Anyone else hate supporting china?

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You want to talk about relying on the enemy, here's one.

Back in the Cold War we wanted to spy on the Russians. So we came up with this badass plane, the SR-71 Blackbird. It would fly fast and high, Mach 3.2, so that even though it was rediculously visable from an infrared standpoint it could just outrun anything that was thrown at it.

The only problem is that standard aircraft metals are not strong enough to withstand sustainted Mach 3.2 flight. You have a massive friction and compression problem. We needed titanium. To get the titanium, we imported it from the Russians.

So we imported itanium from the Russians to build planes to spy on the Russians.
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wclem wrote:They have a large and cheap labor force. Sooner or later they will get unions and an expensive labor force. Every economic system starts out like China, Workers will sooner or later revolt, when they figure out there are a million of them to just one employee. Funny how the masses can be controlled by one single person or a small group.
Not gonna happen.
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You think are worker were not oppressed around 1900 or so? Freedom is a natural instinct, they will eventually uprise.
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I try not to when I can. I prefer buying american when I can and then european and then Japanese. I hate that so many electronics aren't even japanese anymore but instead are chinese. However I drive an american car have mostly american furniture etc
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corn619 wrote:
holaback wrote:I hate everything that country stands for and don't want to support their cheap/poor/slave/child labor etc.
I think a goat and a pint of milk is a very fair weekly wage for assembling iPods. Plus a childs hands are ideal for assembling small electronics.
And you said my comment was mean :P
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Jrecee wrote:
corn619 wrote:
holaback wrote:I hate everything that country stands for and don't want to support their cheap/poor/slave/child labor etc.
I think a goat and a pint of milk is a very fair weekly wage for assembling iPods. Plus a childs hands are ideal for assembling small electronics.
And you said my comment was mean :P
I guess I was desensitised by your comment. And besides, I'd rather be a employed child than a dying child anyday.:)
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Hate supporting China? No. Sorry if I don't get all misty-eyed over Tibet.

Hate supporting Saudi Arabia? Isreal? Pakistan? Yes.
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I hate supporting Wal-mart more. Therefore, I don't.
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black flag nc wrote:Hate supporting China? No. Sorry if I don't get all misty-eyed over Tibet.

Hate supporting Saudi Arabia? Isreal? Pakistan? Yes.
Not really the child labor i hate....just china itself.
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So you just hate an entire race?

I think you might want to look up your family tree, you might be related to the Führer.

You racist fucktard.
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