First of all, there should be a -1: Tin-foil hat option. Anyway, in Canada the government can seize your property without any kind of warrant, or even notification. Next. look up the Notwithstanding Clause. Finally, Canada also recently psased "anti-terrorism" laws similar to what you're complaining about.
I am willing to be informed about whatever seizure laws you are talking about - I have never heard about them. The drug forfeiture laws in the U.S. where the victoms must prove their innocence however...
A serious, serious bone-head UI gaffe on the DirecTV Tivo: you ascend channels up-screen with the channel up/down buttons but the program guide the channels ascend down-screen! Who was the moron...?! Oh yeah, Huge Air Crash idiots own DirecTV.
Really, how could they do anything else? Every video remote in the world uses channel up/down in that manner. Program guides also have a well used idiom. If either were suddenly reversed, the complaints would be much louder.
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It was my understanding that Fantasy as a Genre really took off when LOTR was first split into 3 separate novels.