they think the future they want is somehow going to instantate strait out of the of some laser beams, space ships and big boobs sci fantasy book cover from there child hood.
after last week's misshap crushing the launch complex for the "new glen" rocket, they might be forced to co operate, somehow, in some way, other than keeping the in's in, the downs, down, and the out's, out
and therefor you will not be surprised to find out that there has been a very recent dramatic decline in the asking price for empty containers in areas that are primarily devoted to imports, as the empty can is not worth the cost to ship it back.
In this case it's because of the time it takes to load the empties because its more profitable to use the time sailing. Some ports have rules now forcing them to take back empties so the yards don't fill up.
Yes. The Port of Los Angeles had a huge problem with empties when Hanjin went bankrupt. Everybody thought the South Korean government would bail out Hanjin, one of the largest shipping lines. There was no bailout. Port of LA finally shipped most of the empties to Fontana, CA, an inland city which exists mostly to move freight around. Three freeways, two rail lines, Amazon and WalMart plants, and an auto mall that's all truck dealers.
If you want a used 20' container, they're under $1000 right now in the Fontana area.
Probably much less in quantity.
which then leads to negative values for the cans, and makes it profitable for some trucking outfits to run "tiltload" container trucks, that can autonomously off load an empty can ,somewhere convienient
or other wierdness where filling a can with
an otherwise unprofitable comodity ,like hay, then drives a whole industry driven by water cost and the return value of cans, or scrap metal, and who knows what else, "half cut" cars, etc.
Dropping containers at the consumer end isn't that bad, at least when they're empty they're not that hard to move back on a truck and there are plenty of uses above scrap value for a container in seaworthy condition.
It's actually strange that we don't seem to have any system for just dropping containers at the destination until the contents have been processed, instead of the current system that essentially mandates unloading the container rapidly as soon as it shows up because an entire truck+driver is waiting for the unloading to complete.
For palletized loads it's easy to unload them into temporary space in the building they're delivered to, but not everything is palletized.
> It's actually strange that we don't seem to have any system for just dropping containers at the destination until the contents have been processed.
There are big forklifts for taking containers off trucks and stacking them.
Some recipients buy in bulk, store for later use, and stack their own containers.
But most distribution centers want to get the contents into pickable inventory and start selling it.
The US military does a lot of container stacking, because they want reserves, not a "just in time" supply chain. "Moving Mountains", by Gen. Gus Petronis, covers this. He handled logistics for the Gulf War.
Another common solution is to have the driver park and leave the container and chassis. Long-haul driver and tractor leave. Local movement is done with a "terminal tractor" or "yard goat", a mini tractor built for short trips. Those have a tight turning radius, good visibility, and low speed.[1] Like most buffering systems, it adds latency and consumes buffer space, while allowing more backlog.
beavers are a geological force, and along with several other large animals shaped much of surface of our planet, which is where we evolved and prospered, and there is a strong case to be made that our own interactions with the landscape used to be in many ways complementery to a full thriving ecosphere, which has of course become extractive, and exploitive in non sustainable ways
the issue is that the big lie is linguistic, there is no such thing as a "preservitive", it is only a type of biocide, and lo, it causes an inflamitory response in humans, which as it turns out has the potential to
acumulate and become cronic, leading to disease and death.
the basic fact of life is that the chemical similarities between the most distantly related species, far outwiegh the differances, hence biocides.
exactly how stupid do you have to be, to not be able to flip a light switch on, as you enter a room, and then need to buy equipment and software, get it installed so that you can then turn the light on with your phone after you have tripped over a chair in a dark room?
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is the title what happens from too much ketamine?
or is the hype machine being tasked with streeeetching things out for one more quarter? bills, elections, push back,lack of relevance, that sort of stuff.
which is fair, as any other cause would show up more significantly in other populations, :owner operator grounds keepers, farmers, etc.
data is scued somehow.
edit: cross corelate with prevailing winds to eliminate "sprays"
you can read(translations) of Davinci's note books where notes in the margins are to make more convex mirrors, which he sold for proffit to wealthy household, and to give money to his housekeeper and pay employees and buy all the things needed for his research, and all kinds of trials and tribulations involved in what was a wholely
self funded operation.
Yes, he had patrons, but many of them were fickle and didn't follow through,while taking up a lot of time, and then as now, the bills keep comming, and more than once he barely avoided destitution.
precision is to aprox 1/3 the diameter of a carbon² molecule, and are effectivly printing matter at the atomic level, but too slowly for manufacturing at any scale large enough for a practicle use other than perhaps, creating test circuits for.....more testing and ,maybe labeling and logos
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