Re: Is the government actually learning some economic theory?
Of course Ricardo missed out on the bit where you stop anybody else selling you the bits where they have an advantage - because they're foreign that's an unfair advantage.
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We could just ban foreign companies form buying brilliant innovative British companies.
Of course this means that brilliant innovative British inventors know that if they start their company in Britain they have no chance of cashing out. But that's OK because the VCs also know this so will know not to invest in a British company.
Of course the brilliant innovative British inventor could just go somewhere else. But that's OK because somehow in politics headline "$$$ US company was founded by a British inventor who moved to US" is a good headline while "$$$$ British company sold to US company" is a bad headline
But don't they also punish disloyalty?
The guy that answered all the .Net questions on Stackoverflow had to hand in his badge when he got a job at Google.
Or just remove the seats = The infamous Chicken Tax
It does leave open the question, do the police have to prove they are encrypted files, or do you have to prove they aren't ?
I used to work at a physics project that spent years generating insane quantities of random numbers mathematically indistinguishable from encrypted data
>Ha!........innocent until proved guulty.......
But you are guilty of failing to hand over your passwords when asked
"Section 49 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA) allows law enforcement to demand a suspect hand over the password to encrypted files (which they refer to as “key to protected material”), or to provide unencrypted copies of the material that agencies are after. If a suspect refuses to do this, it is considered an offence and, under section 53 of the same law, carries the possibility of up to two years imprisonment, and up to five years if the case is one of national security."
That's the nice thing about the law. When circumvention is a crime, we're all criminals
So the next time the Met accidentally shoot somebody for treading on the cracks in the pavement or possession of an offensive wife - they can produce evidence of VPN use to show he was a child abuser/terrorist/drug smuggler.
Probably politics.
Adopting StrongARM threatened the x86 group's budget / executives bonuses. Given that it's Intel they probably have a VP for every individual instruction.
So the VP of SIMD has a chat with an investor/board member at the country club about concentrating on core business to enhance shareholder value.
Similarly when everyone else is going to TSMC, the VP of fabs has a word with a few friendly journalists about how the foolish CEO is abandoning Intel's heritage as the leader of America's semiconductor industry
I might have expected the CEO of a CPU company to have noticed ARM / Mobile / GPU / Fabless etc a decades ago and have been building up a plan
But they were probably busy leasing back 'the machine that goes ping' from the company they sold it to , so it comes out of a different budget
(And this guy was once an engineer and has been at Intel forever - so he has even less excuse than the round of parachuted in MBA types)
Our parent company (Cthullu International) only uses laptops for 1000s of mindless cubicle demons and salespeople.
All they do is on O365 / Teams. They just want thin, light, shiny and nice screens - they don't care about microcode complexity
Only engineers get desktops, Windows for CAD /or Linux for development.