Riot Breaks Out At Foxconn 456
Presto Vivace writes with news (as reported by Engadget) of a riot at Foxconn's Taiyuan plant, reportedly over guards beating up a worker, and writes "Something is going on at Foxconn. Do any Slashdotters know of a good source for news about Chinese labor disputes?" Reports of the riot are also at Reuters, TUAW, and CNBC, to name a few.
Srsly? (Score:5, Insightful)
Yes, and slashdot readers are a great source of news from Chinese sweatshop plants because demographics are, like, so close.
Labor disputes (Score:5, Insightful)
"Something is going on at Foxconn. Do any Slashdotters know of a good source for news about Chinese labor disputes?"
This is China. There won't be any news.
Who cares? (Score:4, Insightful)
Who cares? I'm sitting in a coffee shop sipping on fairtrade coffee on blogging on my retina macbook pro about Obama and talking on my new iphone 5.
Scumbag western liberals: claims to support the working class, gladly buys products from a communist dictatorship with an abysmal human rights record
Re:Strange (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Labor disputes (Score:3, Insightful)
The fact that this news like this actually got out is news in itself.
I really dont care. (Score:1, Insightful)
No one really cares what's happening at foxcon. This is not news or of importance.
"Good source for news" ? (Score:5, Insightful)
Do any Slashdotters know of a good source for news about Chinese labor disputes?
I am sure, Foxconn, Apple, CIA, Chinese Communist Party and Dalai Lama have plenty to say about those things. Or, by "good" you mean something that is not pure spin? Then no.
Re:Who cares? (Score:5, Insightful)
This has nothing to do with a "communist dictatorship" (though it should be noted that China is about as far from communism as can be), it has everything to do with companies in the wealthy part of the world using workers in poorer parts of the world as virtual slave labor. It is the epitome of capitalism, for owners to make as much money as possible simply by virtue of already having a lot of it, while paying their workers as little as they can possibly get away with.
Re:Who cares? (Score:3, Insightful)
You need to stop basing your views on sitcom caricatures.
But I thought... (Score:3, Insightful)
But I thought Apple told us they made it all right and everything is good at Foxconn. We can believe what Apple tells us, can't we?
Reports differ (Score:5, Insightful)
The guys at wehateapple.com are saying it's the worst thing in history and that Apple will finally get what's coming to them for all teh evils. But the guys at appleisgreat.com are saying it's no big deal and stuff like this happens all the time.
Meanwhile, the guys at mindyourownbusiness.com don't have a report about it at all, but they do have some good reports that seem relevant to my own life. At mindsomeoneelsesbusiness.com, they're extremely interested in whether African tribes that make their own beer are at a greater risk for gout from too much yeast and they think it's the fault of the US government for some reason.
At newsfornerds.com, they're just trolling for clicks, so they put up a story with no information to get Apple haters and Apple fanboys sniping at each other. Later, they'll be posting stories about evolution, Mitt Romney's failure to announce any female cabinet members, an ask newsfornerds.com question about whether Dragon Age 3 will be more heterosexual-friendly than Dragon Age 2, and a statement from RMS about how the government should stop paying school teachers because they should be sharing their knowledge for free.
If the Chinese aren't careful... (Score:5, Insightful)
If the Chinese aren't careful, they're going to have a communist revolution on their hands.
Sorry, I might have trotted that one out before; but it has fit so perfectly the past decade or so.
Re:Qualcomm demand? (Score:2, Insightful)
Note that the police actually showed up to this. The police didn't show up to protect the Japanese-branded businesses last week.
Re:How Much (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:How Much (Score:5, Insightful)
Equipment costs have always dwarfed manufacturing labor costs in the IC industry. Government subsidized fab construction is a major reason it moved to Asia. And other production like assembling phones is cheaper closer to where the components are made.
Re:Labor disputes (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Labor disputes (Score:5, Insightful)
It would be an improvement over their fascist government.
Just because someone labels himself one thing doesn't make it so. Allegedly, the US is a republic, you see?
Re:Well don't look to Google for answers! (Score:5, Insightful)
Yeah, all your examples are from 2010, and from cursory glance, they're all resolved. Also you included at least one link to errors that were appearing in Google Places, not Google Maps.
You might think it's unfair that we're judging a map that's been out for less than a month to one that's been out for years, but if you're going to release a new product it's going to be compared to what is currently available. The fact is, there are too many errors in obvious stuff - misspelled capital cities, duplications of entire islands, famous landmarks with incorrect coastlines. It's a complete abandonment of the philosophy of "It Just Works".
Re:Strange (Score:5, Insightful)
Yes, after years of development, the Reality Distortion Field is now available on iOS apps!
Re:Well don't look to Google for answers! (Score:3, Insightful)
Really, that touchy? It is one of the most common premises of humor - you have a case of obvious issues with/focus on "X", that makes room for funny exaggerations
Humor is usually based on truth. There is nothing true about that image. The whole feed until that images has been humor based on truth.
If you start mixing in fabrications you are polluting all the real examples of issues. Are they all humorously real problems? No-one can tell any more. And it's simply less funny to boot.
yeah, I guess you can claim that most jokes are 'outright fabrication
No. Again, most humor is based on exaggerations with some core truth.
Re: (Score:4, Insightful)
Guards are "workers" too by many definitions. A fight among workers can easily be spin from "clash between guards and assembly workers."
Lots of spin going on here. That a simple fight can turn into a riot? With cars turned over? Doubting it. Most such fights are simply watched by people as a form of entertainment. But when the dispute is something close to the observers' hearts (such as working conditions and abuses) others joining in and working together is natural.
Re:Correction is not elimination (Score:2, Insightful)
now you are accusing others of doing what you are doing.... pot and fucking kettle...
yeah i am probably gonna burn some karma here.. but meh, you just keep digging yer own hole. the apple maps fiasco is the joke of the day, weeze of the week and other words i could have taken out of Holly from Red Drawf's mouth during the end of the "Queeg" episode
Apple maps are just utterly shit, and no amount of excuses or shill nonsense can cover it. A simple, fact is that Google maps are a far more superior and mature product. You don't have to be a shill to see that fact and no matter how much you try, you are only going to look an even bigger dick for trying to.
Re:Well don't look to Google for answers! (Score:4, Insightful)
Based on, but not necessarily true.
Except, ofcourse, as an exaggeration of the other issues that Apple's map software currently has.
No, the whole feed until that image has been Humorous Truths. Now we have a Humorous Exaggeration.
And, as sibling post said, pull the stick out your arse and laugh once and a while.
Re:Who cares? (Score:5, Insightful)
They are the shining example of capitalism.... and the poster child for why neither unfettered communism nor unfettered capitalism is a system that works.
Re:Your 50 Mao membership card is showing. (Score:4, Insightful)
Venezuela is neither a communist state nor a dictatorship: Under the elected government of Hugo Chavez, it has engaged in some redistribution policies to help the extremely poor, but that's not the same has having a state-planned economy with Five Year Plans or people getting sent to the gulag for political reasons or Great Leaps Forward.
Also, if we're going to allow references to bad things that have happened in the history of a country, the US has to own up to, since the 1930's alone, Japanese-American internment, Jim Crow and the many lynchings that came out of that, the repeated acts of aggression against foreign countries (many of whom present little-to-no threat against the US, like Grenada), overthrowing democratically elected governments and replacing them with brutal dictatorships (Iran and Chile being the most important examples), and occasional acts of putting down political protests with force (e.g. Kent State, Chicago '67, Occupy Wall St). Communist governments often do really bad things. The US government also often does really bad things. I'm in favor of condemning governments when they commit obvious moral evils, regardless of who they are, but thinking that "my government is always good, and their government is always evil" is not a useful or correct position to take.
Re:Who cares? (Score:4, Insightful)
You only asked for one example, so here you go: 23 people arrested for protesting against being fired for trying to form a union. [sott.net] I could find more examples, but you only asked for one.
How about for the way they look even though they have papers? [brownsvilleherald.com].
I have. It's amazing people still think we're #1.