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| Holben | Sep 17 2013, 01:51 PM Post #76 |
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Because of currency fixing and war bonds? I don't think that would balance out the subsidy, materials, R&D, labour, and lack of competition losses, though. I wonder how they'll pay back all those years' worth of loans to the banks... Europe and Brazil are going to make a killing. I thought Chau had sole ownership of the corpses, so no revenue stream there. Would sure be valuable, though. |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| lamna | Sep 17 2013, 03:37 PM Post #77 |
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I seriously doubt Panama and New Zealand were able to build their own, more likely was that they got ones built by the great powers, and in exchange for letting them be stationed in their country got to crew them. |
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| Kamidio | Sep 17 2013, 03:38 PM Post #78 |
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Are we all ignoring that there is a CANADIAN JAEGER. |
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| Holben | Sep 17 2013, 03:55 PM Post #79 |
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New Zealand didn't get one, at least not one that was confirmed. Panama's admittedly a bit of an outlier (GDP 36 billion in 2012), the next lowest known is Peru at 200 billion. They are very strongly tied to the USA, so I guess your explanation is the best there. But the whole economic analysis thing just highlights how remarkable it is that Indonesia doesn't have a Jaeger. |
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| Russwallac | Sep 17 2013, 04:01 PM Post #80 |
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Canada actually has a surprisingly effective military, far more so than America's. Or at least Canada's better at not sending their troops to fight pointless wars. |
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| trex841 | Sep 17 2013, 04:03 PM Post #81 |
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There universal healthcare is back by NUCULAR WEAPONS! |
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| lamna | Sep 17 2013, 04:06 PM Post #82 |
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Canada's always had a good military. Why do you think it's not the State of Canada? |
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| whachamacallit2 | Sep 17 2013, 04:09 PM Post #83 |
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I remember someone made a Jaeger specifically for the Philippines, which was more of a scrapped together jaeger than the others. Perhaps some nations could have done that. |
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| trex841 | Sep 17 2013, 04:23 PM Post #84 |
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ...I think I trailed off there a the end. |
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| Holben | Sep 17 2013, 04:30 PM Post #85 |
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The joke isn't that Greece is poor, Germany regularly hands it loads of money but it immediately spends it on submarines and stuff, ending up in debt, hence "pay denbts". The Latvian potato meme has been disappearing recently, and there's a new one for Sweden. |
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| T.Neo | Sep 17 2013, 04:40 PM Post #86 |
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I think a large part of the point is that the countries pooled their resources to build the Jaegers. The Jaegers aren't under the command of national agencies, but the PPDC itself- they only belong to a specific nation in that their home base/area of operation is located in that nation, and/or that a specific national banner is attached to the Jaeger. One of the Japanese Jaegers had British pilots; the first Chinese Jaeger was apparently built in Alaska (footage of it's construction and that of it's counterpart uses the interior of a German shipyard as a matte), so it's logical to assume that their was distribution of finances to create Jaegers. The politics of NK getting a Jaeger confuses me more than the financial aspect. I wouldn't give NK the technology to build the tip of a Jaeger's thumb, let alone the idea of them having their own fully armed and operational Jaeger and having the bright idea of sending it across the DMZ to go Kaiju on Seoul. Imagine if they demanded a joint Korean Jaeger; who gets to be in control? Pilots from the North or South? A pair with one from the North and one from the South? How the heck would they be drift compatible? Basically, all the nations involved are rational enough to understand the importance of cooperation, but NK is pretty nuts- even when one takes quite a conservative view on how nuts they are. Edited by T.Neo, Sep 17 2013, 04:42 PM.
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| lamna | Sep 17 2013, 05:38 PM Post #87 |
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I've brought a book about how nuts they are, and from what I've skimmed it's "less than they want the world to think, but yeah still pretty nuts". I've got novels about 90's Nantucket trying to survive the bronze age to finish reading first. But yeah they probably either collapsed, just kept quiet, cooperated with the international community (i.e. stopped fucking about for a while) or "helped" by launching missiles at Kaiju and taking credit for the kills internally. I remember an episode of Doctor Who where the world was coordinating their nuclear missiles through UNIT to attack some aliens and North Korea was part of it, dispute only having half nuclear weapons and no way to launch them. |
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| trex841 | Sep 17 2013, 05:52 PM Post #88 |
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Which episode? |
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| lamna | Sep 17 2013, 06:03 PM Post #89 |
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"The Poison Sky" |
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| Kamidio | Sep 17 2013, 06:05 PM Post #90 |
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I wasn't mocking the concept of a Canadian Jaeger. I WAS APPLAUDING IT. http://pacificrim.wikia.com/wiki/Brawler_Yukon |
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