On Saturday, November 13, 2021 at 5:23:18 PM UTC-4, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:> On Sat, 13 Nov 2021 15:49:56 -0500, Phil Hobbs > <pcdhSpamM...@electrooptical.net> wrote: > > >jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote: > >> On Sat, 13 Nov 2021 14:13:06 -0500, Phil Hobbs > >> <pcdhSpamM...@electrooptical.net> wrote: > >> > >>> jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote: > >>>> https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10198037/China-THREATENS-Australia-forces-defend-Taiwan-remarks-Defence-Minister-Peter-Dutton.html > >>> > >>>> Imagine if Taiwan is attacked and TSMC stops making chips. > >>> > >>> That's been concentrating a lot of minds, I expect. I hope. > >>> > >>> A year ago, I'd have said that if the PRC did that, they'd capture a lot > >>> of smoking ruins, but then the People Who Know Best in DC pulled out of > >>> Afghanistan in a self-inflicted rout, despite the coalition IIRC not > >>> having lost a single soldier in 18 months. I'm not a big fan of foreign > >>> wars, but it seems like they could have taken their time about it. > >>> > >>> Who knows how high the treason reaches? > > > >> > >> "Don't assume malice when incompetence will do." > > > >If it weren't part of a pattern, I'd agree. But the stink coming from > >DC is too bad to ignore. > > > >Cheers > > > >Phil Hobbs > Government is power and power corrupts. We are increasingly ruled by > grossly inept power mongers of both parties, people who were their > high school class president and never looked back... or had a real > job. > > And there is no shortage of experts to give them guidance.As usual, Larkin is here to criticize anyone who isn't an electrical engineer. Every other profession is incompetent even though Larkin has no better ideas on how to work the problems involved. He is VERY good at providing energy in the form of hot air however. -- Rick C. -- Get 1,000 miles of free Supercharging -- Tesla referral code - https://ts.la/richard11209
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On Saturday, November 13, 2021 at 1:04:09 PM UTC-8, Phil Hobbs wrote:> Do tell. If the US did to Taiwan what we just did to Afghanistan, the > result would be....?Can you elaborate on the point a bit more? Fact is, we didn't invade Taiwan after 9/11 -- although we might as well have, for all we accomplished invading other places -- and we didn't spend 20 years trying fruitlessly to train the Taiwanese locals to stand up for themselves. So I'm having trouble following the argument you're making here. There aren't just vanishingly few parallels to be drawn between Afghanistan and Taiwan, there seem to be none at all. If Xi screws with Taiwan, he'll find it to be more than adequately defended, at least until TSMC has some serious geographical redundancy in place (or at least some competition). That's realpolitik for you. -- john, KE5FX
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John Miles, KE5FX wrote:> On Saturday, November 13, 2021 at 1:04:09 PM UTC-8, Phil Hobbs wrote: >> Do tell. If the US did to Taiwan what we just did to Afghanistan, the >> result would be....? > > Can you elaborate on the point a bit more? Fact is, we didn't invade > Taiwan after 9/11 -- although we might as well have, for all we > accomplished invading other places -- and we didn't spend 20 years > trying fruitlessly to train the Taiwanese locals to stand up for > themselves. > > So I'm having trouble following the argument you're making here. There > aren't just vanishingly few parallels to be drawn between Afghanistan and > Taiwan, there seem to be none at all.Okay, if I really have to spell it out: The obvious one is that both are/were underpinned by the US military, and has been since 1949. That's why all the naval posturing in the South China Sea. Cheers Phil Hobbs -- Dr Philip C D Hobbs Principal Consultant ElectroOptical Innovations LLC / Hobbs ElectroOptics Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics Briarcliff Manor NY 10510 http://electrooptical.net http://hobbs-eo.com
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Phil Hobbs wrote:> John Miles, KE5FX wrote: >> On Saturday, November 13, 2021 at 1:04:09 PM UTC-8, Phil Hobbs wrote: >>> Do tell. If the US did to Taiwan what we just did to Afghanistan, the >>> result would be....? >> >> Can you elaborate on the point a bit more? Fact is, we didn't invade >> Taiwan after 9/11 -- although we might as well have, for all we >> accomplished invading other places -- and we didn't spend 20 years >> trying fruitlessly to train the Taiwanese locals to stand up for >> themselves. >> >> So I'm having trouble following the argument you're making here. There >> aren't just vanishingly few parallels to be drawn between Afghanistan and >> Taiwan, there seem to be none at all. > > Okay, if I really have to spell it out: The obvious one is that both > are/were underpinned by the US military, andTaiwan> has been since 1949. That's > why all the naval posturing in the South China Sea. > > Cheers > > Phil Hobbs >-- Dr Philip C D Hobbs Principal Consultant ElectroOptical Innovations LLC / Hobbs ElectroOptics Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics Briarcliff Manor NY 10510 http://electrooptical.net http://hobbs-eo.com
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On Saturday, November 13, 2021 at 4:23:18 PM UTC-5, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:> On Sat, 13 Nov 2021 15:49:56 -0500, Phil Hobbs > <pcdhSpamM...@electrooptical.net> wrote: > > >jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote: > >> On Sat, 13 Nov 2021 14:13:06 -0500, Phil Hobbs > >> <pcdhSpamM...@electrooptical.net> wrote: > >> > >>> jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote: > >>>> https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10198037/China-THREATENS-Australia-forces-defend-Taiwan-remarks-Defence-Minister-Peter-Dutton.html > >>> > >>>> Imagine if Taiwan is attacked and TSMC stops making chips. > >>> > >>> That's been concentrating a lot of minds, I expect. I hope. > >>> > >>> A year ago, I'd have said that if the PRC did that, they'd capture a lot > >>> of smoking ruins, but then the People Who Know Best in DC pulled out of > >>> Afghanistan in a self-inflicted rout, despite the coalition IIRC not > >>> having lost a single soldier in 18 months. I'm not a big fan of foreign > >>> wars, but it seems like they could have taken their time about it. > >>> > >>> Who knows how high the treason reaches? > > > >> > >> "Don't assume malice when incompetence will do." > > > >If it weren't part of a pattern, I'd agree. But the stink coming from > >DC is too bad to ignore. > > > >Cheers > > > >Phil Hobbs > Government is power and power corrupts. We are increasingly ruled by > grossly inept power mongers of both parties, people who were their > high school class president and never looked back... or had a real > job. >We are being ruled by hidden entities. Our politicians are just clowns that are there to give the allusion of democracy.> And there is no shortage of experts to give them guidance. > -- > > Father Brown's figure remained quite dark and still; > but in that instant he had lost his head. His head was > always most valuable when he had lost it.
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On Sunday, November 14, 2021 at 10:46:27 PM UTC+11, blo...@columbus.rr.com = wrote:> On Saturday, November 13, 2021 at 4:23:18 PM UTC-5, jla...@highlandsnipte=chnology.com wrote:=20> > On Sat, 13 Nov 2021 15:49:56 -0500, Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamM...@electroop=tical.net> wrote:=20> > >jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:=20 > > >> On Sat, 13 Nov 2021 14:13:06 -0500, Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamM...@electr=ooptical.net> wrote: =20> > >>> jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:=20<snip>> > Government is power and power corrupts.=20As everybody knows. That's why politicians are watched carefully, and get i= nto deep trouble when they do anything that looks crooked.> > We are increasingly ruled by grossly inept power mongers of both parti=es, people who were their high school class president and never looked bac= k... or had a real job.=20 I don't think that it's ever been different, and the power mongers are pret= ty good at hanging onto power. The media is better equipped to catch their = failures than they used to be. Gross ineptitude does get exposed , and quit= e a bit of catering to special interests, which is a bigger problem.> We are being ruled by hidden entities.=20Brent Locher isn't famously observant, and much that is hidden from him is = pretty obvious to more perceptive people. If you are stupid enough, conspir= acy theories are satisfying simple, and tend to be much less complicated th= an more realistic - and more useful - explanations of what is gong on.> Our politicians are just clowns that are there to give the allusion of de=mocracy. Their presence may be an allusion to democracy. There's no illusion about = the voting process - democracy is about voting for the politician you like,= and it does work. The problem is people like Brent Locher, Cursitor Doom and John Doe, who se= em to like politicians who go in for flagrant lying and telling the elector= ate what they think the electorate wants to hear, without having any intent= ion of delivering on their promises. Donald Trump's border wall is a fairly= obvious example.> > And there is no shortage of experts to give them guidance.=20And you can usually find an "expert" who will provide exactly the guidance = you find attractive. Trump wasn't that lucky with Anthony Fauci, who had be= en accepted as an expert for quite a while, which made it difficult for Tru= mp to replace him with somebody who would say what Trump wanted to hear. --=20 Bill Sloman, Sydney
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On 11/13/2021 1:36 PM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:> https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10198037/China-THREATENS-Australia-forces-defend-Taiwan-remarks-Defence-Minister-Peter-Dutton.html > > Imagine if Taiwan is attacked and TSMC stops making chips. > > >"China ominously declared..." "In explosive comments published in Chinese tabloid The Global Times on Saturday, editor-in-chief Hu Xijin was blunt in his analysis of Australia's promise..." So more like just tabloids re-publishing the retarded things each other's editors say. Got me all excited there for a second I thought someone who mattered made a statement.
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On Sun, 14 Nov 2021 09:42:54 -0500, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:>On 11/13/2021 1:36 PM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote: >> https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10198037/China-THREATENS-Australia-forces-defend-Taiwan-remarks-Defence-Minister-Peter-Dutton.html >> >> Imagine if Taiwan is attacked and TSMC stops making chips. >> >> >> > >"China ominously declared..." > >"In explosive comments published in Chinese tabloid The Global Times on >Saturday, editor-in-chief Hu Xijin was blunt in his analysis of >Australia's promise..." > >So more like just tabloids re-publishing the retarded things each >other's editors say. Got me all excited there for a second I thought >someone who mattered made a statement.We sold a bunch of VME to Australia, to upgrade submarines, and bid on some fiberoptic systems for the Jindalee radar, which job we didn't get. Australia needs to sell coal to China so they can build up their defenses against China. -- Father Brown's figure remained quite dark and still; but in that instant he had lost his head. His head was always most valuable when he had lost it.
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On Sunday, November 14, 2021 at 7:46:27 AM UTC-4, blo...@columbus.rr.com wrote:> On Saturday, November 13, 2021 at 4:23:18 PM UTC-5, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote: > > On Sat, 13 Nov 2021 15:49:56 -0500, Phil Hobbs > > <pcdhSpamM...@electrooptical.net> wrote: > > > > >jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote: > > >> On Sat, 13 Nov 2021 14:13:06 -0500, Phil Hobbs > > >> <pcdhSpamM...@electrooptical.net> wrote: > > >> > > >>> jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote: > > >>>> https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10198037/China-THREATENS-Australia-forces-defend-Taiwan-remarks-Defence-Minister-Peter-Dutton.html > > >>> > > >>>> Imagine if Taiwan is attacked and TSMC stops making chips. > > >>> > > >>> That's been concentrating a lot of minds, I expect. I hope. > > >>> > > >>> A year ago, I'd have said that if the PRC did that, they'd capture a lot > > >>> of smoking ruins, but then the People Who Know Best in DC pulled out of > > >>> Afghanistan in a self-inflicted rout, despite the coalition IIRC not > > >>> having lost a single soldier in 18 months. I'm not a big fan of foreign > > >>> wars, but it seems like they could have taken their time about it. > > >>> > > >>> Who knows how high the treason reaches? > > > > > >> > > >> "Don't assume malice when incompetence will do." > > > > > >If it weren't part of a pattern, I'd agree. But the stink coming from > > >DC is too bad to ignore. > > > > > >Cheers > > > > > >Phil Hobbs > > Government is power and power corrupts. We are increasingly ruled by > > grossly inept power mongers of both parties, people who were their > > high school class president and never looked back... or had a real > > job. > > > We are being ruled by hidden entities. Our politicians are just clowns that are there to give the allusion of democracy.Really? Politicians give the "allusion" of democracy? Which hidden entities are you referring to? TPC perhaps??? -- Rick C. -+ Get 1,000 miles of free Supercharging -+ Tesla referral code - https://ts.la/richard11209
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On Monday, November 15, 2021 at 3:46:09 AM UTC+11, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:> On Sun, 14 Nov 2021 09:42:54 -0500, bitrex <us...@example.net> wrote: > > >On 11/13/2021 1:36 PM, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote: > >> https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10198037/China-THREATENS-Australia-forces-defend-Taiwan-remarks-Defence-Minister-Peter-Dutton.html > >> > >> Imagine if Taiwan is attacked and TSMC stops making chips. > > > >"China ominously declared..." > > > >"In explosive comments published in Chinese tabloid The Global Times on > >Saturday, editor-in-chief Hu Xijin was blunt in his analysis of > >Australia's promise..." > > > >So more like just tabloids re-publishing the retarded things each > >other's editors say. Got me all excited there for a second I thought > >someone who mattered made a statement. > We sold a bunch of VME to Australia, to upgrade submarines, and bid on > some fiberoptic systems for the Jindalee radar, which job we didn't > get. > > Australia needs to sell coal to China so they can build up their defenses against China.China stopped buying our coal for a while - as well as our barley and wine - as device to bend us to their will. They would have liked to stop buying our iron ore as well, but nobody else had as much as they needed. They've gone back to buying our coal - same problem. The barley and the wine found other markets. We make a lot of money out of selling coal, and the people who collect most of that money have a lot of political power. Like the rest of the fossil carbon industry they couldn't care less about anthropogenic global warming. It's going to take quite a while before they see sense. There are people around in Australia who plan to make a lot of money out of using solar cell generated power to make hydrogen, which we can liquify and load into tankers to ship off to the people who are now buying our coal. The fossil carbon extraction industry isn't going to like that. It could get quite nasty. Military defense against China would be difficult, but why would they bother? There are more valuable assets a lot closer to China, and if we stick a few hydrogen bombs under the natural resources that they might want to go after we can do scorched earth pretty effectively. -- Bill Sloman, Sydney
