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  1. Oldgateboatdriver

    A Deeply Fractured US

    You will only have to brake in an emergency once to cure them of that disease.
  2. Oldgateboatdriver

    A Deeply Fractured US

    I know a few (upper) senior officers and GOFO's who started in the reserve/militia before switching to reg after university: They neither had the RMC experience nor the regular force basic officer course. That didn't seem to hinder their careers.
  3. Oldgateboatdriver

    A Deeply Fractured US

    Unsafe at any speed? Actually, we own a F150 (full disclosure here: we live in the country and its a must for the Hobby Farm because you can't get really get the farm supplies delivered anymore). When my youngest son took his scooter permit, the instructor doing the practical training asked me...
  4. Oldgateboatdriver

    A Deeply Fractured US

    Yes. Unfortunately. A cyclist in Montreal and I acted as on-scene first aid person until the first responders could arrive. But I am trying to see how your point relates to the high-tech stuff in any car or vehicle, and in particular to the one at issue, which is the start-stop system to cut...
  5. Oldgateboatdriver

    A Deeply Fractured US

    ?????????
  6. Oldgateboatdriver

    A Deeply Fractured US

    Are you saying that religion imposing constraints on how one lives one's own life is OK, but,. without it one would have to, somehow, have to figure out how to react to someone else's attempt to do so? No! The way to react is easy: F... Off! Let me do as I please, as long as it is legal under...
  7. Oldgateboatdriver

    A Deeply Fractured US

    Good god! (figuratively, for the god part here) Somebody actually took the time to compile a table!
  8. Oldgateboatdriver

    A Deeply Fractured US

    Why conservatism in the sense of not accepting the normal evolution of humankind doesn't work: Because nobody knows where you should draw the line where "evolution" should stop. Look at the Amish: stopped accepting technology in the 18th century as "not being in the bible". Yet, tons of...
  9. Oldgateboatdriver

    A Deeply Fractured US

    You mean like Evangelical Christians and Creationists, some times referred to in the Internet as "American Taliban"?
  10. Oldgateboatdriver

    A Deeply Fractured US

    RMC is a self imposed facility, not to be confused with a Canadian top academic institution. Besides, RMC can't do it on its own and has to rely on Queen's for many programs.
  11. Oldgateboatdriver

    A Deeply Fractured US

    I think you should also look at France and the UK. In France, if you wish to become a senior bureaucrat, you have to go to specific universities, depending on the department you wish to work in. It's not quite as clear for England, but if you wish to make it to secretary or under-secretary...
  12. Oldgateboatdriver

    Replacing the Subs

    Or rite requirements in such precise and specific terms that the only system that meets the requirements is the one the brass had decided in advance that it wanted ... because they like the looks or the neighbours had the same. :)
  13. Oldgateboatdriver

    Canadian River Class Destroyer Megathread

    So lets see here: So far, we have artwork from Irving and from NavyShooter for a thread that goes back to August 2015. And the winner is NavyShooter!
  14. Oldgateboatdriver

    Liberal Minority Government 2025 - ???

    They rendered the decision on the bench. The written reasons, if any, will be published later.
  15. Oldgateboatdriver

    Replacing the Subs

    It has quite a few people tilting that way, but unfortunately is not in the specs.
  16. Oldgateboatdriver

    2026 Winter Olympics

    Can we say seven and a half? After all, there was that Quebecer who won Gold in the Pair figure skating. She just happened to win it for France with her French partner. :)
  17. Oldgateboatdriver

    El Paso airport and airspace closed without warning for 10 days for ‘national defence’

    I guess you can say that the fire control and anti-drone system works, but the identification and classification one needs work.
  18. Oldgateboatdriver

    New Canadian Shipbuilding Strategy

    I don't know why this story keeps popping up. There were no major refits away from Halifax on the St Laurent class in the 1970. All of the main out of port major refits were done between 1962 and 1965 as conversion to DDH, and yes, some of those occurred at Davie. In the early 70's, Davie was...
  19. Oldgateboatdriver

    Replacing the Subs

    I think he means that Canada would use it in the negotiations to show they are serious about increasing defense spending - a perennial American beef.
  20. Oldgateboatdriver

    El Paso airport and airspace closed without warning for 10 days for ‘national defence’

    Don't you people get that Trump is a Russian agent! This is the beginning of the maskirovka to provide justification and cover for incursions into Mexico.
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