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Military Thailand Urged to Build Frigates at Home to Boost Industry
They want 8. They have 4. Not only do they plan to build 4 from a standing start and with no experience, but they are also going to have to find experienced and trained crews for them. Hmm. -
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Politics Ruangkrai Asks NACC to Probe PM Over Shares, Land Claims
...Thaksin doesn't care if ihe's elected or not, he just do things on his own. -
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Why manufacturing won't return to the U.S. - former CEO Motorola
I don't believe I ever said only the USA can automate. You read something not there. The USA is the largest market and manufacturing internally makes sense for some products. Which is why I believe the USA can begin manufacturing many of the products currently bought from China or other economies with lower cost labor pools. As for some of what you wrote I have no idea. Whoever wanted to reap blood from the homeless etc that sounds like a bad scifi plot. Yikes. -
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Incidentally, there is a one time password system in operation for booking appointments now. I'm not sure this was always the case. -
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Why manufacturing won't return to the U.S. - former CEO Motorola
Why is the US the only country that can automate. Chinese car factories are largely automated to the same extent as car factories in the West. For manufacturing, you've got it arse about face. The answer is microfactories, and toss out the obsolete Ford model. Let China invest in massive plants churning out lots of the same thing. Instead, use the 200 years of industrial heritage the West has (lots and lots of largely disused small brick factories), to make products where people live. Invest in additive manufacture, ending the very notion of finished export goods, solving unsustainable demands of shipping. As for Pharma, China is now the sole supplier of 20% of APIs. 60% of APIs in the US come from China and India. 45% of KSMs are now only made in China. Strangely India, while being a major supplier of KSMs, imports 90% of its KSMs for certain drug lines. The US never had much KSM capacity in the first place; what you never had, you can't get back. 60% of what little API capacity it did have has gone, and it was never a major player in that area. China is the source of 40% of antibiotics, followed by India, Switzerland and Italy. In aggregate, about 27% of antibiotics are made in the US. US production of antibiotics is a piffling 5% of the global market. When it comes for the APIs needed for antibiotics, 96% come from China. It is an utter fantasy that the US can ever be self sufficient in medicines. Antibiotics of course have a much bigger application in food production. Typically, the US uses 5.4x more antibiotics per animal than the UK. There must be a really good reason why so much antibiotics are pumped into American cattle. Maybe it makes American beef 5x less expensive that poor old UK. Er, no. US beef producers report gross margins of about 15-25%. British beef is 12%, so the antibiotics are necessary to make those billionaires even more money. If the US weans itself off livestock antibiotics, that probably would be welcomed by all consumers, no matter what their ideology. But profitability will be hit, probably cut in half, which will hit a lot of people in the pocket, as they try and find money for their cable tv, gym memberships, a new car every 2 years etc. Of course, things could be reshored. Building a pharma plant takes 10 years. Perhaps cuts in redtape, lowering safety standards, could cut that in half, but patients have got to accept the risk of worse quality drugs than the Indians for a while. And you've still got to train a new workforce that doesn't exist, exacerbated by a sharp reduction of elimination of new H1bs. The last time a politician had a brainwave in simplifying a vital part of the supply chain, we got new variant CJD, which might still be a ticking timb bomb in the 90% of the UK population that was exposed. And Americans ought not be smug. Before then, someone thought it would be marvellous to harvest the homeless and convicts for their blood, to produce blood products. Result was a blood supply highly contaminated with retroviruses with zero screening. COVID showed the reality when it comes to healthcare. Around the world, nations thought that a war footing was the answer to step up things. Get Ford, GM, Dyson, Banbcock, all the cleverness of the F1 teams would transform the industry forever. I honestly expected it. But there was one problem. Not a single doctor was going to risk their patients with some shonky bit of kit put together by a bloke the previous week who was mounting tyres on a Ford Fiesta.
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