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11/18/09
11/18/09
agreed. this hat would go over well at some of the, shall we say, "chemically charged" parties i enjoy attending.
11/18/09
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11/18/09
I'd suppose you'd also say no one should ever gift me the original Power Rangers Megazord that I have pined for since I was 6 or whatever?
Fie, I say. Fie!
11/18/09
As much as I love watching and making movies, the hat is still the coolest thing out of the list.
11/18/09
11/18/09
I built one myself, took maybe a couple hours. It's not fantastic, mind you, and it takes some work to figure out how to use the counterweight to your advantage. Used properly, however, it's a significant improvement over....nothing.
11/18/09
11/18/09
Also, you can always go with editing software (you know - a legitimate copy) or screenwriting software. It's one of the few times that it isn't impersonal.
And of course, you can always have a family&friends-wide fund to save up for the good stuff. A $1,000 camera sounds like a lot until you have 10 people chipping in to pay for it.
11/18/09
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#tips
07/27/09
Yes, there is room for improvement. If the allegations of torture are true, then yes, Foxconn should be punished. That said, there HAVE been improvements. A labor law implemented in 2008 have improved labor rights and given greater protection to workers. The thing is, it will take time for these improvements to start bearing fruit, because its not just the law that needs to change, but large scale social perceptions and mindsets, and these changes take generations to change. Its hard to see the improvements at the margins, but if you look at what was happening in China 20 years ago and compare it to how conditions are today, you'll get a much better appreciation of the progress that has been made, and where progress will be 20 years from now.
BTW, I've been to that Foxconn factory before (above picture.) My company was providing SCM services to Foxconn. That's their lunch room. All employees, from the janitors and line workers all the way up to top management eat there. the company provides free lunches as a benefit to the workers. One decent meat, two veggies, rice, soup, a drink and yogurt- something completely unimaginable just 20 years ago. Also, one last thing to note, many of these OEM/ODM companies, make razor thin margins, something like 1-2%. Some even take losses. Its a highly competitive, cut-throat industry that we can't even conceive of here in the US. Power, as it is, is currently in the hands of the Apples and Microsofts of the world. They control the value in the chain. However, Foxconn and others, are slowly moving up that chain, expanding markets and margins. As they do, you can expect conditions to improve. But right now, its miserable for everyone in that company.
07/27/09
07/27/09
Exactly, our paradigm is quite different from the Chinese worker paradigm. To put things in perspective, 30 some years ago, teachers were getting thrown out of windows in China; there were mass confessions, executions, protests, and close to a billion people in abject poverty. 20 years ago, Tiananmen happened. 15 years ago, ration coupons. 2 years ago, workers at my company weren't getting paid for overtime. Chinese history is something like 2000 years long. 30 years is a blink of the eye. In the US, that's 1/10th of our history. All of these things feed the collective psyche in China that is just so vastly different from our shared experiences. Yes, the US should be one of many models China works off of, but we can't expect China to follow the same trajectory.
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07/27/09
I prefer to write visually, as if painting a picture in my mind with letters.
07/27/09
Riddle me this, if life is so bad at Foxconn, why don’t you leave? No one is forcing you to work there. This is not like India where you’re stuck in a caste.
Could it be because your would rather work at wonderful Foxconn than go dig a ditch?
07/27/09
perspective idiot perspective.
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07/27/09
You remind me of one of those useless background characters that are quickly killed in an action movie while the audience is either glad or do not care that he/she died.
07/27/09
07/27/09
"Lady in the Water" I believe
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07/28/09
it did seem like a quote, but i swear i've heard a few iterations of the same and made an ass of myself instead of minding my own damn business
07/27/09
07/27/09
1: where are you from originally?
2: Shut up.
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07/27/09
I mean come on, that shit is complete bull the way they treat the workers. 1 day off every 2 weeks! are you joking?
07/27/09
I've visited China numerous times already to start up production lines and go to fairs.
I've seen my share of factories in Guanzhou, Shenzhen, Nanchang etc...
The story the employee tells us is a regular story. As a matter of facts, allmost ALL Chinese factories have dormitories and for 'us' inedible food. Believe me, I saw kitchens over there with more rats than cooks in it.
As far as brainwashing goes. Well, this is China, brainwaching is a national sport.
Nevertheless, the places I've visited ( and some were WAY crappier than the description of Foxconn) were populated by nourrished and seemingly happy people.
It's a different culture, and it's hard to judge, keep that in mind in this Foxconn hype.
07/27/09
Do you want to work inside, with a nicely lit cafeteria, or would you like to shovel shit and break your back on the family farm?
The internal migration statistics show what many Chinese choose.
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