On Dec 31, 2003, at 9:27 AM, Tyler Durden wrote:
"Nowhere in Tim's spew is the recognition that the largest beneficiaries of government favoritism are corporations and wealthy individuals like himself, especially those associated with the greeders of the defense industry, rather the national security state."
Yes...that's the thing I don't fully get. If we assume that Mr May made a big chunk of $$$ at Intel, isn't it rather naive of him to assume that the same system that helped make Intel the global $$$-generator it is isn't the same system that keeps black folks quiescent and so on? I think it's doubtful that Intel could have become what it is in any other country in the world.
What's this nonsense about "keeping black folks quiescent and so on"/ I saw "minorities" practically float under the Golden Gate Bridge in inner tubes, coming from Vietnam. A few years after arriving, they were opening small shops and restaurants, then leading the way to opening "screwdriver shops" for building white box PCs. As with most past "minorities"--Irish, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, etc.--they buckled down and worked their butts off, often living 5-10 to an apartment, saving for the day when they could buy their own house. Huge parts of Sunnyvale and Cupertino, to name just a few of the communities where this happened, became largely Asian during the 1980s. Meanwhile, the "black folk" kept listening to Rev. Jess Jackson and Rev. Al Sharpton tell them that they were owed reparations, that they were owed a series of "entitlements." No suprise that a large fraction of negro teens subscribe to the view that "reading be for whitey." In fact, negroes have invented a whole series of insult terms for those who study too much, for those who break out of the "field worker" status: Uncle Toms, Oreos, etc. Imagine where the Asians would be if Asian kids who did well in science and math were taunted as race traitors? Today, Intel's engineering staff is about 75% "minority," mostly Indians, Chinese, Vietnamese, Koreans, Pakistanis, and assorted other "minorities." More than half of all entering students at Berkeley, in all majors summed together, are Asian. At Intel, we had very, very, very few blacks apply for engineering jobs. I recall three of them, and one of them was from Sierra Leone, not the U.S. All three left after various problems of their own making. When I was interviewing candidates for engineering, I interviewed a bunch of Asians, about the same number of whites, and no negroes. Not by my choice, but because the negroes had largely ghettoized themselves into Black Studies, Sociology, and Yoruba/East African languages, or had not made it to graduation. There are no negroes in senior high tech positions at any of the companies I am in investor in for some very obvious reasons. "Math be for whitey. Reading be for whitey. We be owed repa-ations for diskiminashun!!"
Add to that the fact that Mr May seems to lead a fairly bucolic life (from his accounts)...working in his gardens, installing tripwires and landmines and so forth, apparently without worrying about cash or physical needs. So this system has served him pretty well, insofar as there was a place for him to apply his skills in order to make his $$$. That system was payed for by somebody else's taxes, and now it's asking (well, demanding from) him for some $$$ that he apparently can easily afford.
Nonsense. The chip companies were NOT "payed for by somebody else's taxes." (Nor was the invention of the IC or the microprocessor paid for by DARPA or anyone else in government, despite factually incorrect lore to the contrary. I was there, at least for the onset of the micro, and I can say precisely what role government contracts played: none.) Engineers and scientists who work an estimated 8 months out of each year to pay their taxes (Federal plus state plus local plus payroll plus property plus sales plus.....) see the minority layabouts working not one _day_ for their "entitlements" and "benefits" and "social services." Do the math, unless you think math be for whitey.
Therefore, any thought system that has as a corrollary "...and 40 million negros should die..." should immediately be suspect of having been based on a foundation of non-mathematical muck, likely relating to penis envy and getting rejected by some hot black chick Mr May tried to date back in 1957 or whatever.
You are contemptible. --Tim May