Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
The guys is an expert about how everything should be done, except when he has to actually do something, he can’t.
Thankfully, **Colibri **put that race thread out of its (our) misery!
Damn, now I’ll never know what happens when you feed an angry armenian a lemon. 
“Angry Armenian” is redundant.
Willfully ignorant is what I call it. Jesus it is like you have never been outside in all you life.
I think **code_grey **may be institutionalized, or sequestered from regular contact with normal adult humans and society in general in some other way, perhaps through disability.
I hope that I am wrong and that he is just a fucking idiot. I apologise if I am right.
How can you expect to improve a process like repainting cars when you don’t even understand something as basic to the process as what grinding is and why it’s necessary?
I mean, the idea that industrial processes can be improved is certainly valid. But if you think you can improve a process, the first thing you need to do is to get intimately familiar with how it works. Ideally by doing it yourself. If that’s not possible, at least you can watch someone else doing it and ask them questions why they do things a certain way. They may get annoyed with you, but then you might notice inefficiencies that they don’t just because they’ve always done things that way. (And if that’s not possible, at least go to YouTube and look at videos of someone painting a car or whatever process you think you can improve.) You really can’t understand a process by posting to a message board and getting verbal replies.
I think we can be pretty sure about that.
so who would be more willing to answer my questions about an industrial process - the random guy who I am likely to find down at the typical workshop I would drop by, or people here at SD? Notice that even the techie dopers are a bit irritated with my systematic questioning. How much more so a guy who is busy with his work and also closer to the median IQ in the car painting profession?
It’s also a lot easier to convince 10 people say 3 things each than convincing one guy say 30 things. Surprising, but true 
In any event, so the logistics of me doing first hand research at a car repair shop are at present not realistic. But if you happen to have a work shop involved in doing something I may be interested in and you wouldn’t mind have me fight my ignorance of that process and discuss with you why things are done this way and why don’t people try to do so-and-so in some other hypothetical way, then that can be arranged 
People are more than “a bit irritated” with your antics. You’re well on your way to becoming a joke here. This is not a good thing. Don’t you think you should consider some of the comments in this thread and change your behavior accordingly?
Possible car grinding questions that have not been asked yet:
Could they just use a grinder that is as large as the entire car and just take 1 pass?
What if they just parked the car near the ocean and let the sand in the wind effectively grind the car, could this work?
What if the auto painting shop pre-ground 1 car of each make and model and then when the customer arrives they trade their car for the pre-ground car and then the painting can begin right away?
Is there some way we can combine the process of grinding a car and checking for Tungsten in a coin?
What if there was a Chinese auto-body shop where we could ship the car, and because labor is so cheap, they could grind the car, paint it and then ship it back?
Wait, even better, instead of having to ship all the way to China, just stop the ship 1/2 across the Pacific, do the grinding and painting there on the ship and then bring it back - just saved 1 full trip across the ocean.
Wait, wait, wait - even better - Leave the ship in port, hire only people of Chinese Race Temperament ™ because their labor is inexpensive and do the work on the ship in port - just saved 2 trips across the ocean.
If you brought enough of the CRT people here I could just harvest them for export and make a killing.
I certainly think you could get your questions answered in person by a professional in the business if you politely explain that you’re doing research into their processes. (And by politely, I mean not assuming that the staff is stupid.) Perhaps you could spend a day or more shadowing someone in the shop. What you’re doing now amounts to armchair industrial engineering and won’t get you anywhere.
IMHO, the sheer volume of your questions dilutes the importance of each one, and the attractiveness of each individual question as a place to invest any amount of time.
Many of the questions you post are intriguing—every time I see a new code_grey question, I wonder what is this great master plan that is brewing in your mind, using every aspect of the 'Dope to provide insight into plausibility of different business cases.
But then you jump from asking about automated testing technology to industrial processes to supply chain management. I have no idea of your background, but your questions strike me as naive—each one of these businesses have substantial depth to them, and it is difficult for someone to build up any degree of understanding of the ins and outs of just one, let alone several, yet you act as if you know the secret all of those silly business people never figured out.
For example, to consider your questions regarding motorcycle parts: it’s as if you think they just came up with this business last week, and haven’t optimized their process.
Maybe it seems to you that there is a manufacturer and a buyer, and it should be simple like that, no? The reality is that there are loads of middle men that are involved in any kind of manufacturing-to-sales-floor exercise. There are salesmen, there are distributors, there are dealers, there are distribution layers between the factory and the distributors who ship to the stores, there are probably all kinds of arcane pricing incentives coming from the factory, from stores, from state or federal government, and many other things.
And if you asked one or two such questions, you would surely find a 'Doper who had the expertise who would gladly speak volumes on the subject. The problem is, you are asking so many of them that it just doesn’t seem worth the trouble to go into any depth on them.
Many people answer questions about things in their area of expertise because they feel they are feeding someone’s intellectual hunger in a subject they are passionate about. It’s hard to believe you are really passionate about any of these questions when the next unrelated question is three lines up the page in GQ.
I believe I have, without noticing the identity of the OP, provided a few sincere answers in the past in your threads, but after the fact I felt kind of duped, as if I spent a decent amount of time considering my answer and it was to some thread that had questionable sincerity.
Just don’t have the car grinding done by any angry Armenians.
At least when Ralph asks stupid questions in GQ, I know it’s only because he’s really stupid and doesn’t know the answer and can’t figure out how to use the Google or Wikipedia.
what’s with the many references to emotions in a single post? You feel this, you feel that. Do I have “intellectual hunger” “passionate about” or don’t I have it. Somehow it makes for strange reading, coming from a techie on a public forum.
If my intellectual interests are a bit broader than what you find normal, then what’s it to you? Do you only answer questions “for guidance and edification” as a favor to people who think like you and sound like you?
I personally don’t find asking questions, answering other people’s questions and writing follow up clarification posts in my own threads to be a taxing task to be only engaged in out of noble purity of heart, as a service to humanity at large. To me it’s not a big effort. Even in the case of some of my own more involved threads, reading through the last 5 replies and doing a coherence check against the previous posts is not much work either. Yeah, I mean, a good exercise in critical thinking and stuff
If you view this activity in such a different light, well, what can I do. If you don’t enjoy writing on the forum as much as I do and if your noblesse just doesn’t oblige in this particular case, all things intellectual hunger-wise considered, then I guess too bad for the number of responses I will get in my threads 
Oakminster:
I’ve been here over a year, now, and Code_Grey wound up on my “fool list” rather rapidly. You didn’t. Why did you have to bump this zombie and take first place on that list? I can’t believe that first place on my “fool list” is so important that anyone would try to get onto it. But you did… Congratulations, Fool.
I’m sorry I bothered to think long enough to compose the note I wrote above. Now that you have confirmed to me what you are, I can move on.