Spazz Arcane wrote:If birds could swim and fish could fly I would awaken in the morning to the sturgeons cry. If fish could fly and birds could swim I'd still use worms to fish for them.
bedub1 wrote:So I started reading this, and then I went to the wikipedia page, and started laughing my ass off. Do you see whats at the top of the chart? Here, let me copy it for ya:
Country____________External debt____________Date_______________Per capita_______________% of GDP World__________56,900,000,000,000____31 December 2009 est._______8,422___________________98%
Do you see that? The total debt of the world is 57 trillion dollars! Earth is broke! We couldn't get a loan at the open galaxy bank cause we are so broke.
Did you think about that? How the hell can the entire planet be in debt? Who are we in debt to?
bedub1 wrote:So I started reading this, and then I went to the wikipedia page, and started laughing my ass off. Do you see whats at the top of the chart? Here, let me copy it for ya:
Country____________External debt____________Date_______________Per capita_______________% of GDP World__________56,900,000,000,000____31 December 2009 est._______8,422___________________98%
Do you see that? The total debt of the world is 57 trillion dollars! Earth is broke! We couldn't get a loan at the open galaxy bank cause we are so broke.
Did you think about that? How the hell can the entire planet be in debt? Who are we in debt to?
This is the only reply to a serious question? This thread has degraded to nothing more than pictures? Well...I guess it started with pictures too. Screw you bedub1!
Sinking Royal Navy Shifts Burden To be fair, the Royal Navy has been on the decline for years. But the most recent navy reductions are the most brutal. They amount to around a quarter of the fleet’s combat power, measured by tonnage. The flagship “Harrier carrier” Ark Royal (pictured) will be decommissioned immediately, as will the entire fleet of Harrier jump jets that provide the Royal Navy’s sole fixed-wing air-strike capability. Either Ark Royal’s sister ship Illustrious or the chopper-carrier Ocean will also go, leaving just one small carrier to haul helicopters for amphibious operations. In a decade or so, a new, large carrier will replace the sole surviving flattop. But earlier plans to operate two big carriers in the future will likely change. Meanwhile, the navy will give up four of its 23 frigates and destroyers and several of its amphibious ships.
The Brits will probably surrender their previous leadership role in a wide range of multi-national naval missions, including the separate U.S.-, E.U.- and NATO-branded counter-piracy task forces, the Americans’ counter-smuggling CTF-150 and narcotics-intercepting ops in the Caribbean. “There is … likely to be a greater reliance on U.S. Navy assets around the world because there will be a great many missions that the Royal Navy will simply no longer be able to undertake,” Wertheim predicted.
Pack Rat wrote:if it quacks like a duck and walk like a duck, it's still fascism