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flippysch said:

mobird said:

hammeroftruth said:

Lots of unanswered questions. Did he really need a CCW? If so, why didn’t corporate use their influence into getting him one, unless it wasn’t for his job and was personal. 

I am amused that San Jose has a “Hall of Justice” and reading that made me miss Ted Knight and his narration of the Superfriends cartoon. 

It's called the Constitution - 2nd Amendment. Nowhere does it state that you have to have a reason to purchase a gun.

Glad I live in a state that upholds the 2nd Amendment instead of trampling on it.

The 2nd Amendment:  “A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” 

If it was not for the last comma, I would agree with you that the people can keep and bear arms. Unfortunately, I read it as a well-regulated Militia, such as the National Guard, shall not be infringed.

GeorgeBMac said:

razorpit said:

GeorgeBMac said:

FileMakerFeller said:

GeorgeBMac said:

The danger to the world's tech industry comes not only from NVIDIA but from Trump and the U.S.    From the BBC:

"But two of ARM's co-founders have raised other issues about the takeover.

Hermann Hauser and Tudor Brown had suggested ARM should remain "neutral", rather than be owned by a company like Nvidia, which produces its own processors.

The concern is that there would be a conflict of interest since ARM's clients would become dependent on a business with which many also compete for sales.

Moreover, the two co-founders also claimed that once ARM was owned by an American firm, Washington could try to block Chinese companies from using its knowhow as part of a wider trade clash between the countries.

"If ARM becomes a US subsidiary of a US company, it falls under the Cfius [Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States] regulations," Mr Hauser told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

"[That] means that if hundreds of UK companies that incorporate ARM's [technology] in their products, want to sell it, and export it to anywhere in the world including China - which is a major market - the decision on whether they will be allowed to export it will be made in the White House and not in Downing Street."

Quite obviously the U.S. has become an unreliable partner -- violating agreements at will and trying to dictate who can do business with who.

In this case, the potential ramifications for U.S. bullying have escalated considerably.   So, the BBC further reports:

"But experts say one risk Nvidia faces is that the takeover could encourage ARM's wider client list to shift focus to a rival type of chip technology, which lags behind in terms of adoption but has the benefit of not being controlled by one company.

"ARM is facing growing competition from RISC-V, an open-source architecture," wrote CCS Insight's Geoff Blaber in a recent research note.

"If its partners believed that ARM's integrity and independence was compromised, it would accelerate the growth of RISC-V and in the process devalue ARM."

Mr Blaber also suggested regulators might block the deal.

"This process will take months if not years with a high chance of failure," he told the BBC."

And, that last is an important note:   Why would Britain hand over control of one of its premier organizations to Donald Trump?  Or, why would China approve it?   Trump has essentially declared war on them and this would just add more bullets to his arsenal.

You can bet that both companies and countries will be actively looking for and promoting alternatives to ARM if this shows any signs of actually going through because this sale poses an existential threat to them.

So, none of this was a concern while ARM was owned by SoftBank?

No, it wasn't.   Softbank is not an American company.   This move enables Trump to take his stupid games to whole new level deciding who ARM can do business with.   The UK should be very leery of putting their premier tech company under the heel of Donald Trump.

My older response to you was deleted but following this thread I have to ask, do you have some form of turrets syndrome where “Trump” is injected in to your speech? Give it a rest already.

LOL...   It is Trump who is fabricating smear campaigns against foreign companies to distract from his own incompetence and corruption.   And, it wasn't just me warning that letting Trump gain control of ARM would be a dangerous thing for ARM, the UK and the world, it was on of the founders of ARM.   Sorry, but Chump is the root of the problem.

As further proof that Trump is fabricating allegations -- smear campaigns -- against foreign companies:   In addition to him being unable to furnish a shred of evidence against his Huawei smears, yesterday the WTO ruled that Trump broke the law with his tariffs based on unsubstantiated allegations that China stool IP from America.  Specifically, from the BBC:
"The WTO said the US did not provide evidence that its claims of China's unfair technology theft and state aid justified the border taxes. .... It added that the US had not proved its case that the tariffs were justified on moral grounds because it did not show how the products affected by the duties had benefited from the unfair practices.

"The panel found, accordingly, that the US had not met its burden of demonstrating that the measures are provisionally justified," it said.:

Essentially, the WTO called Bull to Trump's Bull!

Of course Trump and his minions responded by attacking the WTO -- which is comical because the WTO represents "Law and Order" in international trade -- which is Trump's main platform here in the U.S.!    But, Trump obviously makes up, one might say 'Trumps Up', his own law and his own order in ways to benefit himself.

But, more relevant to this case, the WTO ruling justifies concerns that Trump will misuse his power over ARM once he has control of it because he has been operating outside and above international law using the power of the presidency to illegally attack foreign companies.   And, putting ARM under his control will simply give him additional ammunition to use against the company and country of his choice.   It's like handing a bazooka to a New York mob boss.   It simply won't end well.