OT Re: Newbie... Strict Compilation mode (and fruit)

[Richmond Mathewson]

I cannot restrain myself from pointing out that
communism is as communism does; as Bulgaria
is a living monument to communism and its
knock-on effects.

Why bother to invest a little extra money in an
electrical generator, reduce the profit margin
slightly, end up with a better end-product
(so, maybe more sell) when you have no
personal stake in the enterprise?

Lovely America (USA) exploiting the masses
elsewhere - when, to turn the
revolutionary stuff on its head - they should
be working overtime to set the masses free:
something they are certainly not doing by pumping buckets
of money into the "People's Republic" of China - the
PEOPLE being the last to see any of the money or
the benefits it could bring.

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Kay C Lan wrote:
> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 1:17 AM, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>wrote:
>
>   
>> Richmond Mathewson wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> J. Landman Gay wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Personally I think we should next discuss the practice of putting little
>>>> sticker labels on every single individual piece of fruit in the supermarket.
>>>> If you really want to push my buttons, that'll do it.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> 'Tis nothing!  I know a chap in Bulgaria who sticks sticky labels on each
>>> apricot while they are still green and hanging on the tree with
>>> their predicted dates of ripening.
>>>
>>>       
>> You made that up, right? ;)
>>
>>
>>     
> OK, I'll give you one that is absolutely true.
>
> An acquaintance invited me to visit one of his factories in China, he worked
> for MadCatz that make PC game controllers and they were having an issue with
> one of their combined steering, gearshift, brake and accelerator modules so
> he was off to investigate.
>
> The factory was one of the better ones I've visited but still stereotypical
> of what you see in the movies, a long conveyor belt with women sitting
> either side armed with appropriate tools and boxes of parts behind them,
> they'd each add their assigned bit and at the end of the conveyor you had a
> completed product.
>
> At the 'finished' end there was a girl who'd plug the device in, do a couple
> of laps around Silverstone or Monaco and if everything was OK into it's box
> it went. As we were there for a QC problem I noted that when she grabbed the
> controller off the conveyor it already had one of those ubiquitous gold QC
> stickers attached. Strange I thought, surely that was her job to apply the
> sticker but as she wasn't I figured I'd stroll backwards up the conveyor to
> see who exactly was applying the QC sticker.
>
> Turned out I had to stroll all the way back to the very FIRST girl on the
> line, she pulled the base plate out of her box of parts and applied the very
> first part. The box of hundreds of base plates came with the QC sticker
> already applied!
>
> For the one person who may only be slightly interest in what the real
> problem was. Turned out that as winter had descended on the region it was
> getting darker earlier. The region had electricity restriction so part of
> the Factory ran on Mains whilst luxury items like Lights had their own
> diesel generator for power, but this only came on at a certain time. So
> there was a period of about 30-60 min where it became quite dim in the
> factory and the girls responsible for soldering the 16 rainbow coloured
> cable were occasionally getting the white and cream coloured cables mixed
> up.
>
> The solution, turn the generator on earlier, NO, too costly. Instead, make a
> simple socket, battery and lamp device that plugged into the cable, if the
> lamp failed to illuminated the cables were crossed so the girls needed to
> unsolder the connection and swap the two white looking cables!
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