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Off the Record / Re: [Canada] Canadian Politics...

Last post by viper37 - Today at 07:53:40 PM

Not a requirement but a tradition. 

Conservatives ignoring traditions?  My, my.  What is our world going to.

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Off the Record / Re: [Canada] Canadian Politics...

Last post by viper37 - Today at 07:50:32 PM

but maybe such ideas are old fashioned in the world of social media.

No, not really, it's still there.

It doesn't work as well, but it's still working because by Monday there can be other things.

Example, last week, the political attaché to the habitation Minister of Québec was asked by an English Canadian journalist if the "right to lodging would be an item on the Quebec government's agenda".  The attaché mistakenly forwared her an answer he was sending to someone else at the cabinet "Do I ghost her again, or do I provide a non answer as usual?"

The story ran on Friday afternoon in the newspapers, first in Quebec, then in Canada. Of course, the was bloody outrage from the left.

By Monday early morning, the co-leader of Québec Solidaire had resigned and pointed a finger at the other co-leader's surroundings as the reason why she felt ignored and was exhausted and forced to leave.

The CAQ story was dead.  It wasn't brought again during this week by any journalists, not commented upon by any political shows.  Dead.  Only a few anti-CAQ are still raising the point online.  Conveniently forgetting we have a right to housing in the Federal law since 2019 and we aren't any better.  But it's the left, always unhappy, especially when they get what they want.

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Computer Affairs / Re: Searching in google search...

Last post by viper37 - Today at 07:41:30 PM

...but thats not what I'm investigating here. I want to know how Springfield, Essex would compare to all the others. Where does something mentioning this town rank in a typical user (of course everyone sees different search results depending on different factors) making a blanket search for all Springfields.

You can use AI CoPilot if you refine your search criterias.  This tool is basically a refined search bot.

What do you want compare?  Costs of living?  Populaion? GDP?  Number of Google hits of each Springfield?

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Gaming HQ / Re: The Miscellaneous PC & vid...

Last post by crazy canuck - Today at 07:39:07 PM

More economic simulation less combat. 

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Gaming HQ / Re: The Miscellaneous PC & vid...

Last post by viper37 - Today at 07:35:46 PM

Manor Lords seems to be living up to the hype.

It looks like a modern Lords of the Realm?

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Off the Record / Re: Israel-Hamas War 2023

Last post by chipwich - Today at 06:57:46 PM

The Chinese of America tend to be obedient and productive, OBV's endorsement of the exclusion act shows him to be a communist traitor.

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Off the Record / Re: [Canada] Canadian Politics...

Last post by crazy canuck - Today at 06:38:23 PM

RCMP Assistant Commissioner David Teboul confirmed Friday the force's probe included "investigating connections to the government of India." He said there are numerous cases still open

Let's hope this investigation goes better than the Air India investigation, as BB intimated.

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Off the Record / Re: Russo-Ukrainian War 2014-2...

Last post by Crazy_Ivan80 - Today at 06:19:51 PM

those chech shells should also be arriving about now iirc.

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Off the Record / Re: Russo-Ukrainian War 2014-2...

Last post by Josquius - Today at 05:51:35 PM

It makes sense not to publicise extra patriots in Ukraine I'd think.
If Russia knows there's only 4 systems and all their attacks on 4 places get shot down then they'll think that's where the systems are so the way is clear to attack somewhere else.
Best they don't know how many systems there are.

My understanding is that a push is expected after mud season ends, which is coming up.

Isn't the push already happening? The Russians are keen to do all they can before the US aid arrives on the front line.

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Off the Record / Re: Russo-Ukrainian War 2014-2...

Last post by viper37 - Today at 05:45:08 PM

So as I understand it (and dammit Jim!  I'm a lawyer, not a soldier) Patriot has proven to be extremely effective against even Russia's hypersonic missiles.  It is however a fairly expensive system, with each patriot missile running in the millions of dollars.

As we are now seeing in both Ukraine, and Israel, is the use of mass numbers of UAVs or drones with are quite inexpensive to produce, and also in Gaza the use of cheap and dumb rockets.  Iron Dome is (I think) more cost effective as a result, plus (as Josquis points out) it's a more local technology (although developed with US assistance) which means fewer restrictions on its use.

The timing definitely does make one think these Patriots might be showing up in Ukraine sooner or later, but just Israel doesn't want to publicize that fact because for some reason it still values its relations with Russia.

Ok, if they're good, they're good.

I'm a little worried about the ammo required though, as Jos is pointing out.