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Comment Re:Yay! (Score 1) 439

Hadlock. Get your facts straight, my friend. The State of Sao Paulo, where I live, would still be in the G-20 if it was an independent country, with a world class infrastructure.

Maybe, even though the Sao Paulo republic has a huge amount of filthy rich people, it wouldn't survive 5 minutes in South American politics. Just saying.

Comment Re:Less pay or no job (Score 1) 606

What's it going to be? It's a global economy, there are people in other countries willing to do the job you won't. Sad to say but unions are effectively dead until third world countries stop working for pennies on the dollar.

Ok, Amazon can get the hell out of Europe and put up shop in Pakistan ? Myanmar ? Tajikistan ? Afghanistan ? Some god forsaken hell hole of southeast asia ? [...]. Nothing is worth destoying what good labor laws we have in the continent, most of time gained through blood and violence during the last 2 centuries.

Except I think those workers in Pakistan deserve good working conditions too. Since big companies move around so much I believe it's very important to make them treat their employees well even if they are in another country, no excuses like "we are just starting up in Pakistan and lots of people need jobs".

Bah.

Submission + - Standardised laptop charger approved by IEC

Sockatume writes: The IEC, the standards body which wrote the phone charger specification used in the EU, has approved a standardised laptop charger. While the "DC Power Supply for Portable Personal Computer" doesn't have a legal mandate behind it, the IEC is still optimistic that it will lead to a reduction in electronics waste and make it easier to find a replacement charger. Unfortunately the technical documentation does not seem to be available yet, but previous comments indicate that it will be a barrel plug of some kind.

Comment UK vs US (Score 4, Interesting) 103

Further I'm interested by the fact that there is quite a lot of talk about first amendment, but considering that Cannonical is not based in the US the perspective is alittle different. I have tried to use company logos in publications in Sweden, and it was really hard, you are not allowed to print logos without premissions. While the creator of the website might be from the US I don't know that, but I guess it's easy to check.

I guess the question is would I think the same if this was about Apple or Windows.

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