> one armed nuclear sub could be wiped out fairly easily if we're talking about a power like this, right?
The one that's in dock for service and repair, yes. But the others could be at sea anywhere in the world, in an unknown location.
> Would all four, if armed, be able to do much damage back?
Each sub can carry 16 x Trident D5 ballistic missiles, with a range of 6,000 mi. Each missile carries multiple warheads, each with much higher yields than those used at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. So certainly the potential to do lots of damage.
The US has a similar setup with their Ohio-class submarines, though I don't believe they carry such letters or equivalent.
1. True segregation where the rich go to a separate school all-together / have separate planes, etc.
2. Everyone wears the same lowest-common denominator clothes / travel in the same travel class?
Each of these alternatives is economically inefficient, and the poor suffer more as a result as their fares cease to be subsidised by the rich.
I'd rather fly $500 return to Tokyo, because some rich guy upfront is paying $4000 for a flat bed, than pay $2000 because some left-wing loon demands everyone has the same class of travel.
This is a fairly edge case, that only really occurs on US domestic flights. The majority of the world's frequent-flyer programmes do not give space-available upgrades in the way that say American or United do domestically.
The vast majority of those travelling in premium cabins (or their employers) paid cash for their ticket.
He was not seriously advocating such a system, merely saying that such a scenario would be the only way to get the richer parents to pay more, ala the airline model. Otherwise it's a simple act of charity.
As a programmer, double negatives make me reel with horror. I cannot parse an English sentence with a double negative as being a single negative; it's utterly illogical. At best, they're an unnecessary hindrance.
To be fair, this isn't a private airport, it's really just a private terminal at San Jose International (SJC). Don't get me wrong, that's pretty darn cool, though really no different to, say, Lufthansa's dedicated First Class Terminal at Frankfurt. Well, apart from the private Google planes, of course :-)