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My grandfather's grandfather was originally employed at a Royal Navy shipyard somewhere in Scotland, and moved to Nova Scotia once those shut down. The yards he was a shipwright for after he arrived in Canada were at one time the largest in Canada. He would be most put out to know they're pretty...

As I said, there's absolutely no reason to think anything like the thought experiment would happen in reality. What worries me is the possibility that it *could* because someone was careless - or worse yet, unaware. An IT nightmare scenario my network administrator and I have been trying to...

An interesting thought experiment comes to mind. Suppose I were a well-known Canadian criminologist and academic, invited to give a presentation in the United States about some new method of disguising child porn, and in the process of travelling across the border, Customs Officials find the...

There is a way to adapt yourself to taking the test when you have a learning disability, as opposed to having the test adapted to meet your needs. Depending on the particulars of your learning disability, of course. For me the challenge was answering the questions as asked, since I have a...

Yeah, I love that area - my brother and his family live not that far outside of it. I'll fully admit that my standards are a little off - the region my mother grew up in had a score of ~23000 trees pp/sq. Namely because their nearest neighbor was 12 miles away through uninhabited wilderness. 50...

Thanks again for the clarification, FJAG.

I live in Oakville, just about 2 miles away from the GO station, so it's easy enough for me to get to Toronto on a whim. The things that I love most about Toronto are rather similar to the things I love about my home town, but there are a number of differences. What I love about Oakville -...

Sad reality is, those nations which adhere to something like Star Trek's Prime Directive are going to inevitably become the victims of those that do not (Interference in elections and politics is ridiculously common throughout history, after all). Ergo, the solution is to emulate the Klingon or...

Indeed, it appears to be as you say. I do wonder at how the accreditation process for a lawyer immigrating from a country in which homosexuality was a criminal offence would be managed. Now, You stated earlier in the thread that you believe that human rights are layered. It strikes me that can...

It does, yes, thank you. Though since I personally know a gay person attending TWU (because TWU was cheaper to attend due to both parents being alumni), I got a very interesting answer when I asked him about the matter. He didn't feel at all restricted by the covenant because being a rather...

If we're going to be addressing biblical text as evidence in this particular case, I'd point out that the Good Book also says that one is to live in peace with those around them, as far as it is possible to do so. Which does seem to mean that Christians are not required to expect their neighbors...

I tend to phrase things in a manner which is difficult to understand for some people, but it boils down to holding the idea that the capacity for disagreement is something that must be held sacrosanct if we are to have a society which truly values the freedom and independence of speech. Suppose...

I've worked with many of the more "Northern" breeds, which are probably even less of a training wheel breed, so I completely agree with the sentiment. Absolutely true. Thankfully, my aunt has a good amount of acreage, and has an incredible love of animals (raising kids on an active dairy farm...

I'm very curious, since it seems the majority of military families I know of have at least one dog in the house. Given that I have little reason to presume that to be different for the people here, what breeds to people enjoy the companionship of? I do not currently have a dog (or a cat, for...

I'm already doing that, though closer to an 18:6 pattern.

I began what passes for my fitness regime pretty much the same day I made initial contact with the recruitment center. Since I used to run competitively back in Grade 8, my best time was 49.33. Given that I was literally half my age at the time, I'm more than happy to surpass it. As it stands, I...

I was diagnosed with Asperger's in January 2015, two months before my 31st birthday. Didn't really change a thing for me, because by then I'd already completed two post-secondary programs, and was running a business worth in excess of $1M. I know of a CF member (a former chaplain) whose own...

I seem to recall reading a statistic from some years back (2010 or so) which strongly indicated that the majority of murders in Canada aren't even committed with firearms...

The sad reality is that human behavior honestly has not changed too much since the Bronze Age, but we've fortunately had a number of restraints develop due to the ease with which we can commit unimaginable horrors against our neighbors. Our natural paranoia has pragmatically given way to peace...

I recall a study done in Baltimore some years back that found a remarkable connection between an area's crime rate and the relative tree coverage of that area. The only crime that increased with greater amounts of tree coverage was burglary, which just makes sense...