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Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bruce <Bruce@invalid.invalid> Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking Subject: Re: PING! Michael Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2024 11:50:37 +1100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 32 Message-ID: <vhtt98$1u833$2@dont-email.me> References: <0748c6d7555c929144d3fbc8a29a6be3@www.novabbs.com> <vhmck9$gj0c$1@dont-email.me> <e54d34316d00ed7fb6b500ed6b2e481e@www.novabbs.com> <MPG.41a941d31ff66e79105@news.individual.net> <AiH%O.41838$giU1.13799@fx09.iad> <673f798c$0$2385547$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <vhq8ni$17uuf$1@dont-email.me> <vhqdpo$18or3$3@dont-email.me> <674134ab$1$3474736$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <MPG.41abf80ec442f58610e@news.individual.net> <67426a81$0$2385541$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2024 01:50:49 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="1078f8d196e81c8cf130b9d57f8c64db"; logging-data="2039907"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+C9jSUnvLHy6y3/9a5VNI8" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:QMAmfLJ1jH7rLtIpRAf+T9u1p+w= Bytes: 2593 On Sat, 23 Nov 2024 18:51:15 -0500, Michael Trew <michael.trew@att.net> wrote: >On 11/23/2024 9:33 AM, Janet wrote: >> In article <674134ab$1$3474736 >> $882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com>, michael.trew@att.net >> says... >>> >>> Sorry for the DSI1 style slide off-topic, but I guess my point is that >>> we could make our own televisions and electronics in the US again, like >>> we did in the "good 'ole days". >> >> All that's changed since the good ole days, is that >> China now produces 60% of the world's rare earth elements >> supply and processes 90% of it. >> >> Plus, China has spent the last half century using modern >> technology to highly educate and train a gigantic >> workforce. > >While the Chinese throw notion of child labor laws to the wind, paying >children bottom-dollar wages, bunking in boarding rooms, laboring 18 >hour days to create electronics... For the first world to buy at a >marked up premium. I think there is somewhere near $30 worth of parts >and labor into the $1,000+ iPhones that Apple sells. The Chinese in China are ruthless barbarians. To make cheap Angora sweaters, they pull the fur off live rabbits. That's just one example. -- Bruce <https://i.postimg.cc/zf7JhPvB/the-lord-of-the-rings.jpg>