For those who might be interested in some of the problems I face in my work, ZDNet has an article on AMD that shows the difficulties of mass producing semiconductors.

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I believe in ideals:

No prominent Republican since Dwight Eisenhower is more steeped in military traditions than Mr. McCain — the son and grandson of admirals — and it affects his politics. Conservatives celebrate the individual; liberals emphasize the use of government for the collective good. Mr. McCain’s military tradition melds the two with a message of service that calls on the individual to spend at least part of his or her life serving the nation and that collective good.

Second, he is prone to speak of ideals rather than ideas. His rebelliousness fascinates the Weekly Standard-bred “big idea” school of conservative intellectuals and columnists who hold sway in Washington these days. But this distinction — between ideals and ideas — keeps Mr. McCain one step apart.

“War doesn’t occur in theory,” he said, and his argument for better treatment by the U.S. of its military prisoners is grounded in his own war experience and identification with those Americans sent now to fight overseas. His argument begins with the fact that war is about killing, and that killing exacts a price on all who are touched by it. To help the healing later, he argues, it is crucial that the nation — which sends young people to fight — do everything possible to protect the honor of those soldiers and their sacrifice.

“Those who return to us and those who give their lives are entitled to that honor,” Mr. McCain said in his closing Senate speech. “We are obliged to make clear to them that they need not risk their honor or their country’s honor to prevail: that through the violence, chaos, and heartache of war…that they are always Americans and different better and stronger than those who would destroy us.”

To establish greater clarity, Mr. McCain’s amendment both establishes the Army Field Manual as the standard for the interrogation of prisoners by the U.S. and carries a general prohibition against “the cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment” of detainees. No such language is in the House version of the same budget bill, and having raised a veto threat, the administration will try to narrow the McCain amendment, White House officials and Republican senators say.

What do you believe in?

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There’s an old saying in Tennessee - I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can’t get fooled again.
   -President George W. Bush
    Nashville, Tennessee, September 17, 2002

…because despite being overtly partisan, it hits home to the truth:

During fake-work photo op, Bush denies doing fake-work photo ops

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…body language speaks volumes.

Could this story have been published 12 months ago?

Somehow, I think it would not have.

Often times, stories that reinforce the apparent trends gain the headlines.

Read that as you will.

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