While that bit of hardware may have been dirt-cheap, it's flimsy and cannot take the stresses of properly manufactured gear. Second, it's probably a knockoff or will become one shortly.
Unlike the Buicks of China, the US ones have actual power to them. Find a slave-labor built Chinese Buick with a 3800, and I'll say it's a one-off copy. Enjoy your mysterious head gasket failures at 40,000 miles.
They're just poor copies of the Real McCoy, undeserving of the Buick name.
As for the folks who bought anything with the N* engines, the joke's on you. Hopefully you're not at the wrong end of a slave labor camp uprising and the engine blows as they reach you; I'd consider it karmic justice.
He's good at security, but government policy is not something in his league. Besides, private interests are beholden to foreign countries that do not share our interests(China, India) and cannot be trusted for such qualities.
To tear away your arguments: industries that are less energy-efficient than those in developing countries
That's the wrong way around. The smoke, soot, toxins and such lead to Third World countries.
overcrowded apartments that cost more than houses;
Again, the wrong way around. That's what you'll find in developing countries, w/ the requisite Third World/Far East shortcuts.
doctors and prescription drugs that routinely cause more harm than good
This is another one completely on India and such, the home of various knockoff drugs.
Giant cars that get horrid gas mileage
That's just a preference for not going "Al Gore" and not being left wanting at the gas pedal. Taking those cars from the masses is an issue of overly powered environmental activists. That is, the types who buy offsets to fly into the mecca of lifestyle environmentalism- Aspen, Colorado, USA.
That scenario may be true in the short term. Long term, it will balance out. It also means more jobs stay at home rather than being farmed out to other countries -- which will happen regardless. Once equilibrium is reached, I think there will be a net benefit.
Waiting 50-100 years is not an option for most if anyone in that situation.
You're not taking into account firms like Grigsby & Cohen that decide to turn on citizens with legal dirty pool.
Better to take the lumps of protecting the nation if we're not going to help our citizens transition.
Truth is the US economy would collapse overnight without immigrant labor (legal and otherwise). I find it astonishingly ironic that the most rabid protectionists are also the ones who are apparently pro-free-market.
It would only adjust to having citizens do such work under the existing regulations. All of that would work within the free-market doctrine.
Citizen only refers to status, not race.
Make the next logical step. Free-market means free-market, hire the best workers regardless of their color of skin or supposed national identity. It will sort itself out, and balance itself.
...to the detriment of citizens, just as it has done to manufacturing and IT.
For the price of an Alienware, you could end up with a Thinkpad W700ds. Order it without the tablet and you'll have a manufacturer that encourages such activity.
Besides, Dell isn't exactly well-known for originality or quality.
It would be better to have an expert on the subject of border control. At least they know something about keeping them out. We only know about letting people in.
It'd also be better to overbuild it for that case given the relative instability. Terrorism or not, it would most certainly send a message to Mexico to reform their country.
To have a well-defended border is not racism, it is border control.
Why don't we ask Israel how they're keeping their borders secure and take a few hints? Scale up the border and enforcement. Then actually treat the border as a no-go territory, where things and people get shot at or worse.
industries that are less energy-efficient than those in developing countries
That's the wrong way around. The smoke, soot, toxins and such lead to Third World countries.
overcrowded apartments that cost more than houses;
Again, the wrong way around. That's what you'll find in developing countries, w/ the requisite Third World/Far East shortcuts.
doctors and prescription drugs that routinely cause more harm than good
This is another one completely on India and such, the home of various knockoff drugs.
Giant cars that get horrid gas mileage
That's just a preference for not going "Al Gore" and not being left wanting at the gas pedal. Taking those cars from the masses is an issue of overly powered environmental activists. That is, the types who buy offsets to fly into the mecca of lifestyle environmentalism- Aspen, Colorado, USA.
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While that bit of hardware may have been dirt-cheap, it's flimsy and cannot take the stresses of properly manufactured gear. Second, it's probably a knockoff or will become one shortly.
This is why
In short, a massacre followed by a cover-up of the events.
It'll require an expensive support contract just to load any software on it or add any new hardware to it.
The Chinese aren't among those nations actively reducing their own standard of living
Well, you cant get any worse than their form of slave labor.
That nation has no record of improving, just poorly copying off of others.
Unlike the Buicks of China, the US ones have actual power to them. Find a slave-labor built Chinese Buick with a 3800, and I'll say it's a one-off copy. Enjoy your mysterious head gasket failures at 40,000 miles.
They're just poor copies of the Real McCoy, undeserving of the Buick name.
As for the folks who bought anything with the N* engines, the joke's on you. Hopefully you're not at the wrong end of a slave labor camp uprising and the engine blows as they reach you; I'd consider it karmic justice.
There are national security implications in selling off that particular brand.
Never mind the entire bit about China being the eternally broken copier, creating junk wherever it goes.
Save up for a W700/W700ds.
Then remove about any option you can live without except warranty.
The one that exists in the private sector, and controls government.
Or:
The one that exists as a foreign government that controls us via large amounts of debt and/or business lobbies.
He's good at security, but government policy is not something in his league. Besides, private interests are beholden to foreign countries that do not share our interests(China, India) and cannot be trusted for such qualities.
Take your "bash government" speech elsewhere.
Basically, the first tier of folks who took American jobs.
Fact, not invective.
Modding me down won't change it.
To give them amnesty would be to give incentive to border jump even more.
See a very similar attempt in 1986 for example.
Make them reform their country, not ours.
How's Pennsylvania for you at Grigsby & Cohen?
Seriously, they're the ones who benefit from overlooking the law and the ones who push for lax enforcement.
Hardly insightful.
To tear away your arguments:
industries that are less energy-efficient than those in developing countries
That's the wrong way around. The smoke, soot, toxins and such lead to Third World countries.
overcrowded apartments that cost more than houses;
Again, the wrong way around. That's what you'll find in developing countries, w/ the requisite Third World/Far East shortcuts.
doctors and prescription drugs that routinely cause more harm than good
This is another one completely on India and such, the home of various knockoff drugs.
Giant cars that get horrid gas mileage
That's just a preference for not going "Al Gore" and not being left wanting at the gas pedal. Taking those cars from the masses is an issue of overly powered environmental activists. That is, the types who buy offsets to fly into the mecca of lifestyle environmentalism- Aspen, Colorado, USA.
That's just a few holes in the parent poster's argument.
The arguments being made against Third World countries are ones that describe those countries.
Of course, somebody will have to go scoop up what's left of the would-be illegal immigrants every morning...
Leave them there as a warning.
That scenario may be true in the short term. Long term, it will balance out. It also means more jobs stay at home rather than being farmed out to other countries -- which will happen regardless. Once equilibrium is reached, I think there will be a net benefit.
Waiting 50-100 years is not an option for most if anyone in that situation.
You're not taking into account firms like Grigsby & Cohen that decide to turn on citizens with legal dirty pool.
Better to take the lumps of protecting the nation if we're not going to help our citizens transition.
That's a relative exception compared to Mumbai.
If given a choice to live in either city, I'd take Detroit over that Third World city any day.
The local chicken processing plant here actually warns their workers not to show up on days when the INS is coming.
Take a page from Arizona and enact a Business Death Penalty.
Then make it possible to prosecute doubly for the violation and the attempt to to hide it.
Truth is the US economy would collapse overnight without immigrant labor (legal and otherwise). I find it astonishingly ironic that the most rabid protectionists are also the ones who are apparently pro-free-market.
It would only adjust to having citizens do such work under the existing regulations. All of that would work within the free-market doctrine.
Citizen only refers to status, not race.
Make the next logical step. Free-market means free-market, hire the best workers regardless of their color of skin or supposed national identity. It will sort itself out, and balance itself.
...to the detriment of citizens, just as it has done to manufacturing and IT.
For the price of an Alienware, you could end up with a Thinkpad W700ds. Order it without the tablet and you'll have a manufacturer that encourages such activity.
Besides, Dell isn't exactly well-known for originality or quality.
re:ever been to India? (Score:-1, Flamebait)
If you dont mind the building being built entirely of "safety shortcuts" and existing two steps from collapse, fine.
Not if said "improvement" comes at the cost of the developed world, with no thought of transition.
Nothing bad there. Building codes exist for a reason, and that the Third World is hardly a place you'll find them.
It would be better to have an expert on the subject of border control. At least they know something about keeping them out. We only know about letting people in.
It'd also be better to overbuild it for that case given the relative instability. Terrorism or not, it would most certainly send a message to Mexico to reform their country.
A collapsed building with a crushed car and its occupants inside.
To have a well-defended border is not racism, it is border control.
Why don't we ask Israel how they're keeping their borders secure and take a few hints? Scale up the border and enforcement. Then actually treat the border as a no-go territory, where things and people get shot at or worse.
Hardly insightful.
To tear away your arguments:
industries that are less energy-efficient than those in developing countries
That's the wrong way around. The smoke, soot, toxins and such lead to Third World countries.
overcrowded apartments that cost more than houses;
Again, the wrong way around. That's what you'll find in developing countries, w/ the requisite Third World/Far East shortcuts.
doctors and prescription drugs that routinely cause more harm than good
This is another one completely on India and such, the home of various knockoff drugs.
Giant cars that get horrid gas mileage
That's just a preference for not going "Al Gore" and not being left wanting at the gas pedal. Taking those cars from the masses is an issue of overly powered environmental activists. That is, the types who buy offsets to fly into the mecca of lifestyle environmentalism- Aspen, Colorado, USA.
If you dont mind the building being built entirely of "safety shortcuts" and existing two steps from collapse, fine.
We should praise improvement,
Not if said "improvement" comes at the cost of the developed world, with no thought of transition.