Boeing going Chinese

[zack1234]

"Take care of ourselves"

Do you think the President has any real power or the "People"

I would not wish anyone to lose thier jobs.

There will no revolutions only more TV channels.

I stopped reading 'real" books years ago, not the kak on wikidiot or those massage ego justyfying kak you all read.

Comsumerism is awesone.

The new update is awesome.

Its the Iluminaty or lizard mens fault.

I wonder what the new Adolf is doing at the moment

Waiting me thinks

[Mar]

Zack rules.

[PJ_Godzilla]

I wonder what the new Adolf is doing at the moment

Actually, I'm at work right now.

[Brooke]

Its the Iluminaty or lizard mens fault.

Zack, they aren't supposed to know about the Lizard Men until after the "event"!

[Brooke]

Trust me...after more than 30 years in these things, there isn't any technology in a 737 that's worth stealing.

There usually still is know how that businesses should protect, even for 737's and even for Coca Cola.  Consider GM and cars.  Until I worked there, I would have thought that there is no new tech to worry about being stolen for something as mundane as a car.  Then I worked for Chevy Engineering for a few years and saw why places still have to be concerned about industrial espionage.  There are tech tweaks even to things that seem mundane.  There is a lot of tech not just in the product itself but in the equipment that makes or tests the product.  There are processes that, while not being patentable technologies, are ways of doing things that work well but are not generally known.

[Ratsy]

I wonder what the new Adolf is doing at the moment

Waiting me thinks

Zack - you are quite hopeless but in an amusing and thoughtful way.  That is why you totally rule the remnants.  In darker moments one can see the historical parallels between the decline of the post-war British Empire and what is happening to America today. 

History will be kinder to you than us, perhaps.  The dismantling of the greatest empire in history could have occurred with a lot less grace.  Americans are watching their own decline in the guise of 'Whiney Babies'.  Disgusting, yes?  To one of your inferences, there is nothing more frightening in the world than a potential resurrection of nationalism.  But they are not saying that in Tehran, Beijing or Moscow.  Rushing to fill the vacuum?

Read more kak is my advice to you.  It helps one get through the darker moments.

Ashamed of three paragraphs for simple thoughts,

 

[PJ_Godzilla]

To one of your inferences, there is nothing more frightening in the world than a potential resurrection of nationalism.  But they are not saying that in Tehran, Beijing or Moscow.  Rushing to fill the vacuum?

I note that, in Germany, and in an interesting historical parallel to the last time internationalism was thrust on Der Volk, the nationalist party has also seen a resurgence, not that German nationalism is any cause for concern...

My own take: there is much to say for nationalism. We could use a dose of it here regarding the wholesale export of US capital. An intelligent incentives-based industrial policy might be worthwhile. Consider Norwegian and Korean shipbuilding as an upside of a nationalist industrial policy.

Of course, some of the other elements of it can be more troublesome, but, as with all of the 'isms", implementation to fact is a critical and often damning step.

[NatCigg]

You can fight it all you want but its just bussines.  Boing makes more planes, good for them. Airbus did not get the contract 

[PJ_Godzilla]

You can fight it all you want but its just bussines.  Boing makes more planes, good for them. Airbus did not get the contract 

I'm actually okay with it myself. I note that we here at the Big F make sure that we take as much advantage as we can of low cost country sourcing. It's a competitiveness and survival issue.

However, I think it behooves the US government to try to incentivize on-shoring. Understand, our corporate rates are very high. While corporation pass taxes on to the consumer, there is an asymmetry if you're a US based corporation paying the top rate in the world trying to compete with a foreign competitor who pays a lower rate. You get a penalty for being US-based, effectively.

[zack1234]

Korean ship building

where do they get the money to build ships

Japan.... they were told by US to invest in Korea or trade tariffs would be envoked by the US

google it


Free markets 

Not been a free market since 1946

blah blah blah

[PJ_Godzilla]

Korean ship building

where do they get the money to build ships

Japan.... they were told by US to invest in Korea or trade tariffs would be envoked by the US

THAT'S an example of Industrial Policy - and No, it is not a Free Market mechanism. But it has its' upside. Norway does something similar internally with some hide-the-pea cost relief. Fungibility...

[zack1234]

See Rule #14

[zack1234]

 

I am going to bed to dream about AHIII.

 

[Ratsy]

Fungibility...

I have seen that term used in the conversations justifying the movement of jobs off-shore. 

"Tech workers are fungible.  Manage to that." - Advice given to senior management at a company I once worked for.

I can't tell you how much I hate it when savvy businessmen equate people with families to sacks of grain (or name a commodity).

But I might be going all Pinko.  I'm glad Zack is sleeping at this hour.

 

[Brooke]

"Tech workers are fungible.  Manage to that." - Advice given to senior management at a company I once worked for.

Businesses that "manage to that" are fungible.