Comments by "r baxter" (@rbaxter286) on "What's Going on With Shipping?" channel.

  1. "Make it CHEAP!" is all Big Bidness cares about. I'll also suggest there's no Risk Analysis/Management study that has realistic assumptions and inputs for this kind of event in Charleston?
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  2. Looks like "The Hidden Hand" that protects economists and Vulture Capitalists doesn't protect the rest of us from the cheapness and cost cutting of all the trolls who do the Vulture Capitalists' work for them by giving us such Single-Point Disaster Ships like this one. But, think of all the money saved by not doing realistic Risk Analysis and Mitigation!
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  3. Too expensive, and it would keep someone somewhere from putting in that second high speed automobile elevator for his car museum. Besides, SC is one of those "We're CHEAP!" states that, for instance, the crooks at Boeing move work to because NO UNIONS! Same old Plantation Mentality from the people whose ancestors made the family fortune actually owning plantations, and not the good kind.
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  4. How pointless, but how career-enhancing. There is already a somewhat disabled LAND-BASED system, but nobody (i.e., US) seems to be interested in smacking the heads of the GUILTY PARTIES to get that system back up and running. When does the bill go to Israel, too?
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  5. Make them moor at the normal 'nuclear mooring sites' and see how long it takes to lighter the containers off. I'd trust these as much as the Soviet icebreakers, overall, not just AFTER they worked out the kinks. Let the Chinese build these funding black holes; you can't trust 'nucular engineers' and the industry in the US, which are just interested in their paychecks and government subsidies for risk assumption and the like.
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  6. Just follow the oil slick ..., well, maybe not all the way to the end ...
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  7. Well, at least it didn't burn down, fall over, and sink into the swamp ..., like the CO's career ... You could almost imagine the spirit of the QE saying, "We are not amused, New Zealand!" Maybe the UK could sell off that spare carrier, now?
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  8. Been participating in and reviewing Event Investigations and Reports for decades. Pretty much meaningless and really void of any Root Cause except for the testing results. Waste of my time and only good for a little more informed pure conjecture.
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  9. Dwight D. Eisenhower. No David, no Ike.
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