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Scottish Independence Referendum - Did you vote?
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Debora Tsung
Perkone
Caldari State
#21 - 2014-09-19 11:33:21 UTC
mr ed thehouseofed wrote:
stuff the oil fields what about the whiskey Shocked

Whiske outside of scottland would have been hilariously expensive due to import taxes. Big smile

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RoAnnon
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#22 - 2014-09-19 11:35:58 UTC
I did not vote. I live in Texas.

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Christopher AET
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#23 - 2014-09-19 14:08:39 UTC  |  Edited by: Christopher AET
The Navy has been mentioned, it's not likely the larger ships would have made it to a Scottish navy. They could not support them. However some patrol vessels would have gone across. My main concern however would have been Trident. Moving nuclear weapons to a new base would have been expensive. I am pleased Scotland voted no so Trident can stay where it is and the armed forces can have a more secure deal come next year.

Two supercarriers pretty much secure now, yay. May not be like the size of the US supercarrier fleet but I am sure 2 more Nato Supercarriers will be welcomed all round with the Russians kicking off.

TLDR-Not able to vote but glad things went the way they did.

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Valkin Mordirc
#24 - 2014-09-19 17:08:11 UTC
Christopher AET wrote:
The Navy has been mentioned, it's not likely the larger ships would have made it to a Scottish navy. They could not support them. However some patrol vessels would have gone across. My main concern however would have been Trident. Moving nuclear weapons to a new base would have been expensive. I am pleased Scotland voted no so Trident can stay where it is and the armed forces can have a more secure deal come next year.

Two supercarriers pretty much secure now, yay. May not be like the size of the US supercarrier fleet but I am sure 2 more Nato Supercarriers will be welcomed all round with the Russians kicking off.

TLDR-Not able to vote but glad things went the way they did.




I'm pretty sure the only reason the US has 10 supercarriers is just giant F-U to every other navy.


To be completely honest I can't think of a reason to have ten of them when other superpowers like Russian only have like...5? I think. Sorta like a Oh you have a carrier? WE HAVE TEN!

Also a carrier is only as good as the Fighter jets it can field, and F/A-18F is getting old, and from what I've read the new F-35 isn't really a 'stealth' fighter to start with, mainly because Russian and Chinese Radar can still pick them up. And the F-22 is only invisible to the radar if it's in front, but it's totally visible from behind.

So go team USA on building a multi billion aircraft that can't even do the job it's intended to do.


I love my country. XD


On the note of Scotland independence, all I can say is that if the majority thought it better to remain apart of the UK then good for them. But the vote was like what? 32 to 31? Or something really close like that? 
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Christopher AET
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#25 - 2014-09-19 19:01:19 UTC
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Snagletooth Johnson
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#26 - 2014-09-19 20:37:28 UTC
I tried to vote, but then they said I wasn't from Scotland so i couldn't vote....


i told them I was from Chicago, they gave me a green card, a driver's license and 12 pre.marked voter cards. Yay!
Alec Freeman
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#27 - 2014-09-19 22:08:28 UTC
Orange Order (extremist unionists) are now starting fights with random people in Glasgow (George Square & Buchanan street). Looks like i'm staying in tonight. Civil war might be fun though, blow dust off ye ol' air rifle.
Caleidascope
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#28 - 2014-09-19 22:30:01 UTC
Valkin Mordirc wrote:
Christopher AET wrote:
The Navy has been mentioned, it's not likely the larger ships would have made it to a Scottish navy. They could not support them. However some patrol vessels would have gone across. My main concern however would have been Trident. Moving nuclear weapons to a new base would have been expensive. I am pleased Scotland voted no so Trident can stay where it is and the armed forces can have a more secure deal come next year.

Two supercarriers pretty much secure now, yay. May not be like the size of the US supercarrier fleet but I am sure 2 more Nato Supercarriers will be welcomed all round with the Russians kicking off.

TLDR-Not able to vote but glad things went the way they did.




I'm pretty sure the only reason the US has 10 supercarriers is just giant F-U to every other navy.


To be completely honest I can't think of a reason to have ten of them when other superpowers like Russian only have like...5? I think. Sorta like a Oh you have a carrier? WE HAVE TEN!


1-North Atlantic
2-South Atlantic
3-North Pacific
4-South Pacific
5-Eastern Medetirenian
6-Western Medetirenian
7-Baltic
8-Eastern Indian Ocean
9-Western Inidan Ocean
10-South China Sea
See? 10 makes perfect sense.

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Felicity Love
Doomheim
#29 - 2014-09-20 02:12:55 UTC  |  Edited by: Felicity Love
My uncle, aunt and several cousins near Aberdeen all voted "NO"... thoroughly disgusted by a rather pointless exercise in politics by a bunch of pseudo-intellectual who only want to see themselves cast in bronze someday...

With the European Union hip deep in it's own debt and bureaucratic mismanagement, a "civil war" in the Ukraine and various other global issues affecting where an indepedent Scotland would find itself -- it looks like the Scottish penchant for common sense won through all the glory-mongering rhetoric.

The most ridiculous part was the BBC (web site) featuring articles about what the Scottish separatist leaders allegedly learned from Quebec Separatists here in Canada. Funny how those BBC website articles citing Quebec separatism pretty much disappeared once the vote was trending soliding to the "NO".

Judging by the vote, looks like all they learned from the PQist intelligentsia was how to alienate the middle class with their bogus rhetoric and petty elitism.

Again, and thankfully, the Scottish values of common sense and patience won the day.

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Good Sax
#30 - 2014-09-20 03:20:54 UTC
Whelp, my friends the Scotts better relearn this one.

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jason hill
Red vs Blue Flight Academy
#31 - 2014-09-20 08:35:48 UTC
Valkin Mordirc wrote:
Christopher AET wrote:
The Navy has been mentioned, it's not likely the larger ships would have made it to a Scottish navy. They could not support them. However some patrol vessels would have gone across. My main concern however would have been Trident. Moving nuclear weapons to a new base would have been expensive. I am pleased Scotland voted no so Trident can stay where it is and the armed forces can have a more secure deal come next year.

Two supercarriers pretty much secure now, yay. May not be like the size of the US supercarrier fleet but I am sure 2 more Nato Supercarriers will be welcomed all round with the Russians kicking off.

TLDR-Not able to vote but glad things went the way they did.




I'm pretty sure the only reason the US has 10 supercarriers is just giant F-U to every other navy.


To be completely honest I can't think of a reason to have ten of them when other superpowers like Russian only have like...5? I think. Sorta like a Oh you have a carrier? WE HAVE TEN!

Also a carrier is only as good as the Fighter jets it can field, and F/A-18F is getting old, and from what I've read the new F-35 isn't really a 'stealth' fighter to start with, mainly because Russian and Chinese Radar can still pick them up. And the F-22 is only invisible to the radar if it's in front, but it's totally visible from behind.

So go team USA on building a multi billion aircraft that can't even do the job it's intended to do.


I love my country. XD


On the note of Scotland independence, all I can say is that if the majority thought it better to remain apart of the UK then good for them. But the vote was like what? 32 to 31? Or something really close like that?



errm ever heard of a place called china ?.... theres about over a billion of them apparently ... and thier getting pretty feisty over certain parts of the world .. especialy the pacific
jason hill
Red vs Blue Flight Academy
#32 - 2014-09-20 08:50:28 UTC
anyways back on topic ... as an englishman i was sort of hoping for yes vote ...but secretly hoping that they voted no Ugh

they are a drain on the rest of the UK financially and they know it ..they just wont admitt it thier oils running out as we all know they get free prescriptions/education/ and free deep deep fried mars bars ...all paid for by the rest of the UK ...makes me mad they get mars bars for free Evil

tell me what made me really laugh about this whole debacle was that Ed millipede suggesting that we setup an armed border guard for the north of england to keep them out !!! errrrm ED you stupid fkn twatt ...ever thought about thinking of looking at the strengthening the bloody border force at the bloody airports and the docks in the bloody south !!! ...

poor ed ...hes never had a proper job in his bloody life bless him ...and he wants to be prime minister ...no wonder the whole country`s sick and bloody tired of the political elite ...they are just sooo out of bloody touch with the rest of the bloody country .Roll
Themanfromdalmontee
EVE RADIO ARMY
#33 - 2014-09-20 13:11:13 UTC
I don't get this desire for local powers. We have councils that do plenty. It will just end up with more postcode lottery in service and another tier of crappy politicians sucking from the trough.
Bagrat Skalski
Koinuun Kotei
#34 - 2014-09-20 15:47:56 UTC
Themanfromdalmontee wrote:
I don't get this desire for local powers. We have councils that do plenty. It will just end up with more postcode lottery in service and another tier of crappy politicians sucking from the trough.


You don't get it, because you are not a crappy politician.

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Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
#35 - 2014-09-20 15:54:21 UTC
Bagrat Skalski wrote:
Themanfromdalmontee wrote:
I don't get this desire for local powers. We have councils that do plenty. It will just end up with more postcode lottery in service and another tier of crappy politicians sucking from the trough.


You don't get it, because you are not a crappy politician.
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Good Sax
#36 - 2014-09-20 16:29:33 UTC
Jonah Gravenstein wrote:
Bagrat Skalski wrote:
Themanfromdalmontee wrote:
I don't get this desire for local powers. We have councils that do plenty. It will just end up with more postcode lottery in service and another tier of crappy politicians sucking from the trough.


You don't get it, because you are not a crappy politician.
The last person to enter the Houses of Parliament with honest intentions was Guy Fawkes.


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Grimpak
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#37 - 2014-09-20 19:19:35 UTC  |  Edited by: Grimpak
Jonah Gravenstein wrote:
Bagrat Skalski wrote:
Themanfromdalmontee wrote:
I don't get this desire for local powers. We have councils that do plenty. It will just end up with more postcode lottery in service and another tier of crappy politicians sucking from the trough.


You don't get it, because you are not a crappy politician.
The last person to enter the Houses of Parliament with honest intentions was Guy Fawkes.

Good ol' Guy FawkesCool


actually, now that I think about it, he was probably one of the last to enter any government's parliament with honest intentions.

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Valkin Mordirc
#38 - 2014-09-21 13:05:19 UTC
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errm ever heard of a place called china ?.... theres about over a billion of them apparently ... and thier getting pretty feisty over certain parts of the world .. especialy the pacific


China only has one Carrier, they bought it from Russia, and I'm pretty sure it's conventional carrier. Not a Nuclear one.


In terms of Navy/Air Power, The US has China beat bar none. The only Rivals the US has to deal when it comes to Air is the UK's, Typhoon, who is politically friendly with the US. and the Russian, SU-47 and PAK-FA. China has a stealth fighter in development, but it's not ready for deployment till like, 2020 or something like that. I think it's called the J-20 Or something like that.

If there is one thing the US can do is project a really powerful air force. Even if we inject several billion dollars into an aircraft that didn't live up to the hype. =P


Also what would have happen if Scotland did go independant? What would happen with all the Scottish peeps in the UK's military?
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jason hill
Red vs Blue Flight Academy
#39 - 2014-09-21 18:42:37 UTC
Valkin Mordirc wrote:
Quote:
errm ever heard of a place called china ?.... theres about over a billion of them apparently ... and thier getting pretty feisty over certain parts of the world .. especialy the pacific


China only has one Carrier, they bought it from Russia, and I'm pretty sure it's conventional carrier. Not a Nuclear one.


In terms of Navy/Air Power, The US has China beat bar none. The only Rivals the US has to deal when it comes to Air is the UK's, Typhoon, who is politically friendly with the US. and the Russian, SU-47 and PAK-FA. China has a stealth fighter in development, but it's not ready for deployment till like, 2020 or something like that. I think it's called the J-20 Or something like that.

If there is one thing the US can do is project a really powerful air force. Even if we inject several billion dollars into an aircraft that didn't live up to the hype. =P


Also what would have happen if Scotland did go independant? What would happen with all the Scottish peeps in the UK's military?


as far as I understand it they would have been transferred to the Scottish side of things wether they liked it or not I also understand that salmond wanted twelve Eurofighters but would have only used them on a part time basis is in "ok lads we will defend Scotland from air attack ..but only between the hours of 9-5 " sounds like a really strong defence policy from my point of view Ugh
Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#40 - 2014-09-24 00:44:30 UTC  |  Edited by: Khergit Deserters
Just glad the Union Jack is still intact, if for no other reason. One of the coolest and toughest-looking banners ever! Nobody would ever guess it had anything to do with a bunch of old saintly-type guys.
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