The Off Topic Topic

[DGuller]

Speaking of the Gdansk shipyards(IGET THE JOKE), I was there. Outdated and a bit rusty, but still plugging away. Not a whole lot of workers though.

The Gdansk shipyards led the movement against communism in Poland, demanding better working conditions. They won, but since their shipyard was internationally non-competitive they lost their jobs.

There is a Polish joke in there somewhere.

How can a shipyard be internationally non-competitive?  Did the Poles outsource their shipyard work to India?

[Razgovory]

You are really over thinking this.

[katmai]

hey now, dguller has never been accused of over thinking anything!

[Admiral Yi]

How can a shipyard be internationally non-competitive?

[DGuller]

How can a shipyard be internationally non-competitive?

It's kind of unmovable infrastructure.  Internationally noncompetitive means that it's cheaper to use foreign competitor's products and services.  I can buy a t-shirt made in Bangladesh, but I can't use Bangladesh's highways if I find I-95 to be internationally noncompetitive.

[Admiral Yi]

Shipyards make things. 

[DGuller]

hey now, dguller has never been accused of over thinking anything!

I'm very good at avoiding detection. 

[DGuller]

Shipyards make things. 

  Where do containers with crap from China go?

[sbr]

Shipyards make things. 

  Where do containers with crap from China go?

Walmart.

[Admiral Yi]

  Where do containers with crap from China go?

Ports.

[Ed Anger]

Preppers who use them as cheap bunkers.

[DGuller]

  Where do containers with crap from China go?

Ports.

  Objection withdrawn. 

[Ed Anger]

Transportation hubs will accumulate containers. It is like getting the crabs. You have 1 one day and the next thing you know, they are dumping them in fields.

[Ed Anger]

I'm bored.

[Razgovory]

  Where do containers with crap from China go?

Ports.

  Objection withdrawn. 

  Now I see the problem.