[NTLUG:Discuss] Hidden Malware in offshore products raisesconcerns

[Lance Simmons]

* Greg Edwards <greg at nas-inet.com> [030913 16:17]:
> 
> Some 35+ years of technical advancement is being ignored in the name
> of profits.  

That line of reasoning won't produce the political resolve required to
stop the flow of jobs out of the U.S.  Sector after sector of the
American economy has complained of being used and cast aside, and the
globalization train has kept on rolling.

> So tell me, where is the next new advance in technology coming from?

Beats me.  The complaints and predictions you're making were all made by
other industries.  I heard an NPR piece yesterday about how California
avocado growers fear that lifting the ban on Mexican and South American
avocados is ruining them.  The American avocado growers claim that
foreign fruit flies are going to destroy the avocado industry, much as
tech people fear the death of technology, but it's not going to work in
either case, _even if the fears are right_.

Consumers demand cheap avocados and cheap technology, and the Buchanan
and Nader campaigns in 2000 uncovered no groundswell of support for
limiting that demand.

-- 
Lance Simmons