Awl--
Yeah, yeah, we all know about china'n's*it, but here's a little inside factoid from a machining compadre of mine. Ackshooly, he's a lamp-maker and architectural sheetmetal-ist, very high-end, very skilled. In Brooklyn, NY. Who needs some work, btw... :) Inyway, he does real spensive stuff, for the Connecticut and Manhattan Rich, you know, $5,000 stainless steel one-off chairs'n's*it, bronze 10 ft doors, ekc. You know, some asshole's wife in CT gets a creative urge during her long arduous day of doin absolutely nuthin, sketches out her own furniture'n's*it, which then of course MUST be realized. My buddy then realizes sed creative drivel for these ultra-effluent assholes.
But, he says some of his business comes from a guy who will want a replica of some item, say, a Frank Lloyd Wright chair or table or sump'n, made
*absolutely perfectly*, for, well, the future Chinese Insertion. So ahm doin my Li'l (Gr)asshopper Thing: O Sensei, O why does s*it have to be so perfect, iffin it's just goin to fuknChina?? Sensei: Cuz, (gr)asshopper, iffin I put one inadvertant minor *scratch* on the chair, the repro's from China will then contain sed scratch! Goddamm....
Thought that was a might inneresting, in that
- when they say "copy", they ain't foolin,
- China is *that* good, and
- China don't even have to outright steal our s*it.... They just commission someone to have it made and shipped right on over. Ain't no surreptitiousness or skullduggery bout it. Hey, here's X dollars--help us shove it in. My buddy don't like what he does, but s*it, he's gotta eat, and pay rent/salaries.
There is, apparently, no escape.
But have no fear--if China/India don't shove it in, yer own fav domestic corporations/politicians already have their zippers down, and will step right up, if not in fact beat China to the Insertion. The Johnny-come-lately's will just have pick different orifices, as the choice ones get impacted.
But s*it does roll down hill, fortunately: There's always *Africa* left, for *everyone* to f*ck, by way of stealing her resources, since nobody over there has any money to buy s*it with.
You know ahm off from work, right?? :) Torn deltoid, which fortunately (unfortunately) no longer hampers my typing. :) :) Cornea's growin back just fine. :)