The keyboard is mightier than the machine gun... The political, philosophical and general outpourings of a troubled soul living in Australia and blogging his Vietnam veteran's head off.
Nothing in this blog can be believed. If you think that anything in this blog is true or factual, you'll need to verify it from another source. Do you understand? No? Then read it again, and repeat this process, until you understand that you cannot sue me for anything you read here. Also, having been sucked into taking part in the mass-murder of more than 3 million Vietnamese people on behalf of U.S. Big Business "interests", I'm as mad as a cut snake (and broke) so it might be a bit silly to try to sue me anyway...
posted by The Editor at
7:00 PM
The counter shown below displays the number of Israeli military personnel refusing to serve in the Occupied Territories. I applaud their integrity and their strength of character. To me they are heroes of peace and humanity.
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Haulpak is a maintenance company for electric motors in heavy industry; the trucks in the image are probably diesel-electric Komatsus. I don't think it matters which side the laden trucks are on if the bench is wide enough, because the trucks weigh somewhere between 100 tonnes and 500 tonnes unladen. If the bench is going to collapse the truck alone would be sufficient to trigger that.
What's wrong with the picture is that we've got 3 full trucks going up and only 1 empty one coming down - there's a problem loading the train. The Logistics Manager is about to have a 'paddy'.
What I thought was wrong with it was the enormous fucking hole in the ground :-(
An article in today's 'The Australian' says that Rio Tinto has been trialling 5 fully automated truck bots for the last 3 years, and is now planning to purchase 150 of the machines (at $6,000,000+ each). That's at least 150 semi-skilled driver jobs taken out of the market.
Apparently it costs $1,000,000 p.a. per driver (at $120,000 p.a. salary) to staff these enormous gadgets 24/7, so Rio Tinto will get its money back in 6 years.
@lemmiwinnks: "there's nothing as precious as a hole in the ground"
@AndrewM. Profits before jobs. Money before people. Come the revolution...
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