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Canada's Airlines Face a Privacy Dilemma
Interoperable writes "Canada's airlines are caught between a rock and a hard place in the face of new US regulations that require them to collect and hand over personal information about passengers. Handing over information regarding a passenger's name, gender and birth-date may violate Canadian privacy laws but merely flying over American airspace is conditional on doing exactly that. It seems that the long arms of the TSA are eager to grope at Canadians taking a shortcut to Toronto; no doubt to prevent any terrorist attacks on Lake Huron."
It's funny, someone earlier on said something about all the "Non-Whites" seceding from the U.S. in the states where they are the Majority (what they really mean is where a collection of various minorities is the majority, whites are still the plurality). Then this comment about the security personnel. I've noticed, in almost any airport in the U.S. one cares to visit, that the majority of the security personnel are NON-WHITE! Now, who exactly is it that is making things bad in the U.S. Who are the greatest numbers of criminals? Violent Crimes? Who are the scientists and engineers? Who are the software developers? Stop the White Guilt! Whites aren't ruining this country. Take a look around.
Over-the-top Response Guy! Giving "Over-the-Top Responses" since 1970.
It must be Bush and the Republicans' fault . . . oh wait.
I hope all those Kool Aid drinkers from last year learned a valuable lesson: Obama's the better liar.
But please, let me get a flight my country to another country and back without having to take off my shoes and belt, step through a perv machine, give up all my data to third party TSAs, and sit for an hour without a book, drink, mp3 player, laptop or the right to take a piss, just because you think you're so important that I might just hijack the plane, fly it across the Atlantic and crash it into your local Wal-mart.
I'm sorry, Your Highness - if we had been informed of your arrival, we wouldn't have DREAMED of inconveniencing you just for the sake of saving a few thousand lives. You should really consider wearing your Tiara, next time, so that our screening lackeys can more easily recognize you in a crowd.
Would you care if the plane that crashes just kills you, your family, and any pets you may have? What if instead of crashing a plane, someone just kills you, your family, and your pet but save the hassle of air travelers? We'd save a whole aircraft too!
Or is it totally different when your survival is on the line?
let us increase funding and illicit aid for the quebecois separatists, and with the next vote of secession, finally divide canada into 3 parts. alberta will choose union with us freely, and then we have 3 smaller anglocanadian units and one frog unit to deal with. divided, internally contentious and much weaker in comparison, we shall dispatch these remnants one by one and digest the mostly useless icebox in our attic once and for all. leave quebec free as a rump reminder. i'm sick of the mosquitoes whining above us (oh no wait, we're talking about the canadian prairie: better get used to mosquitoes. and mud. when its not ice)
since we are already culturally and linguistically assimilated, political domination will be easy. canada is after all, nothing but unincorporated american territory. i know you take pride in the 1812 trouncing that is the only reason you even exist but that wasn't done by canadians. it was done by the british. its strange to me to take pride in a supposed nationality that had to be finally forcibly weaned from the british imperial tit in the 1980s(!). and yet you still have some foreign bitch on your money. pathetic. this is a national identity to take pride in?
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that's not how the usa deals with canada. or thinks of canada. but that's what an american nationalist zealot would think. are you sure you are dealing with what you think you are dealing with?
reality: relations between canada and the usa is probably the most peaceful relationship between two large neighboring countries in the history of the world. so admit that, and mellow your loud ignorant words
now, if you insist on the "american nationalist zealot" line, i can point to many parallels in the world that might not be so cheerful for canada. if you want a powerful neighbor ruled by nationalist zealots, you can always try the imperial empires of china and russia, and if you know your history of how those empires divided, dissolved, neutralized and incorporated their neighbors over the centuries, you'll be thanking your lucky stars that the usa is your southern neighbor. i'm sorry, your ONLY neighbor. if the usa were run by actual nationalist zealots hell bent on empire, canada would be our siberia or our tibet/ xinjiang in a heartbeat. and if you want to say that the history of the usa IS like russia and china, then you're merely leveling the moral playing field to pointless equivalency, because canada is certainly no saint in the nation-building crimes list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Riel
we surround you, and we are peaceful with you. sorry our airspace policies displease you
but know the relative truth of the reality of canada-usa relations in the history of the world, and be thankful you have the neighbor you do. i am thankful for the peaceful mostly upstanding neighbor to our north, so return the favorable impression. lest you sound like just another whiny clueless prick. we plenty of those in this world and on this forum
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it