O/T:- China

[navypie]

It's pretty easy to find out if you put your mind to it, go on you can do it. Well probably.

Back to the point of the thread, have China responded yet?

I asked you, politely I would say. Hands up, something I don't always do.

[Mapperleypie]

I asked you, politely I would say. Hands up, something I don't always do.

The IMEI number should tell you. If you can locate that and google it. Spoiler alert - it's rare it's not China.

[navypie]

The IMEI number should tell you. If you can locate that and google it. Spoiler alert - it's rare it's not China.

IMEI number??????????????????

[Bartlett's Dust]

A mixture:

Samsung Mobile Phone Manufacturing Locations
As of 2019, Samsung has its mobile phone manufacturing factories at 6 locations – Vietnam, China, India, Brazil, Indonesia, and South Korea. 50% of Samsung mobile phones are made in Vietnam and 8% in Korea. Rest is manufactured in India, Brazil, Indonesia and China.

The major companies in Chinese smartphone industry are Huawei, Apple, Samsung, Xiaomi and Lenovo.

[BigFatPie]

So, when do we think the Navy should start sinking rather than saving lives in the channel to protect our people? The likes of Elite and Lardy will say never but will never take them into their homes. They ain't no difference from the rest of us when push comes to shove.

Thankfully you’re right that I wouldn’t approve of drowning people in the Channel. It’s the nicest thing you’ve said about me.

[navypie]

Thankfully you’re right that I wouldn’t approve of drowning people in the Channel. It’s the nicest thing you’ve said about me.

What if the whole of Africa arrived at the channel, what do you do?

[navypie]

Thankfully you’re right that I wouldn’t approve of drowning people in the Channel. It’s the nicest thing you’ve said about me.

So what would you do if Africa was hit bad and millions arrived at the channel. Would you give the Navy orders to sink vessels or let them come?

[BigFatPie]

So what would you do if Africa was hit bad and millions arrived at the channel. Would you give the Navy orders to sink vessels or let them come?

Is that question so good you’ve posted it twice?

If 1.216 billion people suddenly turned up in the channel I’d probably want to know where they got such a big boat.

[LaxtonLad]

So what would you do if Africa was hit bad and millions arrived at the channel. Would you give the Navy orders to sink vessels or let them come?

I don't think the Navy would follow my orders so I would sell my house and buy the biggest Channel ferry boat I could afford. I'd charge a fortune for a trip in either direction to immigrants or emigrants until things got ugly then sell that boat, buy another smaller one, and sail self and family to Jersey.

[pingu_pie]

What would ultimately be great for the human population is far fewer humans. The worldwide death toll from Coronavirus - whatever it eventually turns out to be - will be like p*ssing in the sea compared with the threat to humankind and the planet that is posed by the exponential growth in the world population hour by hour, day by day and year by year. Coronavirus will barely make a dent in that. China introduced a one child birth control policy but relaxed it in 2013. Maybe a better idea would have been to keep it and extend it across pretty much the rest of the world. Or we could just accept that our species was always designed to be finite and enjoy life while it lasts.

I'm not sure we have agreed on anything politically on here, jackal, but I agree with you on this.

Having been watching for years wondering if the human race would work out that population control would be necessary to keep the planet inhabitable (and I mean controlling the birth rate, rather than by mass killings, before this gets scary!), it's been illuminating to see that we can't even manage a few weeks of isolation to save some lives when a global emergency is staring folk in the face.

As Mapperley suggests, the only real hope now is to not be around to witness it.