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Well, air-travel as a business is well known for being a kind of hostage-situation, in that the public really has no other option.
"Wanna walk to Rhodos? No? Well, then play by our rules."

I never had any free alcohol though!
 
Interestingly airtravel is fairly badly organised in many places of the world. Some shoddy airlines out there, and even the reputable airlines do stuff like pay their pilots poorly and skimp on maintenance of aircraft etc. Airline pilots used to be looked up as glamourous profession, now they are more or less like bus drivers, especially in the cheapo airlines.

Btw, I heard that the salmon and fish they fish in Norway, an airline flies that fish to China to be de-boned and stuff and then flies it back to Norway to be sold where ever. Pretty large carbon footprint.
 
MutantScalper said:
Btw, I heard that the salmon and fish they fish in Norway, an airline flies that fish to China to be de-boned and stuff and then flies it back to Norway to be sold where ever. Pretty large carbon footprint.
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We're dicks.
You're dicks too! I saw a docu once about Nokia and Congolese minerals :D
Step by step, it is pretty straight forward to understand though, I don't remember exactly which mineral, but I did wiki it myself, just to confirm - and indeed, Australia and Canada were market dominators for the longest time
Canada and Australian miners wear helmets, work boots, safety equipment: So much equipment per worker. Each work hour = so much money invested: Each ton mined = equivalent value = high price.
After 1990s, Congolese civil war (which claimed upto or more than 4 million people) sort-of at an end (fighting still upheld in the east), mining operatives also become ministers of mining in gvt, and can pretty much pull mining laws out their own asses, and run mines where miners do NOT wear helmets, do not actually wear boots(!) and in some cases dig with their bare hands, using rain and mud-slides as oportunities for opened ground = no money invested = low price

At this point the industry completely shifts, and for a while Congo was #1. Today it has dropped a bit in popularity because of heightened awareness, and Brazil and other poor-countries are dominating with their "more or less helmets", but in this documentary in particular Nokia was targeted as still trading significantly with Congo, for dirt-cheap minerals

What struck me was how aware the actual miners were of this, the boot-less, helmet-less workers. They took the docu crew to a HUT... this was their "storage department", a HUT... full of fucking rocks :D in this hut, the docu-makers, now on a bit of man-to-man level with the workers, jokingly thanked them for the cheap minerals and in turn for the cheap mobile-phones. The miners laughed, sardonically, and insisted it was "no problem"

We all do shit like that though. After all, it's cheaper.

And just for the record, in case this is, by some, regarded as "white self hatred", the corrupt black African black Congolese black politician blacks are dicks as well. They're super-dicks.
 
Worst flight I ever had was with an Spanish airline. They changed gates twice and the initial plan said that they would give us breakfast. Plane smelled like ass, seats had barely any space for legs, and what they gave us for breakfast was a catalogue so we could choose what type of basic sandwich (like barebones ham and cheese) we wanted to pay 5 euros for. None of the air valves or reading lights worked and they didn't even offer water without having to pay.
 
One flight to Spain was quite eventful - from Oslo we had a "landing gear problem", THAT SOUNDS SWELL! NO LANDING GEAR! THAT'S LIKE - FIREBALL LANDING RIGHT!?
So we circled over Oslo to expend all the fuel, in case we had to fucking crash, to avoid too much of the inevitable fireball. During this circling, the landing gear worked again. Phew!

Then, on changing flights in Madrid, two Brit(?) women noticed that one of the passengers looked arab and wore a beard. They insisted on leaving the flight while it was boarding. Unbeknownst to them, this is highly suspicious behavior - on their part - like, leave some anthrax on the plane and then ditch. We all had to disembark, the plane was searched for explosives, we were grounded for 3 hours, and the two chicks AND the bearded dude were taken away by the "Guardia civil"
 
zegh8578 said:
We're dicks.
You're dicks too! I saw a docu once about Nokia and Congolese minerals :D
Step by step, it is pretty straight forward to understand though, I don't remember exactly which mineral, but I did wiki it myself, just to confirm - and indeed, Australia and Canada were market dominators for the longest time
Canada and Australian miners wear helmets, work boots, safety equipment: So much equipment per worker. Each work hour = so much money invested: Each ton mined = equivalent value = high price.
After 1990s, Congolese civil war (which claimed upto or more than 4 million people) sort-of at an end (fighting still upheld in the east), mining operatives also become ministers of mining in gvt, and can pretty much pull mining laws out their own asses, and run mines where miners do NOT wear helmets, do not actually wear boots(!) and in some cases dig with their bare hands, using rain and mud-slides as oportunities for opened ground = no money invested = low price

At this point the industry completely shifts, and for a while Congo was #1. Today it has dropped a bit in popularity because of heightened awareness, and Brazil and other poor-countries are dominating with their "more or less helmets", but in this documentary in particular Nokia was targeted as still trading significantly with Congo, for dirt-cheap minerals

What struck me was how aware the actual miners were of this, the boot-less, helmet-less workers. They took the docu crew to a HUT... this was their "storage department", a HUT... full of fucking rocks :D in this hut, the docu-makers, now on a bit of man-to-man level with the workers, jokingly thanked them for the cheap minerals and in turn for the cheap mobile-phones. The miners laughed, sardonically, and insisted it was "no problem"

We all do shit like that though. After all, it's cheaper.

And just for the record, in case this is, by some, regarded as "white self hatred", the corrupt black African black Congolese black politician blacks are dicks as well. They're super-dicks.
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Yea I know. However, now that some time ago Microsoft bought Nokia's cell phone manufacturing (at a very low price, sold to them by Stephen Elop, the manager of Nokia at the time. Isn't it funny how an American guy sells a crucial part of a hugely successful Finnish company to a US company) it's not really Nokia that's evil but MS.

But yes, plenty of non-ethical business going on around the world. They are still hiring folks to work at the Norwegian fishing industry here in Finland so at least some work is done in location.
 
zegh8578 said:
Then, on changing flights in Madrid, two Brit(?) women noticed that one of the passengers looked arab and wore a beard. They insisted on leaving the flight while it was boarding. Unbeknownst to them, this is highly suspicious behavior - on their part - like, leave some anthrax on the plane and then ditch. We all had to disembark, the plane was searched for explosives, we were grounded for 3 hours, and the two chicks AND the bearded dude were taken away by the "Guardia civil"
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That last bit sounds kind of weird to me, I mean yeah the muslim scare and all but when I went to the UK there were guys in full arab get up with everything and fashionable turbans and beards and nobody said much (which actually threw me off). Then again, it all goes case by case I guess.
 
Walpknut said:
That last bit sounds kind of weird to me, I mean yeah the muslim scare and all but when I went to the UK there were guys in full arab get up with everything and fashionable turbans and beards and nobody said much (which actually threw me off). Then again, it all goes case by case I guess.
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Idunno why they decided to react, but they decided to react... :D
I mean, since when has reason and logic been the strong suit of rash people?
 
Can someone please explain to me what the fuck is up with women and their goddamn eyebrows? It's pretty much impossible to find a specimen who did not fuck up her eyebrows. And now they look like cheap stick-on moustaches and it's not just adult women, it's goddamn teenagers and all. It scares the shit outta me. It's like that one time when I had sex with a black woman and while I was fucking her, her wig came off. Aaaaarrrrggh.
 
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