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Started by timpate, September 20, 2010, 07:56:24 PM


K_Dubb

This is a really good summation of current scholarship on the issue, from a surprisingly humble source.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B03J1BGSQqc

K_Dubb

An impressive new ship-bomb they are trying to sell, sad end for a ship I knew, it used to haul frozen cod and pollock back from the Aleutians

https://twitter.com/AFResearchLab/status/1571897735254798336



A freighter, but a very small one.

albrecht

Quote from: K_Dubb on September 20, 2022, 01:51:40 PMAn impressive new ship-bomb they are trying to sell, sad end for a ship I knew, it used to haul frozen cod and pollock back from the Aleutians

https://twitter.com/AFResearchLab/status/1571897735254798336



A freighter, but a very small one.

I love the snark and inter-agency plotting there for funding and support: "lumbering submarine."  ;D

It might be cheaper though to just hire some alkie captain to pilot the vessel.

Just got a book, haven't read it yet, about that ghost ship and crazy stuff. Martime  law and finance is amazing. Bzyantine and not 'sexy' so most don't pay attention, even though most everything we buy and need moves, at some point, by ship. Sometimes people can't even figure out who owns the ship and there are so many levels of ownership, leasing, leasing back, insuring, reinsuring, and types of legal relationships related to the goods, and sailors.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58395055-dead-in-the-water


K_Dubb

Quote from: albrecht on September 20, 2022, 02:08:24 PMI love the snark and inter-agency plotting there for funding and support: "lumbering submarine."  ;D

It might be cheaper though to just hire some alkie captain to pilot the vessel.

Just got a book, haven't read it yet, about that ghost ship and crazy stuff. Martime  law and finance is amazing. Bzyantine and not 'sexy' so most don't pay attention, even though most everything we buy and need moves, at some point, by ship. Sometimes people can't even figure out who owns the ship and there are so many levels of ownership, leasing, leasing back, insuring, reinsuring, and types of legal relationships related to the goods, and sailors.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58395055-dead-in-the-water



Yes, very much a continuation of the air-power-vs-navy debate from WWII.  Air force will argue for air power and denigrate everything else, Navy for ships (including undersea) and denigrate everything else.  Should surprise absolutely no one.

Much like big vaccine companies and organizations will do the same for their babies, which seemed to astonish some folks for some reason.

albrecht

Quote from: K_Dubb on September 20, 2022, 02:21:14 PMYes, very much a continuation of the air-power-vs-navy debate from WWII.  Air force will argue for air power and denigrate everything else, Navy for ships (including undersea) and denigrate everything else.  Should surprise absolutely no one.

Much like big vaccine companies and organizations will do the same for their babies, which seemed to astonish some folks for some reason.
Yeah, the Joint Chiefs and various Congressional committees were supposed to settle but the rivalry is still there. I think the Space Force deal was an interesting blow to both. Just because both were trying to get into that market and resented NASA. "It is like flying!" "No it is like shipping!"

I'm trying to recall the book. Hard to find. But some callers talked about him on Art's programs many years ago. Some captain who was claiming 'floating time-bombs' due to lack of security, corruption, questionable finance, and river and port conditions. He was a Finn. Found it. But still hard to get and find actual book.
https://www.amazon.com/Floating-Time-Bomb-Pekka-Joki/dp/0533155002
 

Jackstar

Quote from: albrecht on September 20, 2022, 02:35:37 PMSome captain who was claiming 'floating time-bombs' due to lack of security, corruption, questionable finance, and river and port conditions. He was a Finn.

I have spent no small amount of time warning you all of the fuckin' tickin' fuckin' time bombs that I have seen coming. Having known a Finn or two, I'd pay stark heed to any such warning. Shit has gotten real, and will continue to. Face reality. Our world is at war.


Quote from: albrecht on September 20, 2022, 02:35:37 PMFound it. But still hard to get and find actual book.
https://www.amazon.com/Floating-Time-Bomb-Pekka-Joki/dp/0533155002

That looks like a great gift for someone but only if I could read it to someone functionally illiterate and I could scan the text before being spoken aloud, lest someone get triggered, or set off, or learn some dangerous information that only -legitimate- sailors should know. A tall order but that looks like a tower of a book. I would probably 1-click buy if available but obviously not.

I don't need any more rare paperweights or doorstops anyway.

albrecht

Quote from: Jackstar on September 20, 2022, 02:42:41 PMI have spent no small amount of time warning you all of the fuckin' tickin' fuckin' time bombs that I have seen coming. Having known a Finn or two, I'd pay stark heed to any such warning. Shit has gotten real, and will continue to. Face reality. Our world is at war.


That looks like a great gift for someone but only if I could read it to someone functionally illiterate and I could scan the text before being spoken aloud, lest someone get triggered, or set off, or learn some dangerous information that only -legitimate- sailors should know. A tall order but that looks like a tower of a book. I would probably 1-click buy if available but obviously not.

I don't need any more rare paperweights or doorstops anyway.

Ha. I will join in you in the last comment, maybe the former. But for sure I have too many books. I'm convicted, I guess, to think at some point, others might like. Maybe not just for a doorstops. Augean stables effort to get rid of them all. I'm very suspicious of the 'online' and 'electronic' books. Easily tracked, edited, deleted- they even had a whole thing many years ago when Amazon deleted 1984 from Kindles. The irony was only deemed ok, by me, because I thought they should've chosen Fahrenheit 451 for their signally. And then force Metric so we don't even know what Fahrenheit is.

Jackstar

It would look weird if I were storing all this digital media (like five terabytes of stuff I've collected over the years) and claiming I was archiving it for the purpose of restoring literature to civilization should there be an actual planet-killer event. So no I'm not a pirate.

Books are incredibly valuable, people just don't even know.

Jackstar

Quote from: albrecht on September 20, 2022, 02:08:24 PMMartime  law and finance is amazing. Bzyantine and not 'sexy' so most don't pay attention

I really recommend the last half of "Battlefield: Earth" and I am not talking about the movie.

Juan

A real, paper book can be burned for heat or eaten as a last resort.

albrecht

Quote from: Juan on September 20, 2022, 04:03:15 PMA real, paper book can be burned for heat or eaten as a last resort.
Or in those created shortages used in an outhouse. Though the Sears catalog is easier than books. And there are sections of interest while sitting on the pot. One also will note that there is a technique by which newspapers can be used as a weapon. I don't advocate this but hooligans used. One can make a hammer or stabber by them for use in the terraces jail (gaol) or etc. Wet, fold, kinda dry and use for purpose. Of course, this is not being advocated. But pulp can be 'repurposed in extremis,"



Asuka Langley

Would you have sex with this man? Asking for a gay friend...



K_Dubb

Quote from: Asuka Langley on September 25, 2022, 01:47:03 AMWould you have sex with this man? Asking for a gay friend...



No too fat 🥳 also strongly suspecte of carrying dreaded sexually transmitted disease known as child support, damn near impossible to get rid of

K_Dubb

Quote from: Walks_At_Night on September 25, 2022, 05:46:32 AM...and will you be wearing these NWO satanic sneaker pups?
https://twitter.com/AndTartary/status/1573649298704797696

Perfect for my slutty reindeer costume this Christmas!  Hoe, hoe, hoe come get me santa

Dr. MD MD

Quote from: K_Dubb on September 25, 2022, 09:38:02 AMPerfect for my slutty reindeer costume this Christmas!  Hoe, hoe, hoe come get me santa

Disgustingly sacrilegious. 🙄

K_Dubb

Quote from: Dr. MD MD on September 25, 2022, 09:57:34 AMDisgustingly sacrilegious. 🙄

What a prude  :P  Is it not also degenerate?  Are we not allowed to smash on Christmas?  Back in the old old days you guys lamenting the fall of civilization all love to stare longingly at in the distance with misty eyes, when men were men and women were women and everyone went to church every day, advent was a fast like Lent:  no sex allowed.  There was plenty of smashing on Christmas, let me tell you!

This new puritanism where sex is dirty is ahistorical and unchristian, trying to drag us eastward into mohammedanism rife with spectacular surface prudery cloaking depraved Slippery subterranean vice.  Go read Martin Luther on sex if you don't believe me.

Dr. MD MD

Quote from: K_Dubb on September 25, 2022, 10:12:15 AMWhat a prude  :P  Is it not also degenerate?  Are we not allowed to smash on Christmas?  Back in the old old days you guys lamenting the fall of civilization all love to stare longingly at in the distance with misty eyes, when men were men and women were women and everyone went to church every day, advent was a fast like Lent:  no sex allowed.  There was plenty of smashing on Christmas, let me tell you!

This new puritanism where sex is dirty is ahistorical and unchristian, trying to drag us eastward into mohammedanism rife with spectacular surface prudery cloaking depraved Slippery subterranean vice.  Go read Martin Luther on sex if you don't believe me.

My comment really had nothing to do with sex. It was about dressing up in Satanic shoes on the birthday of our Lord and saviour.

Juan

It's Calvinist elitism.  The riff-raff are driven towards mohammedenism while the elect retain their sex, drug, and money laundering ways.

K_Dubb

Quote from: Dr. MD MD on September 25, 2022, 10:31:07 AMMy comment really had nothing to do with sex. It was about dressing up in Satanic shoes on the birthday of our Lord and saviour.

I wasn't going to wear them to church retard besides plenty of other animals have cloven hooves including reindeer which is what i said.

Dr. MD MD

Quote from: K_Dubb on September 25, 2022, 10:52:18 AMI wasn't going to wear them to church retard besides plenty of other animals have cloven hooves including reindeer which is what i said.

Hmmm...reindeer, eh? 🤔

I'll allow it.


Asuka Langley

Quote from: K_Dubb on September 25, 2022, 09:31:47 AMNo too fat 🥳 also strongly suspecte of carrying dreaded sexually transmitted disease known as child support, damn near impossible to get rid of

I am trying to keep you from contracting Monkeypox, may YawChewy have mercy on your soul.


K_Dubb

Quote from: Asuka Langley on September 25, 2022, 11:56:57 AMI am trying to keep you from contracting Monkeypox, may YawChewy have mercy on your soul.






Monkepox is going away because we were good little homos and lined up and got our baxeens and did not freak out like little babies at the doctors office, but don't worry Pink Antelope Prophecy says in two weeks maybe THIS baxeen will turn us into little gay zombies in rainbow tank tops like albrecht saw and we will take zombie buses into Small Town America like BLM and antifa and bugger the trumpkins unless you give us horse paste, apple flavor, or shoot us with your gurns only bullets from pink 3d-printed mags will work tho 🥳





Innerreach

Quote from: K_Dubb link=msg=1467372  shoot us with your gurns only bullets from pink 3d-printed mags will work tho 🥳

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So long as I can shoot these two dudes.



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