Picks and Pans

While talking with some friends about a person looking to 'retrain' as a Linux admin (after 21 years as an IT person), someone made a humorous comment.

I had been ranting about Walmart employees being the largest group of comsumers of free state health care (because they get no health coverage from their employeer).

He suggested the person become a Linux admin for Walmart in China while, at the same time, trying to organize a union.

That seemed to summarize my views perfectly :-)

I personally this it's shameful that the nation's largest employeer is 'taxing' people like me who pay state income tax. It appears I'm personally subsidizing the Walmart corporation.

Here another article about corporations free-loading off the state.

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I think I've seen this in the news before, but I liked it so much I thought I'd add it in.

This is a device that detects when a radial saw is about to cut your finger and instantly stops the saw. The demo (on a hot dog) is amazing.

SawStop LLC was formed to make active devices for woodworking equipment.

It would be great to work for a place like that and feel really good about what you are doing, instead of say, helping exploit low paid Chinese workers while helping to polute the Chinese countryside all to create a lower cost product.

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I found an interesting article in EE Times about Philips and 90nm fab. It talked about the upcoming LPC3000 familty of ARM cpu's from Philips, with biult in flash and ram. Looks like it has a ARM926F core and 64k of sram.

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