tzeshan

bloggerblog said:

According to other workers I met from SE Asia, this is inline with how they take advantage of contractors. They even sometimes charge them a hefty fee for the opportunity to work!  Apple should pull their contract from such corrupt corrupt executive culture.

This head hunting is an American practice too. 

lkrupp said:

Alger said:

Welcome to India.  Supposed democracy where 98% of the population are treated like human garbage, due to barbaric, medieval caste system, mindless religious zealotry and grotesque overpopulation.  If Apple don't want to see their humanistic reputation (what's left of it after almost selling their soul to capture Chinese market) sullied even further, they had better tighten their grip and sense of responsibility over their proxies there.

I agree. Apple should tone down the virtue signaling about human rights, privacy and security. It makes them look very hypocritical at best. While Macs and iOS devices may be somewhat more secure than the competition they are not in any way bulletproof, as has been demonstrated time and again when security researchers find flaws. And in terms of humanistic reputation Apple is doing business with some truly nasty actors, both primary and secondary. Think about mining in Africa.

Apple was forced to do so. A few years ago Foxconn employees jumped to death. The responsibility is on Apple suppliers. Human rights hypocrites stretch everything to suit their agenda. 

Bay area has the most expensive housing in US. It is driven out companies. There is an easy solution, rezoning the building code allowing high rise apartments. This will immediately at least double the housing capacity in Bay area. Unfortunately the elected officials and selfish home owners won't allow this to happen. 

GeorgeBMac said:

tzeshan said:

Some posters are ignorant about the manufacturing process. It still needs engineers. It is reported that Vietnam cannot provide enough engineers. And the Vietnamese engineers pay is more than Chinese engineers.

That is perhaps one of the reasons the U.S. revamped its education system with common core and related testing:   For too long U.S. schools were pushing out kids who could barely read, write or do math thinking they would get a good union job in the mill.  Meanwhile, Asian countries (Japan at the time) were churning out high quality engineers.   The U.S. went a long way to improving its public education system (It's up to about #36 now), but now it needs to work on its higher education systems that are becoming unaffordably expensive.

The need for uneducated or poorly educated labor will continue to shrink as automation takes over.   Who ever would have thought that drivers of long haul trucks would soon be as obsolete as candle makers? 

Because of the failure of China in industrialization, the Chinese culture has been looked down by many westerners. They laughed at Confucius. Thus the western intellectuals failed to notice that Confucius is being revered as the greatest educator. His birthday is celebrated as a holiday for teachers. Maybe his teachings are outdated. But the spirit of regarding knowledge as utmost important for kids have been preserved by Asian countries. The parents push their kids in learning and enrolling in best schools. This tradition is built in Chinese culture even CCP cannot erase it.
American education system cannot provide enough best engineers for the largest economy of the world. American born engineers are outnumbered by engineer from foreign countries especially India, China, and everywhere else. 
Trump did not understand this. He wasted US four years by focusing on China trade. US democracy is a system that cannot admit its own problems instead using foreign governments as scapegoat. The news about an alleged Chinese woman spy is just a tactic used by Republicans shifting political attention to China. This is utterly stupid. Of course, China will like to influence US opinion, but China has no capacity to cause US problems as these Republicans such as Pompeio claimed repeatedly. 

GeorgeBMac said:

tzeshan said:

tmay said:

tzeshan said:

tmay said:

China's "blame anyone else for COVID 19 origin" propaganda campaign, 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/29/a-year-after-wuhan-alarm-china-seeks-to-change-covid-origin-story

Italian scientists published a paper on Lancet medical medicine saying Italians had suffered COVID-19 last year before the disease outbreak in Wuhan at end of December, 2019. 
Aids outbreak happened in SF US in the 1980s. It was found the virus originated in Africa. Scientists know the origin of a transmittable disease cannot be tied to the place of first outbreak. This is science. 

https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-italy-timing/researchers-find-coronavirus-was-circulating-in-italy-earlier-than-thought-idUSKBN27W1J2

"ROME (Reuters) - The new coronavirus was circulating in Italy in September 2019, a study by the National Cancer Institute (INT) of the Italian city of Milan shows, signaling that it might have spread beyond China earlier than thought."

The origin is still considered to be from the Wuhan Region of China. Many nations have requested an investigation to determine the source. 


https://science.thewire.in/health/coronavirus-source-china-who-control-xi-jinping-tedros-adhanom-ghebreyesus/

"New Delhi: In a bid to find the origins of the novel coronavirus, the WHO “ceded” control to China, allowing the country’s government to “whitewash” its failure to quickly isolate and contain the virus, an investigation by the New York Times has found.

The newspaper accessed internal documents and conducted interviews with more than 50 public-health officials, scientists and diplomats that show how the “disempowered” WHO was eager to “win access and coordination” from China but achieved neither. The documents also show that China was able to extract concessions from WHO which allowed the government to delay important research and avoided a “potentially embarrassing” review of its early response.

The virus’s origin still remains a mystery and the trail may have now gone cold. While China has been secretive about past virus outbreaks – such as the SARS epidemic in 2002, the country later allowed international teams to investigate for the animal source of viruses. This time, the investigation has been “shrouded in secrecy”, according to the New York Times.

Not a great way for China to gain the world's trust.

The accusation of China failed to quickly isolate and contain the virus is stupid. US and Europe have not experienced outbreak of the virus until end of February. There is one month time window. Yet both US and Europe failed to quickly isolate and contain the virus. The fact is COVID-19 is very difficult to isolate and contain. Each virus has different effect on human beings. When the outbreak happened in Wuhan, China has little knowledge how the virus got transmitted. In the beginning Chinese experts even think it is not transmitted from human to human. 

Ok, let's see:   China identified a brand new, never before seen virus and told the world about it in less than a month -- two at the most -- and then contained it in just a few more.

After 10 months, the U.S. has yet to do much of anything -- except crash the economy and die.

...  So yeh, let's blame China!

 The pandemic is not over. Some people are trying to shift the attention to China to escape for their countries failure to quickly isolate and contain the virus. China is not God. Why do they believe China can do things they cannot do by themselves?