Perhaps, rather than chasing down a ghost, Toews would be better served to think a little more seriously about the complaints people have raised about government over-surveillance.
What I would rather have is a clear explanation of why the government doesn not want to keep a registry of guns (Conservative-dominated parliament voted to discontinue it last week) but want to keeps a detailed info on internet users. Regardless of how people feel about the gun registry, it would be the height of intellectual dishonesty to assert that internet user history is more dangerous than guns.
This is clearly bad judgement. I wouldn't have started with the dog owner. ;-) Reminds me of an old joke:
"A man wakes up one morning in Alaska to find a bear on his roof. So he looks in the yellow pages and sure enough, there's an ad for "Bear Removers."
He calls the number, and the bear remover says he'll be over in 30 minutes.
The bear remover arrives, and gets out of his van. He's got a ladder, a baseball bat, a shotgun and a mean old pit bull.
"What are you going to do," the homeowner asks?
"I'm going to put this ladder up against the roof, then I'm going to go up there and knock the bear off the roof with this baseball bat. When the bear falls off, the pit bull is trained to grab his testicles and not let go. The bear will then be subdued enough for me to put him in the cage in the back of the van."
He hands the shotgun to the homeowner.
"What's the shotgun for?" asks the homeowner.
"If the bear knocks me off the roof, shoot the dog."
I'm guessing PIPA is a "better thought-out and more prudent approach" than SOPA in the way that rape is more pleasant and more endearing than gang-rape.
Would those rules apply to post-apocalyptic situations? How about the Rapture? Because there's this new "Left Behind" video game is coming out and the players are supposed to kill Jews, atheists, and other assorted infidels if they refuse to convert to Christianity. Would the Rules of Engagement or US Constitution apply here too?
As a side note, I don't have a problem with the stores selling this game as long as it's stocked right next to Grand Theft Auto.
Seriously? You're that short on something useful to criticise you feel the need to get personal? Perhaps, you could submit your name here? And then we can all discuss your family?
A class act indeed...
"Because this enemy does not exist, it must be created. And as international experience shows, the worst enemy is an invented one. I assure you it will be an incredibly horrifying monster. Armed forces will have to be doubled."
Except who got the police involved in the first place? If she's that uncomfortable about a guy in her class and doesn't want to de-friend him on FB, well.. that's what fmylife.com is for...
Reminds me of a Doug Stanhope joke: "Have you ever considered registering as a sex offender just so that your friends would stop bringing their children over to your place?" LMAO
Since I have nothing intelligent of my own to add to the debate, I would like to quote my favourite band instead:
Gogol Bordello, "Ultimate": There were never any good old days
They are today, they are tomorrow
It's a stupid thing we say
Cursing tomorrow with sorrow
By denying the value of communications tools such as Twitter, people can only devalue the overall communication and proverbally "curse tomorrow with sorrow" of diminished exchange of ideas.
I never understood the reson behind the wording "anything you say can and will be used against you...". What if I say (truthfully!) I was reading to blind people during the time the crime was committed?
True but the marriage issue is mostly conservative vs non-conservative issue. I use the term non-conservative as it encompasses both the liberals and large swaths of the libertarian movement. In fact, libertarians often dislike the "conservative" label.
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I call BS
What I would rather have is a clear explanation of why the government doesn not want to keep a registry of guns (Conservative-dominated parliament voted to discontinue it last week) but want to keeps a detailed info on internet users. Regardless of how people feel about the gun registry, it would be the height of intellectual dishonesty to assert that internet user history is more dangerous than guns.
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"A man wakes up one morning in Alaska to find a bear on his roof. So he looks in the yellow pages and sure enough, there's an ad for "Bear Removers."
He calls the number, and the bear remover says he'll be over in 30 minutes.
The bear remover arrives, and gets out of his van. He's got a ladder, a baseball bat, a shotgun and a mean old pit bull.
"What are you going to do," the homeowner asks?
"I'm going to put this ladder up against the roof, then I'm going to go up there and knock the bear off the roof with this baseball bat. When the bear falls off, the pit bull is trained to grab his testicles and not let go. The bear will then be subdued enough for me to put him in the cage in the back of the van."
He hands the shotgun to the homeowner.
"What's the shotgun for?" asks the homeowner.
"If the bear knocks me off the roof, shoot the dog."
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No way! Oh, wait...
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Long time coming
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Now you have two problems...
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How far can we go?
As a side note, I don't have a problem with the stores selling this game as long as it's stocked right next to Grand Theft Auto.
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Iron-clad logic
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Great expectations
Nope. No, I really wouldn't...
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Re:
A class act indeed...
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Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, "The Doomed City"
Translation by YT.
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The main thing
Go Habs! :-)
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Enemies?
No enemy is as powerful and as horryfying as the imaginary one.
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In the steps of Stephen Colbert...
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Re: Re: New ideas for SSID?
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Mediation, meditation...
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Gogol Bordello, "Ultimate":
There were never any good old days
They are today, they are tomorrow
It's a stupid thing we say
Cursing tomorrow with sorrow
By denying the value of communications tools such as Twitter, people can only devalue the overall communication and proverbally "curse tomorrow with sorrow" of diminished exchange of ideas.
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What's in a word?
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Re: Re: Well...