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Xtreem
Gallente Naughty 40 Triumvirate.
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Posted - 2007.08.20 10:46:00 -
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Originally by: DarkMatter
Originally by: Xtreem if i had a billion, id buy one :)
And do what with it? Fishing? lol...
ultimate pulling machine, oh you have a {insert nice car here} i have a one billion quid high tech weapon of ultimate power, oh and it has a double bed! = i win!
:) obviously id still have the flashy car to drive me to the docks to get in it :)
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Imperius Blackheart
Caldari Trinity Nova
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Posted - 2007.08.20 10:51:00 -
[122]
Originally by: Rodj Blake
Originally by: Imperius Blackheart
Quote: The system is so powerful it can monitor all take-offs and landings from every major European airport within 200 miles of Portsmouth.
I love that quote from the Telegraph, how many major European airports are within 200 miles of Portsmouth? Poor grammer FTW
Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted are definitely all within 200 miles of Portsmouth.
Charles de Gaulle and Birmingham may be as well.
On top of that, City, Southampton and Bournemouth probably also count as major airports.
That's a lot of air traffic.
Anyway, the impressive thing is that it can track aircraft within 200 miles of Pompey while it's sat off the coast of Thailand
And there was I thinking that from 200 miles off portsmouth it could monitor every major european airport.
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Locus Bey
Gallente Qalandar
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Posted - 2007.08.20 11:05:00 -
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"A warship that can defend the entire city of London from missile and aircraft attack ... The ship can engage 12 air targets.." Am I the only 1 to see the problem here?
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Patch86
Di-Tron Heavy Industries Atlas Alliance
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Posted - 2007.08.20 11:30:00 -
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Originally by: DarkMatter Edited by: DarkMatter on 20/08/2007 02:54:38
Originally by: Patch86 Thats capitalism for ya. Chinese firms managed to out-perform American firms through exploiting cheap labour, and ended up on top.
Time to switch to communism?
Hardly, we just need to even out the trade imbalance with China.
Only allow China to export to us what they import from us in dollar value. That would pretty much **** their economy over. Only reason they have an economy is becauise of US Wal-Mart shoppers...
And there I was thing espirit de capitalism was a free and unrestricted trade environment in which corporations sink or swim solely based on their merits and competitiveness on the open market.
If you're willing to accept trade limitations to favour a particular nationality, wouldn't it make sense to employ trade limitations in order to protect the humble consumer too? Because that'd be espirit de socialism instead --------
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Locus Bey
Gallente Qalandar
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Posted - 2007.08.20 11:39:00 -
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Originally by: Patch86
Originally by: DarkMatter Edited by: DarkMatter on 20/08/2007 02:54:38
Originally by: Patch86 Thats capitalism for ya. Chinese firms managed to out-perform American firms through exploiting cheap labour, and ended up on top.
Time to switch to communism?
Hardly, we just need to even out the trade imbalance with China.
Only allow China to export to us what they import from us in dollar value. That would pretty much **** their economy over. Only reason they have an economy is becauise of US Wal-Mart shoppers...
And there I was thing espirit de capitalism was a free and unrestricted trade environment in which corporations sink or swim solely based on their merits and competitiveness on the open market.
If you're willing to accept trade limitations to favour a particular nationality, wouldn't it make sense to employ trade limitations in order to protect the humble consumer too? Because that'd be espirit de socialism instead
It wil never happen, as those 'American' companies are no longer 'American' companies, but global entities. Now that the US is not much more than a raw supplier, its only ability to steer 'trade imbalances' is with the third world via the World Bank and other vampire entities. The exploiters always end up the exploited. Long live 'Democracy!'
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Xantia Gedur
House of Gedur
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Posted - 2007.08.20 12:33:00 -
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Originally by: Aturi Kuomi Piity they can't use those billions of pounds on homes, helping the poor, the NHS or something worthwhile.
Freaking stupid government.
It's called a defence budget, they have limited money to put towards military toys and do not touch the money from other departments such as health or education.
A very impressive and modern ship although i'm sure they are not releasing its 'full features' to the general public only the ones that you need to know. On the price, 1 bil is nothing, in times we live in it pays to be one step ahead of the enemy.
Ahh theres nothing like flopping your international peen on the table and saying 'hey guys look what we got!'
Good job Royal Navy
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DarkMatter
Sintered Sanity
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Posted - 2007.08.20 12:38:00 -
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Edited by: DarkMatter on 20/08/2007 12:39:33
Quote: And there I was thing espirit de capitalism was a free and unrestricted trade environment in which corporations sink or swim solely based on their merits and competitiveness on the open market.
It's never been truly free though...
We've always had limitations imposed upon us when we were exporting large amounts of goods... And we allowed many countries to have huge trade imbalances with us, all in the name of cheaper goods. Not better goods...
We're getting cheaper goods for our lower & middle class, but at the same time giving their jobs away...
Politicians are just so ignorant...
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Cmdr Sy
Appetite 4 Destruction
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Posted - 2007.08.20 16:35:00 -
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You will need a few ships like that with you if someone starts spamming Sunburns.
Logoffs
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Patch86
Di-Tron Heavy Industries Atlas Alliance
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Posted - 2007.08.20 21:31:00 -
[129]
Originally by: Xantia Gedur
Originally by: Aturi Kuomi Piity they can't use those billions of pounds on homes, helping the poor, the NHS or something worthwhile.
Freaking stupid government.
It's called a defence budget, they have limited money to put towards military toys and do not touch the money from other departments such as health or education.
A very impressive and modern ship although i'm sure they are not releasing its 'full features' to the general public only the ones that you need to know. On the price, 1 bil is nothing, in times we live in it pays to be one step ahead of the enemy.
Ahh theres nothing like flopping your international peen on the table and saying 'hey guys look what we got!'
Good job Royal Navy
Ironically enough, in theory new military technology could be a money saver in the future.
If you consider that this is a very small ship that can do the work of several old-tech much larger ships, that means that it'll need to be staffed by less crew, have less bits that need replacing, less fuel being burned, etc. etc. etc...
Think, if every ship in the Royal Navy was replaced with the equivalent in fire power of these little guys, that'd be a lot of money being saved.
In theory... --------
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Tarminic
Black Flame Industries
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Posted - 2007.08.20 21:35:00 -
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Originally by: Patch86 Ironically enough, in theory new military technology could be a money saver in the future.
If you consider that this is a very small ship that can do the work of several old-tech much larger ships, that means that it'll need to be staffed by less crew, have less bits that need replacing, less fuel being burned, etc. etc. etc...
Think, if every ship in the Royal Navy was replaced with the equivalent in fire power of these little guys, that'd be a lot of money being saved.
In theory...
Maintenance costs are also a concern - a lot of older Naval vessels cost more to maintain due to their design and the components used. Newer ships tend to be lower-cost not just due to their (lack of) age but also because of design revisions and technological improvements. ------------ Whiners - Unite! Tarminic - 26 Million SP in Forum Warfare. |
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Xtreem
Gallente Naughty 40 Triumvirate.
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Posted - 2007.08.21 09:17:00 -
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Originally by: Locus Bey "A warship that can defend the entire city of London from missile and aircraft attack ... The ship can engage 12 air targets.." Am I the only 1 to see the problem here?
not at all!! have you never seen the films, City attacks are normally either with 1 missile at a time, or a small sqaud of never more than a 8 jets, so one would easyily be enough :)
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ry ry
StateCorp The State
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Posted - 2007.08.21 09:22:00 -
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Originally by: Xtreem City attacks are normally [..] a small squad
if only the military played eve. we'd have a blob of these things by now.
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Darteis Elosia
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Posted - 2007.08.21 10:57:00 -
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Edited by: Darteis Elosia on 21/08/2007 11:02:37 Hmm intresting ship... Got a chuckle when i read about the iPod charge ports.
What does this "passive naval decoy" system do?
But i still think the Visby class frigate looks cooler. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visby_class_corvette
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Micheal Dietrich
Cynical Cartel
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Posted - 2007.08.21 16:58:00 -
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Originally by: Darteis Elosia
What does this "passive naval decoy" system do?
scales the ships signature down tomake it look like a fishing boat on radar/sonar
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Tarminic
Black Flame Industries
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Posted - 2007.08.21 17:10:00 -
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Originally by: Micheal Dietrich
Originally by: Darteis Elosia
What does this "passive naval decoy" system do?
scales the ships signature down tomake it look like a fishing boat on radar/sonar
Not to mention reducing missile damage! ------------ Whiners - Unite! Tarminic - 26 Million SP in Forum Warfare. |
Ozzie Asrail
Infinitus Odium The Church.
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Posted - 2007.08.21 19:25:00 -
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Originally by: Micheal Dietrich
Originally by: Bellicose
Quote: Crew comforts: First warship to include email facilities and iPod charging points.
i bet all those sailors love to get spam mail in the middle of the atlantic ocean, esp. those pee-pee enlargement spams
I don't see how that is true. My coworkers daughter is on the Truman and she emails AND calls her mother (my coworker) all the time. Unless they're just talking about UK ships having this royalty for the first time.
I belive the article means in-cabin PC's and ipod charger rather than just in a shared lounge.
One the the ships my company is building has been spec'd with a chip PC and xbox 360 in every cabin -----
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Thorliaron
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Posted - 2007.08.21 23:03:00 -
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Originally by: Epoch Edited by: Epoch on 20/08/2007 06:07:59 Edited by: Epoch on 20/08/2007 05:34:07 Edited by: Epoch on 20/08/2007 05:16:35
Originally by: Captain Hudson
Sorry to say guys but America is on the very tip of the great slide to recession, and whats funny is that China has been pumping billions and billions of dollars into the free market to stop your stock's completely crashing so in a way the folk some of you yankies hate a lot are trying to help you,even if it is to their own beifit. Oh and one of America's biggest morgage companies is asking a chinese bank to buy them if i read correctly. And no i dont hate america.
I'm a financial analyst in the mortgage industry. What are your creditials? I'm guessing a student who listens too closely to their professors anti-american rhetoric.
Our mortgage industry is a fraction of our investments market. If you bothered to look at the dow over the past 6 months, you'll see its barely dropped. The us, canadian and euro markets were UP as of friday. The asian markets were all DOWN.
China has been pumping billions into the free market to save our market? What in the **** are you talking about? The fed pumped ~120b into the banking market and cut the discount rate 0.50%.
Have you been reading the news? The US as well as several European countries are in the process of placing higher restrictions on chinese imports. lead on our kids toys? read a paper ffs! china is in the middle of an industrial revolution. their economy is still ~100 years behind the us, canada + just about every other western european country. if they dont pull their **** together and stop exporting toothpaste w/ antifreeze, toys with lead based paint and dirty ******* food, they're going to slide further behind.
Americas largest mortgage company asked a chinese bank to buy them?! you dont even know the name of the company! its Countrywide, the largest mortgage lender in the country (~18%) and they didnt ask a chinese bank to buy them. infact, their stock was up 18% as of friday.
are investors getting screwed because a small percentage of gordon gecko wannabes repackaged sub-prime loans as sound investments and sold them overseas and at home? yes
is the us about to fall into a deep, dark, scary recession? no.
...and thats an incredible ship.
If u really are a financial analyst in the mortgage sector your not a very good one,Countrywide was not the bank looking to china.Fed reserve only added $120b in liquidity? bank of japan added 700B Yen into the market, thats more than $120b, Fed Reserve only did what it should of done ******* ages ago. And its not just the mortgage sector thats being effected, lots of Hedge Fund companies are being effected aswell but i guess you already knew that right?!
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Epoch
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Posted - 2007.08.22 01:36:00 -
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Edited by: Epoch on 22/08/2007 01:43:21 Edited by: Epoch on 22/08/2007 01:41:09 Edited by: Epoch on 22/08/2007 01:40:40
Originally by: Thorliaron
Originally by: Epoch Edited by: Epoch on 20/08/2007 06:07:59 Edited by: Epoch on 20/08/2007 05:34:07 Edited by: Epoch on 20/08/2007 05:16:35
Originally by: Captain Hudson
Sorry to say guys but America is on the very tip of the great slide to recession, and whats funny is that China has been pumping billions and billions of dollars into the free market to stop your stock's completely crashing so in a way the folk some of you yankies hate a lot are trying to help you,even if it is to their own beifit. Oh and one of America's biggest morgage companies is asking a chinese bank to buy them if i read correctly. And no i dont hate america.
I'm a financial analyst in the mortgage industry. What are your creditials? I'm guessing a student who listens too closely to their professors anti-american rhetoric.
Our mortgage industry is a fraction of our investments market. If you bothered to look at the dow over the past 6 months, you'll see its barely dropped. The us, canadian and euro markets were UP as of friday. The asian markets were all DOWN.
China has been pumping billions into the free market to save our market? What in the **** are you talking about? The fed pumped ~120b into the banking market and cut the discount rate 0.50%.
Have you been reading the news? The US as well as several European countries are in the process of placing higher restrictions on chinese imports. lead on our kids toys? read a paper ffs! china is in the middle of an industrial revolution. their economy is still ~100 years behind the us, canada + just about every other western european country. if they dont pull their **** together and stop exporting toothpaste w/ antifreeze, toys with lead based paint and dirty ******* food, they're going to slide further behind.
Americas largest mortgage company asked a chinese bank to buy them?! you dont even know the name of the company! its Countrywide, the largest mortgage lender in the country (~18%) and they didnt ask a chinese bank to buy them. infact, their stock was up 18% as of friday.
are investors getting screwed because a small percentage of gordon gecko wannabes repackaged sub-prime loans as sound investments and sold them overseas and at home? yes
is the us about to fall into a deep, dark, scary recession? no.
...and thats an incredible ship.
If u really are a financial analyst in the mortgage sector your not a very good one,Countrywide was not the bank looking to china.Fed reserve only added $120b in liquidity? bank of japan added 700B Yen into the market, thats more than $120b, Fed Reserve only did what it should of done ******* ages ago. And its not just the mortgage sector thats being effected, lots of Hedge Fund companies are being effected aswell but i guess you already knew that right?!
You must be the mailboy at an investement bank.
What was the name of this mortgage company kid? As an analyst, my job is to reduce exposure/risk & save the company money. Actually, I am good at my job. And, I know exchange rates . 1 trillion yen = ~8.4b USD. That is how much japan injected into the market on Friday, 400b yen the day before. That's real ******* far from 120b USD. If I ever want to lose money, I'll listen to your financial advice.
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LUH 3471
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Posted - 2007.08.22 01:51:00 -
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Edited by: LUH 3471 on 22/08/2007 01:53:37
Originally by: Aturi Kuomi Piity they can't use those billions of pounds on homes, helping the poor.
qft
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Thorliaron
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Posted - 2007.08.22 01:52:00 -
[140]
Edited by: Thorliaron on 22/08/2007 01:52:47
Originally by: Epoch Edited by: Epoch on 22/08/2007 01:43:21 Edited by: Epoch on 22/08/2007 01:41:09 Edited by: Epoch on 22/08/2007 01:40:40
Originally by: Thorliaron
Originally by: Epoch Edited by: Epoch on 20/08/2007 06:07:59 Edited by: Epoch on 20/08/2007 05:34:07 Edited by: Epoch on 20/08/2007 05:16:35
Originally by: Captain Hudson
Sorry to say guys but America is on the very tip of the great slide to recession, and whats funny is that China has been pumping billions and billions of dollars into the free market to stop your stock's completely crashing so in a way the folk some of you yankies hate a lot are trying to help you,even if it is to their own beifit. Oh and one of America's biggest morgage companies is asking a chinese bank to buy them if i read correctly. And no i dont hate america.
I'm a financial analyst in the mortgage industry. What are your creditials? I'm guessing a student who listens too closely to their professors anti-american rhetoric.
Our mortgage industry is a fraction of our investments market. If you bothered to look at the dow over the past 6 months, you'll see its barely dropped. The us, canadian and euro markets were UP as of friday. The asian markets were all DOWN.
China has been pumping billions into the free market to save our market? What in the **** are you talking about? The fed pumped ~120b into the banking market and cut the discount rate 0.50%.
Have you been reading the news? The US as well as several European countries are in the process of placing higher restrictions on chinese imports. lead on our kids toys? read a paper ffs! china is in the middle of an industrial revolution. their economy is still ~100 years behind the us, canada + just about every other western european country. if they dont pull their **** together and stop exporting toothpaste w/ antifreeze, toys with lead based paint and dirty ******* food, they're going to slide further behind.
Americas largest mortgage company asked a chinese bank to buy them?! you dont even know the name of the company! its Countrywide, the largest mortgage lender in the country (~18%) and they didnt ask a chinese bank to buy them. infact, their stock was up 18% as of friday.
are investors getting screwed because a small percentage of gordon gecko wannabes repackaged sub-prime loans as sound investments and sold them overseas and at home? yes
is the us about to fall into a deep, dark, scary recession? no.
...and thats an incredible ship.
Countrywides shares only enjoyed a small lift upwards recently because of the massive speculation that Warren Buffett is going to make a move for them but you proberly already knew that too right kid?!
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Tyleritus
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Posted - 2007.08.22 02:41:00 -
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Originally by: Darteis Elosia
What does this "passive naval decoy" system do?
Ita inflatable thing that deploys and drifts dehind it, to the missiles RADAR is looks teh size of a Aircraft Carrier or in the new carriers one I would imagine they would make it bigger to make it look even bigger so it goes for that instead.
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Captain Hudson
Caldari Intergalactic Space Defense Force
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Posted - 2007.08.22 03:49:00 -
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Edited by: Captain Hudson on 22/08/2007 03:54:03 Hold on they already have another one almost finished? HMS Dauntless?. What with those dodgy russians trying to reclaim some power back by flying their bombers into our air space im glad we are spending all these money on these ships and these new f00k off aircraft carriers aswell.
Originally by: SPQRMocton
We would love to have a bunch of teenage pimple boys with no real pvp ability to fil our corpse yards
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