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Official: China knew about magnets
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| 08/14/07
Posted on 08/14/2007 11:31:18 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: New Girl
"Frankly, I dont even think consumers are seeing the savings. More likely, the savings are passed along to the CEO and top executives in the form of compensation." Where I work some products have been moved to China because the patent's expired, competitors copied them, uotsourced thwm to China and undercut us substantially in price.
I took years to find a source that could meet our specifications and pass inspection, every lot delivered is inspected using a sample plan, if any failures are found we go through everything 100%
Quality isn't something to expect from China, nor is consistency.
Oh and we barly make anything on these products now.
81
posted on
08/15/2007 9:06:26 AM PDT
by
#1CTYankee
(That's right, I have no proof. So what of it??)
To: #1CTYankee
Good point. The Chinese are masters at copying but the quality isn’t the same. I saw something recently on one the news mag shows where the Chinese are now reproducing Venetian glass. Of course, it isn’t the same but from close-up, you can’t really tell the difference.
82
posted on
08/15/2007 10:07:54 AM PDT
by
New Girl
To: MARTIAL MONK
children should not have small parts that come off. I think that was taken out of context.
83
posted on
08/15/2007 11:52:21 AM PDT
by
from occupied ga
(Your most dangerous enemy is your own government, Benito Guilinni a short man in search of a balcony)
To: Don Joe
O?If a toy is labeled "Happy Joy Toy! [for ages 1 - 4], and to all appearances is made of wood, or plastic, but, underneath the (lead) paint, it's made of cheap shatter-prone glass, you're gonna give the communist manufacturer a pass?I see I've triggered the rabid ridiculous absurd response strawman brigade. Please give me an example of such a toy.
84
posted on
08/15/2007 11:55:32 AM PDT
by
from occupied ga
(Your most dangerous enemy is your own government, Benito Guilinni a short man in search of a balcony)
To: Don Joe
Now tell us how you feel about the communists putting poison into pet and human food -- and then covering it upLike U.S. manufacturers never poison people. Just here in ga a peanut butter plant was closed for a month due to botulism contamination. made several people rather ill. My response to your obnoxious statement rhymes with duck stew.
Point of curiosity: Do you happen to have any personal stake in "the China trade", i.e., as someone who owns or is employed by a company importing from China, or, associated with a "post-for-hire" service that represents clients with "China trade", or, as a stockholder in a company that derives significant revenue from "the China trade", etc?
nope
Point of curiosity: are you always this much of a jerk?
85
posted on
08/15/2007 12:00:15 PM PDT
by
from occupied ga
(Your most dangerous enemy is your own government, Benito Guilinni a short man in search of a balcony)
To: Don Joe; F.J. Mitchell; Constantine XIII; DB; Red_Devil 232
Every time I have ever shoved a magnet toward another magnet, the other magnet was repelled. Every time I have shoved a magnet toward a ordinary piece of metal they were forcefully attracted to each other. Those are the facts that I have witnessed.If ever there were a classic example of an incorrect conclusion drawn from flawed experimental data!
I suppose you had a 50% chance of observing this on any given such 'experiment' getting N-N or S-S orientation! Your sample size wuz 2 small!
F.J.... Are you a climate scientist by any chance?
86
posted on
08/15/2007 12:01:50 PM PDT
by
sam_paine
(X .................................)
To: sam_paine
I suggested that he needed to play with more magnets for the obvious reasons... I meant it literally. He took it as an insult and got nasty...
87
posted on
08/15/2007 1:19:59 PM PDT
by
DB
To: DB
88
posted on
08/15/2007 1:49:39 PM PDT
by
F.J. Mitchell
(Will some genius please invent beer containers, that self destruct ten seconds after being emptied?)
To: DB
Hey! I take that as an insult!
Whatever it was! Jerk!
;P
(FR is not for the faint of heart anymore, indeed!)
89
posted on
08/15/2007 1:53:37 PM PDT
by
sam_paine
(X .................................)
To: RightWhale
That would seem to be a major disaster for the company. One that if it really is a years worth of production would seem hard to survive.
90
posted on
08/15/2007 1:54:38 PM PDT
by
DB
To: sam_paine
LOL! No. But I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
91
posted on
08/15/2007 1:54:56 PM PDT
by
F.J. Mitchell
(Will some genius please invent beer containers, that self destruct ten seconds after being emptied?)
To: johnnyd
I apologize Mr Wizard for disturbing his eternal rest.
92
posted on
08/15/2007 2:04:50 PM PDT
by
F.J. Mitchell
(Will some genius please invent beer containers, that self destruct ten seconds after being emptied?)
To: TChris; DB
Alright TChris, if it makes me less an ass and more an adult to do as you say, here goes: “ TChris was wrong.”
All kidding aside, I do apologize DB, I was wrong.
I don’t know how I forgot the time that I was playing with a couple of very powerful magnets and dang near got my fingers crushed.
93
posted on
08/15/2007 2:20:21 PM PDT
by
F.J. Mitchell
(Will some genius please invent beer containers, that self destruct ten seconds after being emptied?)
To: F.J. Mitchell
94
posted on
08/15/2007 2:47:07 PM PDT
by
DB
To: DB
Thank you for accepting my apology.
95
posted on
08/15/2007 2:59:06 PM PDT
by
F.J. Mitchell
(Will some genius please invent beer containers, that self destruct ten seconds after being emptied?)
To: F.J. Mitchell
North poles repel north poles. South poles repel south poles.
Opposite poles are attracted to each other.
96
posted on
08/15/2007 3:06:56 PM PDT
by
LilAngel
(No blood for quislings)
To: MrB
I’ve heard that procedure also works with nails that have the head on the wrong end.
97
posted on
08/15/2007 3:15:58 PM PDT
by
LilAngel
(No blood for quislings)
To: LilAngel
Thanks for the info LilAngel.
98
posted on
08/15/2007 3:19:12 PM PDT
by
F.J. Mitchell
(Will some genius please invent beer containers, that self destruct ten seconds after being emptied?)
To: F.J. Mitchell
You’re welcome. If you ever need to know anything, just ask me. I know everything there is to know about everything.
; )
And if I don’t know, I can usually make up something fairly convincing.
99
posted on
08/15/2007 11:03:13 PM PDT
by
LilAngel
(No blood for quislings)
To: from occupied ga
Please give me an example of such a toy. Right after YOU show ME an example of "So if a kid eats a smooth piece of glass and it breaks in the kid's innards" AND, someone suing "the company that made the glass."
Here's the way it works, luvverboy: if YOU can inject a hypothetical, and then tear it down, then YOU have established the propriety of -- at the very LEAST -- using a hypothetical.
For YOU to accuse ME of erecting a strawman, oh boy, now that's rich.
100
posted on
08/16/2007 4:25:00 AM PDT
by
Don Joe
(We've traded the Rule of Law for the Law of Rule.)
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