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Hardware Manufacturing in China's 'Hot Zone'
solferino writes "'Anything you can make for $100, we can make for $40,' Chen says, summing up his commercial philosophy.
An interesting profile in Wired magazine of the computer hardware manufacturing 'hot zone', situated around the pearl river delta in mainland china, just outside Hong Kong.
The factories are mostly financed and operated by Taiwanese business interests. The article looks at life and business in the city mainly from the point-of-view of these 'foreigners'."
track7.org has all kinds of interesting stuff!
Let's hear it for sweatshops!
May we never see th
Well, anything you can make for $40 I can break for free!
Beat that!
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American Translation: Anything that you can do for 100 dollars we can do for 40 but now its gonna be made out of cardboard, cheap plastic and rubberbands. Maybe a paperclip or two if necessary.
See picture on the first page of the story.
Is that a mouse in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
Man, if I had benefits like that at work, I'd work harder too!
"any ting you want."
"Anything?"
"Anyting"
"'Anything you can make work for 1 year, we can make work for 4 days,' Chen says, summing up his commercial philosophy.'"
War crimes, torture, lies, illegal spying... Would someone give Bush a blowjob, already, so he can be impeached?
'Anything you can make for $100, we can make for $40'
I can produce $100 bills for $100 each. If I can purchase some from you for $40 each (and I want real US $100 bills, not those cheap counterfits), I will buy all you have.
Hmmm... but I guess you guys don't actually make money, do you?
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