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Hmmm... Sounds like Ulfric Stormcloak. Maybe Bethesda writers were using real world inspiration?
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Hmmm... Sounds like Ulfric Stormcloak. Maybe Bethesda writers were using real world inspiration?
How incompetence. Keystone cops! Lol
Canadian police apologise for throwing away woman’s body after mistaking it for a mannequin
‘We will shine a light on these events over the next few weeks,’ fire chief says
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Canadian police apologise for throwing away woman's body after mistaking it for a mannequin
Authorities in Canada have apologised after they threw the burnt remains of a woman in a dumpster, apparently confusing it with a mannequin.
The heads of the and fire departments in Sherbrooke, made the admission on Thursday in a press conference, local reports said.
Danny McConnell, the Sherbrooke police chief, said during the briefing that fire responders were alerted to a small fire close to a local factory.
“When they arrived, witnesses declared that someone had lit a silicone mannequin on fire,” Mr McConnell said,
Following a discussion, first responders reportedly made the decision to dispose of what they believed to be the mannequin in a dumpster at the Sherbrooke police service, which they said was inaccessible to the public.
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My understanding is that TSMC doesn’t even factor into this shortage, in so far as the industrial sectors are concerned.According to the news, and my guesswork, the global semiconductor chip shortage is mainly a confluence of events and how the industry production timelines operates and perhaps the players in the network influencing each other.
1) There were two distinct events that started it all. One was the Huawei chip ban which lead to a race to finish off production by TSMC to supply Huawei with a stockpile of chips. Two was the pandemic which closed some factories and cause production to ramp up in other types of factories.
2) It takes a few months to complete a chip order, as that is how long production takes. With the pandemic and the rush to get the goods to Huawei, TSMC focused on Huawei it appeared. The pandemic closed the auto factories in the world, therefore no chip order from them. The pandemic caused a surge in electronic equipment demand, who all are in Asia. By the time the western auto factory got back to work and placed their chip orders, TSMC was all booked up. Ford, GM, had to line up and wait.
3) Let's be blunt. Everyone is Chinese. Hislicone goes to TSMC who then forks it over to Huawei. If some white guy from America demands they should be first in line, not sure if anyone is going to listen, everyone will just say they don't speak English. TSMC already got screwed once by President Trump. Who knows what following presidents would do. There would be a great incentive for TSMC to not get screwed later by both sides in the tech war. It is no secret China is domesticating all IC production. TSMC may be selling stuff to a Mr. X in China through the backdoor. Sanctions are made to be evaded. If TSMC wants to guarantee its place in the China market in the future, that is what they will do. That is not too much for them to do, just business, like how they gave Huawei its stockpile of chips.
Look at it this way, corporations are like people, and the greatest instinct for humans is to survive. How does TSMC guarantee it own survival? Pray that President Trump wins the next election? Or be cunning and think for itself?
Then hope it works!
TSMC is concentrating primarily on the cutting edge processes that is 14nm and below. Most chips for industrial use are 28nm+ (as I understand it), this is the bread and butter of SMIC and UMC (Taiwan).
GM had said they hope to transition to 16nm and below chips in the future to diversify suppliers, but obviously it is time consuming and costly.
SMIC had already said about 25% of their business is the US, so sanctions basically prevent this supply from reaching US consumers. Furthermore, UMC had been planning to expand in China until US DOJ charged it with stealing from Micron (in 2018 I think?) which put those plans on hold.
So combined between the sanctions and criminal charges, to me it seems like the US has caused this shortage artificially. Again, I could be wrong as I am neither an expert in economics or semiconductors.
Even if TSMC does end up expanding into the USA, it doesn’t really change anything from a global perspective. Their production has always been fully booked anyway and it would not be used for industrial ICs which do not benefit from the high transistor density since the chips are simpler.
I’ve been saying for a while now that this semiconductor war can potentially hurt the US more than China, and it seems like it’s coming true. The automakers can’t make money since they can’t make cars, the assembly line workers are still laid off, which trickles down to the sales people who don’t get enough cars to sell. Now the used cars prices are through the roof and that is hurting a lot of more modest people who normally don’t shell out top dollar for cars.
I could understand the security concerns behind Huawei equipment bans since back doors are a rich source of information for the CIA and NSA. I think it is naive to think China would be too good to try that themselves. However the much wider scale attempt to destroy the company and other industries in China seemed misguided at best (wholly political at worst) especially since Chinese productivity have probably been the greatest friend to keeping inflation at bay despite the USD printing presses basically running nonstop for the past 10 years.
1. There are only so many fabs around.
2. The 7nm chips and lower gates only account for less than 10% of total chip consumption.
3. TSMC fabs can produce all the chips, high end and low end. If TSMC only makes high end chips, who is going to make the low end chip? When there are only a few fabs around.
4. Since fabs are expensive to build, only a few are built, meaning there are strict limits on capacity. They can only produce so much even running 24x7x365.
5. Too many orders means some people have to wait.
6. Not 100% sure about this point, but this semiconductor output sounds like "Just In Time" production. Once there is disruption in the production schedule, it reverberates down the line. In this case, the result was no chips for GM.
7. It is the fog of trade war and tech war. Since the Chinese were going to get their orders done first, because they kept their factories open, those second in line will wait a little bit and can manage, those third in line will have to wait much longer. Apparently it takes 3 months to complete one chip order for TSMC. The Chinese customer is the biggest for chips. In business, they biggest client always gets priority.
There were a lot of things President Trump did not understand about manufacturing, because his business was real estate and entertainment.
President Trump's actions against TSMC and the pandemic, lead to decisions in the industry that has produced the results we see today.
Yeah, brother, I think TSMC will be fine, and do great in the China in the future.
All they got to do is sneak in chips to Huawei and all is good.
Let's face it. Some white guy somewhere else, did not want 2 Chinese people to do business with each other.
Hey, you're fucking around with our money now. Go fuck yourself.
Notice how no one ever mentions the Huawei stockpile, if or when it runs out.
They talk about the phones, but so what. Xiaomi goes to number #2 in the world, while Huawei goes to #6 or #7, but it remains an undisputed number #1 in 5G networks, which is the important stuff.
Then the Xiaomi 5G phone, connects to the 5G standalone network, that Huawei just built.
And there are voices in the Liberal media who depict this as victory.
What will happen in next in the course of a couple of years, Huawei will get its chips back and reclaim lost market share in the phones, while Xiaomi takes the current windfall, because it will not last, and invests it into their R&D becoming more powerful in the process.
The US Army invented the correct term of this, and that is FUBAR. As in FUBAR thine ass.
plawolf
Lieutenant General
An Israeli supply ship suffered a drone strike resulting in two fatalities. Pretty standard tit-for-tat shadow war between Israel and Iran. Only one of the dead is a British mercenary, so the BBC needed to report on it. Which it did in a very BBC way by describing the Israeli attack on the Iranian supply ship earlier as ‘retaliation’, could not get more BBC then to describe an earlier attack which directly resulted in the attack they are reporting on as ‘retaliation’. Calling it now, the BBC is going full Ministry of Truth, and henceforth, all western acts of blatant aggression shall only be described as pre-emptive retaliation.
"Ministry of Truth"
Exactly:
-I can kidnap the tech giant's daughter, and you must grin or bear it patiently
-I can kill all the Persians I want while my media remains silent and if you dare to respond I will shout out loud
It is the master-slave relationship learned in the "old testament"
The Bible discusses whether the servant can be beaten to death, and there are two voices, the radical voice answers yes because "it is his property", and the (humanist (?) voice says that as long as after the beating he remains alive until nightfall
Marcion wanted to break with the past
The past of a tribal, capricious and bloodthirsty divinity
But he lost the battle
A wise man said: "the passage of time devours the new and only the old remains"
Exactly
The novelty of the early Christians lasted only 250-300 years
Exactly:
-I can kidnap the tech giant's daughter, and you must grin or bear it patiently
-I can kill all the Persians I want while my media remains silent and if you dare to respond I will shout out loud
It is the master-slave relationship learned in the "old testament"
The Bible discusses whether the servant can be beaten to death, and there are two voices, the radical voice answers yes because "it is his property", and the (humanist (?) voice says that as long as after the beating he remains alive until nightfall
Marcion wanted to break with the past
The past of a tribal, capricious and bloodthirsty divinity
But he lost the battle
A wise man said: "the passage of time devours the new and only the old remains"
Exactly
The novelty of the early Christians lasted only 250-300 years
Politicians lie all the time, so Biden doesn't need China to buy actually US treasury to remove Chinese tariffs. The appearance of getting a deal out of China is more important than substance or policy details. It's the same way Trump promised China will pay for tariffs even though US consumers are paying for tariffs and everyone forget about it after a while.
I'd say it's more like Theon Greyjoy/Reek type torture/brainwashing since it fits US modus operandi of breaking ppl down until they lose all sense of self and then building them back up into becoming a slave.
The USG actually really needs China to bail them out now, and badly too; it's like 2008 all over again except this time China under Xi isn't going to look too kindly upon the US especially after the last 13 years; back in 2008, Putin actually asked President Hu to jointly collapse the USD but at the time Hu declined. Chances are, Putin's proposal find a more positive reception in Xi's administration than in 2008 especially after the Anglo betrayal of the Pivot.
The only big loser is gonna be Hilary Clinton who's gonna have to watch her grandkids grow up speaking Chinese.