https://youtu.be/yosanp3OtLg
Hey guys.
My father often bluntly hollered at me: if you don't know what you're talking about, shut up. I always remembered that. However, as much as I appreciated my father's flair and panache for mathematics and electronics, considering he retrained as an electrical engineer when he arrived in Australia, after 9 years or so. Keeping in mind he already had a degree in law and economics in his home country. As a child I was often interested to shadow pursue his hobbies in this area. This really peaked mathematically when I was around 11 years old in 6th grade as I was doing comprehensive amounts of my father's first year university mathematics, very advanced mathematics.
Even my father who always seemed wont to be a Debby downer and a Nelly naysayer, while he certainly couldn't say anything negative about my amazing maths feats, certainly didn't seem to be particularly impressed by it either.
Anyway. Some years later I turned my hand to programming and was completely satisfied after a month or so of programming that I had mastered the necessary principles. However I wasn't a capable hacker, and while I did try to hack into a few banks, with my latest model Hewlett Packard and modem, I never did figure that out.
For a certainty, since our TRS-80 home computer in 1980 on to the Apple 2e and Hewlett Packard, we always had the most modern, state of the art home computing technology and I was always well aware of their potential. My father was either a clepto-maniac at work or else self entitled at appropriating company products liberally. We always got around in his (generally newish) company car (after he ditched his Volkswagen Passat he bought new), the former was always government owned (perk). The car owner, the national phone carrier, was government owned, until privatization in 1996 when CABLE TV finally arrived in Australia. Of course I wasn't in Australia for most of this watershed year except for July, kicking it in Spain, as it were.
My father taught me the principles of electronics and the relevant maths (although I taught myself much more advanced mathematics) along with soldering. He also had a pre LCD screen digital wristwatch when it was kind of red lights but no liquid crystal LCD screen such as used in the 70s and a Texas Instruments calculator of the same vintage. Very old. Even my brother was employed for a while in his pre schizo medications drugged out phase by a company that specialised in making electronic circuit boards.
So I consider myself fairly knowledgeable from a technical perspective on these matters and am familiar with Moore's law. Or mo-mo-m-m-mu-mu-mu-moore's law, if you will.
HOWEVER, everyone has there own unique learning curves and I was not aware with precision, until now, about the actual complexity of the industry as it stands today in that it's so international and controlled by a particular group of Wassenaar convention nations (including Bulgaria, Spain and Australia, along with 39 or so others, and not including China). I actually need to re-watch this documentary to make better sense of it. Yes I can certainly make circuitry myself, no question.
https://youtu.be/yosanp3OtLg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wassenaar_Arrangement
They're saying in December 2019 the agreement was altered to include photo lithography equipment. While I've never even read about this equipment before ever. And remembering I was always told to shut up if I didn't know what I was talking about, I'd hazard to say that the chip circuitry is so wildly advanced these days, considering that actual SINGLE electrons are passing down these incredibly small circuits in single file. That's like you walking down a super narrow passageway only wide enough for one. So photo lithography, if I could talk to an expert about it, I'd very quickly understand the principles.
China is very keen to master this technology however as it's dispersed throughout so many nations, not one nation even has the eleven secret herbs and spices. So China's government, through incompetence and corruption, has created yet another government scheme incentivizing the mastery of this field however it's not possible as the sophistication is off the charts and people in China are abusing and scamming the scheme to rort money from it. Sometimes China can be dangerously incompetent.
Consider that NASA had so much money, they spent so much money trying to invent an anti gravity pen with ink in it. The Russians simply used a pencil in space and wasted no time or money.
Recently I was trying to explain to an American guy that our elections in Australia are uncorrupted thanks to using pencils (not computers). America's election system is hopelessly compromised by Facebook, drop boxes, Dominion computer manipulation. Media bought out by China with no actual money from readers due to internetization. They have been so defunded by the internet and loss of paper hard copy, they have projected their subsequent loss of funding and competency onto the police! Can you imagine? Or 'reimagine public safety' (OMG, see what I mean about us having a problem, Houston?).
Well you wouldn't even have noticed if all you cared about was circuitry and you were involved in these top tier companies like Siemens (gulp, yes I said it), that produces this Top Gun technology.
Creep creep Glock Glock, nigga not those chips...
https://youtu.be/D5-bD372v5s
Yep, I had to say, while I realised my father had his preferences for fiction and movies, I think the only fictional and movie character we both seemed to like was Sean Connery maybe as James Bond and maybe dirty harry. Mostly my father looked like a real facha de mierda as the younger generation of Spaniards say: a shitty facist. Also my brother. Definitely my sister Trish also. Definitely me too sometimes, no doubt. There's a little shitty facist possibly in every Spaniard, kind of like how we have a glass and a half of full cream milk in every 200 gram block of Cadbury's chocolate here in Australia.
So no doubt I wouldn't go trying to interest my father in my ideas for movies, dance, choreography, world wars, or whatever. I did value some of his opinions though, for example, when some big organisation like the WTO tried meeting in Seattle these facist nutjob kids that try representing themselves as antifa, were alive and kicking in the year 2000, battling cops. Crazy. Definitely my father was pro law and order. If you can imagine someone like Napoleon kind of just canon balling all the rioters and guillotining Robespierres, that was his brand of law and order: suppressing riots.
Here's the battle of Toulon, yer fuggen shluts. Not a suppression of rioters but just a regular Republican battle against Spanish British forces.
https://youtu.be/DRUx61plsz4
So if we can talk about China again. Their leader considers Stalin to be a role model and you absolutely have to believe him when he says that. He's crushed many of his potential rivals internally, amongst the military cadre (extremely corrupt) and really made a show of rooting out corruption which is mostly just showboating and bullshit. He has personally requested the State brutally crush the Uyghurs into submission (evil like the Nazis). Built up the Navy, yada yada. As mentioned earlier, I cannot understand why general Jack Keane on fox news channel says China's east coast is so well stacked with missiles it's unassailable. My understanding is America has submarine superiority and can win a shooting war there. My understanding is America has tremendous vulnerability in its GPS system and new Space Force with regards to protecting its own GPS satellites and inability to knock out China's own GPS if need be. Again, I don't know if China can even manage a war due to being a paper tiger and a showboater without actual spine and competence to prosecute a war properly. So it's unlikely China would do well in a normal shooting war against America and allies in my opinion. I do not think they're anxious to war, however there are so many conflicting interests in the south China sea factoring in Japan, Vietnam, Phillipines. Taiwan. So many flashpoints. Very easy for a war to break out there, regardless of how China or others see things. Not least because China is showboating around and puffing their chests out (bullying on the high seas, hogging resources in the Pacific.)
