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Nice Plant #7: Get me off of this planet

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LynahFan said:
That doesn't add up for me - if I'm building a house with a couple of hundred 2x4s, I really don't care if they're within 1/16th of an inch. But if I'm running a lumber mill that's going to make a million 2x4s per year (or more - don't have a clue what a big mill would do), then that 1/16th matters - a lot. If I'm making mine 1/16th wider than the next guy, that's 6% extra material that I would be giving away for free. The "margin" that is important in this discussion doesn't have to do with geometric tolerance stackup, but with the business's profitability.
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MattS said:
Not knowing the business model of saw mills, it might be more profitable to give the "extra" material away for free if it means you can produce XX amount more than your competitor. Maybe the cost of running the machines and labor are the determining factor and not the cost of the raw material?
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Not to mention the amount of waste you would generate from the milling. Green lumber sawdust is pretty heavy and it isn't easy to clean up. Granted nowadays you can probably turn around and process it all of the excess material into chips and sawdust and in turn, turn them into OSB or chip boards, there's still the cost of that processing you would have to factor in. Most likely some guy getting under the saws at the end of the day with a grain scoop and a heavy duty air hose to move everything into some sort of a conveyor system.
 
Old Pio said:
No offense intended, but a "pretty big deal" in Alaska generally doesn't move the needle anywhere else. Sarah may be trashy, but I'm guessing she could beat your b*lls off.
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Hey, if the Palin clan wants to come after me I welcome it. I could always use more money. :)
 
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Old Pio said:
No offense intended, but a "pretty big deal" in Alaska generally doesn't move the needle anywhere else. Sarah may be trashy, but I'm guessing she could beat your b*lls off.
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She'd start well but then quit the fight halfway through.
 
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Gurtholfin said:
Stay classy, Urban Outfitters...

http://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/urban-outfitters-apologizes-insensitive-kent-state-sweatshirt-sale/story?id=25514185
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The idea or lack of thought put into selling that sweatshirt is beyond the pale, but this is just equally stupid:
Kent State University has responded to the situation through a statement that reads in part, “We take great offense to a company using our pain for their publicity and profit. This item is beyond poor taste and trivializes a loss of life that still hurts the Kent State community today.”
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It's been 44 years, there might be three people on campus from that era. There's no real pain there anymore.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
Holy ****ing ****. That's terrible.
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Which part? The way I read it, that was an actual, vintage, one-of-a-kind Kent State sweatshirt. Urban Outfitters did not design or produce it - it was in that condition when they came to own it. Presumably, they have bought and sold other vintage college shirts under their "sun-faded vintage collection." Unfortunately for them, the original color of the Kent State shirt happened to be red - and the indigno-sphere took over from there.
 
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LynahFan said:
Which part? The way I read it, that was an actual, vintage, one-of-a-kind Kent State sweatshirt. Urban Outfitters did not design or produce it - it was in that condition when they came to own it. Presumably, they have bought and sold other vintage college shirts under their "sun-faded vintage collection." Unfortunately for them, the original color of the Kent State shirt happened to be red - and the indigno-sphere took over from there.
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That's an awfully big coincidence...
 
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LynahFan said:
Which part? The way I read it, that was an actual, vintage, one-of-a-kind Kent State sweatshirt. Urban Outfitters did not design or produce it - it was in that condition when they came to own it. Presumably, they have bought and sold other vintage college shirts under their "sun-faded vintage collection." Unfortunately for them, the original color of the Kent State shirt happened to be red - and the indigno-sphere took over from there.
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That's what I got out of it, too. Unfortunate because of the associations obviously, but not in any way planned. I see those "fake retro" college shirts all the time at Old Navy.
 
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Kepler said:
That's what I got out of it, too. Unfortunate because of the associations obviously, but not in any way planned. I see those "fake retro" college shirts all the time at Old Navy.
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You're probably right, but I'm guessing there had to be some sort of approval process...how did that go unnoticed?
 
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MinnesotaNorthStar said:
You're probably right, but I'm guessing there had to be some sort of approval process...how did that go unnoticed?
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Whoever did the approval would have had a certain context in mind, knowing that they'd just received an old sweatshirt that was faded. When it's placed online, and people now knowing the full context of the shirt, they're going to come to other conclusions.
 
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The Kent State approver was probably the same person who approved the "Eat Less" t-shirt at Urban Outfitters that cause an uproar.
 
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