I mean, if there was ever a bank not to trust... it's the one with Trust in their name.

HFR did not make a difference to me, but if they are spending so much money on the films why do the CG physics still look like the thing was shot on the moon. And of course Legolas was the worst physics modeling yet again. Everyone in the theater burst out laughing at a certain part of the movie due to it.

Now THIS is how you unload that kind of thing.

Plastic wrap. You can stack pallets obscenely high as long as you hit it with enough plastic wrap. High enough to hit the top of the shipping container or truck, at least.

Well the calculation would assume they were not using a motorized pallet jack, since it was comparing the 1920s

But even then, it depends on how heavy the pallets are.

Interesting. I bet you also needed to employ some interesting storage techniques because of the cramped quarters.

Reminds me of this scene.

You need some standardization. Trucks and train cars need to be a certain width for the pallets to fit. Forklifts and pallet jacks need to be somewhat standard to fit the pallets.

Granted it doesn't have to be terribly precise, but there has to be some kind of coordination.

It reminds me of that old joke about why the Space Shuttle (and now SLS) design is influenced by the width of a horses ass.

Interestingly enough the article mentions iGPS. I saw a good number of their pallets (they have branding on them) at Costco the other day.

While am no fan of Hugh Pickens, I do love pallets and logistics in general, and like this article.

As my dad is a truck driver, as a kid I would go with him on trips and see the inner workings of the industry that literally keeps the country rolling. Most trucks would take on empty pallets in exchange for full ones they offloaded. But the trucks did not always go back to the same location that they made the pickup at. I asked him once what happens to all the extra pallets that end up at the receiving end? He told me that eventually some truck would come by and pick the old pallets all up to try to load balance. The pallet truck was always this old beat up truck that looked like it was on the verge of dying.

But I asked him where new pallets come from, and he just smiled and said "obviously it is the pallet fairys."

As an adult I once saw a truck filled with brand new wooden pallets while driving on the highway. Even the truck looked brand new.

But now with the hard plastic GPS tracking pallets, I can imagine that the pallets themselves have some value and have to be tracked even when empty. Lucky for them they have GPS, I suppose.

You stramanned first. (Is it ok if I verb that noun?)

What I was trying to say is that police powers are not arbitrary. So there is no point in asking if a citizen could go and do things a officer could not. To address the original point that "My liberty should ALWAYS exceed the police's" that was made earlier in the thread: There are lots of things an officer can do that citizens can not, and thus they should be held to a higher standard.

The police do not have this liberty either. They are not permitted to drive around and arresting anyone they please.

Does this mean anyone that deals in bitcoins in any way can now be sent to jail for drug trafficing?

Exactly. Automation has allowed us to have a 40 hour work week and modern luxuries that people could not dream of 20 years ago, much less at the beginning of the industrial revolution.. A potential result of this might be that consumer goods for basic living will become so cheap that the average person will only need to work 20 or 10 hours a week.

America will become a wasteland... just like it did when we sent most of our manufacturing jobs to China.

Wait, that did not happen? Sure, things are more unstable now, but it wasn't the end of history.

I assume he was making a joke about "hollywood accounting" where people cook the books to make movies look like they do not make a profit, in order to cheat actors dumb enough to get paid out of the profits.

Certainly all government contracts in the US have the same kind of funny accounting going on. I had been thinking of SpaceX, who is quite up front about the real costs of their flights. But India might very well be like SLS in that there is no way to tell how many untold billions are blown on the thing. Obviously the $25M stated did not include development costs.