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The cone is demonstrating what happened to that Carnival elevator worker.
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MaxPowers posted:http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-35207451
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They actually named the building "The Address"? Were they big Abbott and Costello fans?
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According to some news sources, nobody was hurt at all in that fire... which I find hard to believe but perhaps they have a proper evacuation procedure. Anyway, Dubai authorities have said that new year's festivities can continue as planned.
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Carbon dioxide posted:According to some news sources, nobody was hurt at all in that fire... which I find hard to believe but perhaps they have a proper evacuation procedure. Anyway, Dubai authorities have said that new year's festivities can continue as planned. slaves aren't people
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Carbon dioxide posted:According to some news sources, nobody was hurt at all in that fire... which I find hard to believe but perhaps they have a proper evacuation procedure. Anyway, Dubai authorities have said that new year's festivities can continue as planned. They threw slaves into the blaze until the bodies covered the fire enough to deprive it of oxygen. efb for slave joke
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The news here had an interview with some random guest who was surprised at how easy the building was to evacuate, so maybe they spent some small fraction of the (no doubt obscene) total price on proper security planning?
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Robo Reagan posted:slaves aren't people Well... they're 3/5 of a peoples.
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Isn't this the second time this year one of dubai's towers has burned?
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There's been some towers in china burning down too. I don't know what's up witht he Dubai one but in China there were hundreds of towers built with an aluminum cladding with iron pigment paints/coating and some other poo poo that when ignited became thermite. When the product tried to come to the west for approval they couldn't actually measure how flammable it was because it got so hot so fast it broke the testing machine. But totally fine to cover a skyscraper in it. The building standards outside the west are really really bad. Even if they're ok on paper, there's so much bribery and corruption and cultural/institutional corner-cutting and graft that you end up with some extremely unsafe buildings and job sites.
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Baronjutter posted:There's been some towers in china burning down too. I don't know what's up witht he Dubai one but in China there were hundreds of towers built with an aluminum cladding with iron pigment paints/coating and some other poo poo that when ignited became thermite. When the product tried to come to the west for approval they couldn't actually measure how flammable it was because it got so hot so fast it broke the testing machine. But totally fine to cover a skyscraper in it. I work for a crane operator/inspector training company and I can back this up. Many foreign companies (the ones that care) simply hire American companies like mine to train to OSHA standards, as they either have inferior standards for safe crane operation and training or lack them altogether. Our common customer nations include companies from Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Peru, Chile, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Trinidad & Tobago, and so on. The US military also hires us to do training, even though the military is exempt from most OSHA standards; they just establish their own policies that require following OSHA. chitoryu12 fucked around with this message at 22:56 on Dec 31, 2015 |
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I swear I remember watching a documentary about the construction in Dubai, and one of the companies had to halt work until an american firm could come in and train the workers how to build a basic cinderblock wall. Which they had to rebuild three or four times because the quality was so poor.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:I swear I remember watching a documentary about the construction in Dubai, and one of the companies had to halt work until an american firm could come in and train the workers how to build a basic cinderblock wall. One of our most common customers for huge training jobs is TÜV NORD's Middle Eastern division. It's quite common for our instructors to go to Dubai several times a year, which they generally dislike; along with the obvious problems with racism and Islamophobia (all of our instructors are old white guys, many of them good ol' boys from the South), they tend to struggle with both a language barrier and inattentive and rude students who practically have to be forced to pay attention. According to one instructor's notes when he came back, he also struggled with rampant cheating among the students. They simply ignored him when he told them not to talk to each other during the tests.
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Carbon dioxide posted:According to some news sources, nobody was hurt at all in that fire... which I find hard to believe but perhaps they have a proper evacuation procedure. Anyway, Dubai authorities have said that new year's festivities can continue as planned.
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zedprime posted:Isn't that the highrise they couldn't get anyone to move into so its still just empty? I don't know about the Address specifically, but Dubai has a ton of empty hotel rooms in general. Edit: The site has a problem with randomly redirecting to other articles for no reason, so I'll copy the text of the article here just in case: quote:Dubai’s hotels had the lowest occupancy in at least 18 years in July, standing more than half empty, as more rooms were created and demand declined, according to research firm STR Global. Likewise, Dubai has a lot of empty office space. It may look fancy, but the expensive areas are a ghost town. chitoryu12 fucked around with this message at 23:18 on Dec 31, 2015 |
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there's literally nothing worth doing in dubai. turns out nobody wants to go somewhere where you cant get drunk gently caress or gamble.
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Baronjutter posted:There's been some towers in china burning down too. I don't know what's up witht he Dubai one but in China there were hundreds of towers built with an aluminum cladding with iron pigment paints/coating and some other poo poo that when ignited became thermite. When the product tried to come to the west for approval they couldn't actually measure how flammable it was because it got so hot so fast it broke the testing machine. But totally fine to cover a skyscraper in it. Isn't it just the composite's core being made of cheaper, more readily flammable plastic?
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Darkman Fanpage posted:there's literally nothing worth doing in dubai. turns out nobody wants to go somewhere where you cant get drunk gently caress or gamble. or go to prison for 4 years for having a speck of marijuana on your shoe
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chitoryu12 posted:One of our most common customers for huge training jobs is TÜV NORD's Middle Eastern division. It's quite common for our instructors to go to Dubai several times a year, which they generally dislike; along with the obvious problems with racism and Islamophobia (all of our instructors are old white guys, many of them good ol' boys from the South), they tend to struggle with both a language barrier and inattentive and rude students who practically have to be forced to pay attention. According to one instructor's notes when he came back, he also struggled with rampant cheating among the students. They simply ignored him when he told them not to talk to each other during the tests. My college sends faculty members there to train therapists, since they don't have many trained educators in the field in Dubai. Problem is, the field is dominated by women here, and we are constantly asked to send only male instructors. So there is literally one assistant male professor that gets roped into going every year and is pretty miserable about it.
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Dienes posted:My college sends faculty members there to train therapists, since they don't have many trained educators in the field in Dubai. Problem is, the field is dominated by women here, and we are constantly asked to send only male instructors. So there is literally one assistant male professor that gets roped into going every year and is pretty miserable about it. It's usually a fight among the instructors and management to decide who gets the latest Middle East job. More than one instructor has tried to point blank refuse; in one case, his wife was declaring that he couldn't go because of a misguided fear that the entire Middle East is just some gestalt of terrorism and decapitations of tourists. The biggest threats in Dubai are heatstroke and boredom.
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Why not set up his own consultancy and charge like a half mil per training class if the demand is that high?
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I unscrewed a pc power supply once and apparently I could of died because of this. Well I didn't, good times.
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here's to a safe 2016 where no-one will catch fire and fall down a hole
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treasure bear posted:here's to a safe 2016 where no-one will catch fire and fall down a hole
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treasure bear posted:here's to a safe 2016 where no-one will catch fire and fall down a hole It's really saying something that this is a legitimate hope and not just sarcasm
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Darkman Fanpage posted:there's literally nothing worth doing in dubai. turns out nobody wants to go somewhere where you cant get drunk gently caress or gamble. you can do all these things in dubai
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FogHelmut posted:TBH there is plenty of leverage there. Shouldn't take more than 100 lbs or so to hold that thing in place. Physics be damned I'm not going to trust my life on a pile of haphazardly stacked sandbags are you loving insane.
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Sentient Data posted:It's really saying something that this is a legitimate hope and not just sarcasm Someone is going to catch fire and fall down a hole.
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A friend passed this scene in Mexico 
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Snowy posted:A friend passed this scene in Mexico That's kind of clever in a way.
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Snowy posted:A friend passed this scene in Mexico I don't understand how that works. Can someone draw me a free body diagram?
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Uthor posted:I don't understand how that works. Can someone draw me a free body diagram? The ladder is hooked in at the roof and the wooden legs just provide space from the wall.
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Snowy posted:A friend passed this scene in Mexico this feels like one of those pics that's taken right before someone dies
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Uthor posted:I don't understand how that works. Can someone draw me a free body diagram?
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CampingCarl posted:It looks like the ladder is hooked over the roof edge in some way so it isn't just the wood holding it up. I think the hooks at the top are the only thing supporting it. That wooden contraption is just keeping the ladder away from the wall.
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chitoryu12 posted:One of our most common customers for huge training jobs is TÜV NORD's Middle Eastern division. It's quite common for our instructors to go to Dubai several times a year, which they generally dislike; along with the obvious problems with racism and Islamophobia (all of our instructors are old white guys, many of them good ol' boys from the South), they tend to struggle with both a language barrier and inattentive and rude students who practically have to be forced to pay attention. According to one instructor's notes when he came back, he also struggled with rampant cheating among the students. They simply ignored him when he told them not to talk to each other during the tests. Well, the other endemic problem there is any non-worker position, if not taken by a foreign contractor, is likely a relative of the owner of the company and immune to firing. I can only imagine how hard it is to convince people safety is a priority when everyone below you is slave labor and everyone above you is the stereotypical boss' son who wants to get paid for doing nothing.
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This is the fun, happy kind of OSHA.gif where everyone walks away and nobody ends up in the hospital or the morgue. The Fisher Price of OSHA.
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