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On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 4:02 PM, m016fec3 <[email protected]> wrote: > As I wrote, I now understand, what "shipping costs" means: a pledge to > secure worldwide shipping. As others, I see no reason, why people in the > usa should not make a pledge for that. > > But the situation may change in the future. As everything is (will be) > free in the board, the laptop and the pc, there in no reason, why the > boards and everything else are in the future not build in another > countries, for example in germany. true!! however it turns out that on close investigation the costs are higher.... *at the moment*. however as i outline in the lpx podcast (full version) with the current economic world climate and the USA's highly irresponsible financial policy of hyper-inflating the US dollar (used as the world's reserve currency), that may well change in the future. i've discussed this with other people and was shocked to learn that what i was *merely hypothesising* has in fact *already been discussed* by the people who control china's economic stability. if china decides to no longer track the US dollar's hyper-inflational policy, the price of importing goods from china will climb first by a factor of two, then five, then ten, then twenty and beyond. now, given that china's population is so large that the people in power (note i didn't say "the chinese government") have to *engineer* situations to keep everyone busy so that they don't riot or start a war, it's really REALLY critical that there be a product strategy that can continue to supply export of computing appliances to the rest of the world. *THIS* is the "nightmare scenario" for which EOMA68 is designed. and i'm dealing with fuckwits on half a dozen forums telling me that the A20 is an "obsolete" processor, that they're boycotting Allwinner, and "how can you justify $1200 i might as well buy a macbook for that". it's like... these people have _no_ idea of the shitstorm that's about to unfold on a global scale. l. _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
