Didn’t I see commercials for lawyers and their class action suit against the makers of such devices?
The only real solution is strengthening your core so it doesn’t happen again. Any “product“ they try to sell you is suspect in my book.
That is still happening here in Argentina, big time.
One guy plants his field with Monsanto anything (corn, wheat, sun flower, anything), wind spreads its pollen around for miles, it crossmixes genetically with crops around, and 1 or 2 years later Monsanto Scientists can prove in Court that the other guys product has Monsanto patented genes ... and no bills proving they paid for it.
OF COURSE, the proper Law interpretation "should" be that it´s unavoidable and NOT caused by other farmer´s greed, not even their will, so it´s non-enforceable, Logic 101 ... but they are all bought and paid for.
Yes it was Toyota that introduced the concept of “Lean”. (The JIT concept is but one small part). Now the corporate world is flooded with it - and it usually backfires horribly. Some things do work in the short term - JIT works until there is a hiccup. It doesnt even take much of one, and then we were thrown a curve that no one could hit with COVID. Any of the “Lean” optimization protocols works - until you are forced to deal with an exception. Then everything in the work flow backs up and costs more than it would have in the first place.
JMFahey, it is a pity to hear this company still causes so much damage.
Can an organisation or the government do something?
Can an organisation or the government do something?
The reason so-called "Lean" caused such a spectacular disaster is that everybody used it. It was disastrous.
Same thing could happen with the supercharged Frankencrops. Diversity is always a good backup in any scenario. If legacy crops are truly destroyed, and there is a hiccup in the Monsanto monopoly, then millions of people could potentially starve.
Frankencrops require chemicals and technology to grow. They also as we see taint other crop populations. Legacy crops are simpler to grow and have been sustainable for thousands of years. If they disappear then we are in potential peril.
Same thing could happen with the supercharged Frankencrops. Diversity is always a good backup in any scenario. If legacy crops are truly destroyed, and there is a hiccup in the Monsanto monopoly, then millions of people could potentially starve.
Frankencrops require chemicals and technology to grow. They also as we see taint other crop populations. Legacy crops are simpler to grow and have been sustainable for thousands of years. If they disappear then we are in potential peril.
I can not understand the motivation of the scientists and management at this 666 company and their apparent lack of thinking about the consequences. It could impact their lives and their childrens ones too eventually.
No specific knowledge about this but I understood they also bought the machinery to treat seeds the classic way from farmers to prevent future traditional farming. If that is true it is close to criminal.
No specific knowledge about this but I understood they also bought the machinery to treat seeds the classic way from farmers to prevent future traditional farming. If that is true it is close to criminal.
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The rea oddity is that the lean 6 sigma defects it claims to have reduced in multinational companies are way more apparent than in small companies where people are allowed to have their own innitiative and follow no organisational rule other than just do their job to get the money and have food on the table...
Motivation? Greed and power. Monsanto has been building their monopoly for decades.
I worked in the corporate world long enough to see the transition in corporate focus switch from long term strategies to let's-make-it-to-the-next-merger mentality. Integrity and real growth strategy are long discarded. Then there's companies like Monsanto and Bank of America with winner take all and consequences be damned mentality.
I was hired into the finance industry by a small startup company, First Options of Chicago. It grew and became a major player in Chicago markets. Then it was bought by Continental Bank, a big stupid bank. They almost ran the company into the ground. Then it was bought back by its founders Spear, Leeds, and Kellogg and built back up. Then it was bought by Goldman and turned into a "division" of Goldman.
I had a similar ride working for French finance firms. They finally ground me up and spit me out on the ground, with no career. I went from being a superstar and very respected person in the industry to "well you haven't been to school since 1982 so your education is expired."
And that's what happened to the USA in a nutshell.
I worked in the corporate world long enough to see the transition in corporate focus switch from long term strategies to let's-make-it-to-the-next-merger mentality. Integrity and real growth strategy are long discarded. Then there's companies like Monsanto and Bank of America with winner take all and consequences be damned mentality.
I was hired into the finance industry by a small startup company, First Options of Chicago. It grew and became a major player in Chicago markets. Then it was bought by Continental Bank, a big stupid bank. They almost ran the company into the ground. Then it was bought back by its founders Spear, Leeds, and Kellogg and built back up. Then it was bought by Goldman and turned into a "division" of Goldman.
I had a similar ride working for French finance firms. They finally ground me up and spit me out on the ground, with no career. I went from being a superstar and very respected person in the industry to "well you haven't been to school since 1982 so your education is expired."
And that's what happened to the USA in a nutshell.
I understand Lean, so I don't buy into recent posts in this thread
https://www.lean.org/the-lean-post/articles/once-again-heres-why-jit-matters/
To answer the OP, no, don't bother to stockpile. However, as to what I would stockpile, probably op amps like NF412, NE5532, AD811, AD812, LM6171, LM6172, every 3pin regulator I can think of, high voltage bipolars, the various componenents in SS CCS's for tube amps.
https://www.lean.org/the-lean-post/articles/once-again-heres-why-jit-matters/
To answer the OP, no, don't bother to stockpile. However, as to what I would stockpile, probably op amps like NF412, NE5532, AD811, AD812, LM6171, LM6172, every 3pin regulator I can think of, high voltage bipolars, the various componenents in SS CCS's for tube amps.
True, glyphosate has been nicknamed "slow motion killer" and I know that's true for most creatures, with the exception of weeds: they rapidly evolved (and are evolving) to untreatable superweeds. With the science I've been familiar for decades, one good source of info is
https://people.csail.mit.edu/seneff/
BTW in some countries the situation caused by pesticides is more than horrible: can you imagine a country with an academic group called (translated) "Doctors of the fumigated peoples"? No joke alas. https://reduas.com.ar
Sadly "organizations" are weak,they can only complain in FB and Instagram posts (completely useless) or at most camp in front of a Government building or Bank or corporate office with posters, same thing.
Our Government is fully bought and paid for.
It isn't an exception alas. During "napalm girl" era I was a student (chemical engineering), keeping EE as hobby only. With an EL509 PP amp connected between central heater and electrical ground I provided music which couldn't be received with standard FM RX so I was well known. A threshold of atrocity was passed and it was decided to produce proper sounds at the proper time. I was the only one in the group able to design a 1 KW PA with RX in a church and TX to run from the apartment. An eavesdropping RX was fitted with a super-size electrolytic cap in which a narrow-band FM TX was hidden in the RX meant to receive war sounds, to reveal corruption. After a delay (overworked, deprived of sunshine, slept for 3 hours under the UV used for pc boards, declared "you should have been dead" by hospital MDs) the work was finished and installed in a tower. But in the tower I made a mistake which blew part of the PA so the EE friend left and would return with parts for repair. Repair was working OK. At the "proper moment" the TX was switched on but nothing happened. As the "proper moment" was more than a 1 day opportunity, next was making the TX (wideband FM on 27 CB band, ~40W with 807) mobile (dynamo motor) and we were driving near the tower. Nothing happened again and my friends went out for a heavy drink to get over it. I was quite depressed and took the necessary amount of chemicals to no longer be a nuisance in such actions. But the police woke me up from coma. From the police cell I was transported to a hospital where the doc injected me with the yellow liquid pentothal and a police officer showed photos of what looked like my father's crashed car with several corpses in and around it. If a told the names of fellow activists I would be allowed to see them before they would die. I hesitated and the police officer asked the doc "Can you give him another shot?". The doc said "no, then he will die". Upon which the police officer asked "will he remember any of this?" The doc answered with "no, he won't". At that time I had discovered that the photo was faked and started laughing. End of the story was a change in education (only enough time to study the absolute minimum required by corporations), and change in MSM (monopoly, corporate-controlled). Whereas "before" I could work as undergraduate chemist everywhere to pay for any study (and got many job offers to quit study and start working), "after", that no longer was possible. Because "suddenly" I no longer could pass any chemistry exam (back then, personal with the prof) I got an invitation to study under an EE prof with a different frame of mind. But without the means (to work as chemist) to pay for the study it was impossible to accept the offer. My EE friend probably got the same "treatment". He could graduate from EE (same prof who invited me) but never got a job and he died at age 46. That I survived can only be understood by those with traditional / orthodox / upbringing (Asia, Russia), familiar with the issue summarized as "what happens after giving up "life & the universe?"" and can't be discussed here.
The automakers learned a lesson, I hope.
The fab plants are fully committed (*) and you abandon production slots at your own risk because getting them back is almost impossible in the short/mid term. Even today, more than two years away from the first knee jerk shutdowns in '20, the automakers still can't get all the parts they need from their Tier1 suppliers. That's why Toyoda took Toyota back into having some classic inventory.
Another thought... the US financial geniuses penalize carrying inventory (taxes, costs, etc...). Now, I'm no financial genius, just a poor physics kind of guy, but I figure that carrying some inventory is a good idea when you run a business. My significant other -and her peers- has to work miracles oftentimes to keep that damn supply chain working.
Olive oil is good, I use it in parallel with canola oil chez nous. You can not make pa amb tomaquet without it. Indeed, given the putative supply chain issues next year with olive oil, I decided to stockpile a little bit of it in our Costco room.
BTW, I spoke with some people about getting some Svetlana 6550s. The Audio Research Co. is running out of tubes... I wonder how the likes of Conrad Johnson are doing -can you get KT120s and KT150s? Eventually I did find out someone up in LA that has a stash of tubes but I have to leave the amp in for them to do the installation - I can't just buy the tubes and do it myself as usual. I suppose it's a small price to pay, I'll have them go over the entire amp which after 40 years likely needs it.
(*) This is obviously the only way to make a profit as such plants are extremely expensive to build, maintain and utilize. 100% utilization is the only way.
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Phew...
I had a coworker who grew up in Poland, he got his Physics degree in Warsaw.
He told me how in the 70s and 80s they'd build small radio transmitters and put them all over the country, they ran on batteries and operated as a relay.
After a few days the police would find the radio relays and take them away, but my friend and his "movement" had plenty of spare parts at the University. No money but plenty of parts, batteries and time.
The police didn't seem to bother going after my friend on his buddies, so he said.
Being a good physicist, he never dabbled in chemicals, just whatever is needed to make good vodka, which I believe is biology?
Power vacuum tubes.... 6550s, KT88s, KT120s, KT150s. I'm not quite sure yet on the small signal tubes. But, high quality tubes from Russia and Eastern Europe if you can find them.
Oh, I too understand "Lean". I used to work at a leading company with 100K engineers and scientists. We were all required to take an online "Lean Training" course that took like 12 hours. Now, being the technical crew, someone disseminated the answers to the quizzes and tests throughout the community. So, we all "took" that course in the "leanest" manner possible.
After "napalm girl" it's quite likely education changed quite a bit everywhere. For chemical engineering (before ~1970) I had to do experiments / practice at the physics lab, work with radioactive technology, doing microbiology, small scale chemical analysis (micrograms), chromatography (liquid, gas) and more. I even worked at the lab for soil mechanics. Already during the 50s about everyone "East"" knew the name "Willis Conover" (If I remember well he received a royal reception when visiting Poland) so it's likely the police "allowed" whenever possible. When working at Elektor the librarian managed exchange subscriptions with DDR and USSR electronic magazines which confirmed the existence of competent engineers and hobbyists, very good receivers with a minimum of parts.
Having stocked up on several Russian tubes I started working on "easiest to build / best performance" and discovered that a HV BJT (like ME340)-power tube cascode not only gives good results (in sims) but comparable results for all tubes involved plus comparable efficiency, as the tubes then work in grounded grid mode.
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