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From: Eeyore on 13 Nov 2006 08:04 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >> "T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote: > >> ><jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message > >> > >> >> Britain is a single country and has a "small" acreage. The US > >> >> is 50 "countries" span a quarter hemisphere. > >> > > >> >So what? > >> > >> You people honestly can't see the difference? > > > >It's a bigger country physically.. > > > >How do you think it would make a business less efficient ? Is FedEx in Europe > >more or less efficient / profitable than in the USA for example. > > For medical treatments to be the most effective, the treatment > has to be done at a personal level. What you recommend will > put all treatment at a production line scale. No. It's done on a personal level here. It is no different ! Graham
From: jmfbahciv on 13 Nov 2006 07:59 In article <45574DB9.317F5AB(a)earthlink.net>, "Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> wrote: >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >> >> >> Was it frugal to move the plant bricks? I would think they would >> >> build their own. I know people moving things like enviromental >> >> chambers and such but they aren't moving the physical plants. > > > New fire bricks would be used, because they are quite fragile after >years of use. Sure. I was thinking of the walls of the building not the linings of the furnaces. hmmm....is there an art to making furance brick. ISTR my Dad changing union rules to fix his furances so they didn't have to be shut down every few days. > > >> > >> >They were interested in the heavy machinery. >> >> Was that becuase they didn't have the iron ore to make new >> or they didn't have the machinists to make the gear?...or >> something else? >> >> /BAH > > Because the equipment built in the US was build to last forever. >When Armco (AK Steel) built their new plant in Middletown, Ohio in the >mid '60s, it was to replace a plant still running the equipment >installed in the late 1800s. > > The new plant was the first computer controlled hot strip in the US, >built at a cost of 1.2 Billion in '60s dollars. It routinely produced >well above the output the engineers claimed, and ran years longer >between relining of the individual soaking pits where the pig iron was >heated, to prepare it to be rolled into sheets. > > Other old industrial equipment is routinely shipped overseas because >it is know to work reliably, and it is easy to find or fabricate parts. >There was a huge machine shop in Monroe, ohio that made replacement >parts for the corrugated box industry, and shipped them worldwide. They >had the information on almost any machine ever built for that industry, >so all they needed to know was the model, and which part. My brother is going around dismantling environmental chambers that are getting shipped overseas. > > Heavy industry is one place where smaller, lighter and cheaper just >don't cut it. A Japanese company wanted to buy that 1800s steel making >equipment but it was scrapped, and reprocessed. That's a shame. We are breeding people who have no idea what it means to make something "right". /BAH
From: Eeyore on 13 Nov 2006 08:05 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > Ben Newsam <ben.newsam(a)ukonline.co.uk> wrote: > >On Sun, 12 Nov 06 12:47:09 GMT, jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > > > >>Didn't you ever wonder where your sewer people put all of that > >>water that get flushed and put down the drains of your sinks, > >>baths, and showers? > > > >No, because I know exactly what happens to it. It goes to the sewage > >treatment works at Tinsley. > > All water gets moved to one spot. How does the water table get > replenished in your area? It rains a lot in Britain ! Graham
From: Eeyore on 13 Nov 2006 08:06 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >"Michael A. Terrell" wrote: > >> Ben Ben Newsam wrote: > >> > On Sun, 12 Nov 06 12:47:09 GMT, jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >> > > >> > >Didn't you ever wonder where your sewer people put all of that > >> > >water that get flushed and put down the drains of your sinks, > >> > >baths, and showers? > >> > > >> > No, because I know exactly what happens to it. It goes to the sewage > >> > treatment works at Tinsley. > >> > >> And ends up as bottled water in France? ;-) > > > >You have some very odd ideas. > > > >The only company I know of that made a bottled water of 'dubious origin' was > >the Coca-Cola company who used tap water. > > Water gets recycled. If you live down river, you're probably > drinking H_2O molecules that have been "recycled" many times. Undoubtedly although there is quite a lot of water extraction round here so ours is probably quite 'fresh'. Graham
From: Eeyore on 13 Nov 2006 08:08
Ben Newsam wrote: > On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 10:19:07 +0000, Eeyore > <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >Ben Newsam wrote: > >> <Looks at computer clock> 9:45 > >> > >> Looks OK to me > > > >Do you 'batch post' then ? > > Sometimes a post might not "go" until later, but no I don't post in > batches. That reply of mine at 9:45 included the header: > > Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 09:45:53 +0000 > > so I don't think there's a problem. Not this end, anyway. The last few have turned up on time. Maybe it was your news server ? Graham |