Potus ???

[GarethM]

9 minutes ago, Steven P said:

No, I can see his goal, he has stated it, but I don't think he is the man who can deliver it. He doesn't have the attention span to see it through, as soon as the protests get a bit louder he'll jump on the popularity bandwagon that he craves. 3 1/2 years is too short a span to turn things his way and in that time he is going to hurt the US consumer, his voters. He won't want to end his tenure to be seen as the President that tanked the Republican vote.

 

As for manufacturing in the Asia, for the next 20 years this is true, and then I see Africa getting a bite at it, will be the manufacturing hub for the world. Green energy you see in Africa, solar, as oil runs down and out those with a lot of power resources will rise to the surface... which is not good news for the US and 'drill baby drill' - those cancer causing windmills will be a necessity. Till then though wages are the key to manufacturing and nothing we can do in the west without a massive upheaval and lower wages.

Electronics manufacturing even 15 years ago was at parity to UK pricing even on low cost items, that's why the raspberry pie was made here by Sony.

 

Manufacturing in Africa won't happen, partly down to corrupt especially in south Africa.

[Steven P]

... assembled in Wales by Sony, chips in recent years have been produced overseas.

 

 

There are many countries in Africa that are not corrupt of course, Rwanda for one. All it takes is a bit of a push, cheap wages, plentiful solar energy are the requirement to surpass China - given that The West send out the designs their education (universities and colleges) can wait till the orders are rolling in - like China did.

 

Like I suggest, when the oil runs out, electrical power will be king. Africa will be there. US, and the west, with high wages and the US dependence on oil, will struggle to compete with manufacturing. They will however keep Trumps tariff inflated prices.

[GarethM]

6 minutes ago, Steven P said:

... assembled in Wales by Sony, chips in recent years have been produced overseas.

 

There are many countries in Africa that are not corrupt of course, Rwanda for one. All it takes is a bit of a push, cheap wages, plentiful solar energy are the requirement to surpass China - given that The West send out the designs their education (universities and colleges) can wait till the orders are rolling in - like China did.

 

Like I suggest, when the oil runs out, electrical power will be king. Africa will be there. US, and the west, with high wages and the US dependence on oil, will struggle to compete with manufacturing. They will however keep Trumps tariff inflated prices.

Not sure of the chipset manufacturer, but they made a lot of the silicon locally, including NXP domestically.

 

No chance of African manufacturing, you're green obsession will not work as oil is not running out any time soon.

[Johnsond]

39 minutes ago, Steven P said:

Like I suggest, when the oil runs out

😂😂😂😂😂😂🤷‍♂️

[Johnsond]

24 minutes ago, GarethM said:

Not sure of the chipset manufacturer, but they made a lot of the silicon locally, including NXP domestically.

 

No chance of African manufacturing, your green obsession will not work as oil is not running out any time soon.

There’s a huge cultural difference between Asian and African labour practices , anyone who’s spent any time or worked there will know that for a fact. I’ll be long gone as will my children and  grandchildren and oil will still be around. 

[Steven P]

42 minutes ago, GarethM said:

Not sure of the chipset manufacturer, but they made a lot of the silicon locally, including NXP domestically.

 

No chance of African manufacturing, you're green obsession will not work as oil is not running out any time soon.

 

All the educated money is on the next 35 years it will be running down seriously.

 

Edity:

You'll probably refute the combined wisdom and editing practices if Wikkipedia, so here is some good old right win press, the Daily Express, on the rare occasion they stopped mourning: 

 

'Exact day the world will finally run out of oil' revealed | World | News | Express.co.uk

WWW.EXPRESS.CO.UK

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Alarmingly the predicted 'end date' is much sooner than many of us may have expected with the estimate likely to fall within many of our lifetimes.

 

Edited yesterday at 20:29 by Steven P

[GarethM]

8 minutes ago, Steven P said:

 

All the educated money is on the next 35 years it will be running down seriously.

 

Edity:

You'll probably refute the combined wisdom and editing practices if Wikkipedia, so here is some good old right win press, the Daily Express, on the rare occasion they stopped mourning: 

 

'Exact day the world will finally run out of oil' revealed | World | News | Express.co.uk

WWW.EXPRESS.CO.UK

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Alarmingly the predicted 'end date' is much sooner than many of us may have expected with the estimate likely to fall within many of our lifetimes.

 

Better get your refund on that "Educated" then.

[Johnsond]

1 hour ago, GarethM said:

Better get your refund on that "Educated" then.

Subjects been covered before Gareth, SP is an expert on this topic and it’s replacement “clean green energy” those of us in the industry apparently know nothing compared to the anonymous individual on arbtalk. I suppose when you commute by train daily the ramifications of lunacy such as the proposed 2030 ban on petrol and diesel car sales don’t worry you too much. I bet the educated money is on private jets and armoured limos still being used at the multiple meetings the ruling elite “ need” to attend every year. 

[Johnsond]

1 hour ago, Steven P said:

Edity:

You'll probably refute the combined wisdom and editing practices if Wikkipedia, so here is some good old right win press, the Daily Express, on the rare occasion they stopped mourning: 

Can the ATL spelling/grammar police give your team mate some assistance 👍

Also for some reason the letter “ y”

is appearing randomly. 

[Mark J]

8 minutes ago, Johnsond said:

Can the ATL spelling/grammar police give your team mate some assistance 👍

Also for some reason the letter “ y”

is appearing randomly. 

You know what Dave. You come across as a proper toddler.