Posted on 02/11/2017 4:50:43 AM PST by Kaslin
Yesss, and silicon is sand/quartz that by human intervention and the expenditure of a LOT of energy was converted to the pure element. But the energy arrow is in the direction to reconvert back to sand. Why do you think they have to enclose chips in hermetically sealed "cans"?
Note...never argue chemistry with a PhD Chemist.
you are correct..... I stand down
Sand is not pure silicon
In 1964, California actually began a rightward trend when Southern California Republican voters put conservative Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.) over to be the party’s presidential standard bearer. In the fall, although the state went heavily for President Johnson, California voters split their tickets and elected conservative actor George Murphy to the US Senate. Later, Californians launched Ronald Reagan on his road to the presidency by electing him governor.
As late as 1986, Californians elected a conservative—George Deukmejian—to the state house.
CA has been able to flirt with collectivism because of their terminal addiction with Fed dollars. They don’t have the revenue to go alone and be the sugar daddy for so many dependent people and projects. No doubt most of their voters are not aware of this.
Not to mention they are dependent on other states for water and electricity.
We can agree to a Hong Kong style of control for San Diego. I doubt the Californistanis would give a damn about keeping Fort Irwin and extending that to be a part of AZ or NV--not that we'd need to keep NTC. You wouldn't believe how much open space we have at Fort Bliss, TX, for doing the exact same mission. Would the Marines care about losing 29 Stumps? Doubtful, but, again there's lots of room other places for them that are probably not as crappy.
I say let 'em leave.
I’m conservative. California leaving wouldn’t wreck my world, but them leaving, we could stop it with deportation and a little force. If they do leave, how many of those millions are moving to other states ? Hopefully not many.
Last time this issue came up the Union made a big deal about a pile of rock and brick in the Cooper River. That cost us 600,000 dead. Are we to make that mistake again?
If Portugal can figure out how to be a country then CA could do it. There is no economic or physical reason why CA cannot be a country. The problems are purely political.
I’m conservative. California leaving wouldn’t wreck my world, but them leaving, we could stop it with deportation and a little force. If they do leave, how many of those millions are moving to other states ? Hopefully not many.
I thought it was a runway and a couple of golf courses? :0)
I agree, though. We let them leave, we establish some trade deals for the ports and produce CA is so famous for, and their massive internal problems are on them.
My one caution, however--in a fit of panic as their 'national' economy falters, I could see a sizeable agreement with China, to include basing rights, as a viable possibility. That's not a scenario to take lightly.
China or any other belligerent country would be foolish to put bases so close to the USA. Not happening.
I say, give it one last chance before we write it off.
It is like so many on FR consider it a hellhole. If it is, and if the law of supply and demand holds true, then why are rents and home prices so high in the Bay Area, den of marxism and degeneracy that is supposedly is? If it’s so anti-business, why is the unemployment rate, at least in my deep deep blue area, low, especially for anyone with tech skills?
Personal opinion- the vast majority of citizens are moderate and sane; the MSM (and plenty on FR) pay orders of magnitude more attention to the loony .02 percent. For every protester you see at Berkeley there are hundreds of normal kids studying, working second jobs and living normal lives.
Vandenberg’s a bit more than a couple of runways and a golf course.
Of course, we could legally treat it the way we treated Guantanamo Bay after Castro took over Cuba.
****Why do you think they have to enclose chips in hermetically sealed “cans”?****
I know of no uses for hermetically sealed silicon. All industrial uses for pure silicon allow surface silicon dioxide, in fact count on it.
Dear LIBs: Please don’t come to where I live with your crappy LIB ideas. You are despised and ridiculed here.
We could build AF bases all over the west. Think of the economic activity.
If this ever comes to pass, it seems to me that the southern part would secede and the northern part would become the new 50th [not 51st] state
Regarding state pension collapses, in anticipation of same, republicans should move legislation to disallow federal incorporation or assumption of any state or local pension system. Americans shouldn’t be saddled with paying for stupid local democrat policies.
Just think. We will be getting rid of all those Hollywood loonie tunes too!
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