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- We need to be manufacturing much more of our pharmaceuticals (including the vital precursor chemicals) here. In US plants (Europe as well). It is awful that we have to put up with Chicom threats to cutting us off our pharma. I understand that many pharma companies strongly resist this (higher costs, they are not ready, etc.). Well TS. We should have started this process a long time ago.
- Similarly we need to start mining Rare Earth metals here in North America (Europe has some deposits as well). These are vital to new technologies and for alternative energy (inc. electric cars). We have to break down the barriers to opening rare earth mines, and to build the processing plants to turn the minerals into useful products (magnets, etc.).
- And we need to produce more electronic components here in North America and Europe. Trump has already suggested to Tim Cook that Apple building more plants here in the USA would be a good idea. We are very dependent on China in components as well.
Sure. Won't happen without government intervention or *lack* of government intervention. The key truth about capitalism is that it's a race to the bottom to produce items and a race to top to price items. If one company makes widgets in the us for $1.00 and someone else can make it for $.1 in Crapistan, then people will buy from Crapistan, especially if the other true costs (risks, shipping, etc) can be hidden. Lack of Govt intervention is not bailing these companies out when things go bad. That won't happen. Government intervention includes laws requiring things to be sourced locally, but then the people who can make short term profits in China will scream about evil socialism all day. Not as simple as you think. Plus even if you do things now people will forget about this in a year.
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April 03, 2020, 04:31:08 PM |
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- We need to be manufacturing much more of our pharmaceuticals (including the vital precursor chemicals) here. In US plants (Europe as well). It is awful that we have to put up with Chicom threats to cutting us off our pharma. I understand that many pharma companies strongly resist this (higher costs, they are not ready, etc.). Well TS. We should have started this process a long time ago.
- Similarly we need to start mining Rare Earth metals here in North America (Europe has some deposits as well). These are vital to new technologies and for alternative energy (inc. electric cars). We have to break down the barriers to opening rare earth mines, and to build the processing plants to turn the minerals into useful products (magnets, etc.).
- And we need to produce more electronic components here in North America and Europe. Trump has already suggested to Tim Cook that Apple building more plants here in the USA would be a good idea. We are very dependent on China in components as well.
Sure. Won't happen without government intervention or *lack* of government intervention. The key truth about capitalism is that it's a race to the bottom to produce items and a race to top to price items. If one company makes widgets in the us for $1.00 and someone else can make it for $.1 in Crapistan, then people will buy from Crapistan, especially if the other true costs (risks, shipping, etc) can be hidden. Lack of Govt intervention is not bailing these companies out when things go bad. That won't happen. Government intervention includes laws requiring things to be sourced locally, but then the people who can make short term profits in China will scream about evil socialism all day. Not as simple as you think. Plus even if you do things now people will forget about this in a year. You are likely correct. It would take a LOT of money and a lot of time. I am not naive when it comes to the above. It's also a complex set of problems with lots of moral hazards, as you hint at in your comment. It's a tough road ahead, whether we go down that path, or leave us open to future disasters. I can't pretend to know the future. What I sketch out above (and in the other thread) just seems to make sense that we undertake some smart rebuilding.
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do you need glasses? ![Roll Eyes](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/rolleyes.gif) REDTUBE and PORNHUB are photoshoped by an amateur. ![Grin](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/grin.gif) EDIT: seems faked in several ways. ![](https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FntCYfP0.png&t=665&c=UHi8AAMx2kjKzQ) Including the fact he couldn't even spell Treasury correctly ![Cheesy](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/cheesy.gif) Lol. Hellicoopter mony ?
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April 03, 2020, 04:53:17 PM |
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Some issues to take care of, about 80 pages behind.
Totally OT question - which uninstaller program for Windows would you recommend?
Revo uninstaller While on this tangent, what's a decent free antivirus? Sick of popups and ads. On windows I keep the windows one.
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April 03, 2020, 05:31:38 PM |
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$7,000 acting as some fucking weird psychological sell off point. Weird bears!
Let's see how well they will be able to do it in about a month with BTC/2 ![Grin](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/grin.gif)
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April 03, 2020, 05:34:47 PM Merited by BobLawblaw (1) |
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WO itself is a large forum.
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April 03, 2020, 05:39:32 PM |
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While on this tangent, what's a decent free antivirus? Sick of popups and ads.
I believe Windows Defender that ships with Win 10 is a respectable product in its own right. Not sure there is a need for further antivirus solutions unless you are looking for protection against more esoteric threats. Also, stop clicking so many random URLs, you absolute dingus. ![Kiss](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/kiss.gif) +1 Windows Defender is ok. Most other antiviruses are actually malware
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April 03, 2020, 05:42:55 PM |
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bets on when the JJGbot overtakes chart buddy?
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April 03, 2020, 05:47:16 PM |
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While on this tangent, what's a decent free antivirus? Sick of popups and ads.
Install the Brave browser. It filters out ads at the browser level. Ads from the antivirus software itself. Kaspersky in my current case, Avast before that. Also youtube notifications don't work on brave. I'm following quite a few channels. Kaspersky? It means Putin has direct access to your desktop, he's possibly watching you RIGHT NOW! ![Cool](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/cool.gif)
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April 03, 2020, 05:58:50 PM |
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Very little talk about the halving, ~40 days before the halving. Way less than a few months ago. Bullish.
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April 03, 2020, 06:03:11 PM Last edit: April 03, 2020, 07:03:29 PM by V8s Road Warrior |
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Good Lord HairyMacLairy is a very spammy person. Should probably banned. ![Grin](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/grin.gif) wait, oh LoyceV, you've got 3 Ludwig Von 's 0.O 2 pacman7331 's lots of these nyms are gembitz/haiight/vision20/owz
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April 03, 2020, 06:10:20 PM |
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bets on when the JJGbot overtakes chart buddy?
Do you think it will be this year? I think we can for sure say before the halvening after next...so that gives us a one to four yearish time frame? Or do you think he will have a sudden tourettes spasm of postings between now and the coming halvening? We have to narrow down the nature of the bet I think...but I am in. ![Cheesy](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/cheesy.gif) ![](https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FJBKtc1a.gif&t=665&c=3OSuSAOiaGYhcg)
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April 03, 2020, 06:22:36 PM |
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Very little talk about the halving, ~40 days before the halving. Way less than a few months ago. Bullish.
Let us first survive against the corona pandemic. In the mean time, keep buying as much as you can.
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April 03, 2020, 06:33:17 PM |
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So I took a snippet of a recent JJG comment and put it into a prompted language generator (talktotransformer.com) and got the following: Yeah, I know that the terms of bitcoin and cryptocurrency are really ongoingly convoluted in mainsteam discussions too, I could easily follow a post like, "let's focus on politics and maybe pick a side," that's not how I think about it. The point I'm trying to make is that if we were to find another operating system that is even more decentralised than bitcoin, then suddenly it's not such a bizarre concept.
So where does JJG's actual words end? ![Cheesy](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/cheesy.gif)
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April 03, 2020, 06:37:16 PM |
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Shit just got real.
Man, I am worried about the number of people who will lose their current job. Imagine the number of people who are in private sector and are in contractual work. Those private companies will have crisis of money and they will cut the employee.
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April 03, 2020, 06:42:56 PM |
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Yeah i am an idiot lol…
Well, at least you're honest... wait...maybe not
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April 03, 2020, 06:49:38 PM |
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April 03, 2020, 06:54:22 PM |
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What the hell costs $300 on Pornhub? Premium stimulus... with requisite social distancing compliance, of course.** ** Note: a friend told me this, via e-mail. ![Wink](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
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