Even at an investment bank in London, the percentage of FCA regulated jobs that would exclude you for recent personal bankruptcy would be less than 1%. And the reason for personal bankruptcy would be important. Did you go bankrupt for gambling losses or unpaid medical bills? These would receive very different treatment by the FCA when considering your application.
About half of that will go to electricity here in the UK (23.72p per kWh). After costs that's roughly $145 a month profit. Might be more worth it if you have rooftop solar and have free electricity during the day.
I honestly don't really understand what the fuss is with it, just keep looking right and drive forward when you're free to. It makes so much more sense than multiple stop signs where each side takes it in turn.
>...only a handful of cases in which ships equipped with Phalanx have been the subject of missile fire, and none that have actually seen the system tested.
Worth noting that this line is now out of date. Allegedly they've been tested in Yemen recently [1].
tldr: the Missouri fired a chaff and the other ships CIWS was all “not in my airspace” and started shooting at it even though the Missouri was behind the target. Interesting, I wonder if the whole battlegroup has synced systems now to avoid such things, e.g. 1) I’m going to launch something, everyone else disregard it as a threat and 2) if a threat has a friendly behind it, don’t shoot it.
Maybe 2) is more of a judgement call since a few bullet holes is probably preferential to the alternative.
I don’t disagree, but I’m sure they had to come up with some mitigation after this. If each ship is shooting down the other ships primary/secondary/whatever countermeasure then in a worst case scenario you and your sister ships are only left with your CIWS. And they might still be busy shooting at your sister ships chaffs to deal with the real threat. I don’t know much about it, I just found it interesting.
Seems a bit like Star Trek - “Their shields go down for a split second when they fire”. Maybe the system goes dark for a second to avoid shooting down outgoing items? Syncing the shields might make this better (or expose other weaknesses?)
Phalanx is the US CIWS based on the 20mm Vulcan gun. in other words, Phalanx is the “last line of defense machine guns” to which you are referring.
You may be thinking of Aegis, the integrated combat control system. We don’t yet know why the Gravely was unable to intercept the missile further out. Could have been human error, could have been a sea skimmer getting too close before being detected. To date, Aegis has been extremely effective against ballistic missiles and old cruise missiles. But given enough time an enemy can test your potential weak spots.
From China to the EU it adds roughly 1/3rd to the time, which is a decent proxy for cost. There are savings in not having to pay Suez fees but these don't seem to make a huge affect to shipping costs.
It's probably worth adding that going round the cape doesn't add just more cost to fuel and time, insurance for cargo down there isn't cheap either as the weather is very changeable.
It's a great proxy for cost, but price has more to do with availability than with cost. I'd expect price to go up a lot more than 1/3rd, especially if this drags on.
Right, price is driven by supply and demand. If your ships have to travel 4/3 as far, you have ships available at 3/4 of the previous rate, so the supply of shipping went down. Demand didn't, so the price goes up.
If any Norwegians are reading, which are shipping nerds by virtue of geography, speculating in this market is essentially why John Fredriksen, the Warren Buffett of shipping, is rich.
Shifts in ship availability causes waves of bankruptcy, and either gluts or shortages (whatever happens to be most inconvenient at the time).
Any reason why you think this given that studies show knowledge workers can't be productive over that long a period?