On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 05:19:55PM +0200, Jan-Erik S=F6derholm wrote:
> I haven't looked or searched for it, but it would surprise me
> a lot if there isn't USB connected floppy drives...
>=20
> He, first hit for "USB floppy drive" on eBay:
>=20
> "1.44Mb 3.5" USB External Portable Floppy Disk Drive Diskette FDD
> for Laptop PC"
>=20
> $9.51 with free shipping from China. How the heck can they built it
> *and* ship it worldwide for that amount?

You ask how?  ;-)

Your question possibly rhetorical, but of interest to me, since I'm
working for an organisation that makes use of the same factors;

- the exchange rate,

- a high volume of production,

- a shipping subsidy,

- an outbound customs subsidy,

- other subsidies to manufacturing industries by government.

Perhaps is a vulnerability in ideological reliance on economics;
someone in a market may use forward pricing, thus capturing a market.

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James Cameron
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