... I had several references to "13 June 2265," all of which should have been 2269 (elections in 2265 were on 17 Februrary). Fixed. ... Fixed. ... Fixed. ... ...
One way to ensure payment would be to organize a form of barter. The same ships that take the goods off the planet could arrive loaded with goods needed on the...
if you can land and take off it may be illegal trade but IMO is hardly smuggling. The Chinese handshake and its various ethnic variants have the same problem...
... No, landing and taking off illegally is rather clearly smuggling. The problem is the first half of your statement -- 'if you can land and take off'. You...
Sir that was my point. Hypothetically one can dump sleath packets of illegal goods while doing a legal landing. The reverse is not true. This makes paying...
I can definitely see Olowabi being interested in bartering pharmaceuticals for machine tools and CAD/CAM systems. Shouldn't this be petrochemicals?
The...
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and XC also has the means of both getting payment in kind and getting it off the planet - can I presume that XC would exert reasonable efforts to prevent...
... you'll be ... at ... whacked ... sending ... will ... vested ... This assumes no corruption, which I find extremely difficult to believe. Pretty much all...
Klebert L. Hall
swampyankee@...
Jul 2, 2004 10:20 pm
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... Actually, no, I was discussing smuggling by means _other than_ bribing people in the transport industries....
... believe. ... people ... Ah, gotcha.You're including the navies in the 'transport industries' catergory, then? That becomes a heck of a lot harder. Why the...
Klebert L. Hall
swampyankee@...
Jul 2, 2004 10:35 pm
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... No, I'm not, unless you're talking about naval cargo ships. You aren't going to be able to bribe traffic control -- there's too many different people ...
Normal ways to prevent corruption is multiagencies for the paperwork / inspection that are kept antagonistic by culture plus competing security agencies...
... inspection that are ... other and the ... Agreed, with one caveat: I would substitute 'mitigate' for 'prevent'. -Kle....
Klebert L. Hall
swampyankee@...
Jul 3, 2004 1:24 am
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... going ... Call me a pessimist; I'd expect it to be *really hard* ; not impossible. I've seen too many large, proffesional, organisations get up to some...
Klebert L. Hall
swampyankee@...
Jul 3, 2004 1:31 am
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Substitution taken and embraced - however it does drive up the cost of beating the system which mitigates against major leakages Scott ... From: Klebert L....
One thing that might be worth considering is to smuggle in the item in ammunition manufacture that is easiest to interdict, i.e., powder and primers. These...
These figures assume some very efficient production in trouble-free
environments (ie no rude interruptions from peacekeeping forces. Remember,
the peacekeepers...
I can only agree with the line on Large organizations up to no good when left to themselves. We should keep in mind that the XC and Altiplanine Peacekeeping...
... That said: there is no real question that there will be some availability of ammunition on Schwarzvaal. The goal of interdiction is not to get the ...
... Remember, ... target ... Hmm - but are you going to limit your own troops? The more expensive ammo is, the more attractive targets the peacekeeping forces...
... Um...what? That doesn't make any sense. In any case, yes, one probable source of ammunition is corruption in the supply system for offplanet troops....
Battle Report: July 4 2004 Steve Rubin, Chauncey Smith, and James Sterrett, all at Steve's house. (Corinne is still in Scotland.) We'd planned to begin at...
... That's not a counter. If you've wiped out a peacekeeping patrol and captured their ammunition then you've captured the weapons too. Caseless ammunition...
... The counter is that while a peacekeeping patrol doesn't really have _that_ much ammunition, and that the patrol is likely to use much of it up while trying...
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