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Canada and Denmark using Google as Battleground
TedRiot writes "Canada and Denmark are fighting over Hans Island using Google as battleground. A quick search of 'hans island' revealed a paid advertisement with the banner headline: 'Hans Island is Greenland. Greenland natives have used the island for centuries.' The ad was linked to the Danish government's foreign affairs web page with the letter condemning Graham's visit. Toronto resident Rick Broadhead placed a Google ad and said the Canadian government needs to get with the times." Reuters has coverage as well.
i hope the danes and canada go to war over this..
with these two military powers squaring off somebody is bound to lose an eye
CRIPPLE FIGHT!!!!!
Canada being soft I understand, but Denmark? These people used to be Vikings, shessh!
I say the settle it with a friendly game of Risk and call it a day.
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Hans Island belongs to Greenland
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Hans Island belongs to Canada
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What are they gonna do with Google, search for locations to fight at? :)
Fallout 3 will suck.
Yeah, say what you want about the U.S. Military, but at least their battlegrounds have explosions and stuff.
It's 1.3 square km. in the Arctic. The only good use for that spot is another Starbucks.
And all this time when they said "future wars will be fought by computer", I had a totally other idea in mind.
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts...for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang
Get your friggin' Hans off our island, okay?
--Rick "If it isn't broken, take it apart and find out why."
'Twas a bitter day, that day they came,
Canucks and Danes, both ready to say,
"This isle is ours, so piss off you jerks,
Or we'll Google and Slashdot the entire works!"
Well, Canada blustered, and Denmark stomped,
And some nerdie netizens submitted the lot,
To Google fine, that online star,
To win an island that could fit in a jar.
When it came to blows, aye those blows did ring,
As North Atlantic seals all gathered to see,
These crazy goddamn bastards fight for Hans,
The most ludicrous, uninhabitable chunk of land.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
I searched for "hans island" last week with google and saw the two text ads as described in the article. I found it quite funny, too bad they are gone now.
We bankrupted Denmark!
Now THAT'S a Slashdotting.
See my journal for slashdot ID's by year. Mine created in 2005. http://slashdot.org/journal/289875/slashdot-ids-by-year
ANY MOVE THAT INFRINGES UPON CANADIAN SOVERIEGNTY SHOULD BE MET WITH THE GREATEST OF FORCE AGAINST THE DANES.
THE DANISH GOVERNMENT HAS ATTEMPTED (without success) TO INVADE CANADA A TOTAL OF THREE TIMES IN THE PAST 15 YEARS. It is bad enough that true and proud Canadian culture is being ENCROACHED UPON by less than tasteful americanism, but to be invaded by WARSHIPS is UNACCEPTABLE.
Here are somethings that we can do to protest the Danish government and it's hostile actions:
- Rename danishes to Artic Freedom Delights and boycott resturants like Tim Hortons if they do not abide.
- Burn Hans Christian Anderson books
- If you haven't already, boycott Metallica, which you should be doing anyways because of their unwaivering support of the RIAA.
- Fight against danish lies. It was an ITALIAN who discovered electromagnetism. But Danish propaganda fooled most of the world.
- Declare PHP a Canadian invention. The Danish Government doesn't want you to know this, but Mr. Lerdorf WAS A CANADIAN CITIZEN.
These are all peaceful political protests, but we Canadians should be ready to face the reality of the situation. After all, the danes did try to invade Canada at least three times. We still have to explore all diplomatic possibilities, but if you are a proud Canadian, when the time comes, you will take up arms to defend the Great North from the invaders. This is the Cold War of the 21st Century. CANADIAN INTERESTS AND SOVEREIGNTY MUST BE PROTECTED AT ALL COSTS.
OH CANADA, I STAND ON GAURD FOR THEE
I'm god, but it's a bit of a drag really...
The Danes say the countries' history of friendly relations should not be subjected to periodic squabbles over a frigid rock barely larger than a football field just south of the North Pole.
At least it's accurate; they could have said something really stupid like "just west of the North Pole".
Someone call up Bush; I say we move in and take it for the USA. We can use it as a prison camp to store such POW celebrities as Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden. Someone hurry up and call ask Bush so he can call his mom and ask her. ;)
Here's a headline for this story: Danes claim Hans Island is part of Greenland, but Canadians are having Nunavut, they say it's theirs.
How ya like dat?
This whole thing reminds me of the Terry Pratchett novel Jingo.
Overnight, an island basically pops up out of the sea, right smack-bang equidistant between Klatch and the city-state of Ankh-Morpork, and suddenly everyone's arguing about going to war to "knock johnny foreigner" off of their bit of land.
Damn shame there's no roundworld equivalent of Sir Samuel Vimes who's going to go and arrest everyone forcing the argument over this for "disturbing the peace", "loitering with intent to cause an affray" (occupying the island with troops), and basically throw the dickheads claiming it as their own into prison for 30 days.
It would be nice if Hans Island just sunk into the ocean and disappeared. Wouldn't the people claiming the place as their own have egg on their faces then?
`Haha, you silly bastards lost an island!'
His name is Robert Paulsen...
No. You are so wrong at serveral points...:
You say danes cant build cars. Look at this http://www.leitra.dk/
No swedish "car" has that fuel efficiency.
Today Sweden still occupies the danish teritorys Skåne, Halland and Blekinge, stolen in the 1650's by Sweden, while the danes was fighting off germans from our borders, so dont talk about occupation
I remember some years ago when another nation on the american continent (these nations was btw. build by european "emigrants" (read: criminals unwanted in europe, put on boats, and ordered "Go west!")), claimed ownership of an island owned by a european country...
Today the Falklands are still european ground. And so will Hans Island be.
Heh' its fun to be rude... 80P
Well quite frankly Hans Island belongs to the Inuits, that lives in Alsaka Canada and Greenland. Not Denmark, Canada or USA should claim it. I think it should be part of an international Inuit zone.
But if oil or other resources are found there, Bush will claim that the local Inuits are "lead by an evil dictator, and Hans Island produces weapons of mass destruction. We dont need any more proof than that. Its simply a matter of doing the right thing". Then it would be renamed to Hansiburton Island.