MacBook case fabs kick up a right stink

Someone doesn't know what "red top" means

If you want the pretence of sober consideration, go read Gartner instead -- but don't fool yourself; it's not as though they have a secret wellspring of knowledge the Vulture lacks, just that they're better at looking professional (i.e., the Reg just doesn't give a fuck, and good on 'em too).

Now, on the topic of the article, I'm amused by the thought that progressive environmentalism is going to destroy the pretence of progressive egalitarianism -- after all, when it comes to electronics manufacturing, there's just no way to make this stuff cleanly, not when you've got to blow the tops off mountains and slaughter abos in job lots just to get to the raw materials. So we're going to clean up the industry, and ('we' being rich progressives, of course) carefully ignore the shrieks that result when suddenly we're asked to shell out $3000 for a basic low-end PC for Granny to read email and Facebook posts -- you know, just like the bad old days, except without any prospect of falling prices in the future, quite the opposite in fact as it gets harder and more expensive to find caches of salvageable parts and equipment from back before the Love Every Thing crowd took over.

Or it could just be that someone in the Celestial Bureaucracy is taking the opportunity to screw a Taiwanese company out of some business and give it to hometown boys Foxconn instead. But why let sensible analysis get in the way of a good political rant now I've got the bit in my teeth?

Also: Oozee finkee izzen?

With all the "do this", "don't do that" you lot spout, you'd think this were a complaint department for paying customers, and not the booze- and stupidity-fueled borderline kindergarten it actually is most days.

Are they shuting down their state-owned facilities or native-owned facilities because of health or environmental concerns? No. The PRC government doesn't give a damn about the environment, they're using it as an excuse to push out foreign competitors and getting the boot in at Taiwan at the same time.