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From: Jim on 27 May 2010 15:01 zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote: > Can you recommend any courgettes that grow easily? I've got yellow > somethings that are doing well, but the green bush ones are either > failing or coming up all stunted and unhealthy-looking. Have I just got > a bad batch? I haven't the faintest idea, sorry. These are SWMBO's and it's the first time. The best I can say so far is "they're not dead yet". I can get the name if you want? Jim -- "Microsoft admitted its Vista operating system was a 'less good product' in what IT experts have described as the most ambitious understatement since the captain of the Titanic reported some slightly damp tablecloths." http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/
From: Jim on 27 May 2010 15:19 Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > > Can you recommend any courgettes that grow easily? I've got yellow > > somethings that are doing well, but the green bush ones are either > > failing or coming up all stunted and unhealthy-looking. Have I just got > > a bad batch? > > I haven't the faintest idea, sorry. These are SWMBO's and it's the first > time. The best I can say so far is "they're not dead yet". I can get the > name if you want? Actually, scrap that, no I can't get you the name because SWMBO doesn't know it either. If you actually want to know what they are then SWMBO will need to ask Kate (at work)'s other half's father, Harry, who is apparently the source of them. I'm not actually convinced they're courgettes. They could be pot for all I know. Damn we're good. Jim -- http://www.ursaMinorBeta.co.uk http://twitter.com/GreyAreaUK Please help save Bletchley Park - sign the petition for Government funding at: (open to UK residents and ex.pats) http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/BletchleyPark/ Thank you.
From: J. J. Lodder on 27 May 2010 17:21 zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote: > J. J. Lodder <nospam(a)de-ster.demon.nl> wrote: > > Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > > > >> Plus, as has been pointed out, 10 or 12 suicides per year in a > > > workforce of > >> almost half a million may well have nothing at all to do with the > > > company, > >> but instead just be the usual numbers you'd see in any group of > > > 500,000 > >> people in China. Or the West for that matter. > > > > See <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate> > > > > A suicide rate of 2/100.000/year is very low indeed, > incredibly low even, > > Much as I don't want to belittle the experiences of those pushed to > suicide, or those left behind, this does actually seem to be a > non-story. > > The working conditions, fine. That's a story. The suicides? Not so much, > unless there's some other factor not being reported properly (are these > suicides in the workplace itself? I suspect that might be it) Judging from suicides, France Telecom might be a far worse employer, [1] Jan [1] #23 so far <http://www.parismatch.com/Actu-Match/Societe/Actu/Le-message-d-adieu-de -Stephanie-128073/> Google on <suicide "France Telecom"> for a lot more.
From: SteveH on 27 May 2010 17:22 T i m <news(a)spaced.me.uk> wrote: > Hi all, > > On the news just now, it would seem many workers at the Foxconn > factory in China would rather commit suicide (and 11 or so have > already this year) than continue making the likes of the iPhone and > iPad? ;-( > > All down to poor working conditions apparently. > > Anyone know the typical markups and at what stages of this sort of > gear? > > Is Apple a 'Fairtrade' supplier do we know? It's a very badly written story targetted at people who will grab any opportunity to bash Apple. Seems it hit a bullseye with you, then. -- SteveH
From: Rowland McDrivel on 28 May 2010 00:35
On Thu, 27 May 2010 10:37:42 +0100, Jim bleated: > On 2010-05-27, T i m <news(a)spaced.me.uk> wrote: >> On Thu, 27 May 2010 10:12:15 +0100, Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> >> wrote: >> >> >>>> Hmm, but on something that is already 'expensive' would that really be >>>> an issue? >>> >>>No, especially as they could absorb some of that (their profit margins tend >>>towards 30%). Additionally they could play the 'locally made' card for all >>>they're worth, which would be great advertising for them. >>> >>>The fact that they don't tells me that it would cost a lot more than �25 >>> >> Maybe I'm just more more cynical then. ;-) > > Quite possibly. The benefits of Apple manfacturing locally (per country) > would vastly outweigh the trivial price increase, if it were truly trivial. > > The fact that they don't suggests to me that it wouldn't be a trivial price > increase. > > Plus, as has been pointed out, 10 or 12 suicides per year in a workforce of > almost half a million may well have nothing at all to do with the company, > but instead just be the usual numbers you'd see in any group of 500,000 > people in China. Or the West for that matter. > No you silly ponce, people in the workforce aren't just like any average group of 500,000 people. They are mentally and physically superior and sound enough to earn a living. A truly average group of 500,000 people includes physically and mentally ill people, who are at much greater risk of suicide. -- "Don't be daft: it's perfectly safe. No-one can harm anyone else here: it's a text based internet forum. How can it be dangerous?" Rowland McDonnell on trolls - August 22, 2007 |