I haven't been there in 20 years but I'm not surprised.
Back then there was a tidal wave of drunk, loud men from the UK whenever they had a bank holiday.
My unsolicited advice to people wanting to visit the city has always been to not go during UK long weekends and if they're only looking for drugs and sex, that both can be sourced closer to home.
The branch of the family that still farms has a neighbour that has their son use his drone to zip out over the fields and check on their irrigation system.
My Lawyer says not to tell you a spud gun can heave a line a good height/distance if you want to make a folded dipole antenna using an old growth fir tree.
Just tie your line through a hole in a soup can and put it over the muzzle before firing a spud.
On the Assembler side of things, my experience is that the right temperament is much more important and difficult thing to find than any specific skill.
Regardless of the skill set needed to do the job, being able to tolerate repetition with no pause outside of break times and adhering to instructions whether they understood their necessity or not was what made for a good Assembler; it wears most people out. I would joke that to be a successful assembly line/cell worker you needed to view each new unit as a visit from an old friend and not own guns.
My experience (in BC) is that the amount of skill/cost of your assemblers can vary.
Where I have worked, low volume production of relatively complex products required more skilled/trainable people because they ended up putting the whole thing together and they were paid well; some sub assemblies could be handled by less technical/skilled Assemblers.
On higher volume lines, if we needed highly skilled workers then it was a sign that we should look at the process and break up or farm out the steps that needed them.
^Actual chip foundries are no sweat shops.
I know nothing about semiconductor production, but maybe they can be sweaty shops? A room can 21 degrees, but if you're in a bunny suit...
Assuming you need to do everything responsibly and above board, you may get paid for the scrap, but you need to pay to remove and dispose of pipe lagging, fuel and lubricant residue, separate and recycle various materials and W.H.Y.
I don't know about the US Navy but if they have to account for the proper disposal of everything in those ships, that's a gigantic task and selling them for a penny may well be an excellent deal.
A tangential thing:
Where I am, on the BC coast, I'm told the old way to dispose of old vessels (including commercial) was to scuttle them somewhere quiet.
There was a startup out here that was offering, for a fee, to responsibly dismantle boats and sort through everything and responsibly recycle or dispose of everything. What the owner would get is a paper trail, especially weigh-bills, showing their ship disappeared in a legal way. I believe it failed because of the cost.
Exactly. The cost to remediate the hazmat stuff as the carrier is disassembled allows the scrap yard to make a profit, but it's not getting "free money" from the government.
When the aircraft carrier Oriskany was sunk as an artificial reef, the environmental remediation cost was $11.89 million.
Skyscrapers can be beautiful. Personally, I really like seeing more plants incorporated into them. Roofs with lush gardens and scapes, plants growing along the sides.
