Xilinx announced job losses today.
I'm glad that this manufacturer of military grade semiconductor technology is leaving this country.
Make your guided missile components, fighter jet control systems and military communications chips elsewhere.
This is a neutral country, not some safe-haven for weapons companies.
Hear hear!
Let's forget about the 130 people who lost their jobs. Sure there's plenty more out there to be had.
Do you realise how many people have been killed by guided missiles in the Gaza strip in recent months?Originally Posted by super pedestrian
The Xilinx engineers will have no trouble getting jobs elsewhere. And if making killing machines is their ambition in life, I'm sure there are plenty of places in the world they can find refuge in.
as someone who knows the company well, and also someone who just lost their job, this is about as senseless and as insensitive a comment as one could make.
so some points... Xilinx devices can be dual purpose (like many technologies including any and all microprocessors) but by far it is a civilian technology, mostly used to power our telecommunications networks. their devices are general purpose reconfigurable logic blocks, they can be used for anything.
so perhaps you're a bit quick off the mark..
secondly the people who just lost their jobs have nothing to do with some military-industry complex, they were just doing their jobs, design and selling civilian technologies... don't really think you should cheer the devestation that will be hitting those homes tonight..
so lets sum it up... insensitive, condescending... oh and ignorant
they didn't let go the design engineers, just clerical and production test staff.. yup... easy to find replacement jobs
The Xilinx workers were just working to earn a wage and provide for their families. They Weren't going to work every day, hopping into a plane, and bombing the F**k out of gaza.
Last edited by super pedestrian; 16th April 2009 at 02:00 AM.
Sadly FF has long ago consigned our neutrality to the status of a long running joke
PS - Also highlights the folly of having ones economy relying too heavily on multinationals and all the BS about having to accommodate there every whim and that of their country of origin(mostly the US in Irelands case). Hence the carry on with Shannon AP and the American trooops, indulgence of Shell in Mayo etc. etc. The apologists for all this don't get the fact that these companies are here to make quick money, nothing else matters and they are just as likely to F-Off to another country in the morning if it pays them eg Dell, Bauch and Lombe etc.
Are military grade semiconductors any different from civilian grade semiconductors?
Factorem, you're a begrudging ************************* if you are glad that 130 people are out of a job. 130 people who were working hard to keep their families in food, clothes and shelter. They didn't bomb anyone.
By the way, who makes your car?
Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are, and those few dare not oppose themselves to the opinion of the many, who have the majesty of the state to defend them.
- [SIZE=2]Niccolò Machiavelli[/SIZE]
factorm is just taking the piss
What does the Irish President spend their time doing. Work in progress
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