Re: OT: Linux on Walmart's systemless computers
On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Noah Sombrero wrote:
> I am sure that intel chips are designed here, not far from the Burlingame
> district of Portland where I live, but when I go to the local computer parts
> store and buy a chip, it says made in Mexico, Malaysia, etc.
Go out TV Highway near SW 209th. For about a mile along the highway is
a massive chip plant. There's another at Hawthorn Farm in Hillsboro,
along with the design facility.
> Just be aware that the tennies that cost you $100+ were manufactured for
> .25 by a person who earns $2 a day. Sweatshop is a matter of definition,
> of course.
Sweatshop refers to the working conditions, not the pay rate. And the
places where Nike's paying $2/day, many other people are making
$1.50/day and surviving on it. Trust me, you woulda heard the watchdog
groups throwing a shitfit within the last 8 years if it was any other
way.
> Conservatives would be funny, if they weren't so tragic.
I agree. http://votesocialist.org/
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