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Steve Jobs' Yacht Impounded In Amsterdam
SchrodingerZ writes "The Venus, Steve Jobs' custom-made mega yacht, (valued at 137.5 million dollars), has been impounded in Amsterdam. Philippe Starck, the boat's main designer, had The Venus impounded by debt collectors, after supposedly Starck and his company, Ubik, were paid only 6 million of the 9-million-euro commission. Roelant Klaassen, a lawyer for Ubik, released in a statement that 'These guys [Jobs and Starck] trusted each other, so there wasn't a very detailed contract.' 'The Venus is a floating ode to both Jobs and Starck's minimalist aesthetic. Made entirely out of aluminum, with 40-foot-long floor-to-ceiling windows lining the passenger compartment and seven 27-inch iMacs making up the command center.' The ship was unofficially unveiled in late October, a year after Jobs' death. It now sits dormant in the Port of Amsterdam, until the payment dispute is resolved."
"Valued at 137.5 M$"?....something tells me it would fetch a lot less.
Yes, but it was machined from a single block of Aluminum.
Look at this: http://www.onemorething.nl/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Schermafbeelding-2012-10-27-om-13.57.16.png Jobs would've dropped dead at the site of the imac cables coming out of those ikea cabinets and duct taped to the floor.
bite my glorious golden ass.
It now sits dormant in the Port of Amsterdam
And here I thought it would require a proprietary port.
Its inner hull is made of titanium and it can dive to 3000 feet.
Any ship can dive to 3000 feet.
It's not drowning everyone and coming back to the surface that's the hard part...
paid only 6 million of the 9-million
Clearly, they were holding it wrong.
I'm sure in a storm Steve would reroute all power to the reality distortion field and it would be all Sunny and a flat sea for them.
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What makes you think those windows aren't made of inch-thick transparent aluminium? People inside will have a whale of a time, even in a storm.
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Look at the photo, top right side of the page. Just aft of mount 51 (the big gun) and below the flying bridge
Now I know how people feel when I tell them to look at the component next to the capacitor next to the socket.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"