racerx Posted July 22, 2017 Report Share Posted July 22, 2017 Income will never keep up with inflation, especially here in silicon valley, housing is very expensive. Cost of higher education and of course healthcare makes it worse. Link to comment
VFR800 Posted July 22, 2017 Report Share Posted July 22, 2017 Income will never keep up with inflation Yup,the house has the odds stacked in their favour for perpetuity. Link to comment
datzenmike Posted July 22, 2017 Report Share Posted July 22, 2017 I can live with one less coffee a week. Link to comment
KoHeartsGPA Posted July 22, 2017 Report Share Posted July 22, 2017 Not me, I need my coffee. 2 Link to comment
angliagt Posted July 23, 2017 Report Share Posted July 23, 2017 Cuz Murica! http://fortune.com/2017/07/22/uss-gerald-ford-commissioning/ Our oldest is serving on the Ford. 2 Link to comment
racerx Posted July 23, 2017 Report Share Posted July 23, 2017 I need my coffee also as long as it aint star bucks 2 Link to comment
MikeRL411 Posted July 23, 2017 Report Share Posted July 23, 2017 Our oldest is serving on the Ford. Surprisingly there are 2 survivors of the Battle ship Arizona! On the remote areas of Ford Island are the remnants of the above water sheet metal removed from the Arizona's superstructure and preserved for posterity. And then there is the "Liberty Launch" that was waiting ashore to return the crew members that had Liberty and were due to return to the ship that morning. It survived the raid and was used as a general purpose launch all through WW2. At the end of hostilities it was sold as Excess inventory. It wound up on Lake Tahoe in Crystal Cove where it serves the tourist trade as a sightseeing tour boat on the South side of Lake Tahoe. It looks surprisingly like President Roosevelt's modified "Sequoya" launch that he used to cruse the Patomac. It may not be an active Navy vessile but it surely is an honerable one! 2 Link to comment
VFR800 Posted July 24, 2017 Report Share Posted July 24, 2017 http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2016/s4706902.htm Beijing's message to Australia: Get used to Chinese Navy ships off our coast Today China's military brushed aside concerns about a Chinese naval intelligence ship near Queensland during recent American-led drills with Australia. China's military is rapidly expanding its global presence.Featured: Colonel Wu Qian, People's Liberation Army spokesmanZhu Chenghu, Chinese military university analyst Link to comment
datzenmike Posted July 24, 2017 Report Share Posted July 24, 2017 China has fuck all for navy... well for right now. But in a generation this may change. Better slap them to the back of the bus 1 Link to comment
q-tip Posted July 24, 2017 Report Share Posted July 24, 2017 China doesn't give a shit what the rest of the world thinks says or does. Their next target is Africa just you watch, they already built a bunch of railroads and shit over there. 2 Link to comment
racerx Posted July 24, 2017 Report Share Posted July 24, 2017 They are already in Africa, been there for quiet some time digging for metals and of course " helping" them with their infrasture. Any time a country grows economically and militarially, they will go to other countries to exploit their resources because their people needs to be fed, they purchase more deal and so on. Prior to their military build up, they did not give a crap or did not have the means to expand their influence in the Spratly islands, now they do, all of the sudden, China is saying its theirs. 3 Link to comment
KoHeartsGPA Posted July 24, 2017 Report Share Posted July 24, 2017 And with the size of their military, nobody will try and stop them, they're a powerhouse and they know it. Link to comment
racerx Posted July 24, 2017 Report Share Posted July 24, 2017 back in the days, it was called "colonialism" now probably "economic development", all the same, different wording or rhetoric. They are there for their own purpose, exploit the land and resources for their own economic growth and of course Africans don't really have a choice but to open their arms because it does provide jobs and economic growth, everyone will benefit, except for the poorest of the poor. The politicians, land owners, kings, rulers, bankers will reap the rewards. As the saying goes "he who has the gold makes the rules", while they destroy their lands. 2 Link to comment
q-tip Posted July 24, 2017 Report Share Posted July 24, 2017 Most of the labor for the railroads was done for the Chinese with the Chinese workers. 1 Link to comment
john510 Posted July 24, 2017 Report Share Posted July 24, 2017 If China builds their Navy ships like they build everything else the world shouldn't have anything to worry about. 2 Link to comment
racerx Posted July 24, 2017 Report Share Posted July 24, 2017 Yeh but remember during WW2, we had way more tanks than the Germans, yet their tanks were more technologically advanced, their tanks guns were bigger and had better armor, yet we overcame them with superior numbers and knowing how China can mass produce anything, backed with strong finances. We do owe them trillions..I mean who knows, they can be in par with our navy in 10 years. Plus read in some military magazine that they have missed that can knock out an aircraft carrier. Yeh, their stuff has not been tried out but also remember we beat the British who were more technologically advance and had better troops. Their number one issue was logistics. Link to comment
datzenmike Posted July 25, 2017 Report Share Posted July 25, 2017 It's hard to sustain an invasion of the US. Supply lines would stretch across the Atlantic or Pacific. At the moment the US owns the world... nothing moves on the surface without it's say so. China has a weak spot. It's only industrialized along a thin path along the east coast. The vast majority of people make fuck all and live poorly. Things to keep in mind... China relies on trade with the west in order to sustain it's incredible growth and keep going.Would not take a lot to fuck this up. It's government is oppressive and autocratic. Most Chines have little and know they will always have little of the economic benefits of the few on the industrial coast. Many poor, few rich. China has always been closed to the world and knows very little has no history of military conquering or running a colony. Like it's navy it is very inexperienced in world matters. Link to comment
a.d._510_n_ok Posted July 25, 2017 Report Share Posted July 25, 2017 kinda feel bad for Jeff Sessions - dude was an early Trump supporter and Trump has ripped the dude in public pretty hard these last few days. Link to comment
KoHeartsGPA Posted July 25, 2017 Report Share Posted July 25, 2017 From the Podesta files? 2 Link to comment
a.d._510_n_ok Posted July 25, 2017 Report Share Posted July 25, 2017 From the Podesta files? Yep.....comet ping pong redux. 2 Link to comment
datzenmike Posted July 25, 2017 Report Share Posted July 25, 2017 kinda feel bad for Jeff Sessions - dude was an early Trump supporter and Trump has ripped the dude in public pretty hard these last few days. Reality check..... they are politicians. If he was a chicken, I'd be saying... "yeah.... but they sure taste good!" Link to comment
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