I would disagree, given that -- while not a legal requirement to do so -- many sites have a policy of suspending or banning users who receive more than a certain number of DMCA complaints. Thus, it has become an impolite method of contact de-facto.

Yes we did, you just had a reading comprehension fail. The plant is being built in Hainan (a province of the PRC). The press statement is being issued from Taiwan ROC, where Foxconn's corporate offices are.

Depending on how they counted them, there are probably also many employees working outside the plant as well, handling things like transportation and external infrastructure. For a plant of this size, the number of associated employees not actually in the plant could be quite substantial.

Following up, forgot to state in my previous post why I was responding to your statement that "The more people we have, the higher the rate of technological advancement will happen. Humans are the ultimate resource.".

The reason I pointed out Mao ZheDong, was that he said something very similar, prior to embarking on the disastrous policies described my post above -- that he considered humans to be a resource rather than a burden, and therefore more people would equal more growth.

Combining rampant population growth with the disastrous industrial and agricultural follies of the Great Leap Forward , China experienced one of the largest famines in modern history -- the Great Chinese Famine of 1958-1962.

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Note: The "Troll" moderation doesn't refer to behavior, either.

Maybe they should have omitted the "capable of delivering worst engineering advice ever, with a straight face" requirement from their job descriptions. Because I get the distinct feeling that their work instructions from management to engineering did not include having engineering deliver any good advice.

This would be a great idea for a Makerspace trying to attract more people/funding.

You've already got tools and a core of tinkerers that know how to fix stuff -- if you could draw in a broader audience from the community, you could make some extra money selling them drinks and munchies, and possibly convert some people to the hobby.

Thanks, right after reading the article, I came down to see if anyone else had posted a comment regarding First & Second Sleep:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segmented_sleep

As a stone-thrower, he's already advanced further politically than we have, seeing as how we are still at the poo-throwing dominance display stage.

Those executives should have known better than to go themselves. Sending an management lackey to participate in demos is much safer. :P

That's just the beginning. Abductions of South Korean and Japanese civilians, and probably a few citizens of some other countries as well. The 1983 Rangoon Embassy Bombing and 1987 Flight 858 Bombing. Probable government-level drug-smuggling and similar criminal enterprises.

From a standpoint of international law, North Korea's government level, large-scale counterfeiting of US Currency, just by itself, might be sufficient to constitute an act act of war.

Is there anyone else who read this headline and thought it that it referred to some old dude?

Yeah, feels distinctly like Astroturf to me also. First few days I was wondering if it was just some fanboys trolling, but it's starting to seem like there's some organized entity involved.

Good attempt but your dialect and accent are off. As a long-time scholar of Cat, let me translate for you:

I CAN KILLZ HOOMAN? No, need füdz, hoomanz is made of bad füdz.
I CAN KILLZ HOOMAN? No, give catnipz plz. Kthnxbai.
I CAN KILLZ HOOMAN? No, give waterz plz. Kthnxbai.
DOG. RUN.