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Samsung Factory Fire Caused By Faulty Batteries (theguardian.com)
A fire that drew out 110 firefighters and 19 trucks to a factory operated by Samsung Galaxy Note 7 battery supplier, Samsung SDI, was caused by discarded faulty batteries, the company has said. From a report: A "minor fire" broke out Wednesday in a Samsung SDI plant in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin and had to be extinguished, according to local emergency services. The fire was contained to a part of the site used for waste processing, including faulty batteries. There were no casualties or significant impact on the operations of the plant, although the local fire department was called, said a Samsung SDI spokesperson. The Wuqing branch of the Tianjin fire department said on Sina Weibo that the "material that caught fire was lithium batteries inside the production workshops and some half-finished products."
I heard you like fires, so we put a fire factory in your factory
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have backups to corrupt.
Film at 11.
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I guess you can't start a fire from disposing of Headphone jacks incorrectly.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
Do the Chinese always joke that they can dig a hole all the way to America?
Nuff said.
The jokes just write themselves, don't they?
So you can dig that deep and instead of a volcanic eruption, water falls into a giant empty hole? I'm not buying that.
Could be. The antipode of Tianjin is in Buenos Aires, Argentina...
Interesting that it's solid, not liquid, iron because of the pressure, even though it's ~5000F.
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There are two types of people in the world: Those who crave closure
. . .may have a new product line in the offing: Note7 Incendiary Grenades. MUCH better than Aperture Science Incendiary Lemons.
And 110 firefighters and 19 trucks is a **MINOR** fire ??
will the shipments have armored trucks as isis or others may want some old note 7's.
Here, it seems designed right for this!
Is this where they were disarming all the Note 7's the customers returned?
love is just extroverted narcissism
They are going to blast the competitors with all those explosive devices that they come up with. Why, my money is already burning a hole in my pocket.
Anyone else wonder how they shipped all these phones and batteries back to the factory in the first place? What carrier would agree to transport them?
Yes, that's one of several things going on here. A fire at the Samsung factory is *interesting*, so more first responders show up. Seattle had a man climb a tree downtown and they had dozens of people involved--but it's a guy in a tree occasionally throwing pine cones. People showed up because it was a diversion, not because they needed more people.
Second, responses to commercial properties tend to be somewhat faster and definitely more staffed than responses to individual homes. The potential for massive damage to inventory or danger to the public is usually significantly greater (especially in retail spaces). Something big like a Samsung factory might also bring substantial money into an area, and losing factories has a ripple effect in a community.
Third, if you hear you have a potential chemical fire at a factory and you don't know how big it is yet, you WANT to err on the side of caution and have all of the capability there that you need, and then some.
Fourth, if you had a Samsung factory in your country, mightn't you want to use it for espionage?
Real lawyers write in C++
Joke? No. They actually do it using child labor.
We need to build a wall under America to stop the Chinese from sneaking into the US that way.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
Hypothetical:
You're a smartphone manufacturer who wants to unseat Samsung.
All you gotta do is capitalize on the PR fiasco surrounding the Note 7.
Just slip a guy into the factory who sets off a fire.
Now you've just magnified the Note 7 fiasco into a... firestorm... and Samsung loses a huge amount of mindshare and thus markshare.
For a very low cost you gain some room to grow.
I expect some Chinese phone maker to suddenly start launching cool products and eating Samsung's lunch.
I think it's actually lithiumy
Fire At Landfill Used To Dispose Of Faulty Samsung Batteries
When does this happen in the movie?
Samsung suggested that one of the problems with the phone was that they did not leave enough space in the phone for the batteries to expand. So, what happened here? I doubt that Samsung was disposing of the phones with the batteries.
Hmmmm....
Well, I don't know. But Americans say they can dig a hole to China. So I guess I should have worded it as "hole appears in America" --- but I know that digging through the USA won't get you to China (unless you go very sideways).
Or it appears in DC and swallows up everything - setting fire to the President's lying pants :-P (liar liar pants on fire)
Somebody took it literally
Table-ized A.I.