by LongRunner » November 13th, 2014, 2:08 am
Foxconn = Fuxconn
For some reason, I have (in my huge stash of them) a mains cord made by that company that smells of petroleum.

Not even the counterfeits that I've seen managed to do that, so it's kind of depressing that they managed to get
that wrong. Oh well, the company as a whole is considered to be about cheap over all else. It's perhaps ironic that I'm unable to fault the mains cords from manufacturers whose names
aren't familiar to the general population, with the exception of
one recall in the whole of Australia (to be fair, that one was a worldwide problem — and I hope I can get away with saying that I can recognise the manufacturer of the affected cords as Linetek) — to be fair, it was about something much more serious than a bad smell, but still…
Authoritarianism is for wimps.
Smart people don't buy "smart" devices without very carefully weighing up the risks and benefits beforehand.
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