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Gloss Plastic Could Eliminate Auto Painting
customs writes "There is a new plastic out from GE that covers plastic surfaces with a really good sheen. It's more resistant to scratches and random chemicals compared to conventional paint. It's actually a .5 mm polymer called Sollx; the Segway was the first semi-mass-produced product to use it, it has slender two tone fenders. Kinda cool. Auto painting is the industries largest manufacturing expense, and this could be what they're looking for...as soon as the price comes down."
FUCK! That would totally suck. It's like, one day you're just sitting there on a bench in Moscow enjoying a coke or some shit, and this guy walks up with a big bucket of molten gloss plastic and dumps it right on you. You'd definitely be eliminated.
Damn, makes me never want to visit Soviet Russia. Thanks for the heads up!
Is it me or is Slashdot getting really lame. This story was in my local newspaper, not the city newspaper, but the little town thingy that you get for free like 2 weeks ago.
I've noticed over the last six months that the news here is terribly dated by the time it gets to the top...
sorry if this is offtopic but it's got to be said. The high-tech lobby continues to clamor about "Worker Shortages". To hear such statements in 2003 is disturbing. Are our representatives actually listening to them? I hope not. The dire employment outlook in the United States should be self-evident. Especially in the tech sector. To not acknowledge this high unemployment would be an indicator of some profound failure in our government. Are the wings of our government folding up and breaking apart like the shuttle's? Is our government able to make sound decisions anymore?
According to this:
In October 2003, the H-1B visa cap will automatically return to 65,000 annually, but the high-tech industry is already lobbying for more H-1B visas. Right now, groups such as the Information Technology Association of America
(ITAA) are circulating tails of an impending worker shortage if the current 195,000 visa cap isn't maintained. See stories in: CIO Magazine and Information Week.
Looks like a real life Worm-Toungue. After seeing things like this, there is no longer any doubt in my mind about the existence of real evil in this world. .
Anyhow, nice metallic cars could also eliminate auto painting. Who needs a painted car anyway? 8-)
Yesterday was the time to do it right. Are we having a REVOLUTION yet?
Cars paint plastic on you!
You're not 93427. You're 5,250,560.
You must be new here, not knowing your own number and all.
The last 10 stories are old-hat...
Hey I like this site, but i have to admit, its pretty lame when i see a story that was about 2 weeks old AND it was from a little rag-ass newspaper.
I think the problem is the monitoring. People are getting too conservative.
I posted an article about 2 months ago which didn't get accepted, and about a week later, it shows up on some other portal (I think Wired ran it), and voila, its on Slashdot about a day later.
Someone joked recently, and I agree, if you want to read slashdot, read Wired.
Where is all the "tasty" anti-M$ stuff, the good dirt, the technology, the fun stuff? I say "fuck it", people should just stop worrying about what's "truth" or "good for slashdot"... I say let the quality of this degrade just like other rumor places... its already watered down to the point of pablem anyway...
That would be cool, if you could flip a switch and change the color of your car.