Chasbo

Chasbo

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Reply to I need a new TV series to watch in Movies & TV & Books WinCustomize Forums

The NBA playoffs because The Walking Dead and the NFL season don't continue until fall. In between we have DVD's of La Femme Nikita (The Peta Wilson Nikita). TMC also has some good movies to watch. Also looking forward to when Hell on Wheels returns.

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Reply to Grrr, Firefox hates flash in PC Hardware WinCustomize Forums

3.6 here and everything works fine. Practice safe surfing and you should be fine. At work just about everything we do is cloud based and sometimes it's got to drive the IT people nuts! We recently updated the Macs to snow leopard. At least now we are down to three browsers now. Some stuff works best with Chrome, some with Firefox but it's got to be 3.6 and then there's that one thing that only works with Safari. Thing is it seemed like different people had different browse

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Reply to Why the iPhone is made in China in Mobile Tech WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="88" id="3084333"]Yeah. I never did crap jobs in 12-18 hr shifts to keep my wife and kid alive while I was in Med School. Wars had comfy hours too. I never did 36 hrs every 72 hrs during Internship and Residency. No one has ever worked as hard as them or you.[/quote] Whew, what I said totally went over your head and for you to compare med school with working at a Apple plant in China or what i did which was newspaper work......I don't get it. I

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Reply to Why the iPhone is made in China in Mobile Tech WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="85" id="3083901"]At any rate, I feel better about their step, and think others do as well.[/quote] You might feel better about it but that's easy for you. Try being one of those workers for a day, a week or whatever. Hell I've worked 7 days a week sometimes, mostly in the 80's and 90's. I got overtime and made as Ray Davies said "Real money" but that's all pissed away now on good times. The point is that working hard at sweaty job

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Reply to Why the iPhone is made in China in Mobile Tech WinCustomize Forums

Apple employs maybe 40,000 people in the U.S. ( I think that's what I heard on the radio ) Foxconn employs 1 million Chinese. I don't know how many work on Apple products. It's got to be hundreds of thousands. Here's where I'm at on this: I don't give a rat's ass what kind of conditions those workers have to endure. I used to care but I got to thinking about the fact that those jobs should be in the U.S. and that changed my thinking. America

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Reply to Foxconn and “Miss Chen” on CNN in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="alaknebs" reply="61" id="3078721"]funny. china hasn't been communist for 20 years.[/quote] The Chinese are Communist but they use a sort of distorted form of capitalism. They realize that this is the playing field. Their government is communist and make no mistake about that. The multinationals are only concerned about one thing: PROFITS and the POWER those PROFITS make. Who ever they go to bed with to get those profits is fine with them. They have no morals.</

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Reply to super bowl in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Well well, what's the problem? Aussies and Englishman you all have your version of football and we have ours. Can't we all just get along? Personally I paid more attention to Madonna then the game. She ain't doin' too bad for a 54 year old. I wasn't to interested in a replay of 2009. I've had enough of Brady and the Manning bunch. Being from Chicago I ain't too fond of N.Y. teams and The Patriots are just the same old same old. I had my heart set on

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Reply to Foxconn and “Miss Chen” on CNN in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Uvah" reply="28" id="3077565"]So in other words an 1Phone made in China by people who are little more than slaves will cost $40.00 US would cost, if made in the US of A, $400.00 USD? Yeah ... I could see where they might want to pay the little bit but still charge the 'Made in USA' price. Mooney ... money ... money.[/quote] The idea is to maximize the profit. If they could live with say, 2 billion profit instead of 6 billion profit, then they could pay the American

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Reply to Foxconn and “Miss Chen” on CNN in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="narbytrout" reply="26" id="3077470"]Production changes in the U.S. take longer to put into action, due to expensive equipment changes, hiring personnel, and regulations imposed on the manufacturing process."[/quote] Some of those regulations that are supposed to protect the workers but they won't let that get into the way of making a quick buck. They care more about profits than the safety of the workers in China. They care more about the profits than having the work d

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Reply to Foxconn and “Miss Chen” on CNN in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

Firstly a capitalist is a person who's business is making money through investments in business. The term in widely misused. Capitalists do not make products. Capitalists are not concerned with human rights. Capitalists are concerned with investing money and their profits. Capitalists are often immoral because they believe in an Ayn Rand way of life where I comes first and there are no consequences. Laissez-faire capitalism. There is no "State", everyone is for themselves. The Chinese for

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