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[Ocean1]

. Coz only running a small company will learn ya that experience.

Correct...

[mashman]

They are probably bored with the trinkets that Facebook and Apple are selling.
KB is more into exhaust wrap and brown seats.

There was an article in the Guardian saying all rich people and TDL should be sent to the Gulags, probably in response to the one in the Times saying all immigrants are lazy and we need to keep them out as they are taking hard working English peoples jobs.

Mebees, but they seem more into this climate thing and want it reversed by existing governments, which I guess would also solve any facebook n apple issues that stir deep within their loins.
See, that's exactly what I mean. Brown seats. Insanity.

Dammit! I was all anti-gulag and then you went and mentioned TDL. So confused.

[mashman]

Correct...

Remove the "only" from yer ignorant statement and you have a point. Perhaps you should have spent more time at home with your family, as you might have witnessed it there too. Then again, at least your au pair will have that understanding and will have hopefully enlightened your children as to such along the way.

[TheDemonLord]

Dammit! I was all anti-gulag and then you went and mentioned TDL. So confused.

If you had any principles, you wouldn't be confused.

But then, closet Marxists do love to send people they disagree with to the Gulag, so it's good to see you are following your doctrine to the letter.

[TheDemonLord]

There was an article in the Guardian saying all rich people and TDL should be sent to the Gulags, probably in response to the one in the Times saying all immigrants are lazy and we need to keep them out as they are taking hard working English peoples jobs.

It should be a bit of a hint when your attempt at satire mirrors the historical actions of your ideology....

As for the Times article - it's quite simple: Supply and Demand, if you double or triple the supply for something (lets say 'Unskilled jobs') then the price for each job goes down. If you set a minimum price for the product, then you create a surplus - there are more people than there are jobs.

Net result, a Rise in unemployment and wages stay static.

Lazy has nothing to do with it.

But then, I don't expect a Guardian reader to understand either Economics or History.

[Voltaire]

It should be a bit of a hint when your attempt at satire mirrors the historical actions of your ideology....

As for the Times article - it's quite simple: Supply and Demand, if you double or triple the supply for something (lets say 'Unskilled jobs') then the price for each job goes down. If you set a minimum price for the product, then you create a surplus - there are more people than there are jobs.

Net result, a Rise in unemployment and wages stay static.

Lazy has nothing to do with it.

But then, I don't expect a Guardian reader to understand either Economics or History.

I imagine there is quite a lot you don't expect but feel free to blather on.

You can have the last word as it means a lot to you.

[Ocean1]

Remove the "only" from yer ignorant statement and you have a point. Perhaps you should have spent more time at home with your family, as you might have witnessed it there too. Then again, at least your au pair will have that understanding and will have hopefully enlightened your children as to such along the way.

My statement was not only completely devoid of the word "only", but was informed by expert observation at very close quarters.

So nowhere close to the ignorant drivel plainly apparent in your own subsequent comment, which, you'll no doubt be astonished to learn, did contain the word "only".

Now take your ignorant, content free drivel and go play on the motorway.

[pritch]

On the subject of yachting.

Govt Finds 40 Million for it.

Where was it, in the couch?

That's OK. It's not real money, it's only taxes.

[Ocean1]

That's OK. It's not real money, it's only taxes.

Just as long as the ROI is real money, if my meager investments were doing anywhere near as well as the returns on the last event I'd be a fucking happy camper, they were fucking outstanding.

But yeah, rich pricks, fuckem.

[mashman]

My statement was not only completely devoid of the word "only", but was informed by expert observation at very close quarters.

So nowhere close to the ignorant drivel plainly apparent in your own subsequent comment, which, you'll no doubt be astonished to learn, did contain the word "only".

Now take your ignorant, content free drivel and go play on the motorway.

You said:

Correct...

therefore agreed with the statement as I related it. That you feel the need to weasel your way out of it shows just how close to the bone I got. Kind of pathetic, but not unexpected in the slightest. Thanks for playing dear.

[Swoop]

There's just three places in the world you can get a superyacht built, one of them is Auckland.

Not any longer. Auckland's two superyacht yards closed down due to the high dollar and the "global recession".
There are many places around the world where one can have their superyacht built (Italy, Vietnam, USA, Holland, Germany, Spain, etc, etc) and their exchange rates are much better.

NZ now has a superyacht "service centre" for repairs and refits.

[Ocean1]

Not any longer. Auckland's two superyacht yards closed down due to the high dollar and the "global recession".
There are many places around the world where one can have their superyacht built (Italy, Vietnam, USA, Holland, Germany, Spain, etc, etc) and their exchange rates are much better.

NZ now has a superyacht "service centre" for repairs and refits.

I don't think many are built in just one place any more, the few I've noticed recently have been, (for example) constructed in Holland, fitted out in Italy and rigged and commissioned in NZ.

The fact remains, you can't run a large business servicing an intermittent demand with the traditional full time employee model, simply can't be done. One large project office and dozens of small flexible businesses can and has been done. So which is better, an ideolistic adherence to 40/52 employment and zero jobs, or a bunch of self motivated small businesses successfully providing exactly the same service?

I gota say the model doesn't fit every market well. For my particular shtick I liked to hold the core skills required for my projects somewhat more closely, but the flip side is the risk of under-utilisation with little room to maneuver and subsequent failure for all concerned.

[Swoop]

I don't think many are built in just one place any more

They would be the majority.
There are a "few" who pump out a hull and hand it onto another location/yard for fitting out, but the reality is keeping as much in-house as possible for QC reasons and also for profit.