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Got this email today from an engineer buddy. Does this qualify for "technology breaking news"?
1 posted on 05/15/2015 9:04:25 AM PDT by shove_it
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To: shove_it

Pakistanis doing the work that even Mexican refuse to do!


2 posted on 05/15/2015 9:06:35 AM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: shove_it

Cheaper than a machine.


4 posted on 05/15/2015 9:22:12 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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Those aren’t 6, 180 pound men.


5 posted on 05/15/2015 9:30:49 AM PDT by ansel12
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It’s called getting the job done. Reminded me of the railroad repair crew (all black men) aligning track the old fashioned way, by hand - almost a musical rhythm to it.


6 posted on 05/15/2015 9:34:40 AM PDT by dainbramaged (Get out of my country now)
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To: shove_it
I've heard a shovel called a "Mexican backhoe."

Now I know what a "Pakistani piledriver" is.

7 posted on 05/15/2015 9:42:05 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: shove_it

That’s Thailand. Probably around Bangkok. Buildings sink in the mud.


9 posted on 05/15/2015 10:07:50 AM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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OSHA would love it..


10 posted on 05/15/2015 10:13:57 AM PDT by ken5050 (If Hillary is elected president, what role will Huma Abedin have in the White House? Scary, eh?)
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Good example of the micro economic principle that labor and capital are interchangeable. In places like Pakistan where labor is cheap and the capital to buy a pile driver is very expensive you make do with labor. Besides a dancing workforce is a happy workforce. I wonder if a fat guy could demand higher pay for pile driver work?


11 posted on 05/15/2015 10:14:42 AM PDT by The Great RJ (“Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money.” ― Margaret Thatcher)
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To: shove_it

Pakistan? Seems more like Thailand or Indonesia.


14 posted on 05/15/2015 10:24:27 AM PDT by US_MilitaryRules (The last suit you wear has no pockets!)
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AWESOME. A testament to human ingenuity.

On a personal note I did a small project in India (Chandigarh not far from the Pakistani border) I needed to lift a heavy item off a truck and move it about 300 yards to the installation area. I talk to the foreman and he says “just wait here a minute and I will take care of it.”

A small army of Indian laborers with bamboo poles and pipes appear out of no where, pick up the pallet, and walk it down where it needs to go. I think he paid total of $20 for about 40 men.

How did we make it so far?


15 posted on 05/15/2015 1:43:37 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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