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| Re: FCC Fines Behringer $1M [message #86885 is a reply to message #86857] |
Tue, 19 June 2007 00:36   |
erlilo
Messages: 405
Registered: June 2005
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I think it's mostly the same problem whatever we're buying that is made in
China in these days.
We allready know many great American and Europeen firms that's stopped
producing in their home countries, just to get their "great" productlines
from China and other countries where people are just a working machine, with
no human rights at all. It's not only Behringer that's doing these things.
Nearly all things we're buying now a days, as clothes, shoes, el articles,
music things like Mackie products and Studio Projects microphones etc. etc.,
you can see with small writings a place: "Made in China". Most of these
workers that's making products for our western countries, are working under
conditions as Dubuya is saying here.
So I must say we're all living very well in our great western world, with
all our China and Eastern products and our great double moral;-)
Erling
"W. Mark Wilson" <xpam_mark@avidrecording> skrev i en meddelelse
news:4676430a@linux...
> Play the factory tour videos. Listen up for the description of the
> conditions under which the workers make the stuff.... teens and
> 20-somethings living at the factory six to a room in an industrial area
> accessible by 40-minute ferry ride out of Hong Kong in an obscure concrete
> jungle hazed by deisel-laden smog.
>
> Yeah, I'm still boycotting their stuff.
>
> WMW
>
> "DC" <dc@spammersinhell.com> wrote in message news:467617ce$1@linux...
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>> Couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch eh?
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>> DC
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>> Dedric Terry <dterry@keyofd.net> wrote:
>>>http://www.gearwire.com/behringer-fcc.html
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>>>I'm shocked. Speechless I tell you. Never would have seen this
>>>coming...
>>>
>>>oh..wait...no... I'm thinking of the Yankees on a winning streak... ;-)
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>>>
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| Re: FCC Fines Behringer $1M [message #86919 is a reply to message #86885] |
Tue, 19 June 2007 23:30 |
xpam_mark
Messages: 126
Registered: March 2007
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Just to be clear Erling, without much noise going about doing it, I boycott
as much as I can when and where appropriate. I own a couple of Guang Phan
products. Didn't know their origins until after I bought. No more. I
don't shop Walmart or Target (2 biggest purveyors of chinese made products
in the US) unless I absolutely have to because they bring in so many totally
Chinese products. And when I do shop there, I don't walk out with anything
that says Made in China. I don't buy anything AT&T because they took
thousands and thousands of jobs to MeHico 6 years ago. 20 something years
ago I stopped shopping K-Mart. They then owned Waldenbooks and together
with their K-mart stores placed porn mags right out where kids could see
them and refused public pressure to remove them from K-mart stores
altogether. Their CEO at the time pretty much called his vocalizing
customer base bible-thumping puritans, laughed and went his merry way only
to lose his gig a few years later. I didn't celebrate when Big K almost
went TU here a couple of years ago but I'm pretty sure my 18 year boycott
was felt with the exception that I purchased a one-gallon plastic gas can
there one time ater running out of gas.
I did the same with Iomega when I found out that 13 year-old rain forest
babies were putting together zip drives. Don't get me wrong; I am not
activist although I am certainly a strong bearer of political opinion. But
where I'm quick to call BS here (like the time I called it on someone here
who said Saddam Hussein was a genius) I'm quicker to quietly do something to
shape my world.
Double morals (or what we call "double standards" here in the US) will
always reside with all of us to some extent. I've got a few and probably
more that haven't been pointed out to me or that I refuse to really look at.
WMW
Who drives a nice Japanese made car
(but never puts Exxon or BP gas in it - ask me and I'll tell you).
"erlilo" <erlingl@tdcadsl.dk> wrote in message news:46778924@linux...
>I think it's mostly the same problem whatever we're buying that is made in
>China in these days.
> We allready know many great American and Europeen firms that's stopped
> producing in their home countries, just to get their "great" productlines
> from China and other countries where people are just a working machine,
> with no human rights at all. It's not only Behringer that's doing these
> things. Nearly all things we're buying now a days, as clothes, shoes, el
> articles, music things like Mackie products and Studio Projects
> microphones etc. etc., you can see with small writings a place: "Made in
> China". Most of these workers that's making products for our western
> countries, are working under conditions as Dubuya is saying here.
> So I must say we're all living very well in our great western world, with
> all our China and Eastern products and our great double moral;-)
>
> Erling
>
>
> "W. Mark Wilson" <xpam_mark@avidrecording> skrev i en meddelelse
> news:4676430a@linux...
>> Play the factory tour videos. Listen up for the description of the
>> conditions under which the workers make the stuff.... teens and
>> 20-somethings living at the factory six to a room in an industrial area
>> accessible by 40-minute ferry ride out of Hong Kong in an obscure
>> concrete jungle hazed by deisel-laden smog.
>>
>> Yeah, I'm still boycotting their stuff.
>>
>> WMW
>>
>> "DC" <dc@spammersinhell.com> wrote in message news:467617ce$1@linux...
>>>
>>> Couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch eh?
>>>
>>> DC
>>>
>>>
>>> Dedric Terry <dterry@keyofd.net> wrote:
>>>>http://www.gearwire.com/behringer-fcc.html
>>>>
>>>>I'm shocked. Speechless I tell you. Never would have seen this
>>>>coming...
>>>>
>>>>oh..wait...no... I'm thinking of the Yankees on a winning streak... ;-)
>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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