Re: Why the Law of the Sea has to be the Law of the Jungle?

On Aug 24, 6:28=A0am, Morten Reistad <fi...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >On Aug 19, 3:43=A0pm, Morten Reistad <fi...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> >> Hey, where's the real place with humans, Alaska, Scandinavia?
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> >> >any place where you get actual sailors.
> >> >I worked the gulf for a while and was on the whole unimpressed. what
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> >> >observed was a total lack of licensing, no familiarity with either
> >> >inland or international rules of the road, skill levels in boat
> >> >handling and navigations somewhere around those of a brain damaged
> >> >squid, drunkenness at the helm, no enforcement at all, trash all
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> >> >the place, a disregard for every one else on or in the water, and an
> >> >over whelming attitude that folks don't actually have to follow any
> >> >rules. =A0 In short; Bubbas (I cant actually think of anything that
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> >> >as slovenly and boorish as the majority of southern boaters).
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> >> In Scandinavia the greater Oslo Fjord area is like this. Sheltered
> >> waters, lots of yuppies with daddys gofast-boat; as you call them ;
> >> "bubbas" with cabin cruisers, and rich drunkards with cigar
> >> boats. The first day of main holiday you can barely get through on
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> >> VHF ch 16 because of all the disaster messages. Fortunatly, the vast
> >> majority of damage is self-inflicted. [1]
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> >When I was in Norway in 2000 everything looked good and unpolluted,
> >but I noticed you were being fed too many American TV shows.
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> Garbage TV is the same everywhere.

Yep, but it always comes from the same place. ;)

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> >I guess what happened is that some people bought into the "American
> >dream" (those who could afford it anyway), and started doing like in
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> No, we don't have much of the industrial pollution. Rules for the
> oil industry are strict; and the plants tend to have localised
> pollution, and are put in some desolate place between steep
> mountains. The cruise ****ps don't go to those fjords.
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> They even put back some water in the waterfalls for the tourists
> to watch. Normally any waterfall of any size would have been put
> in pipes to make hydropower.

Wherever you go in Norway, you don't see piles of garbage, not even a
piece of paper on the ground. I wonder if our politicians could ever
go there and bring back some ideas.

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> >the series "Miami Vice." But I assure you, that those cigarette boats
> >do pollute, and leave a trail of garbage while terrorizing kayakers
> >and other civilized people.
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> Nowadays, we MAKE a lot of those boats. And the Swedes make a lot
> of the engines. Also sold in America.
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> The entrepreneurs among us saw Miami Vice, and thought "I can make
> those cheaper and better".
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Well, it's like Volvo. They also got into the SUV craze... Not as
stupid as our Stupid Unnecessary Vehicles but still unnecessary. Good
old fa****oned station wagons are still the best.