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To: familyop
1,000 Foxconn iPad workers trash dorms in riot against guards
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2892677/posts

Uh, no. . . totally debunked. No riot. Nothing happened. Single source claim based on a photograph that showed NO RIOT. Blloomberg got a video of a supposed fire and people in facemarks, but it was matched with an accidental explosion from a YEAR EARLIER. Sorry BZZZZT. Did not happen.

If you had bothered to read the thread you linked to, you would have noted it was debunked there in record time. . . your thread has exactly SIX replies. . . with #3 questioning the accuracy of the report and #4 linking to the story showing it did not happen.

Your third link applies to Microsoft . . . which is typical of a lot of these. Paint Apple with the tar from plants associated with ALL electronics assemblers.

Should you feel guilty about owning an iPhone? How about owning an Microsoft Xbox, Nokia Phone, HP Computer, Sony Play Station, Samsung phone, or ANY electronic device. FoxConn makes products for every electronic company you can name. I published a list of the companies that contract with FoxConn, or HonHai the parent company that owns FoxConn, and it included 250 name brands of electronics. You cannot escape it.

Finally, your last link has to do with bringing jobs home to the United States. Apple employs more US workers than almost any other tech sector company, and they are NOT minimum wage jobs. . . and also manufactures computers in the US at their Austin, Texas plant. . . where both iMacs and the Mac Pro are manufactured. I have posted photos of both products showing "Made in the USA" on these computers, which to be used requires that 80% of the product must be made in the United States. I have also published a list of the components of the Apple Mac Pro and the states in which those parts are manufactured.

19 posted on 12/18/2014 6:48:34 PM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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To: Swordmaker

I wasn’t trying to make any statement particularly against Apple by finding and posting the links. Those links simply came up easier in a quick search.

Starting many factories in corrupt countries won’t make the corruption go away. I am making that statement.

The only way to stop much of the corruption is to assure that anyone and everyone who wants to make useful products can do so without hindrances instituted by the established (regulations, licenses, etc.), and that’s going to happen in the very near future. All who are willing to do some real work should find ways to live by working with their own minds and hands. And we don’t need to be staring at screens all of our lives.


23 posted on 12/18/2014 7:56:52 PM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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