The weird thing is, they don’t actually sell the jars anymore. “Ball jars” are not made by the ball jar corporation after their antitrust lawsuits for being a fucking jar monopoly. So they sold the “ball jar” rights and now only do aluminum cans for food packaging and high end satellites and satellite launch systems.
now only do aluminum cans for :
- food packaging
- high end satellites
- satellite launch systems.
I find this interpretation funny
Aluminum cylinders only.
Not aluminum? Not interested. Not a cylinder? Not a chance.
Squared off glass cylinder? Legally prohibited.
Transparent aluminum? Believe it or not, jail.
Galaxy watch 5 users start to worry.
Most advanced cans in the airspace industry
No monopoly lawsuits in space
The year is 3506. The Deimos Corporation has expanded into Phobos, Luna, and all the other moons of the solar system.
Making it… A moonopoly.
They don’t even do aerospace anymore. Ball Aerospace & Technologies was bought by BAE Systems earlier this year.
Well then what would you say you do here
BAE caught them slipping, huh?
On December 11, 1939, the U.S. Government sued the Ball Brothers, the Hazel-Atlas Glass Co., and the Owens-Illinois Glass Co. under monopoly charges based on the Hartford-Empire and Owens licensing agreements. The plaintiff claimed that small producers were being frozen out of business or prohibited from entering manufacture by the nature of the licenses. Almost a decade later, in 1947, the justices rendered a final verdict. The court prohibited the Ball Brothers from purchasing or otherwise controlling any other businesses engaged in the same manufacturing processes – in other words, the small jar producers. In addition, Ball had to divest itself of the Three Rivers Glass Co. (already closed for almost a decade) that Ball had acquired in 1936. Ball sold the property
Me: I need some tires.
Michelin: No problem, anything else?
Me: I don’t suppose you know where I can get a list of the best restaurants in the world?
Michelin: You’re not gonna believe this.
The whole point of the Michelin guides were originally to entice people to drive more to visit hotels and restaurants and such, thus leading to more tire wear which would lead to more tire sales, and eventually more money for Michelin.
I like that the Guinness Book of World Records was created because the manager of Guinness Breweries wanted to stop arguments in pubs (and keep people drinking).
The Guinness Book of World Records is in the Guinness Book of World Records itself, for being the book most stolen from libraries.
That’s almost as good as Aperture Science selling shower curtains and multidimensional portal devices.
Well, I don’t think they ever actually sold any of the portal guns…
Is that because nobody would buy them or because Aperture fell to ruin before they could put it on the market? 🤔
They were too expensive! The Device was more valuable than the organs and combined incomes of everyone in [subject hometown here].
Sopresa
they’re literally this
Let’s not forget Hitachi
There’s also Delecta Ltd, which is an Australian sex toy maker and a mining company.
Let’s not forget the Samsung Galaxy Autonomous Sentry Gun that autonomously shoots people based on thermal imaging.
And it fired the whole bullet casing and all.
“That’s 65% more bullet per bullet.”
My coworker at Siemens was completing the trifecta: Ball, Cummins, Siemens. The perfect career trajectory
Raspberry!
I need a pepper mill from the company that invented it Peugeot: I got you, buddy I also need a shitty car that breaks down all the time Peugeot: You’re not gonna believe this
Even the space telescope looks shocked.
Is there a Lemmy for polishing mason jars into lenses yet?
Yes, last post was 4 months ago, 12 posts in total.
You’re not going to believe this but Ball made all of the mirror … except the mirror itself.
Me: Man, that’s a pretty nice line of printers you have.
Brother: Thanks!
Me: Hey, you don’t happen to know where I can get a nice sewing machine do you?
Brother: You’re not going to believe this…
You work with glass long enough, you start making the craziest shit out of it.
Me: pour me a guiness, please
Bartender: here you go mate
Me: by any chance do you know where I can get a record of the world’s longest mustache
Bartender: well you won’t believe this…
Me: Get me some Michelin tires, please
Mechanic: Here you go mate
Me: by any chance do you know where I can get a detailed guide of the finest restaurants in the country?
Mechanic: well you won’t belive this…
i guess we doin telescopes now
