BL> This was two years when Jap large-screen TV was selling at
BL> $2K and Australia could produce large-screen TV in the $1k
BL> to $1.6K range. We were being screwed for lack of local prices.

PE> Yeah, that's basically what you said, that we were being screwed
PE> because we didn't have local manufacture to keep the bastards honest.

BL> I'm glad you did understand it.

We all did, senile fuckwit Bob being a complete senile fuckwit, as usual

BL> Being at the mercy of overseas monopolies and cartels
BL> invariably leads to inflated prices in banana republics
BL> with no local manufacturing to set a floor price.

Yeah, well, the prices for hard drive, motherboards, ram etc, thats produced
like that will do me fine thanks Bob. Soorree, no trough produced by tariffs
for the likes of you to wallow in. You get to go and fuck yourself instead.

PE> Pity the RAM prices came tumbling down, the hard disk
PE> prices came tumbling down, the TV prices came tumbling
PE> down, all without a scrap of local manufacture

BL> The falling prices merely mean that
BL> Japan has lost control of its RAM market.

Sure they did Bob. Now try explaining how they havent had any control
of the RAM market for fucking YEARS. Poor senile old fuckwit Bob. No
wonder they pulled the plug and flushed him 20 fucking years ago.
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