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2009/2/19-21 [Politics/Foreign/Canada, Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:52602 Activity:nil |
2/19 http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-215694 Canadians to Obama. We're the friendiest and most tolerant people. |
2008/12/20-28 [Finance/Banking, Politics/Foreign/Canada] UID:52288 Activity:nil |
12/20 "Canada offers $3.29 billion in loans Detroit Three - Yahoo! Finance" http://www.csua.org/u/n5h |
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2008/12/1-6 [Politics/Foreign/Canada] UID:52136 Activity:nil |
12/1 No, being Canadian didn't help in Mumbai. http://csua.org/u/n0s \_ The gunmen were going to places that British + Americans frequented at. They had no idea if this guy was a Canadian or not. |
2008/10/13-15 [Politics/Foreign/Canada, Finance/Investment] UID:51492 Activity:low |
10/12 Is http://kitco.com a good website to trade precious metal with? \_ How many manhole covers did you steal today? :-) \_ Are you trying to be funny? How is this "clever" or "funny"? |
2008/7/29-8/5 [Politics/Foreign/Canada, Science/Space] UID:50721 Activity:nil |
7/29 More ice breaking off: "Giant chunks break off Canadian ice shelf" http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080729/wl_canada_nm/canada_arctic_col "Temperatures in large parts of the Arctic have risen far faster than the global average in recent decades, a development that experts say is linked to global warming." \_ It's summer. http://icecap.us/images/uploads/NSIDC071708.JPG \_ It didn't break off in 3000 other summers: '"Whatever has kept this ice shelf in balance for 3,000 years is no longer keeping it in balance," he told Reuters, saying he too would not be surprised to see more ice breaking away from the Ward Hunt shelf this year.' \_ So since it's been warmer in the past 3000 years, global temperature must not be the triggering factor. What about the rise of volcanism in the arctic? \_ Water keeps heat over time, and it probably took longer than a couple of months to go from stable for 3000 years to where it is now. But don't stop wearing those blinders, they look good on you. \_ Sigh. I know water has a heat capacity. There have been warmer trends for longer in the last 3000 years. ty. There have been warmer trends for longer in the last 3000 years. \_ See billy, elves did it. And I prove that by making up data! \_ Hell, elves are more consistent than AGW, which seems to make no falsifiable claims. \_ So where is your 3000 year old temperature data? \_ GTFW "medieval warm period" \_ "the idea of a global or hemispheric "Medieval Warm Period" that was warmer than today however, has turned out to be incorrect" and that what those "records that do exist show is that there was no multi-century periods when global or hemispheric temperatures were the same or warmer than in the 20th century" (NOAA) \_ Damn you and your facts! Don't ruin a perfectly good rehashed flamewar. \_ "The summers 9,500 years ago were warmer than today" http://tinyurl.com/5nc58b \_ 3000 < 9500 \_ Damn, you're right. It's out of the time range, so we must be causing this warming. \_ Nice blinders. Wanna fuck? \_ Guys! Note that I already inserted the flamewar placeholder for you. No need to actually have the same old flamewar again. \_ Insert usual AGW flamewar here. |
2007/7/3-4 [Politics/Foreign/Canada, Politics/Foreign/Europe] UID:47159 Activity:nil |
7/3 Landlock country Switzerland won yachting's most prestigious race. http://sports.yahoo.com/top/news?slug=ap-americascup&prov=ap&type=lgns \- assuming this is in earnest, "swiss" team in this sense only means that is where the syndicate money came from. the crew is a 1/3 from NZ and about 10% swiss. \_ Yatching? \_ Typo. Should be yachting. -- OP |
2007/1/7-16 [Politics/Foreign/Canada, Health/Disease/General] UID:45536 Activity:nil |
1/12 Crazy Canadians object to teaching Yoga in schools: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2007/01/09/bc-yoga.html \_ Meh, I like yoga. The more active styles are really hard (and fun) -jrleek \_ Stop doing Yoga. You are a bad Mormon. |
2006/9/18-20 [Politics/Foreign/Canada, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Others] UID:44431 Activity:nil |
9/18 http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/news-security-canada-arar.html http://www.maherarar.ca http://www.maherarar.ca/mahers%20story.php 32-year-old Canadian wireless technology consultant rendered by U.S. to Syria for torture by military intelligence (the kind that doesn't leave marks after a few weeks) and solitary confinement. Canadian commission reports no evidence he committed any offense. |
2006/9/15-17 [Politics/Foreign/Canada, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:44396 Activity:nil |
9/15 22% of Canadians believe that 9/11 was an inside job. http://csua.org/u/gwh \_ 36% +/- 4% of Americans say it's somewhat or very likely that the govt participated in 9/11, or knew about it in advance but let it happen. 16% +/- 4% believe planted explosives brought down the WTC. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/attack/279827_conspiracy02ww.html \_ 92% +/- ?% believe in a magical invisible being you can talk to who directly affects the laws of nature to answer personal requests from humans |
2006/8/9 [Politics/Foreign/Canada] UID:43949 Activity:nil |
8/8 Wikipedia's most prolific author is canadian: http://tinyurl.com/gm2qr (theglobeandmail.com) |
2006/5/11-12 [Politics/Foreign/Canada, Transportation/Car/Hybrid] UID:43014 Activity:nil |
5/11 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060511/ap_on_sc/hybrid_bear Inter-racial bear. \_ Good thing that hunter travelled up there to kill it. What a hero. \_ Is that really hunting? Paying someone to lead you to the bear, and then just shooting it once you're led there? |
2006/2/18-23 [Politics/Foreign/Canada] UID:41927 Activity:nil |
2/18 Switzerland Uber Alles (okay only Uber Canada, but still...) http://csua.org/u/f11 Are the Swiss going to riot now John? -ausman \_ WTF is with the John fascination? Why is he so special and why do you pick on him? -someone who doesn't know John \_ Only if the government tells them they can. ;-) \_ I think our coach is Canadian. W00t! -John |
2006/1/29-31 [Politics/Foreign/Canada] UID:41593 Activity:high |
1/29 Canadian miners have it too good, and will be later punished by God http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/01/29/canada.mine.ap/index.html "In those refuge stations, they can seal themselves off and there's oxygen, food and water ... And they can stay in there for at least 36 hours." \_ They just got rescued I guess God's punishment will have to wait for a while. http://tinyurl.com/8gnln (cnn.com) \_ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1567644/posts \_ The first post on this one's wonderful. I'm sure that guy means to be sarcastic.. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1568143/posts Freepers look forward to God's punishment of Canadians -op Freepers not sure whether to say "great news" or deflect comparisons to U.S. mine safety \_ Well-designed safety methods: 1/1 Prayer alone: 0/2 \_ No, you've got it wrong. The prayer directly caused the safety methods to exist. Child, God works through all things, through all time. \_ except of course the bad things. -tom \_ So what is the excuse for not having done similar things here during all previous administrations? Blinded by hatred lately? |
2006/1/26-28 [Politics/Foreign/Canada] UID:41549 Activity:low |
1/26 Before you get too excited about the Canadian Conservative winning, they're ready to flash their guns at us: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060126/ap_on_re_ca/canada_us \_ Isn't Wilkins the one who almost started a trade war over lumber? \_ "Global warming is melting the passage..." But... motd told me global warming doesn't exist! \_ No, the motd told you humans are not the primary cause, if it is actually happening. \_ Is this the same MOTD that said there'd be a general military draft? \_ When you understand the difference between an inaccurate prediction, and a wackjob position on current reality, call us back. |
2005/12/3-7 [Politics/Foreign/Canada] UID:40827 Activity:nil |
11/24 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4466096.stm Canadians squandering money on socialist programs. |
2005/9/5-6 [Politics/Foreign/Canada] UID:39498 Activity:nil |
9/6 Those crazy Canadians, now they want to start using Islamic law in family law arbirtarion: http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/09/04/islamic_arbitration20050904.html |
2005/8/8-11 [Politics/Foreign/Canada, Politics/Domestic/Immigration] UID:39041 Activity:nil |
8/8 I'm going to Vancouver for two days. What did you guys do when you were there, and what did you like and didn't like? \_ I really liked the area around Mainland St. for restaurants and bars--check out Section(3) for good food. The big park is nice, and the aquarium is kind of cool. -John \_ Full nude strip bars serving alcohol with imported dancers. God Bless Canada. \_ Imported from where? \_ All over (eastern Europe and Asia mostly). But they are cracking down a bit. See http://csua.org/u/cyt (WS) \_ According to this guy it's easier to get a stripper visa than a nurse visa because strippers are more in demand. Hooookay.... \_ This has been a pretty big problem. Immigration now demands proof that you have been an active exotic dancer before letting you in on a work visa. That's easy next to proving to them that you're a certified nurse. Plus there is the stigma of the "bad job." \_ This is a joke right? My only images of Canada from media bombardment are their famous maple syrup and Canadian bacon. I haven't seen anything relating to strip bars or hooker or anything wonderful like that. \_ I forgot. Legal drinking age is 19 except for Alberta, Manitoba and Quebec where it is 18. \_ But they have shitty Canadian cigarettes. |
2005/8/7-8 [Politics/Foreign/Canada, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:39033 Activity:nil |
8/7 RIP, Peter Jennings: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050808/ap_on_en_tv/obit_jennings \_ He was killed by lawyers from the tobacco lobby. Doctors say lung cancer...yeah, right. -whako conspiracy \_ and on freerepugnant, people are celebrating, 'This man has done great harm to our country under the guise of "freedom of the press" and I will not forget that.' |
2005/8/4-7 [Politics/Foreign/Canada] UID:39005 Activity:low |
8/4 Do I need a passport to drive from Washington state to Canada? \_ You need to prove U.S. citizenship and residency. This is done with a U.S. passport. Otherwise you need your birth certificate + driver's license. They asked for both my passport and driver's license a year ago. http://travel.state.gov/travel/tips/brochures/brochures_1229.html#c http://travel.state.gov/travel/tips/regional/regional_1170.html \_ I believe you do. New regulations I read about a month ago. The URL is somewhere. Well maybe not http://csua.org/u/cxg But they definitely asked for it when I crossed WA -> Canada a year ago. I am reading this sentence from a google link: "If you do not have a passport you will need your birth certificate and at least one other piece of identification (ie: driver's license) to get into Canada." \_ This is all new now? I drove across a few years ago and I didn't need any of this. \_ Welcome to Fortress America. I've also been stopped at a random checkpoint several miles inside the U.S. in upstate New York by soldiers who demanded to see a passport. \_ were you near Watertown? A lot of special forces units are based there. Maybe they needed practice. \_ No. \_ This has been going on since at least the early 80's (the first time I've driven (or actually been driven) across that border). I'm <ethnic> though, so perhaps they're more careful about checking my passport. \_ I'm a non-citizen resident and I drove that way and back in 1998 without problem. \_ This has been going on since at least the early 80's (the first time I've driven (or actually been driven) across that border). I'm <ethnic> though, so perhaps they're more careful about checking my passport. \_ I'm a non-citizen resident and I drove that way and back in 1998 without problem. \_ Or you can cross an imaginary boundary line by driving to another part of Canada and just walk in. |
2005/7/25-27 [Politics/Foreign/Canada, Transportation/Car] UID:38800 Activity:nil |
7/25 Krugman says new Toyota plant dumping US for Canada becuase US workers quality sucks and US doesn't have universal medical coverage which means Toyota has to pay through its nose for that. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/25/opinion/25krugman.html?hp \_ Old news. I think this was on the motd 2 months ago. \_ which part is old news? Krugman saying the Canadian health care system pays much less in administrative overhead per person than the U.S. does while providing universal health coverage, or Toyota selecting Ontario to build its new factory? \_ Toyota selecting Ontario for its new factory b/c US worker quality sucks. The original Toytoa statement re the choice of Ontario did not say that the reason was realted to universal medical coverage. \_ nono ... cost savings provided by government-financed universal medical coverage at a signifcantly more efficient level \_ Why do so many Canadians come to the US for health care? |
2005/7/22-25 [Politics/Foreign/Canada] UID:38766 Activity:high |
7/22 When did police in Britain start carrying guns? Thx. \_ a long while ago \_ About how long? 10yrs? 20yrs? Because I remember that when I was a kid I heard that police in Britain didn't carry guns. \_ Except for the Hercules team in NYPD, some police in London carry MP-5s out in the open. \_ Some police, some definition of carry, since the 70's at least. http://www.polfed.org/0703firearms-and-police.pdf \_ "In the UK there are about, 100 firearms deaths a year in the recorded crime statistics, about double that number in Canada and, under 50 in Japan. The figure in the United States is more than 10,000. Even adjusting for population, this is a huge difference." Firearms deaths a year per million people, and population: UK: 1.7 60,441,457 Canada: 6.1 32,805,041 Japan: < 0.4 127,417,244 US: >33.8 295,734,134 What a great country we're in. \_ it is difficult to compace just on the basis of deaths per capita. there are way too many confouding factors at work here. Try comparing areas based on pre/port at work here. Try comparing areas based on pre/post gun law changes. \_ True. It's like apples and oranges. I do seem to recall a study that showed that crime went up in Austrailia after they banned guns. Either way most studies on this sort of thing are highly biased anyways. I believe that the right to own guns is a crucial freedom and just because some people abuse it doesn't mean you take that away from everyone. If you really want to reduce crime, actually enforce the laws we have now. For starters, take guns away from known criminals. This is something the NRA has been pushing for for a while now. \_ That is nice you chose to omit how many people's lives are saved by gun ownership per year. Just ask any criminal what they think about gun-control. Also, have you ever questioned just what majority of those people who die are? Gang members. \_ We need guns to protect ourselves from the government. When did Japan or Canada revolt? Canada still swears by the Queen for God's sake. Guns make this country what it is, for better and worse. \_ Canada is a completely independent country from the UK of Great Britain and Northern Ireland since 1982. \_ "Canada is a ... Commonwealth Realm with Queen Elizabeth II as its reigning monarch." (from Wikipedia "Monarchy in Canada") \_ Yeah. QE II reigns UK, and QE II reigns Canada. But UK and Canada are separate independent countries. It just happens that their monarchs are the same monarch. \_ From the Wikipedia "Monarchy in Canada" page you're referring to: "Although Queen Elizabeth II is also monarch of the United Kingdom and several other Commonwealth countries, each nation - including Canada - is sovereign and independent of the others." \_ Yes, and they swear to the Queen as I said. They are still ruled by the Queen of England, even though they are not England. \_ Well, you also said "When did ... Canada revolt?". Canada already revolted in 1982 without guns. And if you are to say Canada is ruled by the Queen of UK, then it's also valid to say UK is ruled by the Canada is ruled by the Queen of UK, it's equivalent to saying UK is ruled by the Queen of Canada. \_ This is funny because the Queen of the UK is also the Queen of Canada. Ha! \_ The two are not equivalent. Canada was a colony under the King. It still is. At no point was England subject to Canada, nor did Canada have their own King. You know this. \_ That must be why when England invaded Iraq, Canada had to go too, they had no choice. \_ Are you talking about the Anglo-Iraqi war in 1941 or Op. Iraqi Freedom? \_ The latter \_ Then the UK had no control over Canada, since Canada was completely independent by then. \_ Sigh \_ http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/abstract/319/19/1256 "Although similar to Seattle in many ways, Vancouver has adopted a more restrictive approach to the regulation of handguns... [T]he relative risk of death from homicide, adjusted for age and sex, was significantly higher in Seattle than in Vancouver." \_ Yup and I'm sure you can choose another Canadian city, match it up with a different US city and get the opposite results. In fact, if those numbers are accurate above (6.1 vs 33.8) it has to be true. \_ Why do you believe that? Tell me the Canadian city where the risk of homicide approaches America. \_ They chose Vancouver and Seattle because they seem so similar culturally, financially, etc. \_ Yes, they seem, but they are quite different culturally. Canadians think quite differently than Americans about many things, guns included. They also seem to not mind having less freedom. Just look at their health care system. What a mess. |
2005/7/21-23 [Politics/Foreign/Canada] UID:38755 Activity:low |
7/21 ssh tunnel between Canada and US: http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_072105WABtunnel_arrestsLJ.1aba20b2.html \_ Summary for those of us who don't want to register? \_ Try http://bugmenot.com \_ Some dudes built a tunnel from Canada to the US to smuggle pot. |
2005/7/7-8 [Politics/Foreign/Europe, Politics/Foreign/Canada] UID:38462 Activity:high |
7/7 Poll, who do you think is behind the London attack? IRA: Osama: Muslim fundie: Local British: \_ havent heard from IRA for a while, what happened? \_ They declared a cease fire in 1997. Some splinter group did some minor stuff since then, but mostly it has held. Osama: Muslim fundie: Lord British: \- possibly a self-help AQ "franchise" ... who may not have hierachical ties to OBL but wont be disowned by AQ-Central. French Olympians: CIA: The chickens are coming home to roost: http://csua.org/u/cmy \_ If this in any way shape or form is meant to imply that "they are now paying for xyz", you are a fucking baboon. If not, ignore this. The fucking cunts who do this sort of stuff HATE YOU. THEY HATE YOU BECAUSE YOU HAVE NO BEARD AND BECAUSE YOUR SISTER KNOWS HOW TO READ. THEY DON'T NEED AN EXCUSE. There, just had to get that out of my system. -John \_ You don't fight terror with more terror. That just leads to situations like Northern Ireland and Gaza. Who cares if someone 10,000 miles away doesn't like me, if he leaves me alone, I will leave him alone. The vast majority of the world feels the same way I do. Only a few crackpots want to hunt down everyone who lives differently than them and exterminate them. These few crackpots, on both sides, have somehow taken control of world military and foreign policty. \_ I was making no statements about how to fight it. I simply stated that the whores who do this do not need a justification for their acts--your very way of life suffices. Yes, I know that a lot of American international policy is flawed, but to be honest, I think kidnapping a few people and sending homw a finger or two is not beyond the pale and can be very effective. -John \_ do you think the united states and our citizens would have the same standard of living if we didn't mess with the rest of world and just took your isolationist/conservative view of the world? \_ Yeah, we might have to live like Canadians or Swedes. \_ You think the entire West doesn't benefit from the US being as it is? You think Canada could afford to be so happy-go-lucky if they had to defend themselves like nations traditionally have had to do so? We live in a unique period of history where one global hyper power has taken a reasonably benevolent stance towards the rest of the world, allowing most people to get on with living. If the US were the vicious bastards some make us out to be, Canada would be the first nation to fall. \_ No, I don't think Canada or even the United States really benefits from the flawed "beat them until they love you" strategy. Let's look at it with regards to a similar, but domestic problem. If the United States decided that the best way to deal with gang violence was to bomb neighborhoods where gang members were known to live and to order air strikes on gang members homes, killing the gang member and his family alike, do you think it would decrease or increase the amount of violence in America? \_ False framing. Let's look at it another way: if the US decided to deal with gang violence by using special forces to knock on doors, confiscate weapons/drugs, arrest those with caches and shoot those who resist violently, do you think gang violence would increase or decrease? Anyway, this is not at all what I was getting at. My point being that your conservative/isolationist head-in-sand strategy will not make the world a better place for anyone but dictators and other assorted brutal murderers. |
2005/6/8 [Politics/Foreign/Canada, Politics/Foreign] UID:38043 Activity:moderate |
6/8 In the Natalee Holloway case, why is the FBI investigating a crime in foreign soil? \_ What do you mean? The FBI investigates crimes performed against American citizens where ever they occur. I remember they had a big operation in Yemen when the USS Cole was blown up. \_ Isn't Aruba a state? \_ Yeah, after Canada. \_ on the topic of states, something I've always wondered - is there any incentive/possibility for Puerto Rico to become a state? (from a quick google search, looks like their area is just over 1/2 of hawaii, and under 3x of RI, not that area is the only criteria, of course). \_ It would have power in the Senate equal to, say, California. \_ Are the Puerto Ricans not interested, or is someone / something preventing that from happening? \_ Puerto Ricans are about equally split between those who like it the way it is (or are apathetic), those who think they should be a U.S. state, and those who think they should be an independent country. \_ I've wondered about the same questions for D.C. \_ several bills have been submitted to at least give DC congressional representation, but never passed \_ iirc from elementary school, DC is not a state purpose- fully so that the capital of the nation doesn't reside in any one state. congressional representation, however, is a different issue from statehood. \_ She is young blonde white from alabama \_ And let's not forget, possibly seen in the company of BLACK MEN! |
2005/4/17-18 [Politics/Domestic/President/Bush, Politics/Foreign/Canada] UID:37231 Activity:nil |
4/17 Who is Maurice Strong? - international political player http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n16_v49/ai_19722906/print |
2005/4/7-8 [Politics/Foreign/Canada, Politics/Foreign/Europe] UID:37099 Activity:low 75%like:37086 |
4/6 How does one go about watching the new Dr. Who in this country? I buy a copy, or is it being shown on TV anytime soon? \_ The simplest way is to download one of the many copies that exist on your friendly neighborhood P2P server but be prepared to wait for a bit. The exists no American contract right now. The only overseas showing you read about is in canada (CBC) which should start pretty soon (the magrathea sftv mailing list is a good source of info too): episode 3 is being broadcast in the UK on Saturday. --ramberg \_ Thanks! Are CBC or BBC available via sattelite? Did you get it via p2p? \_ Google gives info on both. \_ Google gives info on both as would searching your favorite p2p site. |
2005/1/22-24 [Politics/Foreign/Canada, Reference/History/WW2] UID:35860 Activity:insanely high |
1/22 Can anyone give advice for preparation for the US citizenship interview questions? \_ It's nothing to worry about. All you need to do is memorize the answers to the 3 pages of questions in http://uscis.gov/graphics/services/natz/100q.pdf. From my experience, that of everyone I've talked to (half a dozen people), and some vague suggestions to that extent on their website, they always just pick a subset of those questions. This is presuming that you're talking about the US history/government quiz rather than the standard set of "are you a communist?"-like \- No one expects, the America \- No one expects, the American Inquisition. --psb \_ They sometimes ask whether you support communism or are sympathetic to any communist party. You are free to believe, but some belief is less free than others. \_ Obviously. Some ideologies (militant islam and communism) are 'hegemonizing.' \_ so this is a commie country? \_ The point just whizzed by your head, didn't it? questions that comprise the rest of the interview. The latter are nothing to worry about unless you've got something to hide. \_ Ok, thanks. \_ if it's Canadian, you can try this: http://tinyurl.com/6gy4u [it's simply a joke of the day] |
2004/12/31 [Politics/Foreign/Canada, Recreation/Computer/Games] UID:35503 Activity:low |
12/30 katamari! http://csua.org/u/aj8 - danh \_ I will never understand why people flip over this game. It was amusing for about 10 minutes. After that it was just kinda stupid. \_ It's not our fault you have no taste. |
2004/12/22 [Politics/Foreign/Canada, Politics/Foreign/Europe] UID:35408 Activity:very high |
12/22 Ferengi are a caricature of Capitalists. Are there any caricatures of socialists/communists in ST? \_ Borg? \_ I was thinking about that. But that Borg are so much cooler than the Ferengi \_ It's true that the Borg are far cooler. I am fascinated by eusociality myself. Capitalism is mundane and boring and banal and ugly. Like the Ferengi. It works though. -- ilyas \_ The Federation == Canada \_ The Federation is Roddenbery's wet socialist fantasy. There's no money in the Federation (because they eliminated scarcity using the matter creation stuff). But then, inter-species trade seems alive and well. This is never really explained. You can't really \_ The Federation's credit in infinite make a medium of exchange of value go away. -- ilyas \_ I thought they used "gold pressed latinum" or something, at least in DS9. I think maybe the star trek universe is just not internally consistent on this subject. \_ no way, Picard has too much balls to be Canadian \_ perhaps he's really Quebecois. \_ Picard has balls? Could have fooled me. \_ Federation ~ EU/UN. I say this b/c each of the worlds/systems in the Federation has its own government and sends ambassadors to the Federation council rather than representatives to the Federation congress/senate/parliament. This is more like the set up of the EU/UN. I agree that the Federation started as some sort of socialist fantasy but the Federation hardly resembles that anymore. It is more like a EU/UN where the US basically calls the shots. Earth seems to get its way all the time is generally the most heavily defended planet. Earth also seems most like the US rather than Canada or Europe in terms of the behavior of its people and leaders. \_ Romulans => Romulus ~ China, Vulcan ~ Japan/Taiwan. Okay the history doesn't quite work out since Romulans fled from Vulcan but the rest is pretty similar. Klingons might work too b/c they were supposed to be equiv. to the Russians. Lots of similarities (ST6 => moon blowing up ~ Chernobyl, Errand of Mercy ~ Russia v US in a small south east asian country, just to name a few). BTW, the Cardassians seem to line up with Germany w/ Bajorans ~ the Jews. Not sure what to make of the Dominion or the Breen (or any of the stupid races on Voyager). \_ it's evident that the Enterprise runs like communism. Everyone there is stuck on the ship for the rest of their lives, and they all have the same uniforms. In fact, it seems that everyone from the future dresses the same. I guess at one time or another someone decided that individualism sucks for one reason or another and made everyone dress the same way. |
2004/12/21 [Politics/Foreign/Canada, Health] UID:35376 Activity:high |
12/21 Does anyone really believe this? http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/12/21/drug.imports.ap/index.html "Report: Drug imports safe or cheap -- not both" \_ Yes, and not because any administration says it. It's basic economics and patent issues. \_ So why don't they say: "Report: Drug imports not possible because of patent issues" "Report: Drug imports not possible because of economic and patent issues" \_ Because the average person has the attention span of a gnat and wouldn't pay attention long enough to understand. Drug Imports BAD. This is the (correct) response to the equally useless Drug Imports GOOD. \_ Actually, I think it's because you'll lose votes if you tell it like it is. "We're trying to protect you" sounds a lot better than "We're protecting U.S. drug companies' IP rights". \_ No. There is no need to re-inspect everything coming from Canada. We can save lots of money just by trusting the Canadian FDA equivalent to do the work for us. \_ Except Canada has already said they won't be our drug store. \_ If drugs from Canada are not safe, then should we be seeing many sick or dead Canadians? Or are we implying that the Americans are too fragile to take drugs from Canada? \_ Except Canada has already said they won't be our drug store. |
2004/11/7-8 [Politics/Foreign/Canada, Recreation/Humor] UID:34737 Activity:moderate |
11/7 jotd: What is it aboot the Canadians that they can't pronouce certain words correctly? \_ This is a joke, right? \_ Brain damage caused by putting mayonaisse on french fries. \_ You hoser, that's dad's beer money -John \_ Little Known Canadian Mispronounciations: Ask your Canadian friends to pronounce the following words: "shone" (as in "the sun shone in the sky") and "lasso". It's fun for the whole family! Also, when they pronounce "out" as "oot", ask them to pronounce "outhouse". \_ Accents from the British, where English originated? |
2004/11/3 [Politics/Foreign/Canada, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:34628 Activity:high |
11/3 So there was a lot of griping about the BushCo victory on the motd and on wall with people threatening to leave the country for "friendlier" shores. I was thinking of setting up a fund to help our disenfranchised liberals reach that goal, kind of like the HELP-US fund a couple years ago to help defray the cost of moving people like Alec Baldwin out of the country. Anyone interested in helping out? Perhaps we could call it the "Alec Baldwin Pledge" fund. Email if interested. I already have one person willing to donate. -williamc \_ Pretty huffy stuff for somebody who has a Smiths quote in their finger file. \_ I could find a high-paying job in Canada without your help if I wanted, motherfucker. Instead I choose to stay and fight. You will fucking taste defeat, and I'll be there to kick sand right into the bleeding wounds of your party's dying body when it happens. \_ Bring It On! \_ mmm, I'm going to laugh at anyone that even SUGGESTS that BushCo is the Great Uniter. Here's prime counter example of the sort of uniting in action that BushCo instills.... \_ Ah yes, it's nice to see 'tit-for-tat' schoolyard mentality in our nation's scholars. Well done! \_ Ha ha. It's nice to see that the decline of our once great country is such a joke to you. Enjoy the tax cuts. \_ it's not a joke to him, which is why he's probably setting up such a fund. and it's not that easy to enjoy the tax cut when it's going to bite us in the ass in the future. \_ My kids and grandkids won't be paying for the taxcuts cuz I don't have any. \_ Leaving the country now would be like leaving a loved one in the presence of a serial rapist because you don't approve of rape. I'm here for the long haul, and I'll stop your corporate plunder by any means necessary, bitch. --erikred |
2004/11/3 [Politics/Foreign/Canada, Politics/Foreign/Europe] UID:34599 Activity:moderate 57%like:34576 |
11/3 Where's the bus to Canada? \_ http://www.harpers.org/ElectingToLeave.html \_ that is the 2nd time I've heard that :p \_ Have a good time there, just don't say anything bad about the queen. You will be censored. \_ Being censored is better than being monitored by Homeland security. \_ Stop teasing and get out already. \_ Rather, move your MONEY overseas, before everyone else does. The debt is a big timebomb, if bush's policies are maintained/ extended, the estimates are this could knock a good 1% off GDP growth until effectively the end of time. \_ Clinton should have paid down more debt when the economy was good and tax revenue was high. \_ The Republican congress was yelling for tax cuts the whole time. Or maybe you're joking. \_ done that for some time already. almost no US stocks left except for some index funds in my 401k. \_ Can't leave California now, too much money to make in biotech now. |
2004/11/3 [Politics/Foreign/Canada, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq, Politics/Foreign/Europe] UID:34596 Activity:nil |
11/03 The last/next thing to elect: http://www.harpers.org/ElectingToLeave.html |
2004/10/11 [Politics/Foreign/Canada, Politics/Foreign/Asia/Taiwan] UID:34024 Activity:very high |
10/8 I have a greencard but don't have a US citizenship. Can I get in/out of Canada using just my greencard+driver's license? Do I need my passport? Is there anything I have to do at the Taiwanese embassy? -Taiwanese \_ I was under the impression that US citizens were now expected to present a passport at the border. The last time I crossed the border I was stopped several miles *inside* the U.S. in upstate new york and asked by a soldier to present a passport( I'm a U.S. citizen). Paranoia is the word of the day right now. And with Bush slipping in the polls, I would expect Tom Ridge to be announcing lots of vague terror threats in the next few weeks. If I were you, i'd bring whatever documentation I could possible think of, and find a place ahead of time to stay in possibly think of, and find a place ahead of time to stay in canada after you get stuck there. \-for mexico and canda greencard will get you back into the country ... when i have gone to mexico, they have sometimes stamped my passport. if you were a brown person, i would probably take a passport to mexico. i think it's generally not a bad idea to take the passport along. \_ 1. I wouldn't do it. I would suggest you get visa anyway. 2. just a kindly reminder. There is no such thing as Taiwanese embassy. \_ I know, it's called the Taiwanese Cultural Center. I said embassy because most people here don't know about it. \_ ditto above. I think that technically as a citizen, you can just present your driver's license, so you might be able to get away with just your greencard and license. I've known a couple people who went away for holidays in the last two years and were unable to get back in for several weeks. Granted, these were people with student visas who went home to India. Canada might not be a problem... but I'd do a little online research just in case. \_ You need your Taiwan passport to get in/out of country and a green card to enter the US. \_ I read about this on the CIS website - since Mexico & Canada are NAFTA countries, as a permanent resident you are allowed up to 30-day per stay without Mexican/Canadian visa. It's a good idea to bring your passport along though - the U.S. Border Patrol would want to see it. \-hello i posted the original followup but another fellow makes a good point about the new chimpy world order ... now i would take my passport for sure. |
2004/10/10-11 [Politics/Foreign/Canada] UID:34015 Activity:kinda low |
10/9 Let's just conquer Canada already. http://www.halifaxlive.com/canada_military_10062004_9435.php \_ NZ already disbaned their AF cuz of whore of a PM. The RPG-magnet Stryker the US Army uses are made in Canada. Canada is already part of the Echelon system, along with other English speaking countries. \_ Yeah, those Kiwis are really missing their Air Force, what with their _utter_lack_of_enemies_. \_ you mean the Uruk-hai aren't real? \_ Huh? We already did. We allow them to run their puppet state, pass laws, collect local taxes and such but we own it in all the important ways. How much more 'conquered' could Canada really be? |
2004/9/28 [Politics/Foreign/Canada] UID:33795 Activity:kinda low |
9/28 Complain all you like about Ascroft, but the news update here is something else entirely. http://www.filibustercartoons.com \_ In case any liberals were intending to "escape" to Canada where they can be free of opressive government idiocy...from the page: "The Canadian government had my site suspended for the last few days because it contained cartoons which they deemed "slanderous" to the Queen, and thus in violation of Canadian law. I had to remove the offending cartoons, and now my site is back up." Fuck Canada. "The Canadian government had my site suspended for the last few days because it contained cartoons which they deemed "slanderous" to the Queen, and thus in violation of Canadian law. I had to remove the offending cartoons, and now my site is back up." Fuck Canada. \_ It's not even like this guy does really vile cartoons or something. His work is pretty clean. I doubt he had the queen screwing a horse or something. \_ The Queen is just a figurehead and has no real power. It's a real problem when you can't draw a cartoon of the head of govt screwing a horse. Just leave the head of state alone. |
2004/9/10 [Politics/Foreign/Canada] UID:33457 Activity:insanely high |
9/10 A little bit of commentary for the first year of working with a Canadian about how things are different in the U.S. and Canada is great; more than year of condinued bitching and insults on the other hand...is just absurd. Is there some online resource about things that suck about Canada? In particular, any problems they may have had with voting would be very much appreciated. Things that are specific to Quebec or the Quebecois would be particularly appreciated. \_ Their paratroop regiment kicked the shit out of a bunch of Somali prisoners and killed them a few years ago, Paul Martin is a prick, the RCMP is in favor of some pretty odious police-state chicanery, they claim jurisdiction over international waters for the arctic passage, and I suggest you search http://economist.com for "Canada", as they have some fairly hilariously negative articles about just about any country you could think of. Plus, they're the remora of the US and annexing the bastards would cut missile time to Beijing by a few minutes. -John \_ huh? can't we just put the missiles in alaska? like I said, "John, all guts, nothing else." \_ Boy, anonymous insults are sure effective. I wish I were as intellectually differentiated as you are. -John \_ Why do you want to kill Chinese people? \_ Kill? Just get them huffy, like self-righteous Canadians when they get all nationalistic. \_ huh? an american complaining about others being self-righteous and nationalistic? \_ I know you don't travel very much, but nationalism is *NOT* unique to the US. Really. \_ In my experiance, the US is one of the least _nationalist_ countries I've been to. Of course, I live in CA, so... \_ you should come to the midwest, and check out all the american flags flying everywhere, comparable to nazi germany. \_ he's upset that the "human torpedo" crushed him in bowling. -chiapet \_ You may have crushed me this time, human torpedo, but ah ha! I did not sustain massive pin-shaped headwounds or bowling alley chest hair burn! -John \_ what makes someone a "human torpedo"? \_ Yeah, stupid nationalism can get pretty annoying. This guy is Canadian, and he's generally pro-canada, but he covers some stuff you'd be interested in. Like why the Canada isn't really very democratic, and all the arguments about the constitution. See chapeter one, and anything else that looks interesting. He See chapter one and anything else that looks interesting. He also mentions some books you could look up in "Other Information." http://www.filibustercartoons.com/canguide.php \_ that's what I was looking for, thanks. I mean no disrespect to canada, btw, I love Canada; I'm just sick of the CANADA GOOD USA BAD crap. \_ Yeah, I think that if I was in your shoes and he said, "This election is going to be another fiasco." I would say, "Yeah, but at least we don't have to wait for Bush to call the election himself." \_ Een America, election eez called by your campaign manager and fishing buddies. \_ Or we can say "At least we don't have the queen of another country on our currency." (Although technically Canada and Britain have their own separate queens, which just happen to be the same person.) \_ Do you work for a company in Marin that handles shipping of autos? I'm wondering if I know this guy \_ I'm 3000 miles from Marin in a physics lab, but I think there are quite a few people like this. -op \_ Yeah, even the Canadian I served with on my mission was like this. He hung a Canadian flag in his room, and was always worried that people would mistake him for an American. (No one else hung flags in their rooms, no matter where they were from.) The joke was, he was half-American, had dual citizenship, went to college in the states, and traveled on a US passport. Go Canada! -jrleek \_ There's something about Canadians. I have similar issues with some Canadian friends. So I asked them if Canada is so great, why are you here to work??? \_ Obviously you've never met American ex-pats in other countries. They can be just as annoying AND they can't remember the words to the national anthem. \_ They can be, although I've found the obnoxious ones to be either spoiled rich kids (HS & college) on holidays or exchange, or expats who band together in clubs. -John \_ Well, we have Dubya as our president. I don't know how you can defend that. \_ Who the hell runs Canada? No one even knows. \_ The new Prime Minister has passed a law forbidding us to drink wine! And he has taken away our sodomy! \_ http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/chiefs/index.html \_ Irritate him even more by playing up his American stereotypes. Hang up some NASCAR posters in your cube. Next time you go out to lunch with him, order some Freedom Fries. Get a W in '04 bumper sticker. Respond to his ant-America statements by calling him a commie bastard. \_ Say "Eh?" a lot as well. \_ the only candian I met who really talked like that was from BFE seskatchewan, and he's not a tool about the US vs. canada thing at all. \_ Is there any bumper sticker that reads "Canada - the 51st state" or something along that line? |
2004/8/27-29 [Politics/Foreign/Canada] UID:33178 Activity:high |
8/27 Do I need a int'l driver license to drive in Canada? What about renting a car there? And is it more expensive than in the US? tia. \_ IDP is simply a translation of your original driver's lic. It does not permit you to drive and you need to bring your original one. My guess is that since Canada speaks English (or some variant of it) you probably could get away with not. \_ I don't think you do, there's some sort of agreement I think we have with Canada. Getting an int'l driver license isn't that difficult, though. \_ I know, but if it is not necessary I will not pay AAA to get one. \_ If you have a CA driver's license (or one from any U.S. state), you can drive anywhere in Canada. \_ I rented a car in Toronto and drove around for a week with a CA CDL. \_ I believe in many countries around the world, you are permitted to drive if you have a valid driving license from where you came. So just bring your original drivers license with you. \_ You can drive in Canada with a valid US drivers license. I rented a car and drove in Ontario (Ottawa) and New Brunswick (St. John) w/o any problems. \_ RACIST! \_ Thanks for all the answers above. Now is rental in general cheaper or more expensive in canada than here? -op |
2004/6/16 [Politics/Foreign/Canada] UID:30845 Activity:nil |
6/16 The lovely town of Dildo, Canada. http://www.aroundthebay.ca/profile/Dildo/dil.asp The humble burg of Fucking, Austria http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucking%2C_Austria |
2004/5/21 [Politics/Foreign/Canada, Politics/Domestic/911] UID:30336 Activity:very high |
5/21 Bomb Canada: http://tinyurl.com/32jdo (canada.com/national post) \_ If we're nice to the terrorists, they'll be nice back! It's just because we're so mean that they attack! \_ I think we should negotiate with the terrorists. Surely their demands are reasonable and can be accomadated. \_ I agree with both of the above. If we just let them kill all the Jews, give them back Spain, build new Wahabi schools to educate more of their children, and all either convert or kill ourselves, they'll stop attacking us. \_ I think Bush and Osama need to get together for some tantric yoga. \_ Just think of how much more we could have gotten done in the war on terror if we hadn't listened to Chalabi. |
2004/4/12 [Politics/Foreign/Canada, Health/Women] UID:13147 Activity:high |
4/12 Canada soon to slaughter 300,000 seals. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3618901.stm \_ I guess all the yeti baseball really got that Canuck blood going. \_ I thought those were penguins \_ If you can't wack the one you love, wack the one you're with. \_ I wonder if I can get a job clubbing baby seals? \_ Maybe I can go clubbing with baby seals. \_ I guess all that yeti baseball really got that Canuck blood going. \_ Wouldn't it suck if you were an endangered species and NOT cute? |
2004/2/25 [Politics/Foreign/Canada, Politics/Domestic/Immigration] UID:12394 Activity:kinda low |
2/24 Canadian military going bankrupt. I guess that's ok when you're living under the US military umbrella. It's not like anyone is going to invade but does serve to further highlight their puppet status. \_ If they're a "puppet," how come they got into a pissing match with the US over Iraq? \_ Kids sometimes do this to their parents, but there is no doubt who is boss. \_ Oddly enough I feel no one is going to invade the US either, and yet they have huge military expenditures. \_ hahahahah! \_ That's because you're an idiot. \_ The illegals already have and still continue to do so. \_ That's right, whitey. You need help loading your luggage on the next boat for Europe? \_ Why do people equate anti-illegal with racism? \_ Because anti-illegal apologists tend to be masking deeper anti-immigrant agendae. \_ Why does anti-immigrant have to be racist? Regardless of race I don't see why anyone should be pro-immigrant right now. It doesn't help those who are already here. There is no manpower shortage in America. \_ They don't really think you're racist. It's just easy to toss around hot button words like that instead of debating these sorts of very serious topics. Screaming, "RACIST!" is easy. Doing research and coming up with solid reasons for open boarders and counters to the closed boarder people is much harder. Check this out: RACIST! See? that was easy. \_ WE WILL BURY YOU! VIVA LA MUD RACES PARTY! \_ Haiti right now is interesting example of what happens when you get rid of your military (they did it to remove the Coup threat). So now thy have a handful of ex-military rebels they are trying to fight with basically police. \_ Cool, so we should keep the military to (a) avoid having ex-military people run amuck and overthrow the government, (b) provide domestic security. -John \_ of course, you can't have ex-Military without a military \_ does it bother any of you idiots that the premise of this whole debate is that Canada is getting rid of its military, which just isn't true? They're having budget problems and closing a couple of bases, and the op turned that into a clever litttle troll. that's all. \_ OP 1, !OP 0. \_ Bzzzt! I never said Canada was getting rid of their military. I said exactly what I said, nothing more and nothing less. If you choose to make it into something else that's your business but not my words or meaning. --OP |
2004/2/6-7 [Politics/Foreign/Canada, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:12136 Activity:moderate |
2/6 Heh, cover photo of Canadian news magazine on Bush http://www.drudgereport.com/bm.jpg (see web site or http://www.macleans.ca for full story) \_ Found it through macleans.ca via "Customer Care" -> "Back Issues" http://m1.buysub.com/wcsstore/RogersCommunication images/M02S176555_FS.JPG \_ Well, that's intuitive. \_ fuck you and your drudge report. here's a link to the Canadian news magazine: http://www.macleans.ca \_ calm down, son. I already looked for the cover photo on macleans.ca, and I couldn't find it. \_ That's because youre a moron. See "fuck you" above. \_ where's the cover photo, genius? |
2004/1/6 [Politics/Foreign/Canada] UID:11677 Activity:nil |
1/5 Who cares if the US government had an innocent man tortured for 10 months. He was just a Canadian: http://csua.org/u/5fq \_ Heh. "Had." \_ Canadians aren't citizens. Why should I care? Shit happens to American citizens in foreign countries all the time. Are you on here bitching about that? \_ Yeah, Americans are raped and genocided everyday everywhere around the world. Why do you just hate America? |
2003/12/31 [Politics/Foreign/Canada] UID:11623 Activity:kinda low |
12/30 The sickness has spread to Canada. http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/viewpoints/stories/122903dnedishaidle.50b22.html \_ By way of the Dallas News, yet another bastion of unbiased news. If you really want to read this drivel, go ahead and use the csua account instead of registering: csuamotd@csua.berkeley.com , pwd=csuamotd \_ This seems like a shill. It is not that hard to get a gun in canada and I can't imagine anyone having "booed a speaker at the podium whose father had died on Sept. 11" (Though, since the article doesn't specify WHEN this happened it is hard to confirm/deny) Tnx to the replyer for the login. -phuqm \_ You must have missed the Bill Reilly show where the son of one of the victims of the Second WTC attack was being chastised for being against the Second Iraq War. \_ sorry for not giving the login. I created it and figured it was obvious. --op \_ Of course, it could simply be a difference of opinion, rather than a sickness. But that would require you to address content rather than hurl ad hominem. \_ You are right. It is time to teach these Canadians a lesson. Can we rename Canadian Bacon to Freedom Bacon? |
2003/12/23-24 [Politics/Foreign, Politics/Foreign/Canada] UID:11577 Activity:high |
12/23 Has anyone ever taken a chartered flight out of the country? Even to somewhere close like canada/mexico/caribbean? I'm wondering about what kind of searches they do. And do you need to go through customs at the foreign country once you land? I'm thinking maybe not since you're on a private plane and not landing at a regular airline terminal. Thanks. \_ This just in: the Bush administration has just announced that the terror alert level is being elevated to red, due to US intelligence agencies detecting a credible terrorist threat on an undisclosed online forum located in Berkeley, CA. \_ Not really answering your question, but once I flew on a flight chartered for a tour package. Upon landing one of the engines bursted into flame for a few seconds and then went out. The crew acted as if nothing out of the ordinary happened. \_ one time, my pet snake came out of its jar, slithering this way and that, and i thought it was going to eat my cat, but then it didn't. you are an idiot. -ali \_ Gees, ali, what the fuck is your problem? Thesis not going well, so you are taking it out on the motd? \_ I bet you got really hairy balls. \_ Ali shaves his balls, I believe. \_ That was poetic. Did you compose it yourself asshole? \_ ali, you arrogant prick. I know where you live and I will BB gun your car some time this week. Good luck. |
2003/12/5-6 [Politics/Foreign/Canada] UID:11332 Activity:moderate 50%like:11327 |
12/5 What is the point of the african banking spam? It doesn't seem to \_ What is the point of women shaving most of their crotch but leaving a "landing strip"? Why dont they shave it all off? \_ "Landing strip" looks ugly. \_ Does not, you hun! Landing strip is superb. Just because you're still attending University in the town of gigantic scary jungle bush... -John \_ What about my question? Does anyone think the "Landing Strip" is cosmetically better than nothing, or is there some other reason for it? \_ I don't like it, but I think the idea is that it is almost totally shaved w/o looking prepubescant. be selling a product, it's not a chain letter, and it doesn't ask directly for money. I don't get it. I just got two more of these things this week. \_ They get you all excited about making big money, and then use that to entice you to either travel somewhere unsafe, or else front them money for a 'transfer fee' or 'investment tax'. There have been cases where someone goes to Africa with a suitcase full of cash and a couple Rolexes and gets held for more ransom. \_ if i forward the letter to the FBI, will they do anything? \_ I think the FTC handles this, but they won't do anything other than log it, unless you find out the scammer is in USA. \_ i heard a story on the radio about a woman in canada who has made it her mission to bait these people and try to bring them to justice. she actually got some people to come meet her in canada and they were arrested. \_there are some pretty funny correspondences of this sort at http://scamorama.com \_ another one. http://www.ebolamonkeyman.com \_ http://www.419eater.com \_ The letters archive are great. \_ Predator fell prey. Cool! \_ Pretty much what has been posted before, but from the Secret Serv. http://www.secretservice.gov/alert419.shtml \_ spanish prisoner? |
2003/10/17 [Politics/Foreign/Canada, Politics/Foreign/Asia/China] UID:10667 Activity:nil |
10/16 Such reasoning washes away any differentiation between good and evil, and turns the United Nations into an asinine debating society where the representative of a genocidal dictator gets his "turn" to criticize how, say, Iceland doesn't have enough homosexual out-reach programs. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1002805/posts \_ Ya know, freeperguy, I love ya, and the stuff you post is usually on target but your points would be better served with links from news sites that say the same things, not opinion sites like http://fr.com. That being said, it is true that the UN is exactly as described. The idea that unelected third world murderers should even be invited to join a world body is ridiculous. Their opinions are meaningless. And the extra 'gotcha' is they all hang out in NY, rape American women, ignore traffic tickets and then just fly home under the protection of diplomatic immunity. It's a joke. If the UN disolved tomorrow, the world wouldn't change in the least for good or bad. \_ Or maybe people could look at the facts instead of rejecting everything because of the ideological leaning of the source. That goes for people from the left, right, and center. \_ The problem with freeper articles is that they want to throw out the baby with the bath water. The UN is a good idea. expelling nations that have no democractically elected leaders is not a bad idea. Universal sanctions on the bastards is an even better idea. Reform the UN, don't just sink it. \_ I hear Bernie Goetz is looking for a job. -John |
2003/10/4-5 [Politics/Foreign/Canada] UID:10464 Activity:nil |
10/3 Greasy Canadians exempt from border controls: http://csua.org/u/4m6 \_ i know a canadian who got banned from crossing the border for being a dick to the border guards. yes, he's a dumbass. \_ Only the greasy ones? Is there a standard for greasiness? Maybe we should set up a government commission to study the issue? |
2003/8/14-15 [Politics/Domestic/California, Politics/Foreign/Canada] UID:29348 Activity:high |
8/14 NYC and parts of the Northeastern US (and Southeast Canada) hit by massive power outage. Reports of smoke from ConEd plant in Manhattan. Started at 4:14PM EDT. One plant out may have caused a cascading effect on the rest of the system. Welcome to California's pain Easties. (Some details gotten from 740AM) http://csua.org/u/3xn \_ OH MY GOD!!! SKYNET IS BECOMING SELF AWARE!!! Soon all the electronics will shut down in preparation for dooms day and John Conners will be assassinated by drones! \_ As long as it's Eddie Furlong. Nick Stahl actually did a decent job in T3. \_ nice try. we lost power for all of about 10 seconds in southern connecticut. and this is with a severe spike in power useage from air conditioners, powered by plants that go back to the 19th century in some cases. we pay less money than you for better service, and that's with a de-regulated power system. \_ http://csua.org/u/3xr How long are they going to keep the 9 nukes down for "safety" reasons while they ream your ass with power rate increases? \_ and yet we never had such a massive outage. Plus those poor NYC folks are unarmed. \_ They've got boards, they've got nails. They're armed. \_ Let's see, should I believe you or AP, which says that power is out in NYC, Detroit, Cleveland and Toronto? hmmm... \_ dear moron, (is there something about soda geeks that makes them incapable of reading english?), the above even if he did understand the person he is responding to poster does NOT say it didn't go out in those other cities, nor does he imply it. You are an idiot. trust me on this one. Anyone who says "should i trust you or the media?" as a rhetorical question is an idiot even if he does understand the person he is responding to (which you clearly didn't) -phuqm \_ op said "welcome to California's pain Easties" Jackass #1 said "nice try" I said "who should I believe" you defended Jackass #1. Guess that makes you Jackass #2. "Nice try" implies that op was wrong, in the English langauge at least. Trust me on this one, I speak English far better than you. \_ Aside from minor capitalization issues, which you seem to suffer from equally, what is wrong with his English? Plus he knows how to SPELL HIS LOGIN, which is a damn sight more than I can say for you, monkey boy. -John \_ What is it about the phrase "nice try" that you do not understand? \_ it's just Con Ed trying to get in on the Big Money that the power companies in Texas made off of California. \_ Did "The Worm" do it? \_ Yes he did, and it was great! -yermom \_ The office of Canadian prime minister said a lightning strike on a power plant near Niagara Falls, New York, was the cause of the blackout. (nytimes) |
2003/5/6 [Politics/Foreign/Canada] UID:28344 Activity:nil |
5/5 Restored link about Canadians having more rights than Americans: http://csua.org/u/e4e \_ Let's all go there. \_ If only Canada wasn't so close to the darn North Pole, I'd move there... \_ Agreed. Why can't we have a successful socialist state in the tropics? \_ Yeah Canada is totally perfect. Everyone says so except the people I know who've actually lived there. Only about a dozen or so over the years but none of them would go back. And by the way, while we're on this topic, did you know the Soviet (USSR, not the current Russia) Constitution guaranteed more and better rights than the US one? A whole lot of good it did them. \_ Wow, that's too bad. The Canadians I've met (over fifty over the years) have generally been very happy with their country. I'm sorry to hear that your Canadians didn't agree. \_ I have hundreds of relatives in Canada and they're very happy. |
2003/2/7 [Politics/Domestic/California, Politics/Foreign/Canada, Politics/Foreign] UID:27332 Activity:high |
2/6 http://www.csua.org/u/905 (Yahoo News) "Texas, the only U.S. state to have once been an independent country, ......" When did that happen??? \_ I think that Texas was an independent republic from 1830 to 1850 or so. It was part of the union by the 1860s during the civil war. \_ stfw: http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/1845 \_ Lies. California was the Bear Flag Republic for a few weeks. \_ Canada still is. |
2002/12/21 [Politics/Foreign/Canada] UID:26878 Activity:nil |
12/20 O Canada, O canada: http://www.quebec-cuties.com/welcome.htm |
2002/3/14 [Politics/Foreign/Canada, Reference/Tax] UID:24110 Activity:nil |
3/13 Anyone living in canada? If so, better start hording blank cd's: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,50995,00.html \_ I plan on making mega bucks on the black market. This is sweet! |
2001/2/24 [Politics/Foreign/Canada, Recreation/Dating] UID:20670 Activity:kinda low |
2/24 http://www.ilovebacon.com/flashing/images/022301flowerb.jpg \_ Ohhhh...American bacon. Canadian bacon. Mexican bacon. droool. \_ lila? is that you? \_ I love the nips. \_ A lot of the photos make her look like an ex.... |
2000/2/24-26 [Politics/Foreign/Canada] UID:17611 Activity:high |
2/24 Four Q's concerning travel to Canada: 1) Approximately how long does it take to travel from the South Bay to the Canadian? \_ Which Canadian? There are a few already in the South Bay so it shouldn't take too long. \_ Anywhere from 1-2 hours to 1 year, depending on mode of transportation and which part of the 3000-mile long border you want to get to. 2) Any recommended airlines for a one-way flight from western Canada, like Toronto, back to the South Bay? \_ check United Airlines/Air Canada, they have a direct flight from SJ to Toronto. 3) Do I need any special permits or whatsoever to drive in Canada with a rental car from the South Bay? If so, what? 4) What car rentals from the South Bay allow returns in Canada? \_ 2) Isn't Toronto in eastern Canada? -- yuen \_ perhaps he means Vancouver? that's a long drive otherwise. \_ Everything in here is wrong except the bits about "concerning", "special", and "four". \_ you don't need a special permit to drive a car registered in America in Canada, don't even bother changing your currency over to the inferior Canadian dollar; you're an American, damnit!! and can force them to accecpt the good old American greenback \_ sure, in principle, but some places will try to rip you off by taking US money dollar-for-dollar against Canadian prices. Check if your credit card automatically exchanges currency. -ex-canuck \_ You can drive there fast, cause we PAVED THE BITCH. -John |
2000/2/18 [Politics/Domestic, Politics/Foreign/Canada] UID:17555 Activity:kinda low |
2/18 Are laser discs essentially dead in America and Canada? \_ Yes. And you should be too - please go off and die now. \_ Yes. Unlike you, who is alive, vibrant, and bring new hope \_ Yes. Unlike you, who is alive, vibrant, and brings new hope to the world with your every thoughtful notion. |
1999/8/28 [Politics/Foreign/Canada, Computer] UID:16419 Activity:nil |
8.28 This is old: Posted by Roblimo on Saturday August 28, @02:22PM EDT from the what-terrence-and-philip-do-in-their-spare-time dept. jd writes "Canada has just constructed an all-optical network, CA*Net3, capable of 80 gigabits per second (though being expanded to 20 terabits per second). This is over 60 times faster than the Internet 2 project, and according to the description, this will be open to the public, rather than closed as Internet 2 is. But once again proves why Canada is The Ultimate Socialist Utopia! Canada Uber Alles! |
1998/12/20 [Politics/Foreign/Canada, Reference/Religion] UID:15133 Activity:high |
12/20 Our president has been impeached. God help us all. I don't know what we're gonna do without him. After all, he DOES run the country. He said so. \_ God intended to have him impeached. Let that be a lesson for all you sinners out there. \_ Those of us across the pond are looking at passing ourselves off as Canadian again... -John |
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