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China to Be Laptop Leader
prostoalex writes "IMS Research says that by the end of the year People Republic of China might become world's biggest laptop manufacturer. The plants will be largely owned by Taiwanese manufacturers, though. Taiwan is current #1."
Who gives a shit? China's got missle ready to fire at US forces (and at the US). It's only a matter of time *shrugs* No wonder most laptops are pieces of shit. They all hate us.
Beacause I am leader of the chinese. Bwa ha ha ha ha. I own all the laptops.
We took out the towelheads in Afghanistan, we took out the oil slicked wetbacks in Iraq. China, your turn is coming. Fucking yellow skinned, slant eyed freaks. America rules. Don't you fucking forget that.
If you have one still you should FEEL ashamed and dirty because you are nothing but a aardvark dicked smell monkey. Those French surrender monkeys are uncircumcised and smelly. You don't want to be like the French, do you? Well then, get circumcised right away.
More crap from China.
They make crap. The quality of EVRYTHING from China is crap.
You just can't get good slave labor anymore..
And everything that China sells goes to prolong the murderous, oppressive, communist government.
Original Design Manufacturer. They are not just about cheap production labor -- they design the whole computer from motherboard out, create entire product roadmaps etc... and deliver it on a platter to OEMs who want to slap a label on it.
they are taking away all the business from tradition EMS type outsourcers (Solectron, Flextronics, Jabil, et al) in desktop computers and are on the move in laptops
The perspective that it's entirely about cheap production labor is both naive and flat wrong.
We Americans should not kid ourselves. The Taiwanese strongly support mainland China. The Taiwanese give to mainland China any money or technology that we Americans refuse to give.
When we apply economic sanctions against mainland China, we must also apply the same sanctions against Taiwan. In our pursuit of human rights, when we boycott products that are made in China, we must also boycott products that are made in Taiwan. Specifically, when we boycott notebook computers made in China, we must also boycott notebook computers made in Taiwan. As the article notes, computers "made in Taiwan" are really "made in China".
We must immediately stop selling weapons to Taiwan. Taiwan is a very serious security risk to the United States of America (USA). Since 2000 May, the FBI has placed Taiwan on the list of nations that are prone to steal sensitive military and commercial technology from American national laboratories and companies. Please read "Reno calls Taiwan an intelligence threat". See point #4 above.
The aforementioned facts are quite shocking since many folks in the SlashDot community are reading these facts for the first time. It is understandable. The Taiwanese government has annually paid about $2 million to lobbying firms like "Cassidy & Associates" to peddle influence in the American government. (reference: Big Business Comes to Aid of China") Indeed, do you remember Charlie Trie, John Huang, and Johnny Chung? They were the key figures in the financial scandal that rocked the Democratic Party and were accused of bribing American officials. Both John Huang and Johnny Chung were born or raised in Taiwan.
If all these facts and the CNet article about Chinese laptops do not convince you that the Taiwanese support mainland China, then consider this tidbit. The Taiwanese constitution
>Once the companies leave then a bust cycle will begin.
...Then again, perhaps I'm wrong. Maybe you were being facetious.
Why would a company leave during a positive cycle?
>There will be a prolonged period of unemployment and depression/recession. Eventually the standard of living will be pretty much where it was before.
For a short while. It seems most Free Markets have to go through growing pains such as these. Then things will improve, as they almost always do.
>This form of legalized slavery will start another chain reaction and before long a sizable chunk of the humans on this planet will be imprisoned and enslaved.
Eh? That doesn't make any sense. There's never been a single successful (as in, still running) enslave the majority of the population regime that I know of.
>People will be jailed for having one to two marijuana seeds for ten years and in prison they will work for AT&T making telemarketing calls.
>Oh wait a minute that's already happening right here in the USA.
That's enslavement? Sure, it's a restrction of rights, but I think I'd rather not be allowed pot then have to work in a factory sewing together shoes for a few pennies a day.
But, as I read on, I see you're not talking about shoe sewing, you're talking about people having to make annoying phone calls. Oh, gag me with a spoon!
>I am sure these kinds of prison labor programs will be expanded hugely in the US and overseas.
Well, I'm not. In fact, I am sure that over time "prison labour campaigns" will disappear, as they have largely been shown to be inneffective. The fact that almost no exported goods from China are from these labour campaigns proves it.
The fact is prison labour can't even make decent mail bags, never mind complex electronics.
If you ask me, between being required to work your time off in safe conditions and being caged together where inmates beat on each other, I'll take the first one every time.
And, before you mention the article...
Behind the pros for the companies, there are some very big cons for the convicts. Substandard or sweatshop conditions are commonly reported. Prisoners are made to work overlong days, and put in overtime without compensation (Liu 16);
And this is different from your boss leaning on you... how?
If a prisoner refuses to work, they can't torture him into it. The worst that will happen is he'll have to complete his full sentence rather than get a slap on the wrist. That's the cost of choosing not to contribute to society.
some former inmate workers for CMT, a garment company, were able to file a lawsuit claiming that their 60-day training was unpaid, that they were given unrealistic quotas, and were instructed to replace Honduran tags in garments with "Made in USA" labels (16)
Oh God no! They made them sew LABELS on things? Woe is me!
As far as the unpaid training goes, I've seen companies go bust leaving people with 4 months unpaid. At least these inmates get to have jobs. Not that I don't wish them the best of luck suing their employer.
What would be minor issues in a non-prison workplace are punished extravagantly: pay is docked for "cussing" and telephone privileges are taken away.
ROTFLMAO! If you worked in MY store, and I caught you cussing at customers, I'd fire you on the spot. Period. No questions asked because it would be listed as a firable offense in your contract. How's that compared to losing telephone privileges and having your pay docked?
Pharmaceutical companies Parke-Davis and Upjohn were open about having "exploited the skills" of inmates by making them work 16-hour days (Sawyer 213).
Again, woe is me! Not a 16-hour day! I mean, my dad NEVER did that at his job, no, *never* (not). What a riot!
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