I cross in the US quite often to go camping in the Adirondacks/Thousand Islands areas of New York and I have used my passport for the past 10 years or so and never spend more than a minute at the booth. I guess it's obvious what I am up to with a car full of camping equipment, a bicycle on top and crossing at one of the closest entry points in Ontario to the Adirondacks. Also, I have not experienced a secondary inspection since I was 21 (I'm 35 now), and that's only because I had files from the office in the back seat and they wanted to be sure I was not going to the US to work. I prefer to use the passport because my address is not written on it. If US Customs wants to know where I live, then they can ask.
A friend who travels with me uses his driver's licence and birth certificateand seems to deal with the occasional problem getting across. From what I understand, the birth certificate identifies where you were born and therefore your citizenship and your driver's licence identifies you as being the person named on the birth certificate. There is an issue of division of powers that make the use of the DL/BC combo a bad idea.
In Canada and the US, the responsibility for auto & driver licencing and vital statistics are provincial/state responsibilities so it is doubltful that there will ever be a US (or Canadian) citizen ID. Responsibility for customs/border services is federal. Provincial/state governments do not deal with the federal government of the other country. So, it is not entirely appropriate to show provincial ID to an agent of the other federal government. Plus, it is a lot of work to be able to be sure that ID from 50 states, 10 provinces, 3 territories and DC.
(almost) Anything that speeds border crossing is a good idea and reducing 65+ pieces of acceptable documents to less than 10 would help.
It is however, ridiculous (er I mean redicyaliss) to have to produce a passport to come home.
I have no idea how the division of powers and border works in Mexico, but I assume it's similar to Canada and the US. Aye, more ID possibilities!
If the government can read it for legitimate purposes, then the government and other people can read it for illegitimate purposes.
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I think Pierre Trudeau who said something to the effect to never trust someone who wants to be your leader. I think that it was before Lester Pearson asked him to run for the Liberals in Montreal in the 1960s.
Just for the hell of it, I decided to see if it was on my XP implementation by default, and I could not find it off the Start menu. However, if I open up the run box off the start menu, to get Solitaire, I just typed sol and hit return.
Oh sure, let's overlook party affiliation when it's a DEMOCRAT doing something stupid. Let the Republicans do something stupid and/. has 2,903,483,029 posts bashing him/her.
You're just being silly. I mean there have only been 11,903,234 posts to Slashdot (based on the number of your post). Even if 50% would be Republican-bashing, that leaves you with 5,951,617 posts attacking the Republicans, and I mean, even that seems high considering that the bulk of readers hate Microsoft more than the Republicans.
Standard disclaimer: I am not a constitutional lawyer, or another kind of lawyer, so this is not legal advice.
Canada is not a British colony. It was one and uses British common-law as its base. I am not a lawyer and I can't say which year Canada ceased to be a colony 1982, 1931, 1867, 1848-1849. I would assume a combinaton of the middle two. Anyow, you pick. Each of those years marked some sort of devolution of power to Canada to manage its own affairs. Nevertheless common-law is just that, common. Canadian courts do rely on foreign precedents and so do US courts. Use a search engine and enter the search criteria of: use of foreign precedents.
I am still shocked that an Ontario court would hear this case. If the Post had contracted banner ads to direct people with IPs known to be in Canada to their site and that article, then I could see how the plaintiff has could have standing in an Ontario court, but the action was performed in DC, for the DC/MA/North VA market, maybe the US market. I dunno, what are the US newspapers of record? Regardless, the libel occurred in the US. I agree with the mob; the case should be tried there.
I'd like to see an American-English one for the other English-speaking countries of the world, being Canadian, we take on a lot of both English and US usage and throw in a few terms of our own. I'd like to see what words other countries use.
"I love French wine, I like the French language. I have sampled every language, French is my favorite. Fantastic language. Especially to curse with. Nom de dieu de putain de bordel de merde de saloperie de connard d'enculé de ta mère. It's like wiping your arse with silk. I love it."
I loved your paragraph so much I copied it. As I kid I disliked Christmas carols, so I used to sing them with French vulgarity. Silent Night sounds so much better with: "Taaaabarnac, saaaaacré-fils. Mon esti, caaaahlice. Maaaaaange la merde la grooooosse-putin. Vaaaaa chiez etc...." Of course if I caught a kid of mine doing that I would probably discpline him or her if I could do it without laughing.
Maybe the guys will have a different perspective on this, but with Gillette, you get what you pay for. I use a Sensor razor, at least I think that's what it is. I tried knockoffs because the Gillette's blades were almost twice as much. The knock-offs didn't do as good of a job and I hacked a piece of skin off my leg in the process, not pleasant. I now use Gillette's replacement blades the "men's" blades because they are a buck cheaper per pack. They look dorky, but it's not like anyone but me sees them.
Anyhow, if the generic printer cartidges are crap, then people won't buy them, kind of like the way I will not use Gillette-compatible blades, but I am learning to believe that Lexmark is using the DMCA because they can't offer anything better than what the generic companies can.
If you enjoy action gaming and you own an Xbox, there is simply no excuse for you not to own Halo 2.
Yes there is. It's called debt.
Maybe some of us don't like killing and shooting and being killed and shooting and getting shot at ad nauseum. Some of us are so much spending time driving cars around in circles and smashing into things, that we have no game time left for Halo....and the expense of HALO is too much for me credit card to bear.
I was ripped off living in Canada, all I had was Compute! magazine. I learned bad typing habits from that magazine. I also enter basic or machine code and then comparing it to a checksum. It was tedious, but it prepared for work in an office environment.
Well, In Canada, before the 2000 election, the "so far right, we are out of touch" Reform Party renamed itself to look a little more progressive to the "Canadian Reform Alliance Party". I have to say, that acronym really worked for them.
I am not a smoker, but I did the math £5 is something like $CDN11.40 or $9.30 in green dollars. Aye Caramba! That would be incenive enough to quit, if I did. In Canada, well Ontario & Quebec, I think the packs are bigger and they are around $10.00. Man, I pity you addicts. I think I will have another coffee.
I've been asked for my passport in London in hotels. I've refused. The passport is property of the counry of issue, not the person holding it and I am not prepared to give away something that does not belong to me.
No, I'm not. Actually I think there is more than one woman who reads Slashdot, thought I believe that the number is not statisticaly significant, but what do I know? Math is hard!
This kind of nonsense is old news. I doubt the science is there to argue one way or another on this issue and in any event culture, nutrition, health etc plays a bigger role than biology for explaining acheivement in humans.
Now to read the article.
hmm Telecom Ottawa is a subsidiary of Hydro Ottawa, our city-owner electric company. If the internet company acts as quickly as the hydro company, then maybe Panix will get a response by next year.
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A friend who travels with me uses his driver's licence and birth certificateand seems to deal with the occasional problem getting across. From what I understand, the birth certificate identifies where you were born and therefore your citizenship and your driver's licence identifies you as being the person named on the birth certificate. There is an issue of division of powers that make the use of the DL/BC combo a bad idea.
In Canada and the US, the responsibility for auto & driver licencing and vital statistics are provincial/state responsibilities so it is doubltful that there will ever be a US (or Canadian) citizen ID. Responsibility for customs/border services is federal. Provincial/state governments do not deal with the federal government of the other country. So, it is not entirely appropriate to show provincial ID to an agent of the other federal government. Plus, it is a lot of work to be able to be sure that ID from 50 states, 10 provinces, 3 territories and DC.
(almost) Anything that speeds border crossing is a good idea and reducing 65+ pieces of acceptable documents to less than 10 would help.
It is however, ridiculous (er I mean redicyaliss) to have to produce a passport to come home.
I have no idea how the division of powers and border works in Mexico, but I assume it's similar to Canada and the US. Aye, more ID possibilities!
I wonder if Canadian artists did well at this year's Juno Awards.
I don't see what's special about this. The Fonz was able to do this in the 1950s. All you need is an elbow.
Because they can!
Hey, that's not a funny joke.
If the government can read it for legitimate purposes, then the government and other people can read it for illegitimate purposes.
I think Pierre Trudeau who said something to the effect to never trust someone who wants to be your leader. I think that it was before Lester Pearson asked him to run for the Liberals in Montreal in the 1960s.
What about Bernie Sanders? He seems like a decent guy, from probably the most decent US state.
Good going IMD guys!
What is it with you yanks and your aversion to the letter 'U'?
You're just being silly. I mean there have only been 11,903,234 posts to Slashdot (based on the number of your post). Even if 50% would be Republican-bashing, that leaves you with 5,951,617 posts attacking the Republicans, and I mean, even that seems high considering that the bulk of readers hate Microsoft more than the Republicans.
Canada is not a British colony. It was one and uses British common-law as its base. I am not a lawyer and I can't say which year Canada ceased to be a colony 1982, 1931, 1867, 1848-1849. I would assume a combinaton of the middle two. Anyow, you pick. Each of those years marked some sort of devolution of power to Canada to manage its own affairs. Nevertheless common-law is just that, common. Canadian courts do rely on foreign precedents and so do US courts. Use a search engine and enter the search criteria of: use of foreign precedents.
In any event, all federal laws pertaining to libel and this provincial law have been written or amended since 1982, so the issue of UK law applying to Canada is moot.
I am still shocked that an Ontario court would hear this case. If the Post had contracted banner ads to direct people with IPs known to be in Canada to their site and that article, then I could see how the plaintiff has could have standing in an Ontario court, but the action was performed in DC, for the DC/MA/North VA market, maybe the US market. I dunno, what are the US newspapers of record? Regardless, the libel occurred in the US. I agree with the mob; the case should be tried there.
I'd like to see an American-English one for the other English-speaking countries of the world, being Canadian, we take on a lot of both English and US usage and throw in a few terms of our own. I'd like to see what words other countries use.
Didn't Unisys partner with MS on "wehavethewayout.com"? Could they be the culprits?
I loved your paragraph so much I copied it. As I kid I disliked Christmas carols, so I used to sing them with French vulgarity. Silent Night sounds so much better with: "Taaaabarnac, saaaaacré-fils. Mon esti, caaaahlice. Maaaaaange la merde la grooooosse-putin. Vaaaaa chiez etc...." Of course if I caught a kid of mine doing that I would probably discpline him or her if I could do it without laughing.
Anyhow, if the generic printer cartidges are crap, then people won't buy them, kind of like the way I will not use Gillette-compatible blades, but I am learning to believe that Lexmark is using the DMCA because they can't offer anything better than what the generic companies can.
Yes there is. It's called debt.
Maybe some of us don't like killing and shooting and being killed and shooting and getting shot at ad nauseum. Some of us are so much spending time driving cars around in circles and smashing into things, that we have no game time left for Halo....and the expense of HALO is too much for me credit card to bear.
I was ripped off living in Canada, all I had was Compute! magazine. I learned bad typing habits from that magazine. I also enter basic or machine code and then comparing it to a checksum. It was tedious, but it prepared for work in an office environment.
Well, In Canada, before the 2000 election, the "so far right, we are out of touch" Reform Party renamed itself to look a little more progressive to the "Canadian Reform Alliance Party". I have to say, that acronym really worked for them.
I am not a smoker, but I did the math £5 is something like $CDN11.40 or $9.30 in green dollars. Aye Caramba! That would be incenive enough to quit, if I did. In Canada, well Ontario & Quebec, I think the packs are bigger and they are around $10.00. Man, I pity you addicts. I think I will have another coffee.
It must be 2003. I bought an XBox for my godson there for Yaksmas 2003.
I've been asked for my passport in London in hotels. I've refused. The passport is property of the counry of issue, not the person holding it and I am not prepared to give away something that does not belong to me.
Frank Magazine, RIP, called those clowns "Bingo Callers". the label fits.
No, I'm not. Actually I think there is more than one woman who reads Slashdot, thought I believe that the number is not statisticaly significant, but what do I know? Math is hard! This kind of nonsense is old news. I doubt the science is there to argue one way or another on this issue and in any event culture, nutrition, health etc plays a bigger role than biology for explaining acheivement in humans. Now to read the article.
hmm Telecom Ottawa is a subsidiary of Hydro Ottawa, our city-owner electric company. If the internet company acts as quickly as the hydro company, then maybe Panix will get a response by next year.
I think am going to put a sticker on that comment, "Evolution is a theory, not a fact".