” More than an engineer. I own a business that exports high tech equipment all over the world.”
BF Deal, I have done business all over the world, and lived all over the world.
” The ignorance, to put it kindly, expressed here by people such as your self is frankly shocking. “
No, what is shocking is your amazing obtuseness in thinking we don’t know that there are many methods of sale and resale. That was not the point of the post. Of course some asshole in Kuala Lumpur can resell to North Korea. We are interested in Dell’s take on this. Nothing more, nothing less.
If you have a beef with the title of the thread, have at it, maven.
Dell’s take on it?
That’s the point of the thread?
With the title ‘BUSTED: “Is DELL Computer Aiding N. Korea [Weapons Program] In Violation of US Federal Law?”’
Dell’s policy is obviously not to sell computers to countries on the US export restrictions list or to people who will export their computers to those countries.
Obtuse is suggesting they sold them to NK directly or that an “investigation” is warranted while knowing full well that Dell has sold billions of computers world wide. If there were 20 super computers in the world and one found its way to NK, one can identify the other super computers and therefore identify the one that made its way to NK and then see who they sold it to. That is impossible when billions of them have been sold. To suggest otherwise is just plain ignorant. So are you going to send a human spy into NK to identify a $600 commodity computer’s serial number in the picture so you can see who it was originally sold to? A total waste of a resources. And then after you do it, what have you got? Zip. It isn’t illegal to sell a Dell computer on eBay or any number of other third party brokers.
What if it was a Chinese branded computer instead of a Dell with an Intel processor in it? Are going to demand that Intel explain themselves. Claim that Intel is “Aiding N. Korea’s Weapon Program”? Brain dead.
Obtuse is this whole thread. Totally devoid of basic reality.
This thread is like taking a picture of Mrs. stephenjohnbanker with a bruise on her head and then posting a thread titled “BUSTED: “Is Mr. stephenjohnbanker beating his wife?”.
Never mind that there’s only a few billion perfectly innocent explanations regarding Mr. stephenjohnbanker’s involvement to explain the known facts, we’re going to speculate the worst possible conclusion based on zero evidence and post it world wide.
No, nothing wrong with that...
Have at it. I’m done.