Uncharted waters?



Understands

approves

Belay.

Fantastic word. Belay...

I'm actually rather impressed the pirates could pull off something like that so far from shore.

Perhaps I shouldn't be, but that seems pretty good.

I can't believe pirates still exist outside of the internet.

dillo

Hannity/Yog-sothoth? I never pegged him for a liberal.

siagis: I can't believe pirates still exist outside of the internet.

Haven't you seen? Real life buttpirates are trying to hijack marriage

I thought the headline said stay 600 miles off the coast of Alabama...no way 350 miles is enough!

Don't worry, he knows a few maneuvers.

Also, its his fault because he was wearing a tight sweater.

link is farked

This is like blaming the victim of a car jacking because they should have known not to drive through a black neighborhood at night.

JimmyCarter'sSecondTerm: This is like blaming the victim of a car jacking because they should have known not to drive through a black neighborhood at night.

Not really.
It's like blaming the victim of a carjacking because they were repeatedly warned not to drive through a neighborhood where numerous carjackings have occurred recently and carjackers have explicitly stated that they plan to carjack more vehicles soon, but who decided to drive through that neighborhood anyway, in someone else's car with several passengers in their care, and a back seat full of other peoples' valuables.

Or something like that.

600 kilometers = 372.822715 miles

/obvious.
//from a Canadian perspective.

RanDomino: dillo

Hannity/Yog-sothoth? I never pegged him for a liberal.

I was referring more towards the Angry Gorilla from Autotune the News in the picture.
It was not my intention to suggest that Hannity spontaneously went liberal.

simpsonfan: International waters, only blame belongs to the pirates.

A letter to the Editor in the Los Angeles Daily News today suggested using PT boats as escorts. Fast, small, able to chase down pirates, kill them.

Three words for you: Q-Ship Tourism.

Witchydiva: /hot

Best described by the NY Times as "a relatively high-budget story of a group of ragtag sailors who go searching for a crew of evil pirates who have a plan for world domination. Also, many of the characters in the movie have sex with one another."

First of all the captain is responsible for the safety of the ship and its crew. But he is also responsible for minimizing operating costs and staying on schedule. Those two responsibilities sometimes work against each other. Get too cautious and you'll lose your job because you can't maintain the profit margin. Take too many chances and you unnecessarily risk the safety of the ship and crew and you'll lose your job. It's a tough call sometimes. Damned if you do and damned if you don't.

JimmyCarter'sSecondTerm: This is like blaming the victim of a car jacking rape because they should have known not to drive through a black neighborhood at nightwere asking for it.

FTFY

FTA: "I want you to report that I had no comment," he said.

Does the journalist concede?

FTA: Phillips said he could not answer every "spurious accusation" and that he expected such criticism. But I don't wish to say anything.

The AP: A real class act. Not.

angelslogic: Belay.

Fantastic word. Belay...



Beeellaaayyy tthattt phaasserrr orrrrdderrrrr

If he is in international waters, he can run that ship wherever he damn well pleases. The advisory should say it's dangerous anywhere in that area.

Perducci: It's like blaming the victim of a carjacking because they were repeatedly warned not to drive through a neighborhood where numerous carjackings have occurred recently and carjackers have explicitly stated that they plan to carjack more vehicles soon...

So, in other words... don't drive through black neighborhoods.

Tom-Servo: Perducci: It's like blaming the victim of a carjacking because they were repeatedly warned not to drive through a neighborhood where numerous carjackings have occurred recently and carjackers have explicitly stated that they plan to carjack more vehicles soon...

So, in other words... don't drive through black neighborhoods.

Especially at night because unless they are smiling they are hard to see.

Any number of miles involving three digits seems like a lot, considering these pirates are operating out of small boats. Can you imagine sitting out there almost 400 miles from shore just hoping you see a ship somewhere on the horizon?

angelslogic: Belay.

Fantastic word. Belay...

Clearly he thought that if he could belay the warnings, he could certainly rappel pirates.

simpsonfan: International waters, only blame belongs to the pirates.

A letter to the Editor in the Los Angeles Daily News today suggested using PT boats as escorts. Fast, small, able to chase down pirates, kill them.

Wrong weapons for the job entirely. PT boats are designed to deliver *ONE* very heavy punch and run away.

Here's a modern equivalent:
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/row/rus/1242.htm

Note that it's primary weapons are anti-ship missiles. It's got a couple of guns that would do against pirates but this isn't the right unit for the job at all.

For a better unit for the job look at the Coast Guard cutters. The more heavily armed ones have the guns to do the job and can do things like fire warning shots, something a PT boat can't.

simpsonfan: International waters, only blame belongs to the pirates.

A letter to the Editor in the Los Angeles Daily News today suggested using PT boats as escorts. Fast, small, able to chase down pirates, kill them.

There's a company that does that. (new window) The Straits of Malacca are really badly infested with pirates. This is the company that issued the warnings, and a lot of maritimers with experience in the Singapore region take those issues very seriously. As do the insurance companies.

This from a previous piracy thread...

CIWS

Witchydiva: JimmyCarter'sSecondTerm: This is like blaming the victim of a car jacking because they should have known not to drive through a black neighborhood at night.

Why so stereotypical?



(hot)

Because I am not one to let petty stereotypes dictate where or when I drive... But then again two rounds of Federal #4 .410 handgun followed by three rounds of .45LC tends to give confidence when facing the prospect of a carjacking.

/Are those African Albinos?

I belayed your mom last night.

mantrum: This from a previous piracy thread...

CIWS

Cock In Wench's Slit?

/hot, like the lead he slings

Rodddxl: FTA: "I want you to report that I had no comment," he said.

Does the journalist concede?

FTA: Phillips said he could not answer every "spurious accusation" and that he expected such criticism. But I don't wish to say anything.

The AP: A real class act. Not.

He didn't say "No comment." He said a bunch more, then tried to take it back, apparently. Reporters generally don't work that way, nor do most people.

Say you're in a room with a detective and you say, "So, yes, I did kill my parents, and I'm glad I did. They were destroying my life. Wait, can I take that back?" ... What do you think the detective will say?

/the more you know
//pencil pusher

So he had seven warnings advising him to take a longer route. In the previous week he probably also had twenty e-mails from Accounting and a dozen satellite-phone reminders from the company CEO, all telling him to do whatever it takes to shave a few days off the trip, or they'd cancel his bonus and dock his pay.

Not saying he made the right decision, but who do you listen to in that postion? Some safety groups, or the guy that's signing your paycheques and covering your health insurance?

robobular
Can you imagine sitting out there almost 400 miles from shore just hoping you see a ship somewhere on the horizon?

They don't, actually. They're hired by people who are, essentially, businessmen, who have good intel of everything from ship schedules to crew manifests. They hire the pirates, give them a target and a plan, give them a cut, and even ship them stuff from industrial countries. It's not like it's just a bunch of teenagers with guns and speedboats.

Resonant: So he had seven warnings advising him to take a longer route. In the previous week he probably also had twenty e-mails from Accounting and a dozen satellite-phone reminders from the company CEO, all telling him to do whatever it takes to shave a few days off the trip, or they'd cancel his bonus and dock his pay.

Not saying he made the right decision, but who do you listen to in that postion? Some safety groups, or the guy that's signing your paycheques and covering your health insurance?

Yeeeaaaahhhh....it doesn't work that way. A company threatening to dock pay for not sailing through pirate-infested waters would find itself without any sailors to work for them real quick. And that includes the Phillippinos and Russians.

/besides, sailors don't get bonuses
//hourly pay with guaranteed overtime ftw.