Posted on 01/19/2015 7:38:53 AM PST by blam
Sounds like Bob was an interesting and talented guy, if difficult to work with occasionally. The PC HR environment nowadays would have driven him crazy (it drives us crazy too but not everyone is talented enough to retire to Mexico and do consulting work for beer money :-) ).
It’s not just physical things. All sorts of intellectual work is being outsourced such as engineering and design work of every kind. Very hard to put a tariff on an email with an attachment.
You really don’t want to compare the situation in Germany with Vietnam. Do You?
We decimated Germany them to the point that only cockroaches still hade a semblance of normality in the country.
Vietnam we proverbially did an Obama number and bowed down to them as we left the country backstabbing the neighboring countries who sided with us.
HUGE difference Duncan.
My impression from a small sample is that they are very pro American as well. America has a peculiar knack for making friends through warfare.
They were government s we set up when we defeated them, not the victors in wars we lost.
I know enough about wilder to be impressed. My first book on op.amps.in college had a whole page.dedicated to him.
It's my favorite old analog IC along with the still useful 567 tone decoder chip.
It is a blessing to have such a ring side seat when significant history is being made. Many people never manage such a close proximity with greatness.
I Very much admire the talent of these early pioneers, though they were before my time.
Outsourcing bump for later...
That’s true.
The warning signs were when we abandoned former right-wing allies to their fates after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Saddam, Pinochet, Noriega, etc. were repaid for their support with our later indifference.
I’d think it is offensive as hell to the many living veterans to see our government in cahoots with our enemies.
Kennedy was relating to the democratic state we set up in West Germany (after the perpetrators of the atrocities of twenty years before had mostly been executed); he didn’t say that in front of a swastika flag.
It is absolutely amazing the people I met through my small relationship with Bob. He was a super-star in his own time...I was only a run-of-the-mill technician.When reading a history of early silicon-valley, I met/knew many.
Amazingly, in late 1975, I went to TI and met the man ( Jack Kilby) who got the Nobel Prize in physics for inventing the intergrated circuit (chip).
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Amazingly, in late 1975, I went to TI and met the man ( Jack Kilby) who got the Nobel Prize in physics for inventing the intergrated circuit (chip).
I am envious. :)
Long ago someone (maybe it was H.L. Mencken) said that "You can't tell who your enemies are without a calendar".
Global economy of cheap labor was the end of free enterprise here.
I think the offense should come from realizing that the North Vietnamese were "situational enemies", who could just as easily have been friends if the interests of international finance had required it.
One has to read the news very carefully, to see what hidden meanings lurk behind politicians' calls to military action.
I am assuming this out sourced engineering service is for a product that is resold in the USA, right? So the incoming product needs to be tariff'ed. That is how you get them.
The pennies per dollar saved causes economic/social chaos in the lower class (most vulnerable) and in the long run more expensive than using home grown labor.
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