stupid news comment of the week

Kay, perhpas many of the talking heads are on TV, not because they are truly expert, but because they aren't good enough at what they purport to know to make more money at it than they can just talking about it. Kind of like the WSO forum.

Why buy Nikes when you can make your own?

The story I liked is the NY cop who got in trouble for pepper spraying contained protesters -

A Capt. Anthony Bologna...(a cop named "Tony Baloney" - no wonder he has a grudge) -

oh...It sucks...if not sucks then its sucked out already...lol

That is the whole problem with the current economy. Some people think about the GOOD aspects of an action and feel it MUST be done and NEVER consider all the repercussions. Is moving to china good? Lower costs, better protection against natural disasters, lower shipping costs, better brand recognition, etc... Sounds GREAT! WHY NOT? THEN there is loss of control, cultural problems, communication problems, problems if there is some cultural strife, greater chance of abandoning what worked before, government problems, etc.... And then it doesn't sound so great.

But people tend to buy clothes BEFORE travel if they can. A coworker CLAIMED to me that the ipad2 costs more in china than here. He DID wait a LONG time for it, and we watched it being shipped from china. It DID take a while. So even if it cost twice as much, he would probably have bought it there. Besides, THERE he would know it could handle the local utilities, and could test it. So the idea that selling it in their country will encourage buying here is kind of silly.

MAYBE for FOOD and the like it is a better idea! I mean a fast food chain makes more sense. People may not eat the food here because they aren't used to it, don't know what to expect, or hear rumors. If the chain is in china, people have a better comfort level. BESIDES, most costs of a fast food franchise are borne by the franchisee.

It DOES seem like there are a LOT of food places that are now in china. Ironically, some try to fit in with the US myth and chinese desires SO much, that they aren't anything like the ones in the US. A chinese person coming to the US may actually be SHOCKED. That is a FAR cry from the guy that tried to assemble a new burger. The company told him ***NO***! I forget the whole story, but eventually it was adopted and called the Big Mac. Or the guy that tried to create a new sandwich to satisfy catholics on certain days, and ended up making a bet with the CEO. HE and the CEO took their own compatible sandwich and competed to have the winner presented as a new item. The CEO LOST and the new sandwich was mcdonalds fish sandwich.

One of a franchises strengths is consistency and a standard product line. Chicken delight is apparently all but gone in the US because of inconsistency.

Steve

Don't see what the difference is anymore between China and the US that is so large companies would bother moving. They are allowed to torture workers here while paying them less than enough to survive on, too.

They are opening up jobs at Amazon in NV down the road from me. They tell people they will work any hours they tell them to (which means 12 hour days 7 days a week during good seasons) and if the worker gets sick from that and misses a day? Nope - doctor's excuse isn't good enough -- you get sick while they are beating your ass into the ground and you are fired.

Sounds like they don't need to move to China anymore - seems like China has moved here.

WOW! There ARE laws against intentionally misreresenting a contract or law to gt a person to sign. It comes under the heading of FRAUD! In California, when they had all the propositions to "lower car insurance", they pulled the SAME garbage! There were literally at least TWO propositions that looked IDENTICAL! They were advertised IDENTICAL! If you paid $100 before, one would have you pay like $80(IF you could), and the other would have you pay $100! The difference was that the second was introduced by the insurance companies, and started from a certain date. The other was from the date it was proposed. The insurance companies all raised rates in preparation for THEIR version passing, which it DID.

I said it before, I WISH they would enforce it. And WOW, It IS amazing how many legal theories there are. I once had to pay what I earned back because THEY paid me too early or too late. If early, the would say it was OBVIOUSLY preference. If late(EVEN by a DAY), they would say that I should have known about the problem, so it was preference. NO WONDER why some charge so much or being a little late. Some read the constitution and basically ignore history, reason, and context, and translate the 2nd amendment based on comma placement! So I guess it is impossible to provide for every condition. Your clarification may even be the crack they use to pry the contract apart.

I once had discussions for MONTHS with a company. We KNEW the international understanding! It was a SELLING POINT! I asked them specific questions, and they ADMITTED that my understanding was correct! They said they were doing it. They specified it was a hardware feature. They sent me SCHEMATICS! When I proved they couldn't possibly be telling the truth, they said it was a SOFTWARE
"feature" to provide compatible errors to indicate they COULDN'T do what they kept saying they COULD. THEIR defense came down to comma placement!

But yeah, we know the US doesn't exist anymore. I wish I could say more here.

Steve