SOME NEWS

This is Kim Dotcom....yes, Dotcom.

 He owns (owned?) this company.

 When you think about SOPA just going after college kids sharing songs....this is Kim Dotcom's house.

When they began to confiscate his cars, there were truckloads of them.

Remember this? I posted it several days ago. Well, a very smart young man I know emailed me with this question.

"How do I get the negative image of my son's hand inside mine?"

 I told him to use white paint and then called him a dummy. 

That's called over-thinking a problem.

(He told me I could share that)

My friend, Bernie the Jew, told me that he supported this man. I was flabbergasted. 

Now a follow up to an earlier post....

Shenzhen is a city without history. The people who live there will tell you that, because 31 years ago Shenzhen was a small town. It had little reed huts, little reed walkways between the huts. The men would fish in the late afternoon. I hear it was lovely.

Today Shenzhen is a city of 14 million people. It is larger than New York City... And the most amazing thing is, almost no one in America knows its name...

Foxconn, a single company, makes a staggering amount of the electronics you use every day. They make electronics for Apple, Dell, Nokia, Panasonic, HP, Samsung, Sony, Lenovo, a third of all of it... including MacBook Pros and iPhones and iPads...

The Foxconn plant in Shenzhen has 430,000 workers. That can be a difficult number to conceptualize. I find it's useful to instead think about how there are more than 20 cafeterias at the plant. And then you just have to understand that workers told me that these cafeterias can hold up to 10,000 people. So now you just need to visualize a cafeteria that seats 10,000 people. I'll wait...

And along the edges of each enormous building [described earlier as an "arcology" :.) ] are the nets, because right at the time that I am making this visit, there's been an epidemic of suicides at the Foxconn plant. Week after week, worker after worker has been climbing all the way up to the tops of these enormous buildings and then throwing themselves off, killing themselves in a brutal and public manner, not thinking very much about just how bad this makes Foxconn look. Foxconn's response to month after month of suicides has been to put up these nets...

And I say to her, you seem kind of young. How old are you? And she says, I'm 13. And I say, 13? That's young. Is it hard to get work at Foxconn when you're-- and she says oh no. And her friends all agree, they don't really check ages... Do you really think Apple doesn't know? In a company obsessed with the details, with the aluminum being milled just so, with the glass being fitted perfectly into the case, do you really think it's credible that they don't know? Or are they just doing what we are all doing? Do they just see what they want to see?..