Recent content by captloadie

I can understand the logic behind this decision in today's partisan atmosphere. If he gets classified briefs, first, he now needs to be extremely careful on what he says, so has to not compromise the information. He is in some cases hamstrung on his ability to criticize the sitting government...

Getting baited into a regional conflict is my definition of making it worse. While I have every confidence in the Iron Dome over Israel, is it not just a little suspicious that, what was it, less than 1% of the missiles/drones launched actually landed, and those that did caused very little...

To be honest, whoever is sitting in that seat is going to being saying something along the same lines, to the effect of trying to convince Israel not to attack and make things worse. All the rest of the Western Foreign ministers are doing it. The best that we can hope for is for them to strike...

Perhaps the reason the verbiage "explore" is linked to other factors, like not wanting to tie the government to either a specific course of action, or a specific dollar amount for something that is unknown at the time because the project is still in its infancy. Would it not look foolish to say...

So Sorry, I was implying that historically that was the case, before the industry has become so regulated. Also, I know it is overly simplifying to define something as either only a tool, or a toy, but that's how I see things. If you buy a side-by-side to work your farm, its a tool. If you buy...

It is a chicken and egg problem. Did the increasing regulation change gun culture, or did changing gun culture bring in the need for new regulations. Even reading through this page of posts, Canadian gun culture seemed to be based historically on the fact that firearms were tools, not toys. And...

We can't even crew the fleets we have now, and the knitting has already started for just the capabilities coming on board. Nor will we ever have enough unless we dramatically change the way we recruit and employ personnel.

The original roll out timeline, with an influx of NP funding was ~22 years to kit all L1s, and they projected it could be shortened to ~14 years if NP funding was diverted from other ribbons and bows projects. 2 years I thought was the estimate to get Army Field units kitted out, if they made...

If I were Boeing, I wouldn't open the line again. I would be designing the next generation of Heavy lift, waiting for the current C17 fleet to begin Txing. Then I would go to congress with my hands out, saying there is a new, better design ready to come off the drawing board, and all that is...

The problem is the UofS exemption to the Charter is in jeopardy if we continue to retain individuals who breach UofS. The lack of people actually makes the matter more critical, because now that everyone is short, it is hard to retain some individuals and not others without opening the...

We might not want to laugh at Turkey's ability to design and production of aviation assets. The is some very good open source information out there on some very capable UAVs that model some of the 5th gen capabilities.

I am a father, of a daughter and two sons. And I have taught my children how to protect themselves to the best of their ability, and not rely on the fact that the rules are supposed to do that for them. I also taught them to be accepting, and open to people who by their standards might be...

See, we have taken the argument away from individuals who identify as trans as a true belief, and continued the fear mongering to protect our wives and daughters from those individuals who are going to use whatever system they can to feed their sickness. If the PM stood up and said he wanted to...

So I ask again, what is the real issue? Are you worried about women's their modesty? Are you concerned about women's safety? What is the issue you think is at the root of all this? Other than we have been conditioned, especially in North America, that there needs to be this divide between sexes...

I don't understand the the whole bathroom/female space issue. Can anyone explain what the actual issue is, other than fear of the unknown? It actually highlights the larger stereotype that if men and women share common spaces, women are going to be violated. The stereotype that we need to...