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Rare Earth Restrictions To Raise Hard Drive Cost
MojoKid writes "Multiple manufacturers in the IT industry have been keeping a wary eye on China's decision to cut back on rare earth exports and the impact it may have on component prices. There have been reports that suggest we'll see that decision hit the hard drive industry this year, with HDD prices trending upwards an estimated 5-10 percent depending on capacity. Although rare earth magnets are only a small part of a hard drive's total cost, China cut exports last year by 40 percent, which drove pricing for these particular components up an estimated 20-30x. China currently controls 97 percent of the rare earth elements market for popular metals like neodymium, cerium, yttrium and ytterbium."
Ive said this and ill say it again! When I was 14 I went deep sea fishing with my g/f Jody. I was 14 and she was 19. Well it so happened that my dad who was captaining the boat was drinking a lot of beer like 2 packs of 12 and he fell sound asleep. Me and Jody were bored. So we started making out and it was real hot under the sun and we went down into the cabin and made out more. We fell asleep and when I woke up I found her hands on my giant (approx 13 inch) lovemaker. She started to rub it like a genie bottle and that felt really good. Then she took off my pants and tried to get my meat baton in her mouth but kinda choked on it. By that time I was starting to feel REAL good. So I told her to take off her bra and she said "I have to take off my shirt first silly!". So she took off her shirt and bra and rubbed my erect sausage all over her 34DD nicely tanned boobies. At that time I spurted clear stuff all over her and she laughed. This made me brake up in tears because it looked like I wasnt a man enough for her or something and then she started telling me "No thats not what I meant!!" and started making out again. So after another 10 minutes of making out we started getting hard. She took off her pants and told me to lay down. I laid down with my 13" woman pleaser sticking right up and she lowered down on to me till I was fully inserted into her birth canal. So I lasted like 30 seconds and shot like a rocket into her and bodily fluids were gushing everywhere. She looked like she was going to laugh again and I was like Im gonna punch you in the ovaries and she really started laughing then so I pushed her on her belly and rammed my meat roll in and out of her till she SCREAMED "OH RODNEY! OH KEITH! OH RODNEY! YES YES YES!" and then my dad woke up and saw what was going on and told us to finish up. I tried to finish but was too embarrassed. She joked about "DP" but said she was only joking. When I put my clothes back on and went back to the deck my dad told me he arranged a prostitute and she was never my g/f the entire time!