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I'm going to be in the military, so I don't know where I'll be. Once you get your full license anywhere you can transfer it AFAIK. My brother did one better: he moved from Ontario to Alberta years ago with his G2 (a step below full license), and when he visited the licensing bureau there they...

Does anyone know if there are provinces left that don't have a graduated licensing system? I've never had any reason or desire to drive, so the complicated, costly, and lengthy system here in Ontario has put me off completely (I did my first written test simply to have the ID), but it'd be...

Here's a free, cross-platform (java) version of A&A me and some friends have been playing for a few years: http://triplea.sourceforge.net/mywiki Being able to skip setup, play remotely, and save-resume games makes things much more convenient... but obviously nowhere near as fun as a 2-day IRL...

I've had a kinesiology undergrad and a physiotherapy grad student both tell me not to stretch so I don't. So I've been told / read, while the chance of hurting yourself stretching is minimal, the supposed benefits are completely non-existent (statistically), so any risk isn't worth it. Of...

Thanks for making me feel like a sucker for not getting paid to wait all summer ;)

That sounds like the NOAB (part of the application process for the navy). See: http://Forums.Army.ca/forums/threads/84137/post-821319.html#msg821319

I'm pretty sure you're going to have to lose all that fat (and keep it off) BEFORE you can start putting on lean muscle. That's because when you restrict your calorie intake - the only way to lose fat - your body consumes fat and muscle in a more-or-less fixed ratio (so whatever muscle you put...

I got the call on the 2nd. I don't remember them being any more specific than August for the course, and sometime in July to do the paperwork (this is for the anglo' class, as a DEO Infantry, out of Windsor). I was physically in the recruiting centre on the 1st, and while I was there they said...

Ditto, although I really wish there was something on paper!

My friend failed the CFAT about a year ago (going into it blind). He wants to be a combat engineer, and is a super handy guy - can weld, lots of construction and machine experience, etc. - but for whatever reason tests shake him up. Is there any chance, were he to write it again and still fall a...

Good to hear they scrapped the crowds idea! Assassin's Creed was pretty terrible once you got past the graphics and animation (Ubi Montreal redeemed themselves with the new PoP however).

The Splinter Cell games are the only 'realistic' shooter games I plan, since I can't stand how in other games you get shot all the time AND DON'T DIE! Splinter Cell is different since bullets actually kill you (what a thought!), so you have to keep re-trying areas until you can clear them...

The better part of 15 years ago ;) As I recall Islamic terrorists ruined their oil industry, so to keep from having to beg the West for grain they decide to take Middle Eastern oil, but because they figure that will prompt a response from NATO, they attack NATO pre-emptively and start WW3...

I liked his books a lot as a kid, but I eventually wised up to Clancy's hack-e-ness. Red Storm Rising was my first and still favourite, but of course it's all predicated on the notion that the Soviet Union would, in order to gain control of the Middle East (something smart), pre-emptively...

My point isn't that minimum wage is terrible. I managed to just pay all my expenses (tuition, rent, food, books and everything) making minimum wage and living as frugally as possible. My point is it's vanishingly hard to progress beyond minimum wage nowadays - to get a secure career and make...

The economy isn't what it used to be. A college or university education is the new high school, except it leaves you either in debt or living at home well into your 20s (a little bit of both in my case ;)) Particularly here in the country's industrial heartland the difference in expected...

I realize that, and think I'm well suited to the officer roll partly because of it. It's just the 13 weeks(?) of basic that concerns me: I don't want the instructors to think I'm half-hearted or too-cool-for-school, so I'm gonna' try to develop a more commanding register for my voice while I...

Tell me if I'm nuts, but the thing I'm most anxious about is developing that 'yelling army voice'. Everything else just seems like a matter of effort and discipline, but I'm not sure I have the basic wiring in my brain to yell and look angry :-\ Surely I'm not the only typically polite and...

Thanks for the PM. I've already sent a few to people on here who are in / seem to know about MARS. As things stand I think I have a better idea of the downside of Infantry vs. MARS, which is clearly influencing my thinking. Not knowing any better, my only - but far from insignificant! - concern...

I'm not a close follower of UK politics, but the impression I get is quite the opposite: before the financial crisis Labour was drifting aimlessly, Brown was pulling an almost perfect Paul Martin, and David Cameron was having drapes cut for #10. Since the crisis, however, Brown has been much...