Recent content by Navy_Pete

What if they just didn't exorcise his couch next time it seduces him?

This is actually fully consistent with what David Orchard himself said right after the merger and repeatedly since and that MacKay promised him it wouldn't happen. He even took them to court and included a lot of this in the case. Legal Documents — Opposition to the Merger...

I think they will be getting $2M per ship for the ones going through now; unclear if that's from the shipping companies or compensation from the US, from what one of the news articles reported. That's peanuts compared to the value of the oil onboard, but still an incredible turnaround from...

Yeah, him making a threat that sounds like he's going to actually nuke their country probably shorted out a few wires. I'm not really sure how else you can interpret 'end their civilization'; even carpet bombing German factories and downs, or dropping two nukes in Japan did that. Hopefully guy...

I've seen similar from our PAOs when they are drafting media lines for a few people, I wouldn't think too hard about it. Especially if you have a team of lowly paid interns doing a lot of different official twitter accounts getting things sent down from the lofty heights of the Staff to the Big...

By the resistance to not commiting war crimes against civilians with no real plan to actually overthrow the regime and likely strengthening internal support by the hardliners? Sure, the Iranian leaders, republican guards and some others are garbage human beings, but letting the dumbest kids in...

The recovery will be too; if everything opened back up tomorrow, still 3-4 weeks minimum for shipping to get back up and running with actual deliveries, then processing time and distribution once the crude is proceesed into whatever, so something like a 6-8 week lag. Wouldn't be surprised if...

To be fair, for context Norway has a much better set of rules that complement the Naval Ship Code that actually properly militarizes civilian designs, as well as the expertise and authority to challenge and overrule class societies. We don't, did, and didn't get the top cover.

Or CFHA!

Economic benefits isn't the point of NSS, but it is a reality is that is what actually got the policiticians onboard as the majority of them could not care less about the Navy, Coast guard, shipyard capacity, strategic objectives in general or anything beyond getting themselves re-elected. So...

I hated that opportunity cost arguement; DoF tried to apply that to the NSS and see if there would be a bigger economic investment if the same money was goign into cars or something. Maybe, but it completely missed it was a strategic investment into a key economic activity that supported a GoC...

The RN did it, and initially got rid of HTs, and specifically told us to not do that if we went down that route. The recommendation that went up for approval was amalgamate until QL3s, then split into 3 separate specialisations (mech, electrical and hull), so basically the same as what we had...

Yes, they include CAF. Also US numbers don't include anyone in heathcare, which is a pretty large employer across Canada, particularly with our current demographics. Apparently the UK is around 18%, with most of the OECD in the low 20s and the outliers in the Scandi countries at about 30%. If...

What's wild about it is their fancy automated systems never worked, and they were at $50 lb for a price point, which is insane. The article also interviewed another guy with a much lower tech setup that was doing a lot better, with about a third of the footprint, but sounded like he understood...

I don't know, he seems to be doing a good job running Manitoba and is relevant there. He likely will have far more real impact than going federal, where the NDP is a bit of a hopeless mess.