Flying an airplane isn't about flying a heading and airspeed, turning occasionally. If it were, you would have 15 year olds flying airliners or military jets as a part time job. Pilots make decisions for a living, and so does ATC.
I can see it now:
[cold, robotic voice] Bandit One-One, you are cleared to the Lumsden two-fower-tree at tree fower dayceemal six via FAREN, via Boadview, via MUSKK, via Langruth, to hold between tree fower dayceemal six and two niner dayceemal six non-standard. Maintain one-fower tousand eight hundred. Expect further clearance two one fower two zulu.
That's where I would squawk 7600 to get the attention of a real person.
Some of us were going to wait until the bill was actually introduced before writing our MPs to protest. I thought it might be nice to see what's in it for myself first.
I agree that we should vote with our wallets. But I should point out that the people who want this law passed also vote with their wallets. Theirs are much fatter.
We don't have to wait for our MPs to make decisions for us: we can tell them what to do. If enough people tell them the same thing, they will realize that if they push this law through, they will lose their jobs. Large-scale public opposition would also give the Liberals an opportunity to defeat the government over an issue that would give them a head start in an election.
Who do you think would be more successful at passing on their genes: dumb people who don't get vaccines but breed normally, or nerds who get their vaccines (and make fun of those who don't), but don't breed?
yeah, your post seemed a bit harsh, so I felt the need to defend the guy. Then I realized he was an AC, so he probably never read either of our posts anyway.
I'm an Ontario boy who got dragged out to Saskatchewan (and hopefully Alberta soon enough) by the military. There's definitely a difference in culture... not to mention climate.
Ontario is third in land area if you only count provinces, after Quebec and BC. That, combined with your poor spelling and grammar, would suggest that your school needed as much investment as gp's.
You're absolutely right: flying a plane is easy. But military pilots don't get paid to fly planes. We get paid to know tactics, deploy weapons, and complete a mission.
...assuming a constant growth rate over the next 150 years for both countries... Thought that should be added, since it seems unlikely to happen to me.
For sure. I graduated from RMC in Canada, and joined for the same reasons as you stated. But if one could get a free education and then join the military with much less obligatory service (assuming it works the same way down there as it does here), then I think enrollment at the academies would drop in those specific programs.
I would be interested in seeing how the service academies would respond to this plan. I'm guessing that a lot of high school grads are attracted to the academies or ROTC because their educations are paid for. If one can get a tech degree for free as a civilian, there's a lot less motivation to take on obligatory service while going to school.
I can't speak for the airlines, but in military aviation, procedures are normally divided into three 'pages'. White pages contain routine procedures, so they end up being memorized naturally. Yellow pages contain urgencies - things that won't kill you on their own. Red pages contain emergencies, and have to be memorized. Fires, engine failures in single-engine aircraft, hypoxia, etc. are all in the red pages.
It's actually a good way of looking at memory in general. There are things that we memorize because we use them (phone numbers), things that we actively memorize because we might urgently need the information someday (first aid), and there are things we can just look up (cat map). If the conveniences of electronic devices cause items on the white pages to move to the yellow pages, I don't see the problem.
I have 211 friends, including an infant, a bronze statue, and Søren Kierkegaard. I don't see it as a popularity contest. I ignore 90% of them, but if I ever need a place to crash somewhere, I'm probably covered. It's not like all the extra friends are taking any time out of my day, and I like being able to contact casual acquaintances.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
So because municipalities in the US provide fire services that are not 'in the free market', the US is a socialist state as well. As is every other country in the world. I see..
My comparison was fair because I was talking about rates for the same car and driving record - mine. Now you want to compare your insurance premiums with mine. You might drive a '92 festiva. Maybe you have a $2000 deductible and no collision coverage. Maybe Saskatchewan makes a profit off auto insurance, and invests it in roads, transit, etc., which I save through taxes. My premiums probably include higher sales taxes. There are plenty of reasons why your comparison is invalid.
Regardless, the term 'free-market capitalism' doesn't normally include cooperatives. If it did, I probably wouldn't be so against it. It's normally used by people who want to privatize the FAA or something.
Then explain how the free market works here: I have private insurance in Ontario, and pay $130/month for my car. That's the lowest premium I could find after getting quotes from 10 or so insurers. I'm moving to Saskatchewan (public insurance), where I'll pay $87/month for the same coverage.
The free-market lie is exposed. For goods/services where a high level of consumer choice is not important, public will always outperform private because there is no requirement for a profit margin.
Similarly, my cell phone plan is about to drop by $15/month, with the same provider. This is just because Rogers has to compete with Sasktel (public provider) in Saskatchewan, but no such provider exists in Ontario.
I'm driving from Ottawa to Moose Jaw this August. I would rather take this route rather than the default suggestion, because I'd like to see my own country first, it's shorter in distance (although not in time), I have a place to crash in Winnipeg, and I won't have to worry about arriving in Chicago at the wrong time.
This feature is very useful. Before, to find out how long the trans-Canada route was, I had to make three separate trips and add the distances manually to get the total.
So would you say that a person who can't find work is "worthless"? That's essentially the goal of capitalism: to reduce humanity to just another economic commodity.
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Why not add metric time in there too?
"Metric time: it's about time!"
Flying an airplane isn't about flying a heading and airspeed, turning occasionally. If it were, you would have 15 year olds flying airliners or military jets as a part time job. Pilots make decisions for a living, and so does ATC.
I can see it now:
[cold, robotic voice] Bandit One-One, you are cleared to the Lumsden two-fower-tree at tree fower dayceemal six via FAREN, via Boadview, via MUSKK, via Langruth, to hold between tree fower dayceemal six and two niner dayceemal six non-standard. Maintain one-fower tousand eight hundred. Expect further clearance two one fower two zulu.
That's where I would squawk 7600 to get the attention of a real person.
That's a bit harsh...
Some of us were going to wait until the bill was actually introduced before writing our MPs to protest. I thought it might be nice to see what's in it for myself first.
I agree that we should vote with our wallets. But I should point out that the people who want this law passed also vote with their wallets. Theirs are much fatter.
We don't have to wait for our MPs to make decisions for us: we can tell them what to do. If enough people tell them the same thing, they will realize that if they push this law through, they will lose their jobs. Large-scale public opposition would also give the Liberals an opportunity to defeat the government over an issue that would give them a head start in an election.
Who do you think would be more successful at passing on their genes: dumb people who don't get vaccines but breed normally, or nerds who get their vaccines (and make fun of those who don't), but don't breed?
yeah, your post seemed a bit harsh, so I felt the need to defend the guy. Then I realized he was an AC, so he probably never read either of our posts anyway.
I'm an Ontario boy who got dragged out to Saskatchewan (and hopefully Alberta soon enough) by the military. There's definitely a difference in culture... not to mention climate.
Ontario is third in land area if you only count provinces, after Quebec and BC. That, combined with your poor spelling and grammar, would suggest that your school needed as much investment as gp's.
You're absolutely right: flying a plane is easy. But military pilots don't get paid to fly planes. We get paid to know tactics, deploy weapons, and complete a mission.
I'm guessing that's a joke (Canadian to English), but to answer: no, the translation is good.
Quebec's police force is actually called 'la Sûreté du Québec'. Newfoundland and Labrador has the RNC, but I think there's only the three.
I always preferred the Jeppesen CR-3. I found the wind side showed the components more clearly.
...assuming a constant growth rate over the next 150 years for both countries...
Thought that should be added, since it seems unlikely to happen to me.
For sure. I graduated from RMC in Canada, and joined for the same reasons as you stated. But if one could get a free education and then join the military with much less obligatory service (assuming it works the same way down there as it does here), then I think enrollment at the academies would drop in those specific programs.
I would be interested in seeing how the service academies would respond to this plan. I'm guessing that a lot of high school grads are attracted to the academies or ROTC because their educations are paid for. If one can get a tech degree for free as a civilian, there's a lot less motivation to take on obligatory service while going to school.
I can't speak for the airlines, but in military aviation, procedures are normally divided into three 'pages'. White pages contain routine procedures, so they end up being memorized naturally. Yellow pages contain urgencies - things that won't kill you on their own. Red pages contain emergencies, and have to be memorized. Fires, engine failures in single-engine aircraft, hypoxia, etc. are all in the red pages.
It's actually a good way of looking at memory in general. There are things that we memorize because we use them (phone numbers), things that we actively memorize because we might urgently need the information someday (first aid), and there are things we can just look up (cat map). If the conveniences of electronic devices cause items on the white pages to move to the yellow pages, I don't see the problem.
I have 211 friends, including an infant, a bronze statue, and Søren Kierkegaard. I don't see it as a popularity contest. I ignore 90% of them, but if I ever need a place to crash somewhere, I'm probably covered. It's not like all the extra friends are taking any time out of my day, and I like being able to contact casual acquaintances.
Most of that material is discussed in "The Moral Animal" by Robert Wright, complete with references.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
Thomas Jefferson was a GDFI!
So because municipalities in the US provide fire services that are not 'in the free market', the US is a socialist state as well. As is every other country in the world. I see..
My comparison was fair because I was talking about rates for the same car and driving record - mine. Now you want to compare your insurance premiums with mine. You might drive a '92 festiva. Maybe you have a $2000 deductible and no collision coverage. Maybe Saskatchewan makes a profit off auto insurance, and invests it in roads, transit, etc., which I save through taxes. My premiums probably include higher sales taxes. There are plenty of reasons why your comparison is invalid.
Regardless, the term 'free-market capitalism' doesn't normally include cooperatives. If it did, I probably wouldn't be so against it. It's normally used by people who want to privatize the FAA or something.
Then explain how the free market works here: I have private insurance in Ontario, and pay $130/month for my car. That's the lowest premium I could find after getting quotes from 10 or so insurers. I'm moving to Saskatchewan (public insurance), where I'll pay $87/month for the same coverage.
The free-market lie is exposed. For goods/services where a high level of consumer choice is not important, public will always outperform private because there is no requirement for a profit margin.
Similarly, my cell phone plan is about to drop by $15/month, with the same provider. This is just because Rogers has to compete with Sasktel (public provider) in Saskatchewan, but no such provider exists in Ontario.
I'm driving from Ottawa to Moose Jaw this August. I would rather take this route rather than the default suggestion, because I'd like to see my own country first, it's shorter in distance (although not in time), I have a place to crash in Winnipeg, and I won't have to worry about arriving in Chicago at the wrong time.
This feature is very useful. Before, to find out how long the trans-Canada route was, I had to make three separate trips and add the distances manually to get the total.
with a game of basketball. Suits against blouses.
So would you say that a person who can't find work is "worthless"? That's essentially the goal of capitalism: to reduce humanity to just another economic commodity.
I think the idea is that everyone should live through their labor, and should be paid for what they do, not what they own.