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- 2015-09-03 09:28am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Seize a Greenpeace ship in your EEZ? You might be a pirate!
- Replies: 49
- Views: 5953
Re: Seize a Greenpeace ship in your EEZ? You might be a pira
My, my, my. Reading comprehension seems to have eluded you. I found YOUR statement batshit insane. You know the one that says "its not piracy because its not a ship" as NOT an argument. Good grief. Ok buddy, if you say so. The fact of the matter is that an international court stuck to the...
- 2015-09-03 07:02am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Seize a Greenpeace ship in your EEZ? You might be a pirate!
- Replies: 49
- Views: 5953
Re: Seize a Greenpeace ship in your EEZ? You might be a pira
If your argument is that Russia has jurisdiction over incidents on oil platforms in their EEZ and not over incidents in international waters, then them having jurisdiction should mean they have more right to prosecute boarders, not less. You cannot both claim that Russia has jurisdiction so it's no...
- 2015-09-03 04:24am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Seize a Greenpeace ship in your EEZ? You might be a pirate!
- Replies: 49
- Views: 5953
Re: Seize a Greenpeace ship in your EEZ? You might be a pira
Now, just for the sake of clarity... do you have a response to this? Piracy as the UNCLOS defines it by definition takes place on the high seas or in places outside the jurisdiction of any state. I see no issue with this definition excluding installations such as oil platforms, because as we've alr...
- 2015-09-02 05:29am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Seize a Greenpeace ship in your EEZ? You might be a pirate!
- Replies: 49
- Views: 5953
Re: Seize a Greenpeace ship in your EEZ? You might be a pira
The problematic passage of the Dutch tribunal's writing is this: It is not a "Dutch tribunal". The Permanent Court of Arbitration is an international organization established at the first Hague Peace Conference of 1899. There was only a single Dutch judge on the case, the other four haile...
- 2015-09-01 09:52am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Seize a Greenpeace ship in your EEZ? You might be a pirate!
- Replies: 49
- Views: 5953
Re: Seize a Greenpeace ship in your EEZ? You might be a pira
1. Its not piracy because the Russian oil rig is not a ship, and piracy can only occur against ships. I am not kidding. That is their argument. That is not their argument, that is the definition of piracy under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (Article 101 'definition of piracy' ...
- 2015-09-01 06:43am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Seize a Greenpeace ship in your EEZ? You might be a pirate!
- Replies: 49
- Views: 5953
Re: Seize a Greenpeace ship in your EEZ? You might be a pira
No shit, it is after all Russia, the tantrum toddler of states. Hence my earlier comment about piratical hooliganism and general farcical awfulness.
- 2015-09-01 05:33am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Seize a Greenpeace ship in your EEZ? You might be a pirate!
- Replies: 49
- Views: 5953
Re: Seize a Greenpeace ship in your EEZ? You might be a pira
So if my citizens harass your citizens in your nation's EEZ, I have to get your permission to arrest them? The Permanent Court of Arbitration ruled out that the 3 nautical mile 'safety zone' Russia declared around the oil platform was not valid or enforceable under the Convention of the Law of the ...
- 2015-08-29 04:51am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Seize a Greenpeace ship in your EEZ? You might be a pirate!
- Replies: 49
- Views: 5953
Seize a Greenpeace ship in your EEZ? You might be a pirate!
Way back in the year of 2013 Russian authorities arrested environmental activists from Greenpeace during a protest over an arctic oil platform. It was suggested on this board that they might be pirates, and indeed the activists were initially threatened with head-meltingly draconian piracy charges. ...
- 2015-07-03 05:02am
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Identify a turkish military vehicle
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1373
- 2015-01-10 04:17pm
- Forum: STGOD role-playing games
- Topic: 2014 STGOD Story Thread I
- Replies: 336
- Views: 228885
Re: 2014 STGOD Story Thread I
https://m1.behance.net/rendition/modules/51004443/disp/1af685b12d2bd6d38b58f5c2a88f21bc.jpg Pyxis Worldwide Satellite News Coldstream Delta delays comsat launch Coldstream Delta is delaying the launch of several next generation Asteria communication satellites. According to a leaked internal memo, ...
- 2015-01-08 07:39pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Terror attack on Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris
- Replies: 297
- Views: 34501
Re: Terror attack on Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris
I strongly disagree with him when he says things like "we respect their religion and they must respect ours". We (taking 'we' as my local political circle here) must do no such thing. No religion, belief or idea is inherently entitled to respect. Having said that, I am obviously utterly fo...
- 2015-01-08 07:15pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Terror attack on Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris
- Replies: 297
- Views: 34501
Re: Terror attack on Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris
What an utterly fatuous argument Hitchens makes in that clip. What he does is he takes what even he himself describes as a "terrible atrocity" and "a genocide more comprehensive than Cambodia", he offsets that against that purportedly Al Qaeda is upset over the loss of East Timor...
- 2015-01-08 05:53pm
- Forum: STGOD role-playing games
- Topic: 2014 STGOD OOC Commentary Thread 1
- Replies: 1384
- Views: 285128
Re: 2014 STGOD OOC Commentary Thread 1
I have a Machine now. I was planning to put the first year of Money from Rheinland up for tender for innovative power solutions for my little country. Considering recent history I'm thinking you don't want nukes, you want gas plants. Cheap, efficient, no fallout, what more do you want? Luckily, Ache...
- 2015-01-08 05:22pm
- Forum: STGOD role-playing games
- Topic: 2014 STGOD Story Thread I
- Replies: 336
- Views: 228885
Re: 2014 STGOD Story Thread I
http://inhabitat.com/nyc/wp-content/blogs.dir/2/files/2012/12/Hudson-Yards-Kohn-Pedersen-Fox-Associates-5.jpg East Gate | 3 S. Barrington Mutual Avenue Delta City, San Dorado “I would just like to reiterate colonel that I think your course of action is highly premature and inadvisable.” “Your objec...
- 2015-01-07 08:06am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Terror attack on Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris
- Replies: 297
- Views: 34501
Re: Muslim attack on satiresite. 11 dead
I understand where the suspicions come from, I even see some of the reports of shouts of "Allahu Akbar" (for example by The Independent). I just feel it's far too early for such a definitive thread title.
- 2015-01-07 07:41am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Terror attack on Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris
- Replies: 297
- Views: 34501
Re: Muslim attack on satiresite. 11 dead
Gunmen have attacked the Paris office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, killing 11 people and injuring 10, French officials say. Witnesses spoke of sustained gunfire at the office as the attackers opened fire with assault rifles before escaping. President Francois Hollande said there was ...
- 2014-12-30 04:44am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Air Asia A320 disappears over the Java Sea.
- Replies: 29
- Views: 3746
Re: Air Asia A320 disappears over the Java Sea.
Here: At least six bodies have been found and at least three recovered in the search for missing AirAsia Flight QZ8501, Indonesian officials and media say. The bodies were spotted along with debris floating in the Java Sea off the Indonesian part of Borneo, in one of the search zones for the plane. ...
- 2014-12-19 05:53pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Companies surrender to terrorists over The Interview.
- Replies: 107
- Views: 8937
Re: Companies surrender to terrorists over The Interview.
If artistic expression is your business (As SONY pictures is), then you'd damn well better be prepared to fight for it. Why? They're a big studio, not some indie crew struggling to get their artistic vision realized. They can write off their losses and recoup them with whatever their next big comme...
- 2014-12-19 05:27pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Companies surrender to terrorists over The Interview.
- Replies: 107
- Views: 8937
Re: Companies surrender to terrorists over The Interview.
Those are some pretty great ideals, but Sony is a multi-billion dollar company and probably doesn't give a shit about any of them if they stand to lose money. They aren't obligated to stand up for anything but the profit of their shareholders, and when they run into the consequences of mocking one o...
- 2014-12-19 04:35am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: BREAKING: Obama to annoucne policy-reversal wrt Cuba
- Replies: 43
- Views: 4108
Re: BREAKING: Obama to annoucne policy-reversal wrt Cuba
Point of order: the situation in Libya is nothing like the situation in Iraq. The bombing of Libya happened after the civil war erupted and the UN adopted Security Council Resolution 1973. Libya was a mess well before it was being bombed, the bombings serving to hasten the fall of Gadaffi's regime. ...
- 2014-12-16 11:16am
- Forum: STGOD role-playing games
- Topic: 2014 STGOD Story Thread I
- Replies: 336
- Views: 228885
Re: 2014 STGOD Story Thread I
http://i39.tinypic.com/2i0rte0.jpg Pentex Advanced Research Lab | 1553 W. Wagner Drive Delta City, San Dorado Footsteps echoed through the narrow steel staircase. Moving from the high-tech laboratories on the surface down the dusty emergency spiral stairs to the old subway tunnels below was like st...
- 2014-12-13 03:50pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: The CIA Torture Report
- Replies: 63
- Views: 9315
Re: The CIA Torture Report
The US Senate report on the CIA's interrogation methods has unleashed a fierce debate about America's intelligence services. CIA director John Brennan has defended his agency's program, in contrast to President Obama. "The CIA is going through a huge morale problem," said US security expe...
- 2014-12-10 04:14am
- Forum: STGOD role-playing games
- Topic: 2014 STGOD OOC Commentary Thread 1
- Replies: 1384
- Views: 285128
Re: 2014 STGOD OOC Commentary Thread 1
The bad guy also started talking as soon as he was asked like three questions. Chances are good he'll offer more incriminating information after repeated questioning... So long as the King of Orion doesn't see fit to execute him after 24 hours, that is.
- 2014-12-07 01:55pm
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: Interstellar (movie)
- Replies: 57
- Views: 11903
Re: Interstellar (movie)
I just got around to watching Interstellar in glorious IMAX (the way God and Chris Nolan intended), and I loved every second of it. I find a lot of the criticism in this thread extremely overblown, but it's a movie so I suppose it either floats your boat or it does not. One point though: There's no ...
- 2014-12-06 10:50am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Utah proposing to bring back firing squad executions
- Replies: 73
- Views: 6919
Re: Utah proposing to bring back firing squad executions
It must be for my cultural group, because frankly that strikes me as an utterly insane principle to use to determine the manner in which the state is allowed to execute people.
Thanks for taking the effort to explain though. I'm bowing out of the conversation.
Thanks for taking the effort to explain though. I'm bowing out of the conversation.