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usa?

I guess the joke is on us!

Mexico?

"The Chinese government can stop it," said Sen. John McCain of Arizona, the top Republican on the panel.

The American government can stop it too, dick. Stop cutting PO's to known counterfeiters.

There is absolutely no reason the government should be purchasing anything that isn't made in this country.

Maybe it's not a good idea to buy weapons, or parts for weapons, from enemies.

The USA? With it's proud history of manufacturing real goods!

I thought big corporations were the ones farming their jobs off shore for cheaper labor leading to job shortages here? At least the people in sweat-shops making iPhones and Nikes don't have the potential to disrupt the American military complex. But hey, it is only China. There are no historical records showing they believe themselves to be fated by a mandate from heaven to rule the world, even if they have to wait many,many,many years.

Azerbaijan?

Hot Rod Zoidberg: There is absolutely no reason the government should be purchasing anything that isn't made in this country.

Especially sensitive defense-related items. Heck, I wouldn't purchase bullets made from other countries. The government should be supporting home-based businesses, even if that's defense-related businesses, which I personally abhor supporting.

Hot Rod Zoidberg: There is absolutely no reason the government should be purchasing anything that isn't made in this country.

QFT - Rosie the riveter is rolling over in her American made grave.

Barbados?

Heh. Teh farking link address appears to be RUNNING OUT OF TIME!!

Probably Lichtenstein. fark those guys.

/Switzerland's Canada

Are they still working on nuclear weapons?

Cool! Now when the US sells off its surplus missiles to third-world countries and they get made into IEDs there is a good chance they wont explode -- thereby saving American Troop's lives. The DOD is always thinking about their soldiers first.

Hot Rod Zoidberg: There is absolutely no reason the government should be purchasing anything that isn't made in this country.

Then instead of $500 toilet seats, you're going to have $1000 1GB SDRAM modules.

It would be better to team up with Canada and the UK and pool resources for a few trusted chip fabs. If you have a few of them, it'll help keep the price down.

Somewhere where I don't know where I amistan?

There is clearly more to this situation than meets the eye.

thelordofcheese: The USA? With it's proud history of manufacturing real goods!

...manufactured in Mexico or Canada.

Argentina?

A lot of times the dirty contractors will subcontract out parts to China and not tell anyone. Guess what, dirty contractor, you just got fined, and might see the inside of a cell. I've known of contractors who have gone to prison for things like that. As ineffectual as the government is sometimes, it doesn't like for China to have technical drawings of weapon parts.

On another note, anyone know why my login now shows up as <Karma Curmudgeon. ???

/Tebow?

The country with the poisoned dog food i'll bet

HotWingConspiracy Add Favorite User Quote 2011-11-08 04:21:26 PM Ignore User
"The Chinese government can stop it," said Sen. John McCain of Arizona, the top Republican on the panel.

The American government can stop it too, dick. Stop cutting PO's to known counterfeiters.


THIS. Or better yet, admit that buying anything from China carries an unacceptable level of risk and just stop already.

Since it was in the Fark headline, I automatically guessed America.

It's that goddamn Canada, isn't it? Why haven't we invaded them yet? They sit up there all smug with their poutine and their curling, mocking us. I say we take it all, and turn the whole country into a wildlife preserve.

meh.
you get what you pay for.

West Xylophone?

/Yemen?
//Zimbabweeeeeeee?

Karma Curmudgeon: On another note, anyone know why my login now shows up as <Karma Curmudgeon. ???

/Tebow?

I think someone farked up the fark perl script. It's easy to do. Everything seems to be working despite that little glich

All American flags are made in China.

This will continue until we all scream no more and do something about it.

This is when I think that Carlin's opinion of upside-down public crucifixions for executives may be the right way to stop this junk...

Albania?

Hmm maybe some things shouldn't be out-sourced!

It's Iran, isn't it?

They've got an awful lot of suspicious looking oil.

Frank and Beans: All American flags are made in China.

and in a roundabout, Americans are making China what it is today.

rwfan: Karma Curmudgeon: On another note, anyone know why my login now shows up as <Karma Curmudgeon. ???

/Tebow?

I think someone farked up the fark perl script. It's easy to do. Everything seems to be working despite that little glich

Good call. Thought maybe I was some alligator watchlist or something.

casual disregard: Welcome to the land of the lowest-bidder-takes-all. You think they can truly fulfill the contract without breaking a few rules here and there? Note this has less to do with China and more to do with the shady practices of certain defense contractors in general. I'm not talking your Boeings or your Raytheons, I mean the "small business" sorts. For every legit small contractor, there's five scamming the hell out of your taxdollars.

There really is waste, fraud, and abuse in the government. And the vast majority of it comes from private sector leeches.

I would have absolutely ZERO problem with defining those acts as treasonous with death as maximum penalty depending on how egregious the scam and national security exposure are.

________stan?

I know someone working at the GAO who was part of a group that looked into this problem. The counterfeits run the gambit from clearly fake with new part numbers painted on to astonishingly high quality parts where they used a real integrated circuit packaging plant to re-package the lower quality chips. Some they couldn't even tell for sure were counterfeit (as opposed to just stolen) until they stripped the packaging off and looked for the part numbers on the semiconductor pieces with a microscope.

China doesn't even pretend to try to prevent it. The group found most of the counterfeit chips by just wandering down a road in a manufacturing factory town in China and looking at the buckets of chips the venders had out.

Why are we members of shiat like the WTO if nothing is ever enforced against major players, even whenit's to our detriment?

Seriously, what's the point of organizations like that if they don't actually, you know, sanction shiat? At least the UN, for all it's innefectualness, can do sanctions.