While you are basically correct, especially around a solo driver with a shifting 14hr window, although even that can be somewhat mitigated, your incorrect about teams.
I drove team for nearly ten years. A good team that trusts each other get plenty of sleep and generally run around ten hrs per shift (after all, you don't want to run down to the end of the eleven hours and have to change out or stop somewhere at the side of a road, true even for a solo driver) With proper scheduling and some foresight, you rarely reach the fourteen hour window, including pre/post-trips and loading. The best teams tend to consist of a night owl and a morning person. (I was the night owl). You get used to the noise and vibration quite easily to where only the most extreme 'bumps, rattles and rolls' tend to disturb your sleep at all, and then only for a few moments.
Once you trust the other persons driving, it really is not much of an issue.
Even when training, you sit up with the trainee their first week, let them drive days the second and advance their clock a few hours each week thereafter so they learn to drive at day, evening, night and morning. (I trained for six of those years)

Merry Christmas (or if not your thing, have a great week!)

In short as impractical as a solar powered tanning light.

Someone beat you to it.

http://www.picshag.com/pics/052011/solar-powered-tanning-salon-big.jpg

People are OK with this due to a paradigm shift in culture over the last two generations. When I was young we actively tried to avoid government surveillance we were certain existed (but didn't, as the tech just wasn't there) and were branded 'paranoid.' Undoubtedly true to some extent as we thought nearly everyone with unpopular opinions was wiretapped.

The current generation has just accepted that de-facto surveillance that actually now does exist in favor of convenience. The simply don't fucking care that they are surveilled as it's become so ubiquitous that it's now background noise and they choose to forget it's there.

A good example is a cop with a camera. Some have been caught planting evidence. Now he should realize he's being watched, but forgets about it even though the camera is on his damned chest.

It's unfortunately cultural in nature in my opinion. Education won't help because everyone already knows this and chooses not to care.

We are truly living in interesting times.

Well, let's see what Gomer Pyle has to say shall we?

https://i.imgflip.com/1ymvbd.jpg/

Yep, pretty well sums it up now doesn't it....

Or just having fewer (or no) smart devices would also be the best solution.

Fixed that for you.... :)

You forgot the sarcasm tag.

And in case you scream "those weren't medical records!"

Top October breaches by number of patients affected

        10/4/19: The Methodist Hospitals, Inc., a Healthcare Provider. 68,039 people were affected by a/an Hacking/IT Incident. Emails were targeted.

        10/24/19: Tots & Teens Pediatrics, a Healthcare Provider. 31,787 people were affected by a/an Hacking/IT Incident. Network servers were targeted.

        10/3/19: University of Alabama at Birmingham, a Healthcare Provider. 19,557 people were affected by a/an Hacking/IT Incident. Emails were targeted.

        10/7/19: South Texas Dermatopathology Laboratory, a Healthcare Provider. 15,982 people were affected by a/an Hacking/IT Incident. Network servers were targeted.

        10/11/19: Central Valley Regional Center, a Business Associate. 15,975 people were affected by a/an Hacking/IT Incident. Emails were targeted.

        10/22/19: Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth, a Healthcare Provider. 14,881 people were affected by a/an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure. Others were targeted.

        10/22/19: Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, a Healthcare Provider. 12,415 people were affected by a/an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure. Others were targeted.

        10/14/19: Southern New Mexico Neurosurgery LLC, a Healthcare Provider. 11,754 people were affected by a/an Improper Disposal. Electronic medical record, network servers were targeted.

        10/9/19: Magnolia Pediatrics, a Healthcare Provider. 11,100 people were affected by a/an Hacking/IT Incident. Desktop computer, electronic medical record, email, network servers were targeted.

        10/22/19: Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Plano, a Healthcare Provider. 9,678 people were affected by a/an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure. Others were targeted.

1. Yahoo
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Impact: 3 billion user accounts

2. Marriott International
Date: 2014-18
Impact: 500 million customers

3. Adult Friend Finder
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Impact: More than 412.2 million accounts

4. eBay
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Impact: 145 million users compromised

5. Equifax
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Impact: Personal information (including Social Security Numbers, birth dates, addresses, and in some cases drivers' license numbers) of 143 million consumers; 209,000 consumers also had their credit card data exposed.

6. Heartland Payment Systems
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Impact: 134 million credit cards exposed through SQL injection to install spyware on Heartland's data systems.

7. Target Stores
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Impact: Credit/debit card information and/or contact information of up to 110 million people compromised.

8. TJX Companies, Inc.
Date: December 2006
Impact: 94 million credit cards exposed.

9. Uber
Date: Late 2016
Impact: Personal information of 57 million Uber users and 600,000 drivers exposed.

10. JP Morgan Chase
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Impact: 76 million households and 7 million small businesses .https://www.csoonline.com/article/2130877/the-biggest-data-breaches-of-the-21st-century.html/

You were saying?

The true meme of the information age; Produce something of negative value and receive a positive return. I weep for humanity.

A Pole?
I worked on fork trucks back in the day (further back than I truly want to recall) You never work under the blade carriage in a lifted position. Especially LOADED. So I assume the 1200 pound "piece of equipment" refers to the carriage assembly and not an actual loaded lift, which would be off the charts stupid.
In fact only one procedure is performed with the mast raised. And then only a couple of inches. Checking the lift chain tension to be sure it is equal.
From a typical repair manual: (Toyota in this case)

Lift the carriage and the mast high enough for getting tension on lift chains. Check the chains, and make sure the tension is the same. Lift chains are required to check for equal tension about every 1,000 service hours or 6 months.
If the tension is not the same on both chains, take the procedure as follows.

NOTE: If carriage height is not correct, make adjustments by the following procedures.
Carriage Chain Adjustment: Make sure that carriage height is correct. If correct, adjust the chain for equal tension. If not, adjust the chain for correct carriage height by adjusting anchor nuts

1. Fully lower the carriage and tilt mast forward or lift the carriage and put blocks under the carriage to release the tension from the lift chains.
2. Loosen nut and adjust nut to get proper distance from bottom of inner upright to the bottom of carriage bearing.

From that description this sounds like the repair he was doing. If he was doing any of the repairs that the carriage gets in the way of then the proper procedure is to use a vehicle lift, repair pit or remove the carriage.

If it were stuck in a lifted position against a shelf due to a hydraulic blow out, you would back it out slightly and then support the carriage with a second lift lowering it with the second lift. Although the most likely scenario there is you notice it only when you clear the shelf and it comes crashing down as with no pressure it can't stay up. Then you quietly go to the restroom to scrape the shit out of your pants.
Of course this is an emergency situation and not maintenance.

But you wouldn't ever get under it except with it on a vehicle lift that has safeties to prevent it suddenly falling. This is a clear violation of safety regulations. Not to mention a pole! Any shop doing that type of hillbilly repair should of been closed on the spot. Perhaps that was the nature of the original blame being placed on Amazon?

And if they had used the most popular, I would not of had a problem. However, since Americans eat more chicken than pork, I feel the comparison has no value as it doesn't compare the most popular meat being consumed. I have no idea what our British friends eat, but here, chicken is king. Had they used chicken, it would of made sense, and would not of commented. Since they chose beef the comparison becomes apples to oranges. Beef just seems random and pointless. However my household is eating more pork as prices here have plummeted. Yay Bacon!

Poultry is the most consumed meat in the United States. On average, each American ate 48.8 kg of chicken in 2017.

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/meat-consumption-in-america.html/

The average Chinese person gets through about 30kg (66 pounds) of pork a year (by comparison, people in US eat about 26kg of beef a year and UK consumers about 18kg

Apples to Oranges comparison. How much pork does an American or Brit eat?

This design would be great for hitting pedestrians though! They should just slide right over the top with little resistance leaving minimal wind screen residue that the wipers should easily deal with!

Except for my son and I, I know of no home network I have installed or troubleshot that was wired in a good many years. We both built good gaming PC's and were both knowledgeable enough to know that wireless was not the way to go.

Now explain that to a non-technical person who simply doesn't want a wired connection. They want it to work like Netflix, and they simply don't (or possibly can't) understand why their superfast, superexpensive WiFi connection is unable do what they believe it can.

This is mostly the fault of the marketers overpromising, and no amount of explaining, by the book or by example convinces them they must be wired for the experience they want. They just don't want the ugly wires and don't see why there's a difference. They, like the person you are discussing, look at the numbers and go 'why not?' It meets the specifications. After all, Fortnite works on my phone, and online games work on my Xbox, Playstation or computer. They do not comprehend what a streaming game service is and the enormous amount of data being sent back and forth like a tennis ball.

I swear most of them expect me to pull out a black robe, draw out a pentagram and light five black candles to invoke the mighty IP gods and are genuinely disappointed to see an iFixit kit and multimeter in my 'sorcerers bag' as my niece calls it.

**note** I am not (yet, working on it) a professional network guy, just a hobbyist since the dawn of the computer era.

Came for the Homer Simpson jokes, was very disappointed....