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| Tweet Topic Started: Thursday Jan 12 2012, 04:31 PM (133 Views) | |
| King Hiss | Thursday Jan 12 2012, 04:31 PM Post #1 |
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LINK That will be one juicy RROD! ![]() Someone had to say it.... |
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| felicitous blue | Thursday Jan 12 2012, 05:16 PM Post #2 |
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Dude, too soon. I'm still not over how devastated I was by my first RROD. |
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yo listen up here's a story about a little guy that lives in a blue world and all day and all night and everything he sees is just blue like him inside and outside blue his house with a blue little window and a blue corvette and everything is blue for him and hisself and everybody around cos he ain't got nobody to listen to i'm blue da ba dee da ba die... | |
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| King Hiss | Monday Jan 16 2012, 02:30 PM Post #3 |
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When you put it like that, I'm surprised there weren't some former Xbox owners up there pushing them off. I guess they didn't jump. I wonder what their actual plan was? Count to 3 and all go at once? What about that one poor sucker that isn't smart enough to change his mind at 2? Was this a union decision? Should they all be out of work right now anyway and stuck in mental hospitals until they are assessed as no longer wanting to harm themselves? Didn't think that through, did they? |
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| felicitous blue | Tuesday Jan 17 2012, 12:08 AM Post #4 |
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I may have this completely wrong, but Im sure I read that they where protesting not getting the pay rise they where promised after a bunch of workers actually did jump a few months back... People read this stuff though and think its an example of how fucked up things are in china, when the fact we want cheap shit is what causes the demand and therefore the issue in the first place. Another thought.... Perhaps if a few Aussie workers threatened to jump, we may still have a manufacturing industry... |
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yo listen up here's a story about a little guy that lives in a blue world and all day and all night and everything he sees is just blue like him inside and outside blue his house with a blue little window and a blue corvette and everything is blue for him and hisself and everybody around cos he ain't got nobody to listen to i'm blue da ba dee da ba die... | |
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| King Hiss | Tuesday Jan 17 2012, 08:55 AM Post #5 |
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Dude, threatening to kill yourself over a shitty job IS fucked up. And if that really is their only option in life, then things really are fucked up in China. I also think that pointing the finger at our demand for gadgets is passing the buck as well. The problem runs much deeper than that, and alot of it comes from all the hands trying to grab a share of the profit out of that product before it even reaches you. Are our appliances really cheap? Would you pay more for them? If they were more expensive, would be as bothered with these devices? They're just priced to our sweet spot of what is reasonable in our market. If a 2 grand iPad came out this year, how many people would really be lining up outside an Apple store? The real problem is shareholders and those big knobs at the top. Why make a billion bucks profit when you can squeeze out another couple of million? CEO's exist to appease shareholders, and shareholders exist for the sole reason of recieving profit. See a company go from private to public and watch any morals they had go out the door with it. If we are guilty, then this is how, with all our bleating about things like super annuation that lives off all this action. The means of manufacture and the sale of the end product are just a vessel for money for nothing. Considering our own countries have laws that protect the workers, most of this can probably be knocked on the head if governments put restrictions in place for overseas manufacture and all forms of outsourcing, but yay for globalisation, right? |
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