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jhgfgbhn
17y ago
Because it would necessarily be heavier and more expensive than a regular container. Regular containers have been optimized to be about as cheap as possible while meeting the specs. If you also want to make it fold you are going to have to
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jhgfgbhn
17y ago
They are regular containers when up, but when folded they are just big flat heavy pieces of freight - so you can load them as any other 40' long piece of freight but that means extra handling gear, forklifts, cranes etc at the customer's si
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jhgfgbhn
17y ago
They do have women now - I don't know what they remove as a precaution ! (Since 1996 they grudgingly allowed 2 women at the base - while releasing lots of PR about how go ahead they were for promoting women in this way!)
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jhgfgbhn
17y ago
Wasn't this posted here in 61?
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jhgfgbhn
17y ago
You're thinking logically - try thinking like a politician who has a lot of farmers in their constituency, or who belongs to a party where the first primary is in a farming state, or needs another politician from a farming state onside
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jhgfgbhn
17y ago
They are made from a material that is easy to reuse - steel. In fact you can't make modern furnace steel without adding scrap steel to the blast furnace to control the temperature. The problem is that the floors of the containers are wood a
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17y ago
There aren't any complex shipping chains. Goods go china -> Europe/US the only thing that goes back is waste. I can't see this helping. It costs more in a very price sensitive industry. Rollup doors means it isn't going to be used for s
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jhgfgbhn
17y ago
The point is that the insurance company can claim this but it wouldn't stand up in court. They would have to demonstrate that it an unbroken door proves negligence on your part - which would mean demonstrating that it is impossible for a th
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17y ago
We just secure them with security cable ties. Any baggage handler wanting to steal from a case is going to have a knife or a pair of cutters anyway, all a lock does is stop a casual pickpocket. The main problem in the US is that baggage cla
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jhgfgbhn
17y ago
The only difference is that now you have to pay for a busted side window for somebody to find out that there is no meter change in the ashtray
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jhgfgbhn
17y ago
And you use an unpickable Modeco door lock? You changed the lock yourself to make sure that no previous tenants or a janitor have a key?
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17y ago
nunchuks are Ok but don't try it wearing a T-shirt with a picture of a power ranger on it. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7431640.stm
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17y ago
You don't even need the gun - you just need the case. We carry long lenses and tripods in a Pelicase - the only one that fits is the gun case design. If you buy the camoflage pattern one it is generally treated as a gun by the airport - eve