Yeah, our provincial Premier talks a tough-game, but he is always quick to walk things back. Now he gets to travel to DC and "negotiate", with one of Trump's underlings - the Premier does not have the legal mandate to negotiate a federal agreement (USMCA) - however, a federal minister is also attending - but until our new Prime Minister fully takes on the role and our parliament comes back in session, doubtful they will do anything. We will see what happens Thursday or Friday - other schools of thought may indicate the Doug (Ontario Premier) and federal leadership had a talk to not provoke the bear any further - as these "51st state" comment and directions from Trump are escalating.
> As the number of components in circuits grew, the number of manufacturing steps also grew, and manufacturing error rates multiplied—a device with one thousand components, each of which a skilled worker could connect with 99.9% reliability, had a 63% chance of having at least one defective connection. The search for an end to this “tyranny of numbers” drove many research projects in the late 1950s, most of them funded by the various arms of the United States military, all of whom foresaw an unending appetite for ever-more-sophisticated electronics to control their weaponry and defense systems. The military-funded projects included “micro-modules” (individual components that would snap together like tinkertoys), “microcircuits” (wires and passive components etched onto a ceramic substrate into which active components, like transistors, could be connected), and “molecular electronics” (nanotechnology avant la lettre).[3]
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