Recent content by Kirkhill

Good, bad or indifferent. What is wrong with just saying no? Indiscriminately.

Make the helos available to the local helicopter companies and crews with a SAR/Government support contract.

https://breakingdefense.com/2024/05/teledyne-flirs-new-rogue-1-loitering-munition-has-been-under-socom-contract-for-two-years/ And related .... https://breakingdefense.com/2024/05/army-leader-dismisses-house-proposal-for-drone-branch-creation/ Drones, apparently, are everybodies' job.

I like tradition. I don't like change just for the sake of change. You need to show me that change is going to make my life better.

And why is it wrong for people to say "No!"?

I guess my take is that I would sooner be standing 5 km off with an ATGM, or an FPV OWAUAS, than be the poor bugger with the satchel charge.

Is this fair comment? The barrage is comparable to a minefield. The barrage creates an environment where trespassers are likely to randomly encounter a lethal threat. The greater the density of the minefield or the barrage the greater the probability of trespassers suffering damage or lethal...

I label any employment that isn't an open ended contract, any contract that is time-limited and requires re-engagement periodically, as a gig. The point is that employment takes many forms. Jobs for life are not what they used to be. Some people are good with that. Nothing is inevitable...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Labrador_Highway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_Route_138 Schefferville to Churchill and Muskrat Falls, Churchill Falls to Goose Bay, Goose Bay to Old Fort on Quebec Highway 138, just past Blanc Sablon on the Strait of Belle Isle. Completing the...

No. I'm saying that when conditions get miserable enough people vote with their feet and do the other thing. 18th century Scottish farmhouse. No floors. No windows. No chimneys. One fire. Smoke leaking through the turf roof. Animals at the back end of the building. Everybody, man...

They took advantage of the surplus of available workers to pay less, and treat people poorly... Which mill owners? The ones that built the model factories and supplied clean homes for people that grew up living under the same roof as their cattle and goats? Or the ones that had people...

Further to the Metis ... Are the Oji-Cree Metis? Which were the First First Nations? Cree? Algonquin? Anishinaabe? Mississauga? Ojibwe? Oji-Cree? Or the Iroquois - the Wendat Hurons and the Neutrals of the 5 or 6 nations that call themselves Haudenosaunee?

We need to redefine war as transpeace.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/05/18/russia-china-manipulate-uk-public-opinion-pro-palestine/ https://nationalpost.com/opinion/china-canadian-anti-israel-protests https://networkcontagion.us/reports/ccp-influence-and-radical-ideologies/...