Pvt Joker: 'If it has been commissioned for the Saudi Royal Family it is unlikely it will leave its dock very often. It is more of a question of prestige, to have the world's largest yacht.'


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What's extra funny about your post is that the Enterprise-D had a captain's yacht which was never used in any episode.

/nerds!

inner ted: Louisiana_Sitar_Club: ProdigalSigh: Hilariously sad that this is linked on the bottom of the page.

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American Decency Association: ProdigalSigh: Hilariously sad that this is linked on the bottom of the page.

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i feel horrible that that elicited a small smile. i'm trying to tell myself that it was something else that made me giggle.

but i know it was this.

/better help an old lady across the street or something to balance out my karma

The shame and guilt fit like a second skin, eventually. Don't sweat the little "rough patches". That's just your conscience.

Pump_ThePurpleWarrior: If I was rich, and money was no object, I too would purchase a boat. It would not be a custom job, it will be a second hand boat. I would simply go to whoever I had to, drop the cash, and buy... the U.S.S. Iowa.

The inside would be scrapped, stripped, and decked out in the latest of bling and technology. The outside, would still look like a godsdamned battleship. The guns, oh yeah, the guns, I would make sure those 16 inch beauties still worked. So when I pulled my battleship into Monaco Harbor, I could do a full broadside salute with all turrets (unloaded of course) and watch as the pressure wave rocks every smaller yacht in the harbor and shattered every window in about a 10km range.

And when people complain and biatch about it, and they will, I will simply say "Well, what the fark are you going to do about it? I... have a battleship."

beautiful

You know what is even better than having a luxury mega-yacht?

Having a friend with a luxury mega-yacht.

All the fun, none of the expense.

/now all I gotta do is become BFFs with Prince bin Tilal.

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Pssssh boats.



Well allow me to shake your hand.

Then again what's a yacht without a moon pool...

Zukipilot: Sylvia_Bandersnatch: Zukipilot: Funny how jealous people always through in the small penis joke when someone has the ability to enjoy the finer things in life... Sorry Subby, money does not shrink your man hood, nervousness, cold water and steroids do....

This might impress people more if you had any greenlights and also knew English.

You actually try to impress people here? Get out of your moms basement much?

Of course, none of us are ever surprised when zeroes have nothing of value to say.

Chummer45: beefoe: Sylvia_Bandersnatch: I'd rather they buy food, clothes, and medicine for the poor. But it's not for me to judge.

Yes, because that $600 million spent at the shipyard magically evaporates once it is spent and doesn't go toward steel, aluminum, wood, electronics, engines, stone, paint, etc. And the companies that make those items just have them magically appear and don't hire and pay anyone to help create those things.

Good point. It's way better for everyone if that $600 million is wasted on a ridiculous yacht than spent on food, medicine, and education.

/Ayn Rand is the intellectual equivalent of L. Ron Hubbard.

I'm guessing you've seen this, but in case you haven't..

It would explain a lot.

beefoe: Chummer45: Good point. It's way better for everyone if that $600 million is wasted on a ridiculous yacht than spent on food, medicine, and education.

/Ayn Rand is the intellectual equivalent of L. Ron Hubbard.

Yes, because it's "everyone's" $600 million. This isn't an either/or choice. Gee, I'll either buy myself a $600 million yacht or help the poor today. hmmm, what should I do? That reality is that if that money isn't going to be spent on that yacht, it's going to be sitting in cash, which helps no one, or being spent on Cristal, hookers and blow. Spending money on a yacht at least stimulates the economy.

Right, because there have never been any rich people who spent their money on direct good. They're all selfish assholes, so it's pointless for us to criticise ostentatious bullshiat like this dickboat. Got it.

weave: The old line about them creating jobs gets tiring though, because it implies that when poor people spend money on boring shiat like food and shelter, somehow that isn't creating jobs.

How many poor people does it take to spend $400,000,000 on food and shelter in a single day?

When does it stop being a yacht and become a cruise ship?

Oldiron_79: The Soveits tried the killing the golden goose thing, Didn't work out too well in the end.

It may come as a surprise to some people to learn that Soviet propaganda was not entirely truthful. Despite their nearly constant claims, they were not Communists. The October Revolution was indeed the action of real Communists, but they were very quickly suppressed (and eventually oppressed) by opportunistic oligarchs like Stalin, who wouldn't have known the truth if it was giving him a humjob. He did know what Communism was, however: it was that thing he was able to leverage to his own ends. But Communism as a state practice died in the 1920s and never rose again.

The Soviet oligarchs did indeed bleed Russia dry, as they are still doing, but it never had anything to do with good will, good intentions, or any ideology beyond good old fashioned greed.

lordargent: weave: The old line about them creating jobs gets tiring though, because it implies that when poor people spend money on boring shiat like food and shelter, somehow that isn't creating jobs.

How many poor people does it take to spend $400,000,000 on food and shelter in a single day?

How many more people are employed because it takes more poor people to spend $400 million for food and shelter on a daily basis?

How big does a yacht have to be before it stops being a yacht and starts being a cruise ship?

DeaH: How many more people are employed because it takes more poor people to spend $400 million for food and shelter on a daily basis?

How many people have to be employed to grow food and build shelters for the people that had to be employed to build a $400 million yacht?

I guess my point is, someone just dumped $400,000 into the economy in one fell swoop, and that it would take a lot of food and shelter to hit that amount (unless someone is ordering $450 pizzas topped with lobster and caviar).

// food pyramid scheme :D

Sylvia_Bandersnatch: Oldiron_79: The Soveits tried the killing the golden goose thing, Didn't work out too well in the end.

It may come as a surprise to some people to learn that Soviet propaganda was not entirely truthful. Despite their nearly constant claims, they were not Communists. The October Revolution was indeed the action of real Communists, but they were very quickly suppressed (and eventually oppressed) by opportunistic oligarchs like Stalin, who wouldn't have known the truth if it was giving him a humjob. He did know what Communism was, however: it was that thing he was able to leverage to his own ends. But Communism as a state practice died in the 1920s and never rose again.

The Soviet oligarchs did indeed bleed Russia dry, as they are still doing, but it never had anything to do with good will, good intentions, or any ideology beyond good old fashioned greed.

Actually Pol Pot was probably the truest of communists and that happened well after the 1920s. The Marx fellatiating intellectuals just ignore him because he had the intellectuals lined up against the wall in his country.

Keizer_Ghidorah: How big does a yacht have to be before it stops being a yacht and starts being a cruise ship?

Legally, I believe it's when you charge guests to stay aboard, with the intent of making a profit vs. offsetting operational costs. If you're charging to offset operations, then it would be a crewed charter boat.

UNAUTHORIZED FINGER: SnakeLee: Blaming the entire Bin Ladin family for Osama is pretty farking ignorant, but whatever.

Why?

I'm not blaming the whole family, and I don't have any good arguments for or against it; I don't know much about other members of his family, though my instinct is to feel sorry for them. The commenter is either trying to be funny, and failing, or trying to be obtuse and succeeding, though for what point or purpose I can't imagine. Or possibly just stupid, which is common enough around here. He's got some greenlights under his belt, so I'll give him some benefit of the doubt, but not much. It makes no sense to me, either.

I would go for a nuclear powered sub. More Zombie proof.

MrSteve007: Keizer_Ghidorah: How big does a yacht have to be before it stops being a yacht and starts being a cruise ship?

Legally, I believe it's when you charge guests to stay aboard, with the intent of making a profit vs. offsetting operational costs. If you're charging to offset operations, then it would be a crewed charter boat.

So I can built a yacht the size of the Titanic and it would still be called a yacht as long as I didn't charge admission?

SnakeLee: Sylvia_Bandersnatch: UNAUTHORIZED FINGER: SnakeLee: Blaming the entire Bin Ladin family for Osama is pretty farking ignorant, but whatever.

Why?

I'm not blaming the whole family, and I don't have any good arguments for or against it; I don't know much about other members of his family, though my instinct is to feel sorry for them. The commenter is either trying to be funny, and failing, or trying to be obtuse and succeeding, though for what point or purpose I can't imagine. Or possibly just stupid, which is common enough around here. He's got some greenlights under his belt, so I'll give him some benefit of the doubt, but not much. It makes no sense to me, either.

If either of you are genuinely interested, this is a great book:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Bin-Ladens-Arabian-American/dp/1594201641

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Steve Coll has won 2 Pulitzers and he's only written like 4 books total, trust me that it's worth your time to read this. It's really farking good

On my list -- thanks!

lordargent: I guess my point is, someone just dumped $400,000 into the economy in one fell swoop, and that it would take a lot of food and shelter to hit that amount (unless someone is ordering $450 pizzas topped with lobster and caviar).

The problem is money isn't production. When you pay someone, they can then go spend the money on something else. When you buy a 100 tons of steel and turn it into a some times play thing for a billionaire, that's what it gets used for. So money flows through the economy, but labor, materials, and energy do not, they are produced and expended. This is of course being the central oversight in modern economics. Moneys is a system of economic command and control, but it's not the economy itself.

lordargent: How many people have to be employed to grow food and build shelters for the people that had to be employed to build a $400 million yacht?

Not nearly as many people would need to be employed to grow food and build shelter for the 100 or so people it takes to build a yacht as it would take to to grow food and build shelter for the for the ten thousand it would normally take to spend $400 million. One guy dropping $400 million on one item does not have nearly the broad effect on the economy as 10,000 guys dropping $40K. Plus, that boat is pretty much a one-shot deal, so those hundred people are not going to have steady work.

Keizer_Ghidorah: So I can built a yacht the size of the Titanic and it would still be called a yacht as long as I didn't charge admission?

Believe so. Technically a 'yacht' is any seagoing pleasure craft, used in power boating, sailing or racing. So pretty much anything that isn't used on a lake, for commercial purposes, rescue, navigation or industrial use.

Websters says a yacht is: "A light and elegantly furnished vessel, used either for private parties of pleasure, or as a vessel of state to convey distinguished persons from one place to another; a seagoing vessel used only for pleasure trips, racing, etc."

One could argue that a very large ship couldn't be considered 'light' but I guess that would depend on if you define that term by maneuvering/speed or by tonnage.