October 2010
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Unsustainably Cheap
Subhed to an article in the Telegraph entitled “Clothing Prices Rise for [the] First Time Since [the] 1990s”:
The price of clothing and footwear have risen for first time since early 1990s, according to official figures, raising the fear that the era of cheap imports from the Far East is over.
Sadly, this sort of unsubstantiated, alarmist journalism is becoming more common rather than less....
“This professor is not only reckless enough to keep a single copy of his entire...”
– Jim Whimpey, on the story of a thief that returned the data from a stolen laptop to its owner (naturally, s/he kept the laptop itself).
I’m on the same page as Whimpey regarding the recklessness of this guy, and how undeserving he is of having his data returned. It isn’t the ’90s any more, and...