
   >> getting an expensive degree in something useless, but going to a   
   >> 2-year community college or an apprenticeship and learning to do   
   >> something useful. Last night we sat in on a class at City College SF   
   >> and I was impressed by the campus and the kids. We gave away some AoE   
   >> books. I might do a lecture now and then.   
   >>   
   >>>   
   >>> In the thrall of Greenwash we have simply exported the 'dirty' jobs to   
   >>> other countries and then added to the pollution by shipping the goods   
   >>> back.   
   >>>   
   >>> If Russia could do to the UK what it is doing to Ukraine, the country   
   >>> would have to surrender within a week.   
   >>   
   >> TSMC and Intel are building world-class semi fabs in Arizona.   
   >> Louisiana, of all places, will be an AI hub because it has water,   
   >> energy and land and is close to 90 degrees longitude.   
   >>   
   >> The US is making plans to both stock strategic rare minerals and   
   >> develop new non-Chinese sources.   
   >>   
   >> Since Xi is as insane as Putin, nobody knows what he will do, but he   
   >> should be getting the message that he shoud be more collegial or   
   >> things will get bad for China.   
   >>   
   >> Why do communist countries all wind up with homocidal   
   >> lunatics-for-life in charge?   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> John Larkin   
   >> Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center   
   >> Lunatic Fringe Electronics   
   >   
   >Goof grief! Haven't you got a lunatic as president or what?   
      
   No. People dislike him because he has common sense and Enlightenment   
   values and puts the USA first. He has zero megadeaths to his credit so   
   far.   
      
      
   >The guy isn't even able to utter two consecutive coherent   
   >phrases and *still* got chosen to be at the helm of the US!   
      
   Biden was senile and Harrris spewed word salad.   
      
   We could have done better but DT was the best choice.   
      
   >   
   >Shame!   
   >   
   >American voters are imbeciles! Churchill was right when he   
   >remarked that the best argument against democracy is a two   
   >minute conversation with the average voter.   
      
   The alternates - a gang of thugs or a gang of  "expert" bureaucrats  -   
   is worse.   
      
   I prefer ...   
      
   I would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the Boston   
   telephone directory than by the Harvard University faculty.   
      
   William F. Buckley   
      
      
   John Larkin   
   Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center   
   Lunatic Fringe Electronics   
      
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