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Canadian Government Weary of Patriot Act
IllogicalStudent writes "An article on canoe discusses how the Canadian government is moving to counter worries surrounding Canadian citizens' privacy being compromised by the United States' Patriot act. Apparently the FBI currently has the right, through Patriot, to search documents which may contain Canadian information sent to US firms carrying out work under contract. Thankfully, privacy still means something up here."
Is the Canada the USA's Palestina ?
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...Thankfully, privacy still means something up here."
That is unless you own a gun.
This is a question I've had. A while ago I was given a new word by a teacher. I could have sworn she said "decronym", as it made sense, however that is not a word. The meaning of the word was so good that there must be a correct word out there for it.
The meaning I was told is a decronym is a word which becomes an acronym, after the fact. Such as in this case, "PATRIOT" existed for a long time and the word itself was (well, abused) by finding words to exactly fit it. The example we had in class was "BASIC", which originally stood for nothing but was then given the ol' beginner's all-purpose symbolic instruction code. This one was actually better than PATRIOT in that they called the language Basic, using this context, before it stood for anything.
Anyone know what I'm talking about? Does such a word actually exist? If not, can we make it now?
Or maybe its because Canada is much less populated.
What do you have to say about high murder rates in Chicago, where guns are outlawed? What about low murder rates in Texas, where guns are perfectly legal to carry and own?
[FromTheMorning]
In case you haven't noticed, you do the same thing with your car.
Now, that link illustrates something that bothers me a lot. Notice how it's called "Talking to Americans", not "Talking to USA people" or "Talking to United States citizens" or anything like that. It says "Americans". And it was a show made for Canadian TV, by Canadians, for Canadians. In other words, you people north of the border call us "Americans" too, so stop getting pissed off about how it's the name for the whole continent when we do it. Your own people in your own country use the exact same word the exact same way.
Don't label something "offtopic" unless you know the topic well enough to tell what's on topic.
> In most of the country, you don't have to register your gun.
In much of the country. Saying "most" is simply incorrect.