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WAB said:
There are trading floors in better locations if you look around a bit. Many large corporations do what you do in less urban environments. Koch in Wichita is just one example. Cargill and Williams Energy are others.
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Just about every electric utility has a trading floor and some have multiple trading floors. Because of electronic trading, trading floors are distributed all over the country. For example the Philadelphia Stock Exchange is the major trading venue for derivatives.
 
Altitude sickness said:
reports are that approximately 2000 pounds of a HE was used. The video does not show a 2000 pound UW detonation. So I assume other charges did not detonate or the one charge was not constructed correctly.

IF 2K of HE was used. It was not used correctly.

Amateurs always use more than needed. But don’t use it correctly so don’t get good results. Proper tamping or placement is more important than the amount. Shearing charges should have been used on the round columns. Not the submerged oval bases.
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www.bbc.com

Ukraine says it hit Crimea bridge with underwater explosives

Kyiv's security service says it it used more than 1,000kg of TNT to mine the supports of Russia's Kerch Bridge.
www.bbc.com www.bbc.com
 
VertigoBE said:
While it is true that no economy can support itself with an aging and decreasing workforce due to a too low birth rate, I would carefully suggest that unconstrained, unqualified immigration as "the solution" will make that economy topple over that much quicker.

A mentality change and incentives change to promote more child birth among the native population to counteract a plummeting birth rate, should be the first priority. Not importing unproductive bodies to keep the head count up.
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Agreed, in 2016 the UN reported that if Sweden continued its immigration, Sweden would be a third world country by 2030.
 
Altitude sickness said:
reports are that approximately 2000 pounds of a HE was used. The video does not show a 2000 pound UW detonation. So I assume other charges did not detonate or the one charge was not constructed correctly.

IF 2K of HE was used. It was not used correctly.

Amateurs always use more than needed. But don’t use it correctly so don’t get good results. Proper tamping or placement is more important than the amount. Shearing charges should have been used on the round columns. Not the submerged oval bases.
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True, but any charge on the columns would be spotted before the team emplacing it could complete the job.

Being a Demo guy, I've thought long and hard about what I'd do to that bridge. Russia holds onto Crimea by the thinnest lifelines. The entire Crimean peninsula is supplied by rail lines through Donetsk and the rail line over that bridge. Wheeled vehicles do bring in supplies, but Russia has always depended on rail more than road. Anything going through the Black Sea has to run a gauntlet of Ukrainian drone subs, etc., and so the amount Russia is able to bring into the port at Savastopol has been greatly reduced.

Russia has placed some very stout defenses guarding it's rail lines through Donetsk and surrounding the Kerch bridge. Those defenses most certainly include short and long range air defenses, which would make any bomber or missile strike difficult if not impossible. Anything that got through these defenses would do little damage. Only the top of the roadway and railway would be damaged, and could be repaired easily. Ukraine found this out when they tried strikes on the bridge using HIMARS systems. An attack using trucks loaded with explosives also failed to do any real long term damage to the bridge.

That leaves us with a ground or seaborne attack.

Moving a unit of any size overland, by foot or vehicle into Russian occupied Crimea would be hazardous to your health, to put it mildly. The amount of explosives that could be brought close to the target area would also be very limited.

This leaves us with a seaborne attack.

All but the quietest submarine or motorized surface vessel could be detected by multiple systems the Russian Navy surely has in place. Haven't done the hydrographics in that region, but it's a sure bet the tides going past that bridge would add to the difficulty of placing charges below the waterline.

If I were given the task of attacking this bridge, I'd use those tides to drift submerged and almost undetectable to the base structure and perform multiple missions until enough explosives had been applied to inflict extensive damage.

Altitude Sickness is entirely correct that offset charges applied to the column's would collapse the span on either side of it, but charges on the sides of the column large enough to destroy it would take hours or even days to emplace. Chances are the mission would be compromised before a team could do the job. My bet is the Ukrainians used small teams on multiple missions over weeks or months to bring rucksack size bundles to the target and only lit the fire when they thought the time was right.
 
Ukrainians are having fun with Trump's past comment about Ukraine having no cards to play.

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Little mental note: let’s make sure I never do anything to upset @Altitude sickness or @skydiver386 . These guys seem to be capable of being particularly harmful to one’s health and property! :Nailbiting:
 
VertigoBE said:
Agreed, which is why I'm working hard on acquiring those two things. I'm already pretty isolated from what goes on in the center of Brussels, as I live just on the outskirts.

But in the long run,
I fear for my two daughters, the social circles they will be in, the safety they will have when going out, the people they'll meet in the streets. Also the educational system is decreasing in quality and content. 3/4ths of kids in Brussels' schools are from 1st or 2nd generation immigration, make of that what you will.

Then there is the taxes, the heavy EU insistence on "Green" to the destruction of everything else, the bureaucracy stifling businesses, it is not a long term place to make a great future anymore.
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Yes, one must think of your children and future grandchildren. You have a lot of marketable skills. You also seem to have grasped the situation that Europe is in. Trump is far from perfect but I think he has turned the tide on immigration here and it should last a while. Even Democrats here are waking up.

Perhaps a reputable executive recruitment company here in the USA could find you something somewhat comparable here. It’s worth a try. You are the kind of immigrants we want.
 
VertigoBE said:
Little mental note: let’s make sure I never do anything to upset @Altitude sickness or @skydiver386 . These guys seem to be capable of being particularly harmful to one’s health and property! :Nailbiting:
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Never fear. I'm just an overpaid hillbilly with multiple combat tours and near 25 years experience jumping out of airplanes, shooting things, and blowing things up.

And now, back to our regularly scheduled programming with Merl Haggard singing "Your walkin on the fightin side of me."
 
skydiver386 said:
Never fear. I'm just an overpaid hillbilly with multiple combat tours and near 25 years experience jumping out of airplanes, shooting things, and blowing things up.

And now, back to our regularly scheduled programming with Merl Haggard singing "Your walkin on the fightin side of me."
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None of what you wrote here is sounding particularly comforting :E Rofl:
 
VertigoBE said:
I work since 15yrs for a 100K employee Energy/Utility company that has assets and sales entities on all continents. More specifically I work in a branch of Trading and Origination (Sales on steroids), currently responsible for the sales of all energy to Giants (energy intensive customers) and Stadtwerke (local utilities) in Germany. Something like a head of energy sales for Germany, for Gas, Power, Wind/Solar PPA, Biomethane, Biomass, Certificates, Market Access, flex products, structured trading products, LNG, etc. etc.

So also in response to @Foxi 's comment, as I need to be in a trading room, which usually only exist in capitals, my room for moving around is already a bit more limited. Especially as many other countries in Europe would mean a strong paycheck cut. Basically in Europe, I could go to: Brussels, Paris, London, Frankfurt (or general Ruhr area), Switzerland and that is about it. I can't do my job from any place (I can do Work@Home, but try to limit this as much as possible, so as not to impact negatively my career).

We have a big trading platform in Houston, Texas, but since my specialty is Origination/Sales, those are usually positions better suited for locally connected people.

So either:
- I first move vertically in my current organisation, allowing me to move other places in the world, whereby less my local connections/market knowledge, but rather my leadership skills, will be important. Recently applied for a country leadership position for Poland, but was refused as they were looking for someone with more managerial experience to handle support functions, while my main strong point is driving the business. My young age also did not help :D
- I leave my company, only one viable choice in EU would be to Switzerland in order to keep valorizing my expertise on European energy supply, and keep the paycheck high enough (after tax). Although I'm open to other localities, if the pay is sufficient (that hunting passion is not paying for itself!)

I'm also trying to get a secondary stream of income going. Together with a partner in SA, we set up an import/export business of mainly taxidermy, into Europe. About a container a year for now, so we are barely making a profit.
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come to Munich.Bavaria is others.
Frankfurt is a sh...le (and Berlin is the worst) Ruhrgebiet not my recommandation also.
The more I think about it, the more you are right
And if you go to Switzerland -some provinces there have a hunting ban
 
Altitude sickness said:
reports are that approximately 2000 pounds of a HE was used. The video does not show a 2000 pound UW detonation. So I assume other charges did not detonate or the one charge was not constructed correctly.

IF 2K of HE was used. It was not used correctly.

Amateurs always use more than needed. But don’t use it correctly so don’t get good results. Proper tamping or placement is more important than the amount. Shearing charges should have been used on the round columns. Not the submerged oval bases.
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skydiver386 said:
True, but any charge on the columns would be spotted before the team emplacing it could complete the job.

Being a Demo guy, I've thought long and hard about what I'd do to that bridge. Russia holds onto Crimea by the thinnest lifelines. The entire Crimean peninsula is supplied by rail lines through Donetsk and the rail line over that bridge. Wheeled vehicles do bring in supplies, but Russia has always depended on rail more than road. Anything going through the Black Sea has to run a gauntlet of Ukrainian drone subs, etc., and so the amount Russia is able to bring into the port at Savastopol has been greatly reduced.

Russia has placed some very stout defenses guarding it's rail lines through Donetsk and surrounding the Kerch bridge. Those defenses most certainly include short and long range air defenses, which would make any bomber or missile strike difficult if not impossible. Anything that got through these defenses would do little damage. Only the top of the roadway and railway would be damaged, and could be repaired easily. Ukraine found this out when they tried strikes on the bridge using HIMARS systems. An attack using trucks loaded with explosives also failed to do any real long term damage to the bridge.

That leaves us with a ground or seaborne attack.

Moving a unit of any size overland, by foot or vehicle into Russian occupied Crimea would be hazardous to your health, to put it mildly. The amount of explosives that could be brought close to the target area would also be very limited.

This leaves us with a seaborne attack.

All but the quietest submarine or motorized surface vessel could be detected by multiple systems the Russian Navy surely has in place. Haven't done the hydrographics in that region, but it's a sure bet the tides going past that bridge would add to the difficulty of placing charges below the waterline.

If I were given the task of attacking this bridge, I'd use those tides to drift submerged and almost undetectable to the base structure and perform multiple missions until enough explosives had been applied to inflict extensive damage.

Altitude Sickness is entirely correct that offset charges applied to the column's would collapse the span on either side of it, but charges on the sides of the column large enough to destroy it would take hours or even days to emplace. Chances are the mission would be compromised before a team could do the job. My bet is the Ukrainians used small teams on multiple missions over weeks or months to bring rucksack size bundles to the target and only lit the fire when they thought the time was right.
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You both know much more about demolitions than I do. Our training pretty much stopped at a pond of C4 under the outer rail on a curve (and heating C-rations with the stuff - yes, it was a while ago) :oops: . I would agree that could not have been a 1,000Kg (2,000lb) explosive detonating. Assuming the announced amount is correct, then something did not blow.

This is an interesting cross-section of the bridge. Assuming it is accurate, it looks like they were forced to use the a deep pile foundation technique to support the piers rather than direct contact with bedrock.

I am no more a structural engineer than heavy demolitions expert, but I would assume any damage to that substructure would have to concern - particularly so since they seem to been targeting the rail line.

https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/1l2bgs9/this_is_what_the_crimean_bridge_looks_like_in
 
Attacking the underwater supports may not lead to dropping spans of the bridge in a dramatic fashion, but it is still serious damage that would prohibit heavy rail loads. This type of damage is also much more difficult and time consuming to repair than the roadway or railway section.

Also remember any detonation underwater is visibly underwhelming, even when serious structural damage has been done.

I think the Ukrainians achieved their objective and I'd look for increased pressure by Ukraine on this front in the near future.
 
There would seem to be a disturbance in the force in Trump world. I assume the unquestioning 35% are awaiting a cue from the leader about what they should think.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1929954109689606359

The sad thing to me is the absolute lack of discipline within the party. I don't care how thin it is, when you have a majority in both houses, you get something done. The democrats would never be this fractured.

Trump's comments about Rand Paul will likely be, at best, unhelpful.

“Rand votes NO on everything, but never has any practical or constructive ideas. His ideas are actually crazy (losers!). The people of Kentucky can’t stand him. This is a BIG GROWTH BILL!”


I am sure the deficit increase is indeed problematic for fiscal conservatives, but the growth aspects of this legislation are also extraordinarily important. We can't cut enough spending to eliminate the deficit. Ergo, it is even more important to grow the economy so that it has at least the potential to outpace deficit creation. Making the first term tax cuts permanent are extremely important in achieving that sort of momentum.
 
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