Recent content by lenaitch

There's always the 'not here' or 'we're different' angle.

Assuming that most houses probably have some form of forced air heating, how do you suppose those "existing communities" be re-plumbed to take advantage of some manner of centralized district heating? Who should pay for it? Or are you suggesting that the heat from the data centres be somehow...

Which, if recall correctly, was the whole point of developing Initial Rapid Deployment (or its various names). People were dying under a widely-held policy of 'hold, secure and wait for the cavalry' in active shooter situations.

I'm not so convinced. There is a lot of money in the shadows backing MAGA/Project 2025 movement. There may be a gap of a term only because openly courting and developing a protege in the face of Trump's ego and paranoia likely wouldn't go over well. Maybe to loss of Charlie Kirk was a setback.

There are still people who can't reconcile that women aren't solely in the kitchen anymore. Interesting. I would suspect that the data might be different in urban vs rural environments. A large municipal department/detachment would be able to have at least elements of their...

Interesting. I was thinking more along the lines of the infrastructure. Trying to modify a plant that produces a lot of relatively light things into one that produces really heavy things. Flooring loading for cranes, final product, etc. Re-tooling essentially means making a different version...

Ya, I worked with a guy like. Every traffic stop of a little old lady with a burned out headlight turned into a high risk takedown. It was very tiresome. He went his entire career without having shot anyone and I am sure he left disappointed.

I saw an ad on CTV this morning advertising the Hanwha KSS submarine for Canada.

Unless it's a one-off, that type of employment in that type of industry generally means moving a lot. One of our former neighbours was the daughter of a mining engineer and grew up for a few years each in place from coast-to-coast. Depending on the job, the trick is to get out before the...

It's pretty hard to be a "warrior" when most cops would only be called upon to be 'warrior-y' only a handful of times in their career, at best. It would be akin to train one week a year at [fill in military trade here] then go do something completely different and expecting that training to...

Part of it is definitely income vs cost of living, but part of it is, for want of better terms, maturity and financial literacy (numeracy?). As a port retirement gig I did background investigations on people seeking gaming licences. A lot of them were young people, often still living at home...

I think there is a risk in assessing Australian police response and tactics through a Canadian or North American lens. As far as I know, all uniformed police in Australia, including NSW, are armed. I couldn't find any reference regarding patrol long guns. Most police services here didn't...

Technological advancements is indeed a continuum. True in everything from buggies to steam engines to flying machines. I think there is some risk in expecting that some kind of linear 'Moore's Law' advancement works equally in all situations, or works at all. Back in the day, Popular...

There may well be. I don't know if any of the CL-x15 fleet are optimized for rough field work as suggested. I'm not even sure if they are set up for cold weather operations. In a couple of posts you've moved from making life for the pilot easier to self-flying aircraft. The "much is being...