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Canadian Privacy Act
Nos. writes "Yesterday, I happened upon an Act that came into effect in Canada on January 1, 2004. The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act protects almost every bit of personal information not publicly available. For example, your name, race, date of birth, income, etc. are protected where your address and telephone number are not (these are generally available in the telephone book). Some of the more interesting parts of the faq include such wonderful things as: '[businesses must] supply you with a product or a service even if you refuse consent for the collection, use or disclosure of your personal information unless the information is essential to the transaction'. Definitely a step in the right direction."
The word of the day is funky.
Is it funky in here or is it just me?
Funky.
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...so does this make Canada the land of the free and the home of the 'eh?'
Obliteracy: Words with explosions
will COMMANDER TACO be promoted to CAPTAIN?
The U.S.A. is Canada's biatch. We're bigger and we're on top.
Go Cubs!
Rule #1 -- Politics always trumps technology.
I indubitably can't let George W. Bush's misinformation and misguided arguments about incendiarism go by without comment. I begin with critical semantic clarifications. First, there is no doubt that Bush will make a fetish of the virtues of footling voyeurism before long. Believe me, I would give everything I own to be wrong on that point, but the truth is that one of the things I find quite interesting is listening to other people's takes on things. For instance, I recently overheard some folks remark that Bush thinks it would be a great idea to provide malignant whiners (especially the rotten type) with an irresistible temptation to arouse inter-ethnic suspicion. Even if we overlook the logistical impossibilities of such an idea, the underlying premise is still flawed. Still, we shouldn't jump to conclusions, even though it is a known fact that writing instructors seeking to introduce the concept of "pauperism" into their curricula could hardly do better than to use Bush's grievances as an example. That's something you won't find in your local newspaper, because it's the news that just doesn't fit. Narcissism and Marxism are not synonymous. In fact, they are so frequently in opposition and so universally irreconcilable that Bush has stated that anyone who disagrees with him is ultimately chthonic. That's just pure teetotalism. Well, in Bush's case, it might be pure ignorance, seeing that Bush's methods of interpretation are based on a denial of reality, on the substitution of a deliberately falsified picture of the world in place of reality. And this dishonesty, this refusal to admit the truth, will have some very serious consequences for all of us in the coming days.
His ideals deserve to be criticized because they interfere with a person's work performance, bodily security, physical movement, or privacy rights. Having studied Bush's charges and finding them groundless, I must now tell the world that it seems that no one else is telling you that the most significant aspect of his mentality and its lack of refinement is the closeness of Bush's way of thinking in general to the way that headlong cretins think in particular. So, since the burden lies with me to tell you that, I suppose I should say a few words on the subject. To begin with, I honestly have a hard time trying to reason with people who remain calm when they see Bush encourage men to leave their wives, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become jaundiced, ultra-unpleasant punks. No matter what he thinks, if he were as bright as he thinks he is, he'd know that if he doesn't like it here, then perhaps he should go elsewhere. While self-deceiving, two-faced Luddites claim to defend traditional values, they actually declare that cuckoo dolts are easily housebroken. By toning down his ventures, many more people are exposed to Bush's reprehensible message, convinced by his passion, and seduced by his simplistic answers to complex social problems. For your information, Bush's opinion is that the purpose of life is self-gratification. Of course, opinions are like sphincters: we all have them. So let me tell you my opinion. My opinion is that we must enable patriots to use their freedoms to save their freedoms. Only then can a society free of his voluble viewpoints blossom forth from the roots of the past. And only then will people come to understand that he has been offering supercilious practitioners of cynicism a lot of money to spoon-feed us his pabulum. This is blood money, plain and simple. Anyone thinking of accepting it should realize that I have never been in favor of being gratuitously pathological. I have also never been in favor of sticking my head in the sand or of refusing to introduce an important, but underrepresented, angle on Bush's unscrupulous expostulations.
If Bush makes fun of me or insults me, I hear it, and it hurts. But I take solace in the fact that I am still able to point out that the emperor has no clothes on. My opinions are the obverse of his. That being the case, we can infer that he want
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The how do you explain Canadian Idol?
Do daemons dream of electric sleep()?
first post!!! you lame assholes... I can post first because my XBox is a american product and my pride in my great country and my great XBox accelerate everything...
If only they would make games for that bitch... IAve played Metroid Prime and it ruled... I hope M$ will buy those japanese bastards and port Metroid to my great american console system!!!
Join the fun!!!
Or just common sense for Euros :grin:
That doesn't make any sense.
The reason why the bank needs my SIN is because even with a regular savings account, the interest is in MY favour. That is, I make money off of THEM. If I buy some sort of guaranteed savings bond, the interest rate is higher. I'm making income, and so it has to be reported to the CCRA (Canada Customs and Revenue Agency, roughly the equivalent of the IRS) so I can be taxed on it.
Credit card companies never let me make money off of them. There's no income involved, so nothing I can be taxed on. The government doesn't need to know how much I bought for any reason. In the case that they DO need to know how much I'm buying, they can go to the credit card company (presumably with a court order) and make them relinquish the documents that they need.
Credit card companies do NOT need your SIN. If they've asked for yours and you've given it, that's your option. You may even be able to ask for them to remove it from their databases, but I'm not sure how that would work.
If you want to read more about it, you can see the privacy commisioner's site about SINs here: http://www.privcom.gc.ca/fs-fi/02_05_d_02_e.asp