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Microsoft Closing Two Phone Factories In China
randomErr writes: Microsoft is closing two factories in China by the end of March. About 9,000 people worked in these factories, and those jobs were cut a while back as part of the company's major restructuring after its Nokia purchase. Much of the equipment located in these factories from Beijing and the southeastern city of Dongguan is being shipped to Vietnam.
Make sense. Chinese wages and standards of living have been increasing rapidly over the last few years, while the political systems/economies in parts of South East Asia are becoming developed enough to provide confidence to foreign investment. Will be interesting to see how China deals with this shift. Hopefully not in the western way, with all the bosses patting themselves on the back for lowering costs while the consumer economy falls apart around them.
Now if they would only close the shop in Redmond.
Political correctness is really just herd psychology pushed by insecure people who desperately seek social conformity.
Just a bug. Will be back.
At first I thought this was a story of Microsoft heralding a broadsword by bringing their interests home.
As it tuns out, even the repressed have it bad in the 'global economy'.
Here it is folks, the wealthy rule the earth.
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
It looks like some of the other bugs have been fixed as well - comments were not always full-width, which made it a PITA on large screens. Much appreciated. The message links still work for me (they were an off-and-on thing for quite a while) so it's not harder to follow a discussion or replies to posts ... (shrug).
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.