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.....it's blue where the right one was light brown. He had always suffered from ingrown eyelashes and.....

.....tentacles, and...

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........the afterburner switch which sent Maveitte wild and pushed him back in his seat, squashing his........................

…………. was a nice little earner.

 

But all of a sudden somebody walked thru the door and said "My name is Oliver Sudden and I have new evidence, as it was not the manse in the cathedral that is the source of the accusation against Turbo. It was William Manse and what happened to the poor little bugger."

 

"You beauty" said the Coppers "We'll pick up another $25,000 or more on this and ......………..

.......but they were just digging themselves a deeper grave. Lawyer Y, a blonde from Bondi admitted she'd been having an affair with the whole squad for some years, and the Manse story was concocted by a Detective who couldn't count or measure, so all the money would have to be paid back, they got the name William Manse wrong too. His name was Bill Marked, so they got a caning from the Assistant Commissioner (who was a hang glider in his spare time (avref), and Turbo was given a Medal of Honour by Premier Gladys, and promised.....

Actually my initial response was about the question of people paying more for perceived quality. Why else would people spend that much money on the engine? Things drifted a bit as usual.

 

I agree though about the volume thing, although they have been essentially making the same models now for many years, with minor tweaks, I suspect that they are priced on what the market will bear rather than trying to be competitive, which I guess is what happen when you don't have any real competitors.

The products the people have been buying allow a much wider choice, have the advantage of incorporating much more new design and components, and so far, thanks to warranties out to ten years, have built a reputation for good resale value.

Where, in Australia we used to require about ten years to amortise tooling before we could add a new design, that can happen in months in the current global volume manufacture.

So as much as buying in Australia is a romantic notion there are factors other than cheap price.

...........Loxie when he took home three dancers from the BoB by mistake (or so he claimed).

Luckily for Turbo there had just been a hearing of the High Court about the same Cathedral, and Turbo told the cops to stop, and said "You guys messed up good with [XXXXXXXX XXXX]; I just want you to know that the time scale you have alleged is impossible in that big Cathedral with the Manse being so far away, that I could not possibly have committed the crime." "We've heard that before" said the Detective Sergeant "so we've brought tape measures this time." "Well before we get too far down the track why don't you lay them down and we'll see?" Turbo responded.

So they did, and they calculated the speed required to commit the crimes. "We'll be releasing you Mr Turbo" said the Sergeant "we calculated you'd have been running at 130 km/hr to make the alleged times." Turbo's team cheered, a hundred strong voices as one, and the Sergeant fined every one of them $1650.00 for failure to Social distance and being away from home. "We picked up a handy $165,000 for Dan" he said, and with our 15% commission that's just under $25,000 for the four of us, and......."

Something I don't understand: Why not use wind and solar to electrolize water and use the products to make fuel? The intermittent nature of the energy would not matter as the product is stored. It must be the economics of capital expended vs income stream, but I don't personally see the problem.

I think it's just a very slow process; by the time you scale it up to match hydrogen demand you are looking at a big, stationary installation.

.....telephone, dialling an ISIS operative. The interview with the ASIO men didn't go very well after he kicked the forst one in the nuts and then...............

........key of B Flat, and Turbo had no idea where to get one. He phoned Loxie, but Loxie had never heard of one. He visited the Op Shop, but they stared at him vacantly. It looked like it was all over for Turbo, and .......

more so do they have a vaccine or chemical destroyer of this sh@tful thing. They were spraying what? every where and are now operating again. I know life is disposable over there but how is this so.

Probably alcohol based. Alcohol kills the bacteria on surfaces.

I'm not saying they're bad, just overpriced for what they are. You can buy two new cars for the same money, and I'd be very surprised if they didn't make 2000 hrs either. Part of the point about low tech is just that, there are no new developments with costs to cover, they are just priced on what the market will bear.

Rotax make engines for many motorcycles, many of which are more complex and have much more technology, yet the whole motorcycle costs about half what a 912 does.

The whole point of the discussion relates to volume. The bigger the volume the more millions can be spent on tooling.

We've been stamping Iveco ACCO cabs out at the rate of a few hundred a year at Dandenong.

The Isuzu cab plant has 10,000 robots building the cab.

Robots don't need to see so lights aren't needed in the factory.

Robots supply parts to the line in the order the cab models are being built.

The robots on the line can identify the model cab arriving at the station and pick out the correct dash and poke it through the cab door (while the line is still moving) the dash, with 48 bolts moves ahead faster than the cab and the 48 bolts go through 48 holes and a platen comes down outside with 48 nuts loaded by robots and 48 motors in the platen torque the 48 nuts. The following cab may have 32 bolts in different positions with different size nuts but the robots just fit it. If you want to increase production by 30% you just dial up what you want and the whole plant moves up 30% in speed.

A Country with a tiny production demand like Australia can't compete with that, so when a big overseas company starts offering product of equivanlent or better quality, the buyers just buy, which was my earlier point.

As consumers, we get a huge benefit from this multi-model production compared to the single product (Henry Ford) lines we could afford in Australia.

What we are seeing is Sales Processing Centres like HSV where if Australia wants something unique a mass produced product can be unbuilt then rebuilt here: examples Chrysler Ram and Chevrolet Silverado.

This process was pioneered in Australia by International Harvester through its Truck Sales Processing Centre.

.....wild parties as the traders shorted the companies down to ground zero andc traded them back up again. but Turbo, under the name Alwyn P Hogg had run a trailing stop all the way down, knew when the Markey was going to turn, and placed his bulk order just two ticks off the bottom. The only downside was the NYPD busting the party and charging them all US$750 for failing to maintain the six feet separation distance. Since every one of them had made a cool $50 million minimum, they weren't all that upset and went home happy. However the next morning......

......MGpEACH, a clever reference to RottenApple, which he intended to push out of the market in......

Your last sentence is too long.

"........TuXXX, but after thinking about Captain, I think we should go for Colonel Blimp Telephone Coy, and Ors Ltd as a mark of respect to ..........

..........the PMG, hoping to pick up the pre-millenial market we lost when that jackass [deleted, my Party reference Mod 9] changed the [deleted Mod 9] to save the [deleted Mod 9] of [deleted Mod 9]. This reanming will alow us to release a pent up demand for round dials and wall mounted phones, and we hope to mobilise millenial customers into a more relaxing lifestyle, becaise they're all looking stuffed already, and ..........

I liked Holdens and Falcons and would still be driving one if they were staying. Were they really subsidized to a greater extent than paying welfare to all the now unemployed workers?

Very few of those unemployed workers were unemployed before the virus crisis, so the welfare issue would have been very small. Even the satellite unemployement (usually about 7 - 10 times the company rate) seemed to find alternative jobs each time a facory closed (and we've been closing them in Australia since the 1980s).

The taxes lost from the Auto Companies has been picked up by the much larger expansion of the industrial areas. For example As the Port Mebourne factories closed, industrial factories have expanded from Brooklyn to Werribee in Melbourne.

Scania has only gone bankrupt once, in 1921, after the upheaval of WW1. There was a worldwide economic recession in 1920-1922. Saab never ever got on top of its design, reliability, buyer acceptance, or manufacturing problems.

The Scania we see today is owned by Volkswagen.

The remnants of Saab Car division was sold to Spyker Cars (Netherlands) which filed for bakruptcy in 2011,

and Saab Aerospace have prevented anyone else using the Saab name on cars.

Volvo bought into UD trucks, that hasn't worked and the UD operation has been sold to Isuzu in the last few months.

There are vehicles produced here?

Yes there are, thousands per year, specifically to suit Australian conditions, which have been holding their own against cheap imports in bothe the private and government markets.

......recognised a fellow......

My experience of Sweden is that they are happy to pay more for locally sourced good quality products. It must be a mindset.

Saab and Scania went broke.

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FB is one of THEM????????

........Polo match gone wrong.............

What happened to the warnings?