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He's an evil piece of filth, as demonstrated by his fellatial tribute to a loathsome murdering dictator. His desire to increase the government's spying powers shows just how much he and his dear departed friend have in common. Makes me ashamed to say I'm from the same country as the mindless cretins who elected him.

The bastard should have tried writing a game in which you're a Cuban dissident attempting to dodge Castro's thugs and make your way by raft to Florida.

To the contact provided on this web link and I bet this will put a fat dent in it coming to fruition:

Mr. Harper,

Speaking as an American citizen, I'm glad you are selling out to our interests. I love having more slaves indebted to our system and YOU especially make a rather appropriate addition to our collection of sockpuppets with no real power or intelligence.

Keep up the good work, and bring me more slaves to do our bidding!

Canada doesn't have a major navy. There have been plans in the past to at least buy a polar-class ice breaker to patrol the north but that keeps getting canceled. Maybe it's back on (named, ironically enough, after Diefenbaker, he who murdered the Arrow. Harper has such a low opinion of Canadians he doesn't think we'll remember. Him and McKay, minister in charge of using his position to pick up chicks and lying through his pointy little teeth to the Progressive Conservatives, God Rest Their Souls.

Chances are, though, Harper is lying again.

At any rate, the Conservatives can be counted on to tool around with idiotic hardware to prove that Alberta is just as good as Texas. "Can we be Texas, please? Pleeeeeease?"

There's a reason I moved to Canada. Not that it is wildly better or all that different, or even free of major stupidity and scandal, but it seems to be largely (but not completely) free of retarded hatefilled shitbags. And while the gov't has a deeper hand on things here, one would expect boneheaded nanny state nonsense like the legislation in TFA from Canada, not from the USA. OH, how times have changed... The Rethugs want to blow up the planet and make everyone a classic Xian sexless mouthbreathing mallrat and the Dems want the corporations to own every piece of cultural artefacture in perpetuity, and make it all safe for the lowest and stupidest citizens and remove the responsibility that PARENTS SHOULD BE EXERCISING in favour of the nanny state.

As the Dukes of Stratosphear (XTC) crooned:

I'm the Mole in the Ministry
And you'll all bow down to me.
I'm the mole in the potting shed.
I'm the bad thoughts inside your head.
And you won't catch me...

As a little black girl once shouted into a bullhorn on the TV show "Wondershowzen":

RISE UP PEOPLE!!! RISE UP!!!

RS

Please leave us alone. We can run our own country just fine without you.

Sure. We can. We're imperfect, but we have raised imperfection to a high art. :-)

What we need to go with this is a Prime Minister who believes it too, and you know how Stephen Harper behaves when the U.S. is in the picture. Maybe he just needs some more positrons...

...laura

1. Says you, and you have not been able to reasonably defend or justify that opinion.
2. I'm not sure where we established that. Maybe in your mind, right after we proved that the US military is holding designs for flying saucers and NASA faked the moon landing. ("But the evidence people! Look at the evidence!") Also, your belief that "these people" deserve to have their pockets picked makes me slightly less confident in your status as the savior of the internet.
3. That ActiveX has not been replaced does not prove that Microsoft intentionally (as in, "with intent") left Microsoft Windows open for malware.
4. As I said, I have never had a problem with File Explorer displaying the true extension of any files. That doesn't mean it hasn't happened, just that if it has happened, it hasn't caused me any problems. In fact, I hadn't even noticed. And it doesn't prove that Microsoft intentionally (as in, "with intent") left Microsoft Windows open for malware.
5. Unless you wear a tinfoil hat, Windows Genuine Advantage (which, as explanation for others reading this conversation, recently fell to spyware accusations due to its undisclosed "phoning home" to Microsoft) does not prove Microsoft intentionally (as in, "with intent") left Microsoft Windows open for malware.
6. Unless you can prove a percentage of the police force is dedicated only to issuing speeding fines, the whole police force is part of the running cost of the system by which those fines are issued and collected. There are also printing costs, collection costs, cost of arrest and jailtime of nonpayers... Also, you have not shown that speeding tickets more than pay for that force or the system by which speeding fines are issued and collected.
7. That you claim a police force did only their minimum work, causing a government to rethink its policy on some undisclosed matter, does not prove that speeding tickets pay for that force or the system by which speeding fines are issued and collected, indefinitely or even temporarily.
8. As stated before, I currently only use Windows for testing and prefer not to use it as my main operating system of choice. November last year, I began using Ubuntu Breezy as my main OS. In January, I was fortunate enough to acquire a Mac/OS X equipped machine. That I do not wear a tinfoil hat and accuse Microsoft of demonic acts and inviting malware and call every Windows user an idiot does not make me a "Wiondow fanboi". That's just another one of your wild, wacky assumptions, I'm afraid.

I am not convinced you have faith in your proposed "solution" to internet crime (punishing its victims). If you are serious, you will contact one of the following people before posting your next reply:

• Jean Charest is the Premier ministre du Québec. If you speak Fax, you can call him at (418) 643-3924. His English/Frog-speaking phone is available by dialing the numbers (418) 643-5321. Parentheses are not numbers. Hyphens are not numbers either.
• Stephen Harper is the current Premier ministre du Canada. Call him: (613) 992-4211. Ask for Ol' Blue Eyes.
• I already gave you the number for the White House (I pulled it from the intro to H2G2, by the way. Resourceful, non?) You said you'd be calling the wrong country. You forgot: the internet is accessible globally; for your approach to have any real effect, it would need to be enforced globally. Yes, it'll be a lot of work, but just think: you'll be an international hero!

In your next comment, please explain which of these people you called, why, and describe their response. If you do not do so, I will have to assume that you have no real faith in your proposed "solution".

Correction. Liza is a liberal and the liberals are in power in Canada (minority government though).

References:

http://www.liberal.ca/bio_e.aspx?&id=24024
http://pm.gc.ca/eng/bio.asp?id=13

Instead of firing off that e-mail, why not click "print" and mail it using the regular postal service?

In Canada at least, sending a letter via regular post to any Member of Parliament, including the Prime Minister, is free. Your letter is also far more likely to be read.

Are you aware that Canada is run by a dictator, prime ministers for life, Jean Chretien?! Here is our fearless leaders with a weapons of mass destructions. Be carefuls!

Are you aware that Canada is run by a dictator, prime ministers for life, Jean Chretien?! Here is our fearless leaders with a weapons of mass destructions. Be carefuls!

I think we need a copy of Rep. Boucher around. Up here in Canada, we already have a far too restrictive levy on blank media which benefits our equivalent of the RI/MPAA, and it's kind of a pain to be paying these folks so I can put my files on CD-R to send them to my project boss... grr...

We could also use a copy of Dennis Kucinich around, although (to me) an imperfect copy that would respect the law here in Canada that keeps religious ideology off people's reproductive organs would be better.

But you can't have everything, so the least I can do is hope some people grow spines in the near future.

On the other hand, had I US citizenship (they don't, for some reason, seem to listen to foreign nationals), I would be writing to all the appropriate people. I'm nevertheless concerned, because US policy seems to be a bellweather for trends here at home.

As a side note, today, Canada has declared a National Day of Mourning, the last one being over 30 years ago. Jean Chretien gave a speech to the American Ambassador to Canada, Paul Celucci. I can't find a link to his entire speech. However, CBC is quoting some of his words here. Probably the most touching part of Paul's speech was when he said (referring to Canada), "You truly are our closest friend".

Canada also observed 3 minutes of silence for those lost in Tuesday's attack. I'd just like to issue a quick note of thanks for all of us that observed those three minutes.

As a side note, today, Canada has declared a National Day of Mourning, the last one being over 30 years ago. Jean Chretien gave a speech to the American Ambassador to Canada, Paul Celucci. I can't find a link to his entire speech. However, CBC is quoting some of his words here. Probably the most touching part of Paul's speech was when he said (referring to Canada), "You truly are our closest friend".

Canada also observed 3 minutes of silence for those lost in Tuesday's attack. I'd just like to issue a quick note of thanks for all of us that observed those three minutes.

this would be a great reason to sue the company to fucking smithereens, but unfortunately it has probably already folded so one couldn't collect anything.

What? Sue Canada Post to smithereens? Canada's national mail service, owned by the Government of Canada? Actually, counting the national debt, the finances of the company are in the red by about $500 billion, which is not unlike most dot-coms.

Oh well... one can always visit the homes of its boardmembers with a cigar-cutter, mafia-style, and make yourself a nice necklace of fingers

Let me give you the address of the Chairman: 24 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. You can't miss it; it's the one with big tall gates, security cameras, and badass RCMP everywhere.

Actually us Canadians prefer to express our displeasure non-lethally, with pies in the face and such. But don't get too close, he's been known to personally handle protesters by the neck. Probably something he learned from watching Hockey Night in Canada.