A worker pushes a trolley carrying products under nets which are installed on a factory building to prevent workers from jumping to their deaths at a Foxconn factory in Langfang, Hebei Province August 3, 2010. Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd , also known as Foxconn Technology Group, opened a new $100 million production factory in the central Chinese province of Henan, as the group began to move production inland in a bid to cap rising labour costs, according to a state media report. REUTERS/Jason Lee (CHINA - Tags: BUSINESS)

Remember that plant Foxconn was going to build in Harrisburg? Well forget about it.

21 thoughts on “Remember that plant Foxconn was going to build in Harrisburg? Well forget about it.

    1. You're thinking that hard-rock mining and iPhone assembly, although both hand work, require different skill sets and attitudes?

  1. “The proof is always in the pudding,” said Scott Andes, a senior policy analyst at Brookings.

    Ding ding fucking ding!

  2. *disclaimer- weej has a vested interest in seeing that infrastructure gets maintained, although he makes more money when it isn't!

  3. "illustrated recent research on the types of glass best suited for the long-term storage of nuclear waste"

    I think I see the problem(s) there- "long term storage" and "nuclear waste"

  4. still waiting for the nuke industry to come up with a good plan for that. They might want to start by "cleaning up the shit they've made already" har dee har har

  5. Yep. I have a good friend who grew up in that area. He said he thought his next door neighbor was a janitor at Hanford, because "he was always being called in to clean up a spill". My friend is a very smart guy, probably more brains than the rest of his immediate family combined. He was the only one who grew up in that area. I think the reasonable explanation for this is that he acquired his super-smarts from the radiation.

  6. Our tin cans used to go to Japan and come back as Toyotas. Now our Toyotas go to China and come back as god knows what. I owned a Chinese-built farm tractor for years. They come over in containers, unassembled, so at least a USAmerican gets paid to put it together. And the containers get sold for storage, because it's not worth sending them all back empty.

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