cmdkeen

57 ms·

511.
by cmdkeen 12y ago
Why would you build one in Sweden in order to sail it to South America and then back again? Narco submarines are for getting drugs into jurisdictions, which for Europe is the Atlantic states, usually Spain or Portugal. Once within Europe dr
512.
by cmdkeen 12y ago
The Russians have also claimed to have chased away a US submarine from the Barents sea [1] So clearly both sides think the other is still conducting sneakies. [1] http://news.usni.org/2014/08/11/u-s-denies-att
513.
by cmdkeen 12y ago
Because they can probably get accurate sizings of the fin from the photograph and scrapes in the sea floor, and no amateur will have built a submarine that big. "Small U-boats" are small in relation to SSNs, and especially SSBNs,
514.
by cmdkeen 12y ago
Whilst they may not be able to identify the nation responsible there's pretty good odds it was a Russian SSK. Everyone else operating in those waters isn't going to risk entering Swedish waters as they have an announced policy of
515.
by cmdkeen 12y ago
Well it is also the difference between bonds and equities. You might value a company on users if you think it could monetise them down the line for equities as you will share in that. Bonds however just rely on the company having cashflow t
516.
by cmdkeen 12y ago
Or alternatively get them to commit to paying you for the period of time. "Gardening leave" of a couple of months is common in many areas, especially sales / marketing driven - but being compensated for it is expected.
517.
by cmdkeen 12y ago
Go with fund managers who genuinely invest over the long term, there are surprisingly few, and over 10+ years it is possible to generate better returns. Picking companies you think will beat the market over 10+ years is about fundamentals a
518.
by cmdkeen 12y ago
I used to be a police officer in Scotland, and that's pretty much exactly what we do here. The "rifling through belongings" is to stop people taking drugs or weapons, even improvised ones, into cells. This is especially impor
519.
by cmdkeen 12y ago
The USA has an annualised growth rate of 3.5% at the moment, the UK is around there as well, the Eurozone - which didn't have many zombie banks but did have plenty of insane socialist governments mortgaging their people's futures
520.
by cmdkeen 12y ago
It isn't a zero sum game at all. China, India and Brazil have contributed to the global middle classes growing from 1.8 billion people in 2009 to an estimated 3.2 billion in 2020. That the USA has failed to adopt sufficiently sensible
521.
by cmdkeen 12y ago
I was at ng-europe last week and couldn't help thinking that the way Angular 2.0 was being talked about was rather reminiscent of the chat around Python 3 back in the day.
522.
by cmdkeen 12y ago
It's much harder to use Reddit to issue a death threat to someone when they don't use Reddit. Twitter especially is a tool for magnifying hate in a way that other venues just aren't. The article specifically mentions instance
523.
by cmdkeen 12y ago
There is a commercial one. Twitter doesn't have to allow them to carry on in this fashion, and it is a massive enabler of trolls. It's attitude towards online abuse is shockingly neglectful. Trolls will always act, but that doesn&
524.
by cmdkeen 12y ago
Harassment isn't. One of the big points of the article is that when law enforcement doesn't act that is justification that the action is legal and thus "free speech". Except that law enforcement almost never acts against
525.
by cmdkeen 12y ago
Simply not true - there are plenty of areas where consistently good returns are generated, however they aren't the best and they aren't too consistent. The first hedge funds were successful because there was little competition,
526.
by cmdkeen 12y ago
Unless the stocks had risen since they bought them. It would also have been a much easier justification to the SEC - "this announcement was coming up, we didn't know which way it would go and were unhappy with the risk".
527.
by cmdkeen 12y ago
Firstly the large number of graduates in non graduate job belies this. It's a massive con that there are anything close to the same benefits accruing to everyone who gets a university education. What should be happening more is people
528.
by cmdkeen 12y ago
All of those things act like any other tax. That's all it is, a tax you may one day stop paying. A mortgage is dependent on your ability to repay, i.e. your net income, if the income tax rate went up then mortgage companies would also
529.
by cmdkeen 12y ago
There's a big difference between no tuition fees and "free" education. All this means is that the cost of education is passed on to all tax payers. Now this can be justified, there is utility in having an educated workforce a
530.
by cmdkeen 12y ago
I think many of the criticisms were around the issue of aid. Pretty much as a result of this mission the UK announced in 2012 it was going to phase out foreign aid to India by 2015 (and replace it with technical assistance).
531.
by cmdkeen 12y ago
Plus Ireland "was plagued by poverty and emigration until the mid-1990s." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_history_of_the_Republi... I have plenty of graduate Irish friends, almost all of whom live and w
532.
by cmdkeen 12y ago
It's not about whether it gets turned down - it is what all the constituent countries get out of the negotiations - because each one has a veto. Spain for instance would I'm sure be very interested in the fisheries policies in Sco
533.
by cmdkeen 12y ago
The Westphalian system exposed it's massive flaw not in 1914 but at the turn of the 19th century. The Westphalian states could not stop a rampaging Napoleon from conquering vast swathes of territory until marched 500,000 men without pr
534.
by cmdkeen 12y ago
The debate about a constitution is both short term and vital, it is the most worrying of the SNP's policies. They both want a unicameral chamber and keep bandying around terms like "Sovreign will of the Scottish people" - whi
535.
by cmdkeen 12y ago
It's worth bearing this kind of thing in mind the next time there is an NSA thread and the "police state" type posts start up. Western governments do bad things but the rule of law does apply, democratic elections do occur an
536.
by cmdkeen 12y ago
And not a single one of them has spoken up about being coerced into compromising their employer (a big one, with lots of lawyers) by the government?
537.
by cmdkeen 12y ago
It is also to do with glass windows. Terminals tend to have massive amounts of glass which a bomb will blow out massively increasing the casualties. Car parks are open at the sides and sparsely populated.
538.
by cmdkeen 12y ago
Greenwald seems to base himself there for publicity purposes. No-one else from the New York Times has moved, the Guardian is still firmly based in the UK.
539.
by cmdkeen 12y ago
Except the case went to the UK Supreme Court and the extradition was found to be justified. The English legal system has a very good track record of standing up to the government so unless you're suggesting that they too have somehow &
540.
by cmdkeen 12y ago
He did fight Great Britain alone (well, the Dominions as well) for over a year once France was occupied and before the invasion of Russia. Britain couldn't have defeated Germany on her own but she also wasn't going to be defeated.

More ›