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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Maple MAGA who wrote (1511668)	1/8/2025 8:28:15 PM
From: maceng2	1 Recommendation Recommended By longz Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1580032

Cummings is an interesting one. I had a look at the website, the company history is not there. Found it on Wikipedia though. It's an old American grandaddy company that goes back to 1919. A good sign. Perkin's is well known in the UK of course, but I had to refresh my memory. It started in the 1930's and was bought out by Caterpillar USA. Had a look at the respective company websites. But on to the main thrust of this discussion. A short story. I was on the train from England back up to Scotland and started talking to a business man in the seat opposite me. He was in the Rat Catching business. Now I didn't tell him the location of Wharf Rat as that would be against the Silicon Investor TOU -g- He was looking a bit the worse for wear, and the reason being he was on the return trip from a world wide rat catching convention. There was a party afterwards. An annual event seemingly. He started talking to me about the amazing counterparts he met from Japan. They really knew their business, real experts, I doubt Wharf Rat would would be able to get down the mooring lines before he was caught. He was telling me there were guilds in Japan, hundreds of years old, and that's how they became so good at their business. I told him I was a Deming Advocate, and we had a long discussion on the matter. It's all stuff I picked up in the USA. Returning back to the UK was a big downer because no one has a clue here. Sure there are all sort of companies and consultants that offer help to companies that wish to improve... but it's all lip service really. They really don't know, or they pretend they don't know. There appears to me to be opportunity ahead. It would take a substantial shift in attitude for most people. If a company has an annual review of it's employees (for example) it's not on the right track. I could not find any such companies in the UK, don't know the current status in the USA. There is there door to success imo. Good companies will put the USA in the winning lane. Importantly... better companies. Just to finish off, I re watched this today, sorry, it's another video, and from 2020. Just watch the first minute or so if you have the time. It's on China and USA and Trump. You can ignore the Covid info, its whats important in a crisis that is illuminating imho. It factors in what I have said above.