2014-04-15 14:42 GMT+02:00 <[1]dan@geer.org>: Granted, automation (in the West) may beat massed manual labor (in the East), but for me and thee the differences in method seem not to matter in the short run. They use biological machines there. Very flexible. Harder to keep in working order, but the Chinese have made great progress. References 1. mailto:dan@geer.org