Oh come on, so much drama for a slick lean tower in sparsely populated land, barely visible to anyone but local fishermen.
Compare it to, say, this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duga_radar
This is a very prominent military installation that spoiled shortwave communications for years, and nobody dared to say a word against it.
If the choice is between Ares and Hermes, I am choosing Hermes.
(Disclaimer: I am a trading software engineer).
They were keystones in their respective economies and thus just as integral to national physical defense.
Inside, there is a mess of server racks installed by major banks and financial companies and everybody else (it's not that expensive, by corporate standards, to rent a rack place there), all interconnected by a web of optical fiber. Chaos reigns.
These are the places where billions per second change hands.
Ares and Plutus, surely.
American, UK and Australian analogues are listed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over-the-horizon_radar
[EDIT] Or there are the Facebook planes: http://www.theverge.com/2015/7/30/9074925/facebook-aquila-so...
'The mast will be erected in the western part of the Richborough Power Station, a place referred to as “The Banana Land” (I suppose the name comes from the pseudo-tropical climate created by the station?).'
But apparently it is only referring to that former power plant location.
Better theory yet: look at the shape of land surrounded by train tracks and River Stour on Google maps [2].
If anyone has any idea (a fault-tolerant design maybe) or impacts on the financial markets ?
What time scale are we talking about? (ns, μs, ms or even several minutes ?)
Worst case is widening your quotes while you reassess your view of the world (the book), but never withdrawing completely from the market.
This tells a lot. :)
This is really a political issue. Here in Germany nobody would ever think of excluding UK when talking about "Europe". The same goes for France, Belgium, and so on. And nobody would ever have to explicitly say "European Union" just to make clear that they also mean UK. Of course UK is part of Europe! We have deep historical, cultural and political connections, let alone the massive economic interrelations - as depicted in the article.
Their strange view is a pity, and we can only hope that the UK politicians will change their view - either by understanding, or by being replaced with more sane politicians in the next elections.
What continent do you think the UK is part of, Asia?
It's clearly a part of the European continent.
Also, whether the UK will remain a member of the European Union depends on a certain referendum in the near future.