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In sci.physics Fred J. McCall wrote:
wrote: In sci.physics Fred J. McCall wrote: wrote: In sci.physics Fred J. McCall wrote: wrote: snip Buy a ****ing dictionary and look it up, Chimp****. manufactu the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale goods: articles of trade; wares; merchandise Note nothing about 'selling' the results. You're done. wares: articles of merchandise or manufacture; goods merchandise: the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business goods: articles of trade; wares; merchandise Note that orbital services are 'wares'. services: the performance of any duties or work for another SpaceX is a delivery service who's business model is almost identical to UPS and FedX, i.e. all three accept cargo to be delivered to a specific location. The difference is that SpaceX is also the truck manufacturer in your inapt example. Both FedEx and UPS use highly customized COTS delivery vehicles. As there are no COTS orbital delivery vehicles (at the present time), SpaceX has little choice in the matter. But they are still nothing more than a freight delivery service. -- Jim Pennino |
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In sci.physics Fred J. McCall wrote: wrote: In sci.physics Fred J. McCall wrote: wrote: In sci.physics Fred J. McCall wrote: wrote: snip Buy a ****ing dictionary and look it up, Chimp****. manufactu the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale goods: articles of trade; wares; merchandise Note nothing about 'selling' the results. You're done. wares: articles of merchandise or manufacture; goods merchandise: the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business goods: articles of trade; wares; merchandise Note that orbital services are 'wares'. services: the performance of any duties or work for another SpaceX is a delivery service who's business model is almost identical to UPS and FedX, i.e. all three accept cargo to be delivered to a specific location. The difference is that SpaceX is also the truck manufacturer in your inapt example. Both FedEx and UPS use highly customized COTS delivery vehicles. Note: "COTS delivery vehicles". As there are no COTS orbital delivery vehicles (at the present time), SpaceX has little choice in the matter. But they are still nothing more than a freight delivery service. That manufactures rockets and orbital capsules. -- "Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong." -- Thomas Jefferson |
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Leaning tower of falcon 9
In sci.physics Fred J. McCall wrote:
wrote: In sci.physics Fred J. McCall wrote: wrote: In sci.physics Fred J. McCall wrote: wrote: In sci.physics Fred J. McCall wrote: wrote: snip Buy a ****ing dictionary and look it up, Chimp****. manufactu the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale goods: articles of trade; wares; merchandise Note nothing about 'selling' the results. You're done. wares: articles of merchandise or manufacture; goods merchandise: the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business goods: articles of trade; wares; merchandise Note that orbital services are 'wares'. services: the performance of any duties or work for another SpaceX is a delivery service who's business model is almost identical to UPS and FedX, i.e. all three accept cargo to be delivered to a specific location. The difference is that SpaceX is also the truck manufacturer in your inapt example. Both FedEx and UPS use highly customized COTS delivery vehicles. Note: "COTS delivery vehicles". As there are no COTS orbital delivery vehicles (at the present time), SpaceX has little choice in the matter. But they are still nothing more than a freight delivery service. That manufactures rockets and orbital capsules. So what? -- Jim Pennino |
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In sci.physics Fred J. McCall wrote: wrote: In sci.physics Fred J. McCall wrote: wrote: In sci.physics Fred J. McCall wrote: wrote: In sci.physics Fred J. McCall wrote: wrote: snip Buy a ****ing dictionary and look it up, Chimp****. manufactu the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale goods: articles of trade; wares; merchandise Note nothing about 'selling' the results. You're done. wares: articles of merchandise or manufacture; goods merchandise: the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business goods: articles of trade; wares; merchandise Note that orbital services are 'wares'. services: the performance of any duties or work for another SpaceX is a delivery service who's business model is almost identical to UPS and FedX, i.e. all three accept cargo to be delivered to a specific location. The difference is that SpaceX is also the truck manufacturer in your inapt example. Both FedEx and UPS use highly customized COTS delivery vehicles. Note: "COTS delivery vehicles". As there are no COTS orbital delivery vehicles (at the present time), SpaceX has little choice in the matter. But they are still nothing more than a freight delivery service. That manufactures rockets and orbital capsules. So what? So that's 'production', you stupid ****. Just like Ford produces the trucks that the companies in your inapt comparison to freight delivery services use. -- "Some people get lost in thought because it's such unfamiliar territory." --G. Behn |
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In sci.physics Fred J. McCall wrote:
wrote: In sci.physics Fred J. McCall wrote: wrote: In sci.physics Fred J. McCall wrote: wrote: In sci.physics Fred J. McCall wrote: wrote: In sci.physics Fred J. McCall wrote: wrote: snip Buy a ****ing dictionary and look it up, Chimp****. manufactu the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale goods: articles of trade; wares; merchandise Note nothing about 'selling' the results. You're done. wares: articles of merchandise or manufacture; goods merchandise: the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business goods: articles of trade; wares; merchandise Note that orbital services are 'wares'. services: the performance of any duties or work for another SpaceX is a delivery service who's business model is almost identical to UPS and FedX, i.e. all three accept cargo to be delivered to a specific location. The difference is that SpaceX is also the truck manufacturer in your inapt example. Both FedEx and UPS use highly customized COTS delivery vehicles. Note: "COTS delivery vehicles". As there are no COTS orbital delivery vehicles (at the present time), SpaceX has little choice in the matter. But they are still nothing more than a freight delivery service. That manufactures rockets and orbital capsules. So what? So that's 'production', you stupid ****. Just like Ford produces the trucks that the companies in your inapt comparison to freight delivery services use. Ford sells the trucks it makes, SpaceX only sells delivery service. -- Jim Pennino |
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In sci.physics Fred J. McCall wrote: wrote: In sci.physics Fred J. McCall wrote: wrote: In sci.physics Fred J. McCall wrote: wrote: In sci.physics Fred J. McCall wrote: wrote: In sci.physics Fred J. McCall wrote: wrote: snip Buy a ****ing dictionary and look it up, Chimp****. manufactu the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale goods: articles of trade; wares; merchandise Note nothing about 'selling' the results. You're done. wares: articles of merchandise or manufacture; goods merchandise: the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business goods: articles of trade; wares; merchandise Note that orbital services are 'wares'. services: the performance of any duties or work for another SpaceX is a delivery service who's business model is almost identical to UPS and FedX, i.e. all three accept cargo to be delivered to a specific location. The difference is that SpaceX is also the truck manufacturer in your inapt example. Both FedEx and UPS use highly customized COTS delivery vehicles. Note: "COTS delivery vehicles". As there are no COTS orbital delivery vehicles (at the present time), SpaceX has little choice in the matter. But they are still nothing more than a freight delivery service. That manufactures rockets and orbital capsules. So what? So that's 'production', you stupid ****. Just like Ford produces the trucks that the companies in your inapt comparison to freight delivery services use. Ford sells the trucks it makes, SpaceX only sells delivery service. Which is irrelevant to the idea of 'production'. -- "Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong." -- Thomas Jefferson |
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In sci.physics Fred J. McCall wrote:
wrote: snip Ford sells the trucks it makes, SpaceX only sells delivery service. Which is irrelevant to the idea of 'production'. Correct; selling delivery service is irrelevant to the idea of 'production'. -- Jim Pennino |
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In sci.physics Fred J. McCall wrote: wrote: snip Ford sells the trucks it makes, SpaceX only sells delivery service. Which is irrelevant to the idea of 'production'. Correct; selling delivery service is irrelevant to the idea of 'production'. But producing the ****ing vehicles to perform that service with is not. -- "Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong." -- Thomas Jefferson |
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In sci.physics Fred J. McCall wrote:
wrote: In sci.physics Fred J. McCall wrote: wrote: snip Ford sells the trucks it makes, SpaceX only sells delivery service. Which is irrelevant to the idea of 'production'. Correct; selling delivery service is irrelevant to the idea of 'production'. But producing the ****ing vehicles to perform that service with is not. When "producing" is defined in an extremely narrow sense of the word simply to provoke an argument. -- Jim Pennino |
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