Ed Edelenbos wrote:
"notbob" wrote in message
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On 2009-09-09, J. Clarke wrote:

manufacturing and packaging, so how _do_ the manufacturers and
packagers figure it out?


I dunno... they hire French engineers to do the hard work? The work
that requires thought?

"French engineers" is an oxymoron.

They actually use their brains to THINK, a simple function of higher
animals that seems to be rapidly falling out of favor.

nb

They do it out of desperation, hoping they can recover some small
part of the business they've lost to foreign manufacturers who
changed over 50 years ago.

And you think that metric had something to do with that?