blastdoor

melgross said:

I’ve been saying for some time that Apple could do this so that they could use larger GPU assemblies, but was struck down every time.

sirdir said:

blastdoor said:

I just hope Apple can protect American users from the consequences of ill conceived European laws.

Haha one would think that’s the least of your concerns 

tht said:

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We are either in the early stages of World War 3 (or WW4, if one calls the Cold War WW3), or in the late stages of the pre-war stage. It's akin to the time between Germany's annexation of the Sudetenland in 1938 and the invasion of Poland in 1939. That was a much shorter period of time, but I think it's analogous, in the sense that the writing was clearly on the wall then and it's clearly on the wall now. 

The modern analog to the invasion of Poland might be when China takes Taiwan. That analogy will break down, though, when the US (acting in the analog role to the UK) decides to just let Taiwan go rather than go to war over it. But that won't mean the war is averted, only that it will take longer. 

The main question is just how hot or cold will the war be. So far it's hotter than the Cold War but colder than WW2. 

In any event -- yeah, we need to be very careful about Chinese equipment. The CCP is an enemy. 

Uh, were you alive during the cold war? 1950s to 1980s?

Uh, yes. What’s your point? 

I bolded. No, there isn’t even a cold war with China let alone it being hotter than the actual Cold War. 

There is perhaps an economic war, but the USA isn’t participating, so I don’t even you could call USA-China an economic war. 

The thing about a world war is that it involves multiple countries. China is in an axis with Russia, North Korea, and Iran. Russia’s war against Ukraine is very hot indeed. 

It's not hotter than USA troops fighting a war. It's not hotter than being under constant nuclear bombing alert. The USA isn't even in a cold war posture, and really isn't doing much. If we were, we would be racing 24x7 to develop the next generation of war technologies like during the actual Cold War.

If you think it only counts as a war if Americans are dying then I guess ww2 didn’t start until Pearl Harbor 

You literally said the “Cold War” between the USA and this China-Russia-Iran axis is hotter than the cold war between the USSR and the USA. 

No. There isn’t a cold war going on right now let alone it being hotter. During the Cold War, the USA went through two wars with tens of thousands of American dead, was under nuclear alert for about 8 years with nuclear armed bombers circling 24x7, ramped up the nuclear arms race to tens of thousands of nuclear weapons, had them armed sitting in their silos and ships ready to be fired, and the military-industrial complex was going 24x7 to get to the next more deadly set of weapons. 

Maybe a couple times, we were lucky not to have a nuclear exchange where hundreds of millions could have died within a day and hundreds of millions of dying weeks to months later. 

We are still trading partners with China. If this TP-Link company’s products are banned, the USA government would just buy routers from a different Chinese company, or a Chinese made router from an American company. This is true for billions of dollars of other product. If the USA and China were in a cold war, this wouldn’t happen. 

It’s not a war, and it is barely even an economic war. The USA gov’t can barely even work up the gumption to source products they buy to be 100% American, or fund an education system to provide a working populace that can make stuff in a techno-science economy. 

tht said:

blastdoor said:

tht said:

blastdoor said:

tht said:

blastdoor said:

We are either in the early stages of World War 3 (or WW4, if one calls the Cold War WW3), or in the late stages of the pre-war stage. It's akin to the time between Germany's annexation of the Sudetenland in 1938 and the invasion of Poland in 1939. That was a much shorter period of time, but I think it's analogous, in the sense that the writing was clearly on the wall then and it's clearly on the wall now. 

The modern analog to the invasion of Poland might be when China takes Taiwan. That analogy will break down, though, when the US (acting in the analog role to the UK) decides to just let Taiwan go rather than go to war over it. But that won't mean the war is averted, only that it will take longer. 

The main question is just how hot or cold will the war be. So far it's hotter than the Cold War but colder than WW2. 

In any event -- yeah, we need to be very careful about Chinese equipment. The CCP is an enemy. 

Uh, were you alive during the cold war? 1950s to 1980s?

Uh, yes. What’s your point? 

I bolded. No, there isn’t even a cold war with China let alone it being hotter than the actual Cold War. 

There is perhaps an economic war, but the USA isn’t participating, so I don’t even you could call USA-China an economic war. 

The thing about a world war is that it involves multiple countries. China is in an axis with Russia, North Korea, and Iran. Russia’s war against Ukraine is very hot indeed. 

It's not hotter than USA troops fighting a war. It's not hotter than being under constant nuclear bombing alert. The USA isn't even in a cold war posture, and really isn't doing much. If we were, we would be racing 24x7 to develop the next generation of war technologies like during the actual Cold War.