Posted on 09/06/2021 12:38:01 PM PDT by blam
The concept of maximizing stockholder value at the expense of just about everything else is a ruthless, capitalistic practice.
“How’s that flat screen tv workin for ya? Want that black and white 200 lb CRT back?”
We might be better turning off the tv too.
“Back in 1950s, you’d be lucky to get 50k out of a car.”
We can go back to the early 2000s. I had a US car that today would be considered minimal computerization, and got 17 years + 312,000+ miles ... until someone rear-ended me and totaled it.
There was no “black box” on board, etc etc.
Adaption is needed to survive sometimes. There’s a silver lining here. And remember, the overseas guys are worried too - because if they don’t have it, they can’t sell it. Then what? Let them sweat.
My thought on EMPs: Our enemies are dependent on us buying stuff from them. An EMP attack would make that impossible. Worldwide very deep depression would be the result. Just like nukes, it’s a mutual suicide move.
Unfortunately, that logic doesn’t apply to suicidal Islamists.
No. There are over 10,000 different types of microprocessors made. It is a shortage of silicon wafers and crystal doping agents. (Rare earth metals) Production lagged, now they can’t catch up due to the heavy demand.
That is a remarkable inaccurate statement for this point in history. Almost everything uses semiconductors.
Except the diodes in the alternator.
Esau not Jacob.
Ping
“Almost everything uses semiconductors.”
It is by government mandate that appliances use semiconductors, not that they need them.
That is just plain silly. Semiconductors are used to provide the feature sets that customers will purchase. Those features provide convenience, economy, and functionality not available any other way.
Nah, I know how to make a lot of cool stuff, including vacuum tubes. All by myself I can put us in the early 1900s; and, there is better talent out there than I.
It is plain silly that the government mandates semiconductors in appliances.
I got one of the last non-semiconductor washing machines made before the government mandates came into law.
There are no government mandates for solid state devices in appliances. If you want to assert this, please post published evidence.
I’ve got a few fairly good Dell towers and maybe a laptop sitting around that collect dust mostly.
They’ve been Linux boxes sometimes.
One was a development server with Win 7 still on it. I keep thinking I will load up some of my old games. Hasn’t happened yet.
I’ve had them on nextdoor some along with flat panel monitors, DBAN wiped and priced cheap, nobody cared.
WInning and coming out NUMBER ONE requires LEADERSHIP.
U.S. is currently sadly lacking in LEADERSHIP.
Department of Energy has been controlling appliance manufacturing since 1988. Code of Federal regulations have been become stricter every year.
Speed Queen was the last cloths washer manufacturer to use non-electronic machines. The company statement said they would no longer be able to manufacture their non-electronic cloths washers after December (of 2019?) in order to meet government mandates. Go look up the CFR’s yourself and see what you can manufacture under their mandates.
American business is too short sighted...
Too much of the outsourcing is a response to government regulations from wage and hour, insurance, environmental, and taxes. Companies determined it was ultimately cheaper to move manufacturing to countries where they could underpay and overwork employees, including children, discharge pollution into waterways the land and the air without a peep from big brother, and operating taxes were minimized. Fifty years of liberalism forced American companies to abandon their home nation.
Maybe that’s why my repairman told me to keep repairing my old machine. He said “you have one of the old good ones, don’t scrap it, keep repairing it.” I am.
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