okay Detroit-boy (the so-called "Hockeytown" - in someone's deranged dream maybe...)
bring it on baby...
who's better than badboy? who was Laura Secord? what is a CEGEP? what's the best game you can name? elmer the safety _______? what does the PETRO in PETRO-CANADA stand for? what is a vachon half-moon? what ship was the pride of the american side? name the most famous canadian military victory? what does bombardier make? what is poutine? what's the logo on a pack of player's cigaretes? ...on a bottle of ex? what is KD? where can one buy the President's Choice? what is Canada Trust? what does someone want when they ask for your SIN?
(yeah, I know these are all easy ones, but he said keep it simple - ones most Canucks would get - even the dumb ones - if you want some more challenge just ask)
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no that's not true
believe me all those Outlook 2000 using monkeys who sent you a million ILOVEYOU's actually opened the script
I'm certainly not aware of that - true. Canada accepts as many "landed immigrants" (resident aliens) and asylum-seekers as new citizens. I would imagine the us has its house roughly in the same order. I think the INS probably is doing a better job of watching for illegals than we are. Wasn't the us berating canada recently over having borders that were too easy to enter illegally? anyway...
There are slums in Canada, but due to the tiny, largely homogeneous populatoin, they quite naturally are not as dilapidated as some slums in the U.S., although gentrification is remaking many of the U.S. slums into more livable areas.
oh oh!! you are dumb
canada is the most un-homogeneous country on earth there nimrod
1 out of 10 americans were born outside of the us
1 out of *6* canadians were
the un ranks toronto as *the* most diverse city on the old planet there new york city is a sorry-assed 2nd place
:^)
(because i put a smily at the end you can't get mad at me)
Ummm, I believe you're referring to the war of 1812. If you will check any reliable source you'd quickly discover that it was America that invaded the Canadian colonies at that time. That was our "war of independence". Independence from America. If the white house got burned down it was hardly an "incursion" if the burning-down-type-people were trying to stop their homeland being wiped off the map by said Americans.
Also, re: French-speakers in the southern U.S. - They are the remnants of French settlement and (forced re-settlement (of the Acadians)) long pre-dating the United States. Nothing to do with French fighting a (as yet non-existent U.S.) America later acquired that territory through the Louisiana Purchase. (hint: no fighting French people involved)
Oh that was a good point - I was thinking you were going to make it - rats!
Okay, the Americans' robotic agents expire when they reach the Vat o' Goodness - they last thing they do is say, "Please iCraveToxicWaste, please send one of your robotic agents with some waste to the following location." iCraveToxicWaste then does just that. Now, iCraveToxicWaste shouldn't have to comply with the laws of every country on Earth. Everything is illegal somewhere. But they get requests from all over the world. They just fulfil the requests as they come in. If the Americans don't like redistribution of toxic waste but Canada allows it. It becomes the Americans problem either when one of their citizens requests the waste (make that illegal a la the 18-19th entury Catholic Church) or when the toxic waste enters their territory (block the waste at the border a la Australia).
Besides its a tried and true method of making some scratch up here. Find an area in which the "Land of the Free" is not quite as free and make some quick bucks pissing off the powers that be in the USA by "sharing the freedom" so to speak.
One of our biggest multi-nationals got it's start by supplying booze across the border when alcohol was illegal in the States but not in Canada - Seagrams. Ask any bar owner on the Canadian side of the border how many customers are deprived underaged Americans. If America really believed in those laws Canada should be denounced regularily for "supplying" alcohol to underage kids - corrupting them!
Anyway don't worry iCraveTV obviously wants to be a player in the US. That's why they've followed the injunction.
America has 10x more people whose money we want and now = time to bend over again, um not liking this, this, um, really, sucks - ah christ!
Naw, I think he got the point. Perhaps you missed his subtle humour?:-)
Your analogy is wrong. It is illegal to dump toxic waste in both countries. You'd have to pick something that is legal in the US and illegal in Canada -- like buying assault rifles or something - I don't know, whatever.
Also, the Canadian company in question is not - continuing to examine your analogy - dumping into American territory. The small Canadian company is taking toxic waste (I love that you chose toxic waste as an example) that has been dumped in massive quantities in Canada by huge American corporations and putting it in a big vat IN CANADA. Then, knowing how much Americans love their toxic waste, they've set up a service where by Americans can set up their automated robotic agents to cross the border into Canada - come to the Vat o' Goodness, scoop up some of the waste and return to America with it. And now an American judge has ruled that its the Canadian company that's doing the dumping?!! and it's wrong for that to happen in the United States.
Ridiculous!
The injustice!
Fight this infamy iCraveTV !!!!
Perhaps the Americans should pull an Australia and block their citizens from doing certain things with their robotic agents...
A-ha! But that's exactly what *is* happening. The American networks are throwing rocks all day long over the border and constantly hitting many Canadians on the head with them. iCrave is merely showing the rocks on the net and saying to the world: Her World Baby! -- Look at these rocks the Americans keep on throwing at us!
Why not build a giant broadcast signal jamming network along your northern border to stop "Ami-Kultur" from reaching us poor canucks. Then we won't be able to do anything with it.
Britain and France began fighting after Germany attacked *Poland* on Sept.1
The UK was at war Sept 3, 1939 and Canada was at war Sept 10, 1939 (obviously not because they were attacked)
The USA remained neutral for two years. The US was the one who waited until they were attacked before they entered the war.
Not meant as a flame. Once in the Americans committed themselves fully and did a *great* job. And many Europeans had a "love affair" with all things American for some time after the war was over.
Since then the Americans have done a lot of stuff to "lower their karma" so to speak though. Can't keep riding on your laurels forever.
No, no they couldn't steal it! That's the whole point of free s/w. It can't be stolen. If RH controlled WP and GPL'd it. Wow... there maybe some ugly code there but wow it wouldn't be hard to get word users to switch to WP. I don't know your situation but half the endusers I've dealt with still call Word Wordperfect all the time. "I'm replaci... er upgrading your word processor" "You're taking away Wordperfect!! Oh no! Stop" "No, I'm putting Wordperfect on. It's uh.. the latest version" "Oh, whew, sounds great...."
Avro Arrow!!!! boo hoo hooo, boo hoo hooo!
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Insightful? more like flamebait. US space program was built by europeans Really? A few ex-Nazi rocket scientists captured from Peenemunde do not a manned space program make.
Damn straight North American brother!!! Sure a few of the basic ideas for getting things going came from those German guys. But when the chips were down and the Apollo program needed to kick it up a notch to catch up with those blasted ruskies the US knew where to turn to... that's right Canada. Dief took the order from his yankee masters and the Arrow program was scrapped.
Jim Chamberlain, Owen Maynard, John Hodge...the list goes on and on...
A quote from the book Apollo - The Race to the Moon "As the Space Task Group's burden was threatening to overwhelm the entire project, the Canadian government unintentionally gave the American Space program its luckiest break since Wernher von Braun had surrendered to the Americans...while little public recognition was ever granted the Canadians their contribution was incalculable to the people within the programs. One of the group's top American engineers even claimed that the Canadians had it all over us in many areas... just brilliant guys... bright as hell and talented and professional to a man."
Hey I'm not saying that the Canadians did it all and there weren't any great and brilliant Americans working on the projects. Obviously there were. But no nation got into space by it's own efforts alone. America included.
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I'm afraid you're quite mistaken about Chinese replacing French as the second most spoken language in Canada. Funny, I've heard this rumour a few times now and yet it's not even close to reflecting reality. Check out this link from the last census: CDN CENSUS DATA
You'll see that French-speakers still make up just shy of 25% of the population. Chinese-speakers are about 2.5%, a tenth of the number of French-speakers.
The big news is the incredible growth in that percentage amount. Twenty years ago the Chinese percentage was 0.4%. That's an incredible growth rate. Chinese is the first language to knock the big two "allophone" languages down a notch. Chinese has supplanted Italian and German in Canada, but by no means French.
p.s. I thought the rest of your post was pretty cool
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naw, you're a citizen of the B.S.A.
the Border States of America and in an original six city to boot
you're a snow-addled half-canuck - kind of like the Northern English have quite a few things in common with the Scots
hey SEE,
I saw a PETRO-Canada in upstate New York last year on my way to the Aidirondacks
...you guys seriously, *seriously* need some Canadian Tire stores tho' buddy
>#3. When was the last time the leafs won the
>Stanley Cup?
what are you trying to do torture us?
at least the cup will be in wasaga beach this summer!
>#4: What is the Royal Canadian Air Farce?
the worst show on television and/or iCraveTV
okay Detroit-boy (the so-called "Hockeytown" - in someone's deranged dream maybe...)
bring it on baby...
who's better than badboy?
who was Laura Secord?
what is a CEGEP?
what's the best game you can name?
elmer the safety _______?
what does the PETRO in PETRO-CANADA stand for?
what is a vachon half-moon?
what ship was the pride of the american side?
name the most famous canadian military victory?
what does bombardier make?
what is poutine?
what's the logo on a pack of player's cigaretes?
...on a bottle of ex?
what is KD?
where can one buy the President's Choice?
what is Canada Trust?
what does someone want when they ask for your SIN?
(yeah, I know these are all easy ones, but he said keep it simple - ones most Canucks would get - even the dumb ones - if you want some more challenge just ask)
no that's not true
believe me all those Outlook 2000 using monkeys who sent you a million ILOVEYOU's actually opened the script
MS is dumb sure, but not that dumb come on!
they are two islands (St Pierre and Miqelon) which are overseas departments of France
they are just off of the southern coast of Newfoundland
I'm certainly not aware of that - true.
Canada accepts as many "landed immigrants" (resident aliens) and asylum-seekers as new citizens.
I would imagine the us has its house roughly in the same order. I think the INS probably is doing a better job of watching for illegals than we are. Wasn't the us berating canada recently over having borders that were too easy to enter illegally? anyway...
hey!
you can't do basic math!
the us has a comprehensive free trade agreement with canada - it can't impose tariffs on software
There are slums in Canada, but due to the tiny, largely homogeneous populatoin, they quite naturally are not as dilapidated as some slums in the U.S., although gentrification is remaking many of the U.S. slums into more livable areas.
oh oh!! you are dumb
canada is the most un-homogeneous country on earth there nimrod
1 out of 10 americans were born outside of the us
1 out of *6* canadians were
the un ranks toronto as *the* most diverse city on the old planet there
new york city is a sorry-assed 2nd place
:^)
(because i put a smily at the end you can't get mad at me)
they'd be an import product from a country you have a comprehensive free trade agreement with (that means no duty on import baby)
don't worry - it'll never happen
there are lawsuits in the pipe in canada against MS too
but we'd really really *really* like to be cheech to your chong guys...
why can't we? get with it! enough with the stupid war on drugs already!
British/Canadian incursions?!?
Ummm, I believe you're referring to the war of 1812.
If you will check any reliable source you'd quickly discover that it was America that invaded the Canadian colonies at that time. That was our "war of independence". Independence from America. If the white house got burned down it was hardly an "incursion" if the burning-down-type-people were trying to stop their homeland being wiped off the map by said Americans.
Also, re: French-speakers in the southern U.S. - They are the remnants of French settlement and (forced re-settlement (of the Acadians)) long pre-dating the United States. Nothing to do with French fighting a (as yet non-existent U.S.) America later acquired that territory through the Louisiana Purchase. (hint: no fighting French people involved)
Oh that was a good point - I was thinking you were going to make it - rats!
Okay, the Americans' robotic agents expire when they reach the Vat o' Goodness - they last thing they do is say, "Please iCraveToxicWaste, please send one of your robotic agents with some waste to the following location." iCraveToxicWaste then does just that. Now, iCraveToxicWaste shouldn't have to comply with the laws of every country on Earth. Everything is illegal somewhere. But they get requests from all over the world. They just fulfil the requests as they come in. If the Americans don't like redistribution of toxic waste but Canada allows it. It becomes the Americans problem either when one of their citizens requests the waste (make that illegal a la the 18-19th entury Catholic Church) or when the toxic waste enters their territory (block the waste at the border a la Australia).
Besides its a tried and true method of making some scratch up here. Find an area in which the "Land of the Free" is not quite as free and make some quick bucks pissing off the powers that be in the USA by "sharing the freedom" so to speak.
One of our biggest multi-nationals got it's start by supplying booze across the border when alcohol was illegal in the States but not in Canada - Seagrams. Ask any bar owner on the Canadian side of the border how many customers are deprived underaged Americans. If America really believed in those laws Canada should be denounced regularily for "supplying" alcohol to underage kids - corrupting them!
Anyway don't worry iCraveTV obviously wants to be a player in the US. That's why they've followed the injunction.
America has 10x more people whose money we want and now = time to bend over again, um not liking this, this, um, really, sucks - ah christ!
Anyway, less talk - more beer! yay!
bye
hey! who said atrocities!? not me! apparently most Canadians *like* being hit on the head by rocks....
noone's asking you to stop are they?
Naw, I think he got the point. Perhaps you missed his subtle humour?
Your analogy is wrong. It is illegal to dump toxic waste in both countries. You'd have to pick something that is legal in the US and illegal in Canada -- like buying assault rifles or something - I don't know, whatever.
Also, the Canadian company in question is not - continuing to examine your analogy - dumping into American territory. The small Canadian company is taking toxic waste (I love that you chose toxic waste as an example) that has been dumped in massive quantities in Canada by huge American corporations and putting it in a big vat IN CANADA. Then, knowing how much Americans love their toxic waste, they've set up a service where by Americans can set up their automated robotic agents to cross the border into Canada - come to the Vat o' Goodness, scoop up some of the waste and return to America with it. And now an American judge has ruled that its the Canadian company that's doing the dumping?!! and it's wrong for that to happen in the United States.
Ridiculous!
The injustice!
Fight this infamy iCraveTV !!!!
Perhaps the Americans should pull an Australia and block their citizens from doing certain things with their robotic agents...
A-ha! But that's exactly what *is* happening. The American networks are throwing rocks all day long over the border and constantly hitting many Canadians on the head with them. iCrave is merely showing the rocks on the net and saying to the world: Her World Baby! -- Look at these rocks the Americans keep on throwing at us!
Why not build a giant broadcast signal jamming network along your northern border to stop "Ami-Kultur" from reaching us poor canucks. Then we won't be able to do anything with it.
ha ha!
Looks like someone's idea of a before and after shot.
BEFORE: bloated mobile computing = windows, x86 processor in a laptop, entertainment = solitaire
AFTER: debloatated computing = mobile linux, crusoe processor in a (wireless?) webpad, entertainment = slashdot (viewed in mobile mozilla??)
Britain and France began fighting after Germany attacked *Poland* on Sept.1
The UK was at war Sept 3, 1939 and
Canada was at war Sept 10, 1939 (obviously not because they were attacked)
The USA remained neutral for two years.
The US was the one who waited until they were attacked before they entered the war.
Not meant as a flame. Once in the Americans committed themselves fully and did a *great* job. And many Europeans had a "love affair" with all things American for some time after the war was over.
Since then the Americans have done a lot of stuff to "lower their karma" so to speak though. Can't keep riding on your laurels forever.
No, no they couldn't steal it!
That's the whole point of free s/w. It can't be stolen.
If RH controlled WP and GPL'd it. Wow... there maybe some ugly code there but wow it wouldn't be hard to get word users to switch to WP. I don't know your situation but half the endusers I've dealt with still call Word Wordperfect all the time.
"I'm replaci... er upgrading your word processor"
"You're taking away Wordperfect!! Oh no! Stop"
"No, I'm putting Wordperfect on. It's uh.. the latest version"
"Oh, whew, sounds great...."
including Newfoundland Time?!!?
Check out this website
Insightful? more like flamebait.
... just brilliant guys ... bright as hell and talented and professional to a man."
US space program was built by europeans
Really? A few ex-Nazi rocket scientists captured from Peenemunde do not a manned space program make.
Damn straight North American brother!!! Sure a few of the basic ideas for getting things going came from those German guys. But when the chips were down and the Apollo program needed to kick it up a notch to catch up with those blasted ruskies the US knew where to turn to... that's right Canada. Dief took the order from his yankee masters and the Arrow program was scrapped.
Jim Chamberlain, Owen Maynard, John Hodge...the list goes on and on...
Avro Employees and NASA
Post-Arrow Brain Drain from Canada
Canada's Gift to NASA
Owen Maynard
A quote from the book Apollo - The Race to the Moon
"As the Space Task Group's burden was threatening to overwhelm the entire project, the Canadian government unintentionally gave the American Space program its luckiest break since Wernher von Braun had surrendered to the Americans...while little public recognition was ever granted the Canadians their contribution was incalculable to the people within the programs. One of the group's top American engineers even claimed that the Canadians had it all over us in many areas
Hey I'm not saying that the Canadians did it all and there weren't any great and brilliant Americans working on the projects. Obviously there were. But no nation got into space by it's own efforts alone. America included.
I'm afraid you're quite mistaken about Chinese replacing French as the second most spoken language in Canada. Funny, I've heard this rumour a few times now and yet it's not even close to reflecting reality. Check out this link from the last census: CDN CENSUS DATA
You'll see that French-speakers still make up just shy of 25% of the population. Chinese-speakers are about 2.5%, a tenth of the number of French-speakers.
The big news is the incredible growth in that percentage amount. Twenty years ago the Chinese percentage was 0.4%. That's an incredible growth rate. Chinese is the first language to knock the big two "allophone" languages down a notch. Chinese has supplanted Italian and German in Canada, but by no means French.
p.s. I thought the rest of your post was pretty cool
I hope the sky won't be slashdotted tonight with too many people looking up at once.