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Ironically, a lot of them went to BAE, and are either still there, or trained the BAE SMEs that improved the T26 modular build refinements that was applied (building on LL from T45 and some other UK ship builds). So we're indirectly using improvements on a lot of the design and production...

For sure, there are a lot of interesting articles about this is you look up shipbuilding learning curve. There is an expected drop off everytime you switch from one design to another, but the general baseline increases over time, so it's less severe the more mature the shipyard is as general...

I believe it's a reference to the piping you can see in the blocks (vice just being steel). Other blocks will have full bits of equipment pre-installed, but the RCD design isn't that fully completed to allow that yet. You'll see more of that from ships 2 onwards, but that's part of the assumed...

Yeah, I don't miss that.

And if you want to learn some polite French slang from the Franco version of the Barenaked Ladies... some Bleu Jeans Bleu

Hilariously if you read the RCN dress instructions the morale patch approval is basically unit chief, with some guidelines on appropriateness. Guess how little most unit Chiefs care if you are a random RCN person in NCDs in a largely Army/Airforce unit? Had a Movember morale patch, wondering if...

And none of that applied to a Chinese flagged ship, bringing cargo from UAE going through the Strait, which was being discussed as a 'blockade runner'. Aside from tracking AIS, it's pretty negligible to check the actual cargo embarkation with other independent open source information, and basic...

You mean a completely normal thing that happens every new parliamentary sessions? That's why people were suggesting proroguing for a day to reset the committee membership. Minority government works by doing things like sharing committee membership and leads, and why if the politicians act like...

Well, for one, they have legal jurisdiction on the highways? The US has no backing from anyone other than Israel on this whole shitshow, and pulling over a Chinese flagged ship in international waters is a violation of Chinese sovereignty, so that's not something they have free reign over...

It seems like they were coming from other ports withing the gulf and transitting through; under what legal authority would the US actually blockade them (especially leaving from places like the UAE that are theoretrically friendly with the US). THe whole blockade things is so unclear...

Yeah, I think it's a great stopgap, but their marketing has always been a lot better than their actual delivery, and always found a lot of the lies they keep repeating about their NSS bid fairly offputting (the whole NSS was delayed so they could submit a bid, they just lost).

I mean, the profit margin on that contract is fairly high already, so probably a business cost for the extra downtime. We're still in the short DWP cycles for downtime, so doing ECs that extends DWPs probably hits their operational charge out. Suspect that impact drops off as they get into the...

Thanks, I saw that eventually when I clicked through to an old story, where they claimed it would save $1200 a year. I'm not sure what standard family is buying enough gas to save $1200/year, so they must have been doing some (fairly aggressive) estimates on drops to things like food etc from...

If it's a flat 10 cents a liter on gasoline, where was the CPC getting 25 cents from? Were they talking about a GST cut as well (and wouldn't that do nothing in provinces with HST unless the provinces have carve outs as well)?

It's docking dependent steel work, but frankly a lot easier than the extent of the repairs we routinely do during dockings, as the scope would be planned ahead. The only tricky bit would be figuring out how much of the skin to take off the double hull to get the plating into tanks, and making...

The drop seems to be almost entirely in the LPC and Conservative votes, with each dropping 30k voters, but still enough for a very easy LPC win in Terrebonne. Still, losing 75% of your votes in one riding doesn't seem great, as a lot may have just been protest votes.

Probably didn't phrase it right, meant more finding out about job openings from someone you know and forwarding an application on through them, or letting them know about a posting for the advertised jobs. There are a lot of things to prevent biases and favoritism, but at the same time it's...

The non apology DWAN wide email really landed flat. I have no fundamental issue with people getting an opportunity to apply for a job that they found out about because of who they know, but from the ethics commissionaire report she essentially pushed him to be hired for something he was...

Sure but even outside of Parliament, there is nothing that stops him speaking about a topic he got a briefing on, and fully complying with FISOIA, as long as he sticks to what's in the public domain. Maybe the Parliamentary briefings are different, but pretty much all the ones I've seen at just...

The key is to vote it into your mess rules as part of an GM, and approve the cost for it.