"Keith G"
"Phil Allison"

** The Chinese do - wherever a via is really needed

12 year olds with bare feet, standing on a dirt floor in a big galvanised
iron shed with a diesel gene droning on outside copying sample PCBs.

True enough - I suspect the 12 year olds are the ones approaching
retirement age, though.


I haven't been to China and I haven't seen for myself, but I suspect/hope
the views expressed above are not true or, if they are, I'm pretty certain
they won't last for long.


** He says - arguing foolishly from a position of self admitted ignorance.

Wise up and ask someone who has really been there and seen the conditions
first hand - as I did.

Performing light assembly by hand in dirt floor sheds is nice work under
nice conditions, for rural China.

For the opposite - check out the Chinese factories making tubes for
compact fluorescent lamps, the ones we are now told are so efficient &
planet friendly we HAVE to use them, like it or not.

There is liquid mercury and its toxic compounds lying all over the floors.

17th century hat makers had it good.




....... Phil