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Apple attends trade negotiation meeting

updated 06:45 pm EDT, Thu September 6, 2001

 
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At a meeting attended by Apple executives, Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill asked Silicon Valley leaders Thursday to support the Bush administration's quest for "fast-track" trade authority, which would allow the President to negotiate trade agreement terms with other countries. Apple is currently affected by defense trade regulations barring the company from shipping its G4 systems to certain nations.


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    Yeah, Apple is worried

    yeah, Apple is worried about not being able to reap the benefits of shipping G4's to Libya. Big money loss from no TiBook sales to Iraq, too. *roll eyes*

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    You'd be surprised

    Oil producing nations are intensely wealthy, at least the people who get the profit are. The market for Rolls Royces and Mercedes in such countries is huge.

    Now, as the Mac is the Rolls Royce of computers...

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    Wha?

    You guys think that Dubya wants the power because he wants Apple to sell G4s to Afghanistan? Yeah right... MacNN, you missed the point.

    This would allow Senior Bush to export yet more American jobs, by allowing Silicon Valley executives to line their pockets by more easily shift their production units to places where people don't mind working for a buck a day. Gee, that's a good move for America :rolleyes:

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    Dubya rules...

    Finally someone in the White House who shoots from the hip. If child labor in Indonesia means that I can buy a G4 upgrade card for $50, then start crackin' that whip! That's where America's standard of living comes from anyways, move the production overseas where labor is cheap and plentiful, and unions are illegal. If Moto were to fab G4 chips in such a country, then they wouldn't cost $500+ ea. And over in some of these countries, the government's know how to deal with unions--if a group of workers decides to sit on their asses all day, then the army comes in and starts crackin' skulls. They should be happy that America gives them jobs at all!

    I'm sick of all these bleeding heart liberals who have to whine everytime they learn about a factory working children for 16 hr. days. If it wasn't for child labor in countries that forbid unions, us Americans wouldn't have the luxuries we have. We are the defenders of the free world, so we should get the victor spoils.

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    man you're fu--cked

    dude...you're one twisted f**. What do u say I come over there and crush your skull?

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    I think it's satire

    At least i hope it is.

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    Export regs

    I think the implication of dubya having direct resposibility would be that he could control trade without recourse to other bodies. While that may sound ok, it might mean that he gets a friendly with the EU, it might mean he liberalises and wants free trade with everyone, it might mean he tightens up restrictions of arms trades to the developing world, while letting them have technology to help educate and serve their people.

    But I think he wants to block the EU, sell whatever he can to anyone while refusing their exports, sell arms to Angola and continue the blockade of Cuba while banning computer sales to the former Soviet Bloc.

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