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They are, with a twist: They all blame it all on Trump having forcing them to overrule this and that policy or law, and to increase military budgets sharply. Shooting ways often do that.

Joe

The water heater is gas fired, and the water pressure comes into the house from the street. SF has gravity-feed reservoirs so we have hot and cold water pressure even if there is a big power failure.

House heat is gas fired and forced-air, so that needs electricity. Most new houses have "radiant heat" which needs electricity too.

Yeah, we have one of those complex digital thermosats with a lot of buttons and states. I plan to replace it with a classic dial unit.

Europe is de-industrializing and de-civilizing. Cultural suicide.

What's surprising is that ginormous semi fabs are being built in the US South.

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We have a gas fireplace with ceramic logs. It's romantic but not very thermally efficient.

Our neighbor has basically the same house but converted his fireplace to LEDs, operated from a phone app.

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The Dr Oetker pizzas have been proven consistent high quality for many years Unlike Aviko french fries Those have a high percentage of bad black spots Did not Phil Hobbs once design a monitoring system, for something like that? Was it Aviko? There is a local pizza shop here that also delivers to your house at some extra costs. But I just bike to the next village supermarket for my shopping, exercise is good. What I use a lot -every day- for baking stuff is virgin olive oil, was addicted to it first time I tasted it! Few days ago I found this:

Olive trees get very old, Am experimenting with maize too, got a pack of maize cookies, opened it and the smell put me right into South America! Amazing!

No hills here ... But I walk around all day, in my youth had many medals for completing long marches.

That is fun, if it does not rain! You need some drawing board? Or use smart phones?

Lighting here sometimes, storms! had a bad one a while back... And slippery roads when freezing. Few month ago a warning: stay home, many cars just slided of the road.. I had my stuff delivered to the house, too dangerous for biking.

You'd be wiser to get educated to the point where you could understand the more complicated display, but wisdom is hard to acquire,

Those "greens" are are cartoon invention of the climate change denial propaganda machine. China is investing hugely in wind an solar power to the point where their carbon emissions are starting got fall.

They aren't starving or living in cave, and their BYD electric cars with their blade batteries are wipi8ng the floor with Tesla.

Only an under-educated Americasn could be silly enough to make a claim like that.

By Taiwanese companies. With Trump's primitive ideas about economics, he can be persuaded to pay for them.

Europe has a population density of about 400 people per square kilometre. If you have a fireplace it needs to burn smokeless fuel.

The US is at 40 people per square km. It can get away with more air pollution.

Australia is at 4 people per square km. It's also one of the most urbanised countries in the world, but bush-fire smoke - most of it from hazard reduction burns carried out outside the bush-fire season - is the major source of air-pollution.

Why not? She was very nice. I wasn't her fault that people were afraid of senior Party members.

Pity it didn't take a million.

There is that: smart people come here for the freedom to invent, to make billions or get Nobel prizes.

But Edison and the Wright brothers and DeForest and Farnsworth and Gates and Jobs and the google and Facebook guys were natives and not academics.

I have brainstormed with Nasa folks, NMR PhDs, semi fab founders, laser fusion people, jet engine people, all sorts of stuff. What's impressive is that most of them were interested in ideas and not credentials.

I think that Germany has too much respect for titles and degrees and too little tolerance for novel ideas. That slows them down.

After the US, the Brits seem friendly to new ideas. France, not so much.

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Not exactly. Smart people do get head-hunted. The German Leibnitz prize and the Dutch Spinoza prize were both introduced

to make it more difficult for Americans to poach mid-career academics.

Cambridge Instruments lost a brilliant chinese engineer to an American firm because they could offer to get him and his family American citzenship faster than the UK procedures could have delivered.

But they aren't exactly representative examples. And Edison's filament lamp was the Edison-Swan lamp - Swan did invent it first in England. Bill Gates doesn't seem to have invented anything, and neither did Steve Jobs, though they both performed impressively at making money out of other people's ideas.

The Google guys were graduate students at Stanford.

Nobody who is doing stuff is interested in credentials. A Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry isn't a useful credential for an electronic engineer but I made it anyway.

Not that I've noticed.

The Ecole Superior culture in France does seem to protect quite a few fatheads. Cambridge Instruments tried to commercialise a French shaped beam electron beam microfabricator,and the project failed because what we were sold as a preproduction prototype was actually a proof of principle machine,and we couldn't afford to do all the detailed re-engineering that it would have taken to get it commercially viable.

Bell Labs sold a similar machine to European Semiconductor Structures in Aix-en-Provence, but it never delivered more than 10% of the promised writing speed, and the Aix operation went bust in consequence. America has it own fat-heads.

TSMC and Intel aren't much in the way of military weapons builders.

Go for it. But I suspect the age of dogfighting $200M manned jet fighters may be over.

It took a giant project to save that guy who bailed out over Iran. A crashed drone wouldn't need a big rescue operation.

Ukraine is a pioneer in remote warfare.

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Why care about states and push a bunch or buttons incrementally and look at a cheap LCD in a dark hallway, when you can twist a knob a couple of degrees.

I think and hope that cars are going back to analog controls, knobs to turn, instead of crazy complex touch screens.

Or someone who keeps up with the news.

Intel is not Taiwanese. But TSMC building a fab in the US South is interesting. It's not going to be built in Europe or Australia.

Or in Taiwan.

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San Francisco is 7,194 people per square kilometer. Burning wood is discouraged, especially when the wind patterns are wrong. Wood fires are messy anyhow.

We have a new wood-burning restaurant down the block from us. $140 flat price, no tips, no tax. Wine is extra. We smell the smoke outside around 5PM when they fire up. No reservations, so people stand in line for an hour or so to get in.

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Am 23.04.26 um 20:14 schrieb john larkin:

As of last year, they were building 300 coal power generating stations worldwide. They build everything that can be sold for money.

Last month, Trump paid for NOT using a mostly finished wind farm on your east coast.

Did you note their new design center in Munich, or the new fab in Dresden, together with Bosch, NXP and Infineon?

In medieval times, Bavaria was wine land. Must have been a few degrees hotter before they had to switch to beer. They even had to import beer know how from the North Sea coast.

We in Europe will probably watch the news on the TV from the tornado avenues in the US south. You'll have our compassion, but that's Darwin at work.

Gerhard

You can back-light an LCD when necessary. Twisting a knob is a more expensive option than pushing up and down sensing pads.

The news that is being delivered to Americans to induce a particular state of mind - one that is happier with the American situation than a better-informed citizen might be.

It's not cutting edge either, and hasn't been for a while.

Europe has it own fabs. Australia is too small a market to support a modern fab. We did have our own fab in the 1980's. Cambridge Instruments sold them one of the EBMF 10.5 electron-beam microfabricators that I'd worked on. When the reps came back they told me than my younger brother had negotiated the $500 million contract between AWA and Lend-Lease to build the structure. He worked for Lend-Lease before he went off to run the Sydney Olympic games.

The fab was still running until about 2020 when the lease on the site ran out.

Taiwan already has a TSMC fab. Why would they need another?

Well, the business model for wind farms is being paid for not generating electricity.

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Probably because Arizona has land and power and people and is unlikely to be attacked by China.

$65 billion investment apparently.

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But I think it's because of the feeling is that there is not much to be positive about in politics generally.

If the political feeling were postive then postive voting would feel better.

Democracy is like going to a bar and ask people there to design your next electronics by majority vote.

You will get nowhere,

To get anywhere you need a government of specialists. Not some religious fanatics or drunks or addicts with next to zero knowledge of the subject.

A leader that knows stuff about what the people and country really needs, who then creates a team of experts.

But then human nature... One ant heap against the other destruction, world wars, Darwin The best one will win, if anyone left after the nuking, climate change, viruses created, poison gasses created, addictive substances..

Who act mostly in their own interests.

There is no such thing as expertise. It just doesn't exist.

- Scott Adams

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Adams from Adam and Eve?