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In a reaction to the Dutch government taking control of Xperia:
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/dutch-government-takes-control-of-chinese-owned-chipmaker-nexperia.html
China now has issued an export stop of Xperia chips:
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/international-trade/china-puts-export-controls-on-nexperia-after-dutch-takeover
Which chips and semiconductors does Xperia make?:
https://www.nexperia.com/
Are you affected?
Well, we have elections in the Netherlands on October 29,
so who knows what the next goverment will do..
On Tue, 14 Oct 2025 13:03:12 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
wrote:
In a reaction to the Dutch government taking control of Xperia:
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/dutch-government-takes-control-of-chinese-owned-chipmaker-nexperia.html
China now has issued an export stop of Xperia chips:
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/international-trade/china-puts-export-controls-on-nexperia-after-dutch-takeover
Which chips and semiconductors does Xperia make?:
https://www.nexperia.com/
Are you affected?
We use 6 Nexperia parts, but none are especially unique. Diodes
mostly, one cmos schmitt trigger.
Well, we have elections in the Netherlands on October 29,
so who knows what the next goverment will do..
Should be interesting. Things seem to be oscillating rightward lately, common-sense, anti-immigration, more oil and gas.
Wiki says that you have 15 political parties! This parliamentary thing,
with governments falling, no confidence votes, snap elections, forming coalitions, sounds chaotic to me.
As it must have sounded to the guys who wrote our Constitution.
On Tue, 14 Oct 2025 13:03:12 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
wrote:
In a reaction to the Dutch government taking control of Xperia:
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/dutch-government-takes-control-of-chinese-owned-chipmaker-nexperia.html
China now has issued an export stop of Xperia chips:
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/international-trade/china-puts-export-controls-on-nexperia-after-dutch-takeover
Which chips and semiconductors does Xperia make?:
https://www.nexperia.com/
Are you affected?
We use 6 Nexperia parts, but none are especially unique. Diodes
mostly, one cmos schmitt trigger.
john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>wrote:
On Tue, 14 Oct 2025 13:03:12 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>wrote:
In a reaction to the Dutch government taking control of Xperia:
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/dutch-government-takes-control-of-chinese-owned-chipmaker-nexperia.html
China now has issued an export stop of Xperia chips:
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/international-trade/china-puts-export-controls-on-nexperia-after-dutch-takeover
Which chips and semiconductors does Xperia make?:
https://www.nexperia.com/
Are you affected?
We use 6 Nexperia parts, but none are especially unique. Diodes
mostly, one cmos schmitt trigger.
Well, we have elections in the Netherlands on October 29,
so who knows what the next goverment will do..
Should be interesting. Things seem to be oscillating rightward lately, >common-sense, anti-immigration, more oil and gas.
Wiki says that you have 15 political parties! This parlimentary thing,
with governments falling, no confidence votes, snap elections, forming >coalitions, sounds chaotic to me. As it must have sounded to the guys
who wrote our Constitution.
On 10/14/2025 10:38 AM, john larkin wrote:
On Tue, 14 Oct 2025 13:03:12 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
wrote:
In a reaction to the Dutch government taking control of Xperia:
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/dutch-government-takes-control-of-chinese-owned-chipmaker-nexperia.html
China now has issued an export stop of Xperia chips:
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/international-trade/china-puts-export-controls-on-nexperia-after-dutch-takeover
Which chips and semiconductors does Xperia make?:
https://www.nexperia.com/
Are you affected?
We use 6 Nexperia parts, but none are especially unique. Diodes
mostly, one cmos schmitt trigger.
Where would I get my 74HC595s without them
john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>wrote:
On Tue, 14 Oct 2025 13:03:12 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>wrote:
In a reaction to the Dutch government taking control of Xperia:
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/dutch-government-takes-control-of-chinese-owned-chipmaker-nexperia.html
China now has issued an export stop of Xperia chips:
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/international-trade/china-puts-export-controls-on-nexperia-after-dutch-takeover
Which chips and semiconductors does Xperia make?:
https://www.nexperia.com/
Are you affected?
We use 6 Nexperia parts, but none are especially unique. Diodes
mostly, one cmos schmitt trigger.
Well, we have elections in the Netherlands on October 29,
so who knows what the next goverment will do..
Should be interesting. Things seem to be oscillating rightward lately,
common-sense, anti-immigration, more oil and gas.
Yes, and there is a strong anti-Russia jive.
Especially in the EU from it's head Ursula von der Leyen (Von der Lying I say).
She was minister of defense before that in Germany.
It is all about putting money into defense now
Trump wants war in Europe so US can sell more weapons, F35 ..
Wiki says that you have 15 political parties! This parlimentary thing,
with governments falling, no confidence votes, snap elections, forming
coalitions, sounds chaotic to me. As it must have sounded to the guys
who wrote our Constitution.
Better more parties than 2 always blocking each other?
Or one big one for the people, like in China?
France also has a problem, Macron does not want to go, wants reforms.
I have made up my mind already what to vote for..
I do want better relations with Russia.
But will probably a minority vote.
Russofobia is fueled by the current EU head von der Lying.
Few weeks ago she was complaining her flight was delayed by Russians messing with GPS and that the pilots needed charts
Bit strange, as there is radar everywhere here and there
(pilot to airport 'please give me a heading to your airport).
Unfortunately https://www.flightradar24.com/50.99,-0.31/6 showed it was all bull and the plane kept sending its GPS positiion all the time
it just had a small delay waiting for busy airport traffic.
https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/bulgaria-u-turns-on-claim-moscow-jammed-gps-of-von-der-leyen-s-plane/ar-AA1LShRL
Where will it go?
WW3?
Or will ths USA now just fall apart into different states / countries?
john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>wrote:
On Tue, 14 Oct 2025 13:03:12 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>wrote:
In a reaction to the Dutch government taking control of Xperia:
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/dutch-government-takes-control-of-chinese-owned-chipmaker-nexperia.html
China now has issued an export stop of Xperia chips:
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/international-trade/china-puts-export-controls-on-nexperia-after-dutch-takeover
Which chips and semiconductors does Xperia make?:
https://www.nexperia.com/
Are you affected?
We use 6 Nexperia parts, but none are especially unique. Diodes
mostly, one cmos schmitt trigger.
Well, we have elections in the Netherlands on October 29,
so who knows what the next goverment will do..
Should be interesting. Things seem to be oscillating rightward lately,
common-sense, anti-immigration, more oil and gas.
Yes, and there is a strong anti-Russia jive.
Especially in the EU from it's head Ursula von der Leyen (Von der Lying I say).
She was minister of defense before that in Germany.
It is all about putting money into defense now
Trump wants war in Europe so US can sell more weapons, F35 ..
Wiki says that you have 15 political parties! This parlimentary thing,
with governments falling, no confidence votes, snap elections, forming
coalitions, sounds chaotic to me. As it must have sounded to the guys
who wrote our Constitution.
Better more parties than 2 always blocking each other?
Or one big one for the people, like in China?
France also has a problem, Macron does not want to go, wants reforms.
I have made up my mind already what to vote for..
I do want better relations with Russia.
But will probably a minority vote.
Russofobia is fueled by the current EU head von der Lying.
Few weeks ago she was complaining her flight was delayed by Russians messing with GPS and that the pilots needed charts
Bit strange, as there is radar everywhere here and there
(pilot to airport 'please give me a heading to your airport).
Unfortunately https://www.flightradar24.com/50.99,-0.31/6 showed it was all bull and the plane kept sending its GPS positiion all the time
it just had a small delay waiting for busy airport traffic.
https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/bulgaria-u-turns-on-claim-moscow-jammed-gps-of-von-der-leyen-s-plane/ar-AA1LShRL
Where will it go?
WW3?
Or will ths USA now just fall apart into different states / countries?
On 10/14/2025 11:54 AM, Jan Panteltje wrote:
john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>wrote:
On Tue, 14 Oct 2025 13:03:12 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>wrote:
In a reaction to the Dutch government taking control of Xperia:
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/dutch-government-takes-control-of-chinese-owned-chipmaker-nexperia.html
China now has issued an export stop of Xperia chips:
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/international-trade/china-puts-export-controls-on-nexperia-after-dutch-takeover
Which chips and semiconductors does Xperia make?:
https://www.nexperia.com/
Are you affected?
We use 6 Nexperia parts, but none are especially unique. Diodes
mostly, one cmos schmitt trigger.
Well, we have elections in the Netherlands on October 29,
so who knows what the next goverment will do..
Should be interesting. Things seem to be oscillating rightward lately,
common-sense, anti-immigration, more oil and gas.
Yes, and there is a strong anti-Russia jive.
Especially in the EU from it's head Ursula von der Leyen (Von der Lying I say).
She was minister of defense before that in Germany.
It is all about putting money into defense now
Trump wants war in Europe so US can sell more weapons, F35 ..
Wiki says that you have 15 political parties! This parlimentary thing,
with governments falling, no confidence votes, snap elections, forming
coalitions, sounds chaotic to me. As it must have sounded to the guys
who wrote our Constitution.
Better more parties than 2 always blocking each other?
Or one big one for the people, like in China?
France also has a problem, Macron does not want to go, wants reforms.
I have made up my mind already what to vote for..
I do want better relations with Russia.
But will probably a minority vote.
Russofobia is fueled by the current EU head von der Lying.
Few weeks ago she was complaining her flight was delayed by Russians messing with GPS and that the pilots needed charts
Bit strange, as there is radar everywhere here and there
(pilot to airport 'please give me a heading to your airport).
Unfortunately https://www.flightradar24.com/50.99,-0.31/6 showed it was all bull and the plane kept sending its GPS positiion all the time
it just had a small delay waiting for busy airport traffic.
https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/bulgaria-u-turns-on-claim-moscow-jammed-gps-of-von-der-leyen-s-plane/ar-AA1LShRL
Where will it go?
WW3?
Or will ths USA now just fall apart into different states / countries?
Each state already has widely different laws, it would just mean doing >pretty much the same thing except more border security at state lines. >What's the point of that. It would just tank the restaurant and tourism >industry and make it much harder to traffic cigarettes drugs and liquor >around.
70% of the US economy is consumer spending it would just put every state >that did that out of business.
bitrex <user@example.net>wrote:
On 10/14/2025 11:54 AM, Jan Panteltje wrote:
john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>wrote:
On Tue, 14 Oct 2025 13:03:12 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>wrote:
In a reaction to the Dutch government taking control of Xperia:
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/dutch-government-takes-control-of-chinese-owned-chipmaker-nexperia.html
China now has issued an export stop of Xperia chips:
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/international-trade/china-puts-export-controls-on-nexperia-after-dutch-takeover
Which chips and semiconductors does Xperia make?:
https://www.nexperia.com/
Are you affected?
We use 6 Nexperia parts, but none are especially unique. Diodes
mostly, one cmos schmitt trigger.
Well, we have elections in the Netherlands on October 29,
so who knows what the next goverment will do..
Should be interesting. Things seem to be oscillating rightward lately,
common-sense, anti-immigration, more oil and gas.
Yes, and there is a strong anti-Russia jive.
Especially in the EU from it's head Ursula von der Leyen (Von der Lying I say).
She was minister of defense before that in Germany.
It is all about putting money into defense now
Trump wants war in Europe so US can sell more weapons, F35 ..
Wiki says that you have 15 political parties! This parlimentary thing,
with governments falling, no confidence votes, snap elections, forming
coalitions, sounds chaotic to me. As it must have sounded to the guys
who wrote our Constitution.
Better more parties than 2 always blocking each other?
Or one big one for the people, like in China?
France also has a problem, Macron does not want to go, wants reforms.
I have made up my mind already what to vote for..
I do want better relations with Russia.
But will probably a minority vote.
Russofobia is fueled by the current EU head von der Lying.
Few weeks ago she was complaining her flight was delayed by Russians messing with GPS and that the pilots needed charts
Bit strange, as there is radar everywhere here and there
(pilot to airport 'please give me a heading to your airport).
Unfortunately https://www.flightradar24.com/50.99,-0.31/6 showed it was all bull and the plane kept sending its GPS
positiion all the time
it just had a small delay waiting for busy airport traffic.
https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/bulgaria-u-turns-on-claim-moscow-jammed-gps-of-von-der-leyen-s-plane/ar-AA1LShRL
Where will it go?
WW3?
Or will ths USA now just fall apart into different states / countries?
Each state already has widely different laws, it would just mean doing >pretty much the same thing except more border security at state lines. >What's the point of that. It would just tank the restaurant and tourism >industry and make it much harder to traffic cigarettes drugs and liquor >around.
70% of the US economy is consumer spending it would just put every state >that did that out of business.
bitrex <user@example.net>wrote:
On 10/14/2025 11:54 AM, Jan Panteltje wrote:
john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>wrote:
On Tue, 14 Oct 2025 13:03:12 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> >>>> wrote:
In a reaction to the Dutch government taking control of Xperia:
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/dutch-government-takes-control-of-chinese-owned-chipmaker-nexperia.html
China now has issued an export stop of Xperia chips:
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/international-trade/china-puts-export-controls-on-nexperia-after-dutch-takeover
Which chips and semiconductors does Xperia make?:
https://www.nexperia.com/
Are you affected?
We use 6 Nexperia parts, but none are especially unique. Diodes
mostly, one cmos schmitt trigger.
Well, we have elections in the Netherlands on October 29,
so who knows what the next goverment will do..
Should be interesting. Things seem to be oscillating rightward lately, >>>> common-sense, anti-immigration, more oil and gas.
Yes, and there is a strong anti-Russia jive.
Especially in the EU from it's head Ursula von der Leyen (Von der Lying I say).
She was minister of defense before that in Germany.
It is all about putting money into defense now
Trump wants war in Europe so US can sell more weapons, F35 ..
Wiki says that you have 15 political parties! This parlimentary thing, >>>> with governments falling, no confidence votes, snap elections, forming >>>> coalitions, sounds chaotic to me. As it must have sounded to the guys
who wrote our Constitution.
Better more parties than 2 always blocking each other?
Or one big one for the people, like in China?
France also has a problem, Macron does not want to go, wants reforms.
I have made up my mind already what to vote for..
I do want better relations with Russia.
But will probably a minority vote.
Russofobia is fueled by the current EU head von der Lying.
Few weeks ago she was complaining her flight was delayed by Russians messing with GPS and that the pilots needed charts
Bit strange, as there is radar everywhere here and there
(pilot to airport 'please give me a heading to your airport).
Unfortunately https://www.flightradar24.com/50.99,-0.31/6 showed it was all bull and the plane kept sending its GPS
positiion all the time
it just had a small delay waiting for busy airport traffic.
https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/bulgaria-u-turns-on-claim-moscow-jammed-gps-of-von-der-leyen-s-plane/ar-AA1LShRL
Where will it go?
WW3?
Or will ths USA now just fall apart into different states / countries?
Each state already has widely different laws, it would just mean doing >>pretty much the same thing except more border security at state lines. >>What's the point of that. It would just tank the restaurant and tourism >>industry and make it much harder to traffic cigarettes drugs and liquor >>around.
70% of the US economy is consumer spending it would just put every state >>that did that out of business.
From a state point of view, Texas with its oil could become really rich selling it :-)
And it could unite with Mexico for cheaper drugs, :-)
Same sort of reasoning for other states that have useful stuff, say food, tourist places, cattle..
No global Mafia boss in a gold plated dark house with extra space for his balls in a new ballroom
who fires people to get media attention.
He did not stop the war in Gaza, all buildings were destroyed, no more US bombs needed,
and now the creep wants the rest of the world to rebuild it for his golfing attempts.
john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>wrote:
On Wed, 15 Oct 2025 07:40:16 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>wrote:
bitrex <user@example.net>wrote:
On 10/14/2025 11:54 AM, Jan Panteltje wrote:
john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>wrote:
On Tue, 14 Oct 2025 13:03:12 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> >>>>> wrote:
In a reaction to the Dutch government taking control of Xperia:
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/dutch-government-takes-control-of-chinese-owned-chipmaker-nexperia.html
China now has issued an export stop of Xperia chips:
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/international-trade/china-puts-export-controls-on-nexperia-after-dutch-takeover
Which chips and semiconductors does Xperia make?:
https://www.nexperia.com/
Are you affected?
We use 6 Nexperia parts, but none are especially unique. Diodes
mostly, one cmos schmitt trigger.
Well, we have elections in the Netherlands on October 29,
so who knows what the next goverment will do..
Should be interesting. Things seem to be oscillating rightward lately, >>>>> common-sense, anti-immigration, more oil and gas.
Yes, and there is a strong anti-Russia jive.
Especially in the EU from it's head Ursula von der Leyen (Von der Lying I say).
She was minister of defense before that in Germany.
It is all about putting money into defense now
Trump wants war in Europe so US can sell more weapons, F35 ..
Wiki says that you have 15 political parties! This parlimentary thing, >>>>> with governments falling, no confidence votes, snap elections, forming >>>>> coalitions, sounds chaotic to me. As it must have sounded to the guys >>>>> who wrote our Constitution.
Better more parties than 2 always blocking each other?
Or one big one for the people, like in China?
France also has a problem, Macron does not want to go, wants reforms.
I have made up my mind already what to vote for..
I do want better relations with Russia.
But will probably a minority vote.
Russofobia is fueled by the current EU head von der Lying.
Few weeks ago she was complaining her flight was delayed by Russians messing with GPS and that the pilots needed charts
Bit strange, as there is radar everywhere here and there
(pilot to airport 'please give me a heading to your airport).
Unfortunately https://www.flightradar24.com/50.99,-0.31/6 showed it was all bull and the plane kept sending its GPS
positiion all the time
it just had a small delay waiting for busy airport traffic.
https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/bulgaria-u-turns-on-claim-moscow-jammed-gps-of-von-der-leyen-s-plane/ar-AA1LShRL
Where will it go?
WW3?
Or will ths USA now just fall apart into different states / countries? >>>>
Each state already has widely different laws, it would just mean doing >>>pretty much the same thing except more border security at state lines. >>>What's the point of that. It would just tank the restaurant and tourism >>>industry and make it much harder to traffic cigarettes drugs and liquor >>>around.
70% of the US economy is consumer spending it would just put every state >>>that did that out of business.
From a state point of view, Texas with its oil could become really rich selling it :-)
And it could unite with Mexico for cheaper drugs, :-)
Same sort of reasoning for other states that have useful stuff, say food, tourist places, cattle..
No global Mafia boss in a gold plated dark house with extra space for his balls in a new ballroom
who fires people to get media attention.
He did not stop the war in Gaza, all buildings were destroyed, no more US bombs needed,
and now the creep wants the rest of the world to rebuild it for his golfing attempts.
The gazans, and really everybody, would be much better off. Maybe we
can get the Iranians and the Chinese hooked on golf. Cuba would make a
nice golf resort too, with fancy rum drinks.
The US has astounding resources. One reason we won WWII is because we
have so much oil and some Texans figured out how to make 150 octane
aviation fuel. The Sun Oil refinery in Texas made the Spitfire fuel
that won the Battle of Britain.
And we fed our troops over twice the calories as our enemies could.
I read that the Mississippi valley has more miles of navigable
waterways that the rest of the world combined. Napoleon sold it to the
USA specifically to make to make the US into a power to rival England.
serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1974.
john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>wrote:
On Wed, 15 Oct 2025 07:40:16 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> >>wrote:
bitrex <user@example.net>wrote:
On 10/14/2025 11:54 AM, Jan Panteltje wrote:
john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>wrote:
On Tue, 14 Oct 2025 13:03:12 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> >>>>>> wrote:
In a reaction to the Dutch government taking control of Xperia:
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/dutch-government-takes-control-of-chinese-owned-chipmaker-nexperia.html
China now has issued an export stop of Xperia chips:
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/international-trade/china-puts-export-controls-on-nexperia-after-dutch-takeover
Which chips and semiconductors does Xperia make?:
https://www.nexperia.com/
Are you affected?
We use 6 Nexperia parts, but none are especially unique. Diodes
mostly, one cmos schmitt trigger.
Well, we have elections in the Netherlands on October 29,
so who knows what the next goverment will do..
Should be interesting. Things seem to be oscillating rightward lately, >>>>>> common-sense, anti-immigration, more oil and gas.
Yes, and there is a strong anti-Russia jive.
Especially in the EU from it's head Ursula von der Leyen (Von der Lying I say).
She was minister of defense before that in Germany.
It is all about putting money into defense now
Trump wants war in Europe so US can sell more weapons, F35 ..
Wiki says that you have 15 political parties! This parlimentary thing, >>>>>> with governments falling, no confidence votes, snap elections, forming >>>>>> coalitions, sounds chaotic to me. As it must have sounded to the guys >>>>>> who wrote our Constitution.
Better more parties than 2 always blocking each other?
Or one big one for the people, like in China?
France also has a problem, Macron does not want to go, wants reforms. >>>>> I have made up my mind already what to vote for..
I do want better relations with Russia.
But will probably a minority vote.
Russofobia is fueled by the current EU head von der Lying.
Few weeks ago she was complaining her flight was delayed by Russians messing with GPS and that the pilots needed charts
Bit strange, as there is radar everywhere here and there
(pilot to airport 'please give me a heading to your airport).
Unfortunately https://www.flightradar24.com/50.99,-0.31/6 showed it was all bull and the plane kept sending its GPS
positiion all the time
it just had a small delay waiting for busy airport traffic.
https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/bulgaria-u-turns-on-claim-moscow-jammed-gps-of-von-der-leyen-s-plane/ar-AA1LShRL
Where will it go?
WW3?
Or will ths USA now just fall apart into different states / countries? >>>>>
Each state already has widely different laws, it would just mean doing >>>>pretty much the same thing except more border security at state lines. >>>>What's the point of that. It would just tank the restaurant and tourism >>>>industry and make it much harder to traffic cigarettes drugs and liquor >>>>around.
70% of the US economy is consumer spending it would just put every state >>>>that did that out of business.
From a state point of view, Texas with its oil could become really rich selling it :-)
And it could unite with Mexico for cheaper drugs, :-)
Same sort of reasoning for other states that have useful stuff, say food, tourist places, cattle..
No global Mafia boss in a gold plated dark house with extra space for his balls in a new ballroom
who fires people to get media attention.
He did not stop the war in Gaza, all buildings were destroyed, no more US bombs needed,
and now the creep wants the rest of the world to rebuild it for his golfing attempts.
The gazans, and really everybody, would be much better off. Maybe we
can get the Iranians and the Chinese hooked on golf. Cuba would make a
nice golf resort too, with fancy rum drinks.
The US has astounding resources. One reason we won WWII is because we
have so much oil and some Texans figured out how to make 150 octane >>aviation fuel. The Sun Oil refinery in Texas made the Spitfire fuel
that won the Battle of Britain.
And we fed our troops over twice the calories as our enemies could.
I read that the Mississippi valley has more miles of navigable
waterways that the rest of the world combined. Napoleon sold it to the
USA specifically to make to make the US into a power to rival England.
This morning, in a discussion in an other group about the value of gold vesrus the US dollar
I wrote:
https://www.macrotrends.net/1333/historical-gold-prices-100-year-chart
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 rCo April 22, 1994)
was the 37th president of the United States,
serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1974.
He decoupled the US dollar from the gold standard.
Ever since 1970 gold has been rising (US dollar falling)
see above graph from 1970 to today.
On Wed, 15 Oct 2025 15:22:32 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
wrote:
john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>wrote:
On Wed, 15 Oct 2025 07:40:16 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>wrote:
bitrex <user@example.net>wrote:
On 10/14/2025 11:54 AM, Jan Panteltje wrote:
john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>wrote:
On Tue, 14 Oct 2025 13:03:12 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> >>>>>>> wrote:
This morning, in a discussion in an other group about the value of gold vesrus the US dollar
I wrote:
https://www.macrotrends.net/1333/historical-gold-prices-100-year-chart
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 |ore4rCL April 22, 1994)
was the 37th president of the United States,
serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1974.
He decoupled the US dollar from the gold standard.
Ever since 1970 gold has been rising (US dollar falling)
see above graph from 1970 to today.
Are the pound and euro tied to gold?
The british pound used to be worth $5. Now it's about $1.30.
The euro is down to $1.15, so the pound and the euro have fallen more
vs gold than the dollar.
I'd expect the pound and the euro to continue declining vs the dollar.
john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>wrote:
On Wed, 15 Oct 2025 15:22:32 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>wrote:
john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>wrote:
On Wed, 15 Oct 2025 07:40:16 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> >>>wrote:
bitrex <user@example.net>wrote:
On 10/14/2025 11:54 AM, Jan Panteltje wrote:
john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>wrote:
On Tue, 14 Oct 2025 13:03:12 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> >>>>>>> wrote:
In a reaction to the Dutch government taking control of Xperia: >>>>>>>> https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/dutch-government-takes-control-of-chinese-owned-chipmaker-nexperia.html
China now has issued an export stop of Xperia chips:
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/international-trade/china-puts-export-controls-on-nexperia-after-dutch-takeover
Which chips and semiconductors does Xperia make?:
https://www.nexperia.com/
Are you affected?
We use 6 Nexperia parts, but none are especially unique. Diodes
mostly, one cmos schmitt trigger.
Well, we have elections in the Netherlands on October 29,
so who knows what the next goverment will do..
Should be interesting. Things seem to be oscillating rightward lately, >>>>>>> common-sense, anti-immigration, more oil and gas.
Yes, and there is a strong anti-Russia jive.
Especially in the EU from it's head Ursula von der Leyen (Von der Lying I say).
She was minister of defense before that in Germany.
It is all about putting money into defense now
Trump wants war in Europe so US can sell more weapons, F35 ..
Wiki says that you have 15 political parties! This parlimentary thing, >>>>>>> with governments falling, no confidence votes, snap elections, forming >>>>>>> coalitions, sounds chaotic to me. As it must have sounded to the guys >>>>>>> who wrote our Constitution.
Better more parties than 2 always blocking each other?
Or one big one for the people, like in China?
France also has a problem, Macron does not want to go, wants reforms. >>>>>> I have made up my mind already what to vote for..
I do want better relations with Russia.
But will probably a minority vote.
Russofobia is fueled by the current EU head von der Lying.
Few weeks ago she was complaining her flight was delayed by Russians messing with GPS and that the pilots needed charts
Bit strange, as there is radar everywhere here and there
(pilot to airport 'please give me a heading to your airport).
Unfortunately https://www.flightradar24.com/50.99,-0.31/6 showed it was all bull and the plane kept sending its GPS
positiion all the time
it just had a small delay waiting for busy airport traffic.
https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/bulgaria-u-turns-on-claim-moscow-jammed-gps-of-von-der-leyen-s-plane/ar-AA1LShRL
Where will it go?
WW3?
Or will ths USA now just fall apart into different states / countries? >>>>>>
Each state already has widely different laws, it would just mean doing >>>>>pretty much the same thing except more border security at state lines. >>>>>What's the point of that. It would just tank the restaurant and tourism >>>>>industry and make it much harder to traffic cigarettes drugs and liquor >>>>>around.
70% of the US economy is consumer spending it would just put every state >>>>>that did that out of business.
From a state point of view, Texas with its oil could become really rich selling it :-)
And it could unite with Mexico for cheaper drugs, :-)
Same sort of reasoning for other states that have useful stuff, say food, tourist places, cattle..
No global Mafia boss in a gold plated dark house with extra space for his balls in a new ballroom
who fires people to get media attention.
He did not stop the war in Gaza, all buildings were destroyed, no more US bombs needed,
and now the creep wants the rest of the world to rebuild it for his golfing attempts.
The gazans, and really everybody, would be much better off. Maybe we
can get the Iranians and the Chinese hooked on golf. Cuba would make a >>>nice golf resort too, with fancy rum drinks.
The US has astounding resources. One reason we won WWII is because we >>>have so much oil and some Texans figured out how to make 150 octane >>>aviation fuel. The Sun Oil refinery in Texas made the Spitfire fuel
that won the Battle of Britain.
And we fed our troops over twice the calories as our enemies could.
I read that the Mississippi valley has more miles of navigable
waterways that the rest of the world combined. Napoleon sold it to the >>>USA specifically to make to make the US into a power to rival England.
This morning, in a discussion in an other group about the value of gold vesrus the US dollar
I wrote:
https://www.macrotrends.net/1333/historical-gold-prices-100-year-chart
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 rCo April 22, 1994)
was the 37th president of the United States,
serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1974.
He decoupled the US dollar from the gold standard.
Ever since 1970 gold has been rising (US dollar falling)
see above graph from 1970 to today.
Are the pound and euro tied to gold?
The british pound used to be worth $5. Now it's about $1.30.
The euro is down to $1.15, so the pound and the euro have fallen more
vs gold than the dollar.
I'd expect the pound and the euro to continue declining vs the dollar.
On 16/10/2025 3:06 am, john larkin wrote:
On Wed, 15 Oct 2025 15:22:32 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
wrote:
john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>wrote:
On Wed, 15 Oct 2025 07:40:16 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> >>>> wrote:
bitrex <user@example.net>wrote:
On 10/14/2025 11:54 AM, Jan Panteltje wrote:
john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>wrote:
On Tue, 14 Oct 2025 13:03:12 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> >>>>>>>> wrote:
<snip>
This morning, in a discussion in an other group about the value of gold vesrus the US dollar
I wrote:
https://www.macrotrends.net/1333/historical-gold-prices-100-year-chart
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 rCo April 22, 1994)
was the 37th president of the United States,
serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1974.
He decoupled the US dollar from the gold standard.
Ever since 1970 gold has been rising (US dollar falling)
see above graph from 1970 to today.
Are the pound and euro tied to gold?
The british pound used to be worth $5. Now it's about $1.30.
The euro is down to $1.15, so the pound and the euro have fallen more
vs gold than the dollar.
I'd expect the pound and the euro to continue declining vs the dollar.
The exchange rate for the US dollar has declined since Trump returned to >power, largely because of his tariffs. His erratic choices mean that
nobody knows what the US dollar will be worth next week and people don't >like to hold any more of them than they have to. Your expectation
strikes me as ill-founded.
On Thu, 16 Oct 2025 16:17:10 +1100, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
wrote:
On 16/10/2025 3:06 am, john larkin wrote:
On Wed, 15 Oct 2025 15:22:32 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
wrote:
john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>wrote:
On Wed, 15 Oct 2025 07:40:16 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> >>>>> wrote:
bitrex <user@example.net>wrote:
On 10/14/2025 11:54 AM, Jan Panteltje wrote:
john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>wrote:
On Tue, 14 Oct 2025 13:03:12 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>wrote:
<snip>
This morning, in a discussion in an other group about the value of gold vesrus the US dollar
I wrote:
https://www.macrotrends.net/1333/historical-gold-prices-100-year-chart >>>>
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 |ore4rCL April 22, 1994)
was the 37th president of the United States,
serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1974.
He decoupled the US dollar from the gold standard.
Ever since 1970 gold has been rising (US dollar falling)
see above graph from 1970 to today.
Are the pound and euro tied to gold?
The british pound used to be worth $5. Now it's about $1.30.
The euro is down to $1.15, so the pound and the euro have fallen more
vs gold than the dollar.
I'd expect the pound and the euro to continue declining vs the dollar.
The exchange rate for the US dollar has declined since Trump returned to
power, largely because of his tariffs. His erratic choices mean that
nobody knows what the US dollar will be worth next week and people don't
like to hold any more of them than they have to. Your expectation
strikes me as ill-founded.
The US federal corporate tax rate is now 21%, down from 35. Suits me
just fine, although of course I'd prefer zero.
On 17/10/2025 1:58 am, john larkin wrote:
On Thu, 16 Oct 2025 16:17:10 +1100, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
wrote:
On 16/10/2025 3:06 am, john larkin wrote:
On Wed, 15 Oct 2025 15:22:32 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
wrote:
john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>wrote:
On Wed, 15 Oct 2025 07:40:16 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> >>>>>> wrote:
bitrex <user@example.net>wrote:
On 10/14/2025 11:54 AM, Jan Panteltje wrote:
john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>wrote:
On Tue, 14 Oct 2025 13:03:12 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>wrote:
<snip>
This morning, in a discussion in an other group about the value of gold vesrus the US dollar
I wrote:
https://www.macrotrends.net/1333/historical-gold-prices-100-year-chart >>>>>
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 rCo April 22, 1994)
was the 37th president of the United States,
serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1974.
He decoupled the US dollar from the gold standard.
Ever since 1970 gold has been rising (US dollar falling)
see above graph from 1970 to today.
Are the pound and euro tied to gold?
The british pound used to be worth $5. Now it's about $1.30.
The euro is down to $1.15, so the pound and the euro have fallen more
vs gold than the dollar.
I'd expect the pound and the euro to continue declining vs the dollar.
The exchange rate for the US dollar has declined since Trump returned to >>> power, largely because of his tariffs. His erratic choices mean that
nobody knows what the US dollar will be worth next week and people don't >>> like to hold any more of them than they have to. Your expectation
strikes me as ill-founded.
The US federal corporate tax rate is now 21%, down from 35. Suits me
just fine, although of course I'd prefer zero.
The US has worse income inequality than any other advanced industrial >country, and this is associated with social problems.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spirit_Level_(Wilkinson_and_Pickett_book)
Trump and his crony capitalism is making it worse.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inequality_by_Design
makes the point that the US makes lots of deliberate choices that make >inequality worse.
The downside of lowering the US federal corporate tax rate is that
social services have to be paid for out of other revenue, and while this >makes the corporate sector happy, the people who work for the
corporations will be less happy.
The MAGA movement is driven by people who are unhappy about the way US >society works for them, and think that Trump is going to change things.
They have yet to wake up to the fact that he is changing things in a way >that won't help them at all. He may not end up dangling from a lamp
post, but Mussolini did.
As to the subject line,
I was reading Germany is now sounding the alarm for its car manufacturing industry
as it uses lots of nexperia chips.
Those German cars made in the US? Are there any?
, what about chips for those?
I was also reading on my phone that US drivers above 70 years old need more tests like eye test etc to renew their license...
Can you still drive?
On Fri, 17 Oct 2025 07:28:09 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
wrote:
As to the subject line,
I was reading Germany is now sounding the alarm for its car manufacturing industry
as it uses lots of nexperia chips.
Those German cars made in the US? Are there any?
Google says there are.
, what about chips for those?
I was also reading on my phone that US drivers above 70 years old need more tests like eye test etc to renew their license...
Can you still drive?
A few years ago I had to take a test to renew my drivers license. It
wasn't difficult. I scored 100% on the written part and passed the eye
test easily. There was no actual driving test.
In California, you only need one eye to drive.
I didn't renew the motorcycle part. I'm over that. It's chilly and
dangerous.
I opened a satellite design center near home and usually walk to work.
It's about half a mile each way, but a few hundred vertical feet. Nice
walk, mostly on green dirt lanes or though the canyon. I drive on
nasty days, and for shopping and skiing and such.
Clicking a mouse all day isn't very aerobic, and walking is good for thinking.
Nexperia now has mosfets that are designed for good dynamic current
sharing when used in parallel. The transfer curves are very tightly controlled. Laser trimmed or something I guess.
Why do europeans put the table of contents at the end of a data sheet?
John Larkin
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
Why do europeans put the table of contents at the end of a data sheet?