Hide yo’ kids, hide yo’ wife, the conflict minerals are coming.
She’s beautiful and sleek.
Her curves may be non-existent, but what she lacks in geometry, she definitely makes up for in intelligence.
A 3G network and a relatively inexpensive data plan accompanied by a solar-powered charger have made my new Samsung Replenish the apple of my brown California eyes.
She gives me weather updates and a direct link to environmental websites like TreeHugger, but no matter how ecologically friendly she may pretend to be, she’s nothing more than a filthy little liar.
Similar to her brother Nintendo and her sister Canon, Samsung products are raping women and making soldiers out of the young children of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In a very literal sense, these companies are responsible for the killing and alienation of entire regions.
From the soldering of the circuit boards within your laptop and the electric capacitors that hold everything from the charge of your iPod to your phone’s vibrations, features we consider so basic in a cell phone come at a ridiculously high cost for the people who are mining what are known as conflict minerals, or the “Three