Skimmers! Lol. I have more time jacking off at test depth on a fast boat than you guys do at sea.
Skimmers! Lol. I have more time jacking off at test depth on a fast boat than you guys do at sea.
I see that things have changed a lot over the years. MANY years ago I worked at a McD's and back then it was the usual practice to have burgers (and fish filet sandwiches) wrapped and ready to go in the heated bins. They were always on a timer. Maybe it was 8 minutes. I can't remember. When the timer expired, the products had to be thrown out, replaced by freshly made produce. Even back then, the manager of this particular McD's was pretty spot on as far as how many burgers to make at any specific time. I remember seeing people (homeless or poor) often digging through our dumpster near closing to find still warm burgers to feed on. Then, I believe, they started locking the dumpster to keep people out. Probably concerned about liability.
Mineman do it with a bangAirdale actually but I did spend 2 weeks on the Chicago back in the mid 90's. You can keep that bubble head stuff.
The cost of custom manufacturing equipment is stupid expensive.
I won't go into full detail, but our group of 3-4 regularly write PO's worth more than the median house price in the US ($227k)... for one piece of automation equipment. Not an entire production line. I currently have a $300k machine being built and that's not even the most expensive in our group.
Everyone wants to complain about the price of X, but have no idea of the costs to produce it.
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Electronics and robotics are pricey, but the custom machining and fab work rack up the costs too. The 300k machine I mentioned has several servo driven linear actuators, but that's the bulk of the automation. It's leak decay, so instruments get pricey too. It all adds up. End results can be pretty freaking cool though.The automation lines we design and build in house have on avg. 60-70k in electronics and drives alone for 300k machine and we don't even mess with anything robotic related.
I own/operate a Ford dealership.
I see people daily driving and buying vehicles that have higher payments than their mortgage. I see people signing 25+% interest loans where they'll end up buying the car twice before it's paid off. I see people signing up for 6-7 year payment terms to get the payment they 'can afford', yet they drive 20-25k miles a year, so before it's paid off they'll have anywhere from 130-160k miles.
I work for one of the largest portable generator manufactures, been here since 2005 (Champion Power Equipment), incredible what the EPA / CARB is making small engine manufacturers go through, any small engine larger then 79cc needs to have pretty much an automotive emission cont. system, catalytic conv., evaporative fuel capture (charcoal canister), an audible (clicking) fuel cap... I'm talking the works, even better? starting 2021 all portable gens will need a carbon monoxide shut off system (for stupid ppl that kill themselves and their family by running generators indoors, garages, basements, ect...) EPA just copies CARB (Cali Air Resources Board) the following year or 2, when asked to CARB, when do you draw the line? as in, when is it clean enough? never... it just drives up the cost and lowers the performance and reliability of small engine gas powered equipment.
If any nuclear material or asset is ever stolen from either of the two main naval bases that store them then the team that goes after them consists of just Lance Corporals and Corporals and they are the only ones tasked with taking them back. Plenty of other agencies will be on board and assisting of course but it will be about 12-18 Marines in their late teens early 20s on average giving chase and kicking in doors to get it all back, and in that rare case there is no ROEs and no such thing as hostages.
Nah, it's a common occurrence down here, to no ones surprise.
May not die, but I swear there's a weekly news article of some idiot getting whacked by a train in Florida.