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Stirz007
| | Posted on Friday, February 11, 2011 - 01:34 pm: | 
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Court - just a guess here, but I'm willing to bet it has a lot to do with risk management, liability insurance and what we have to deal with in the U.S. related to those issues.
They do seem to get the cool projects, although the company I work for has done some pretty cool stuff, too. (Cool in a geeky engineering kinda way, at least). We're down to 12 hours (from traffic shut-down to reopening) for a complete interstate bridge demolition and replacement and I worked on the largest pump station IN THE WORLD (Not that I'm proud of that or anything)
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Hughlysses
| | Posted on Friday, February 11, 2011 - 01:56 pm: |
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Just to add a little humor to this thread...
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Xbniner
| | Posted on Friday, February 11, 2011 - 01:58 pm: |
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As an engineer, I can affirm that anybody who doesn't understand sourcing to a different country has never designed anything more complex than a letter opener.
As far as the "100% American or else" crowd is concerned; I get it, but let's start living in reality. I drive american cars, bikes of course, check labels on everything I can, and refuse to shop at walmart except in an emergency. You can rant about hong kong levers or radiators, but if you start feeling righteous look down.
I would almost guarantee your shoes are made elsewhere. Most likely in an antiquated factory in an impoverished country.
When you stop wearing chinese shoes and shirts from sri lanka and talking on your Korean cell phone, then get on the internet and tell Erik where to buy his parts. |
Drawkward
| | Posted on Friday, February 11, 2011 - 02:29 pm: |
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The drinking glasses I just bought a Wal-Mart a few weeks ago had Made in America stamped on the bottom of them.
Just FYI... |
Duphuckincati
| | Posted on Friday, February 11, 2011 - 04:28 pm: |
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"Imagine no countries.." John Lennon
"Can't we all just get a bong?" Rodney King (I think that's what he said) |
Pmjolly
| | Posted on Friday, February 11, 2011 - 05:16 pm: |
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I'm sorry, but you're going to have to pick a different example if you want to catch me buying Chinese. I am wearing USA made New Balance 993 shoes as I type this. I actually DID buy them because they are made in USA. I think there are better looking shoes, but I stood on my principles. They are comfortable. My work boots are USA made Redwing Pecos boots. I'm not saying I never buy foreign made items, but I DO buy American WHENEVER possible. I'll admit, my riding boots are probably Chinese. They are Alpinestar. I wanted good protective sports riding boots. Had I found USA made racing boots, I'd have bought them. I imagine I am at the extreme end of the scale as far as buying USA products goes. I will go to great lengths to do so. |
Dannybuell
| | Posted on Friday, February 11, 2011 - 06:00 pm: |
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Pmjolly +1
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Crabby
| | Posted on Friday, February 11, 2011 - 06:18 pm: |
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PMJ,
Check out Helimot for custom race leathers. Made here in the USA. |
Pmjolly
| | Posted on Friday, February 11, 2011 - 06:57 pm: |
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Helimot boots are made in germany. I wish I had known about their leathers before i bought a Vanson leather jacket. I thought I was getting a USA jacket. It was made overseas. My Vanson jacket has a great big American flag on the tag inside, with 'Made in El Salvador' behind it. It really bothers me. I contacted Vanson leathers about it. They said they could still make me one here in the states, but it would take a while. I would never be able to tell if they just swapped out the tag, so I just kept the one I got. |
Crabby
| | Posted on Friday, February 11, 2011 - 07:16 pm: |
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Well, even Aerostich outsources its boots to Sidi, and they are made in Romania. But the Combats will last you a decade or more. |
Tippster
| | Posted on Friday, February 11, 2011 - 07:36 pm: |
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Come on, guys - you have ruined a pretty funny thread with the Nationalism... again.
Without German Physicists and Engineers (many of them proud Nazis, like von Braun) we would never have left the atmosphere, much less gotten to the moon.
Radio? Marconi was an Italian
Split the Atom? Enrico Fermi was Italian as well.
Einstein? German.
For every Harley & Chevy there's a Ducati and Ferrari, BMW and Mercedes, or Honda and Lexus. Who has the better Engineering?
So you like Caterpillar. Are they really better than Komatsu? Are Milwaukee drills really superior to Bosch? What criteria are we using to determine this scaling?
The brain drain is very real. Yes we have the best schools, and are using them to train the best engineers China and India can birth and nowadays employ.
Whoever mentioned Ural almost made me bust a gut. You do know that's a direct knock-off of WWII era BMW, right?
Why the hell do we need to insist that the USA is better (or best) at XXXX and what the hell does that have to do with reality? Why not realize that when every scientist and educator in the country says we have a problem with not enough of OUR kids studying the Sciences that they may be right?
According to the Mensa people 1% of humanity is a high genius - over 130 IQ. We have 350,000,000 people in this country, so roughly 3.5 million people... regardless of education or employment - they may well be working at an Apple Genius bar, but that doesn't help us as a country, now does it.
1% = 15 Million Chinese (more than 4x our population!) ... and they are actively searching them out through forced testing and then not letting them fall through the cracks, but educating them on the State's dime.
Yet we have morons that want to abolish the Dept. of Education and the NSF. Yay us. |
Hughlysses
| | Posted on Friday, February 11, 2011 - 08:02 pm: |
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Radio? Marconi was an Italian
Yea, but Tesla, the guy that the court ruled actually invented radio, was Serbian, who became a U.S. citizen. |
Dannybuell
| | Posted on Friday, February 11, 2011 - 08:06 pm: |
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Tippster ++ |
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