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How to make an X-box and throw democracy out the window at the same time
cocoamix:
quote:Originally posted by The Rev. Annorax:
Microsoft, the American way???? someone better pass me that crack bowl, it needs to go away!!!!!
Seriously, if Microsoft and Walmart were removed from the face of the earth life would be 99.9% perfect...
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Can we add Starbucks to that list too?
ravuya:
Not to be pro-MS in this situation, but you have to think about where the other companies put their shit together.
The microchips inside your machines are probably built in some third-world nation where they treat people just as bad. Apple used to have a manufacturing plant (dunno if they still do) in Malaysia, with pretty rotten working conditions.
FYI, Dell assembles their kit in the States using prison labor.
Just wanted to bring up some points here before you accuse Microsoft of exploiting cheap third-world labor; because, to be honest, damn near every company in North America and Europe does it.
cahult:
quote:Originally posted by Ravuya:
Not to be pro-MS in this situation, but you have to think about where the other companies put their shit together.
The microchips inside your machines are probably built in some third-world nation where they treat people just as bad. Apple used to have a manufacturing plant (dunno if they still do) in Malaysia, with pretty rotten working conditions.
FYI, Dell assembles their kit in the States using prison labor.
Just wanted to bring up some points here before you accuse Microsoft of exploiting cheap third-world labor; because, to be honest, damn near every company in North America and Europe does it.
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My point exactly. All big corporations have some skeletons to bring forth. So, Dell is using inmates to make their computers? Maybe
Calum:
quote:Originally posted by cocoamix:
Can we add Starbucks to that list too?
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nestle too. they are responsible for so many human rights atrocities it doesn't bear thinking about them. a boycott and flood of letters their way would help too.
Oh yes, we can add glaxo-smithkline-beecham, gillette and colgate palmolive too since they all test on animals, which is unnecessary in this day and age and is totally unwarranted when the products concerned are purely cosmetic.
billy_gates:
Lets look at this from their perspective.
"Lets make XBox's in Mexico, if we did that we could lose even more money, hey Bill, whaddaya think?"
Really guys. If I owned a huge multinational company I would exploit cheap labor as well. And so would all of you.
Moving on.....
I heard from a terrible source that income tax in sweden was terrible, and that some super rich people had as much as 90% tax rate. Just wanted to know if this was the truth, seeing there seems to be someone who claims to live in sweden that is participating in this ridiculous conversation.
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