BL> I said that the Japs controlled the price of RAM as the sole
BL> manufacturer, and were overcharging. And they were, just as I said.

Soorree, you fucked that up completely, as usual. So whats new ?

PE> The Koreans have been making RAM for about 5 years I thought? And
PE> the Americans certainly have been making RAM even before the Japs.

Yep, poor old Bob.

BL> Koreans? That's a new one on me.

Poor old Bob, only the largest operation outside Japan.

BL> As I said, the Japs held a monopoly.

Soorree, they didnt.

BL> In a market, as soon as you have twice the
BL> market-share of anyone else you control it.

Pigs arse you do.

PE> And probably said that if you want to start a RAM-producing factory,
PE> go right ahead. Do it with your OWN money, not the taxpayer's. So that
PE> when it goes bust, it's YOUR money that goes down the drain, not mine.

He's right, we are sick and tired of providing feather beds for wankers.
We are taking them out the back and burning them. If you cant make a go
of it without tariffs etc, stiff shit, you aint getting any new ones.

BL> But that's not how the Japs do it..

Fraid it is Bob. They did quite well in some areas
when their currency relativity made their products
competitive. Now its not, they are in rather deep shit.

BL> or Malaysia, Taiwan, China...

Odd that you dont mention Korea Bob. Cant imagine why for the life of me.

BL> all the economies that show the greatest growth. Makes you think, eh?

You arent actually capable thinking about whats happening Bob.

You also ran some pathetically silly line that they all built up
a local market behind high tariff walls and THEN exported on THAT
startup approach. Pity that hard drives werent anything remotely like
that in ANY of the SE Asian countrys that churn them out. RAM ditto.

Face it Bob, you havent actually got a fucking clue whats going on.
Luckily we no longer bother to listen to the likes of you anymore.

PE> Actually, I think I'll probably just watch Indonesia making them instead.

BL> Another government-subsidised market...

Pigs arse it is. The vast bulk of what Indonesia exports is just
taking advantage of its vastly lower labor costs, particularly
in labor intensive industrys. There aint no subsidisation at all.

They do provide troops to kick the shit out of any nascent unions
who might try to play silly buggers but thats ALL they do.

BL> the approach that you say we must not use in Australia.,

That right, we aint gunna buy you a feather bed to loll on ever
again. If you cant make decent money without one, stiff shit.

BL> If a country like China can build an electronic
BL> industry in 5 years from scratch, why not us?

We have wankers like yourself that just loll on feather beds
behind tariff barriers. Soorree, we got sick of paying for that.

BL> The reason is simple: government support. With government
BL> support we could save two or three billion a year in imports, at
BL> no increase in local prices and add 20,000 jobs at the same time.

Soorree, even India noticed that that doesnt work. You
wankers just jump on your feather beds and start wanking.

And 20K jobs aint ever gunna happen even if we did, and its a fart in
the bath anyway, the number unemployed changes by that every month.

BL> You and your know-nothing labour mates have run the
BL> full gamut with "economic rationalism" that didn't work,

Little johnny wont be making TVs here Bob, soorree.

BL> and the next step will be along the lines of
BL> the Tiger economies: protected local markets

Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand has GREAT protected local markets
for hard drives Bob. Poor old Bob. Hasnt actually got a FUCKING clue.

BL> and government investment in employment producing manufacturing.

And hasnt even noticed that hard drives and ram doesnt. Poor old Bob.

BL> It's only a pity that you and your ignorant
BL> labor wankers were in power for so long.

Odd, could have SWORN that the other crowd planned to pull the plug
on tariff protection for the car industry too Bob. Poor old Bob.

BL> The days of protected workshops writing useless submarine software
BL> are gone. The days of throwing $5 billion a year at Abos and other
BL> bludgers are gone. The days of feather-bedded bureaucracy are gone.
BL> What remains is the real world of manufacturing and true technoloy.

Soorree, no feather bed for you Bob.

BL> Wait till you have to live in a real world based on profit - like I did.

Pigs arse you did, you lolled on your feather bed behind a tariff wall and
when the plug was pulled on that, you ended up on your arse on the ground.

Thank christ, having already produced the worst TV seen
in the entire western world, who needed any more of those ?
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