[Arm-netbook] Shipping costs again

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

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On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 4:02 PM, m016fec3 <hier at wolfgangromey.de> 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.