[117048] in Cypherpunks
RE: Canada
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (JBUGDEN@ALIS.COM)
Wed Aug 25 17:36:07 1999
From: JBUGDEN@ALIS.COM
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To: tcmay@got.net
Cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 17:14:08 -0400
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Canada is far from perfect. There are other compelling factors to move north
besides 10 months of skiing per year.
Our Olympic atheletes can test positive for marijauna and still keep the
gold medal: "It was second hand smoke at my Dad's house in Whistler." Funny
thing was that we believed him.
And recently the top court in B.C. struck down child pornography laws as
overly invasive. To pharaphrase the decision: the end doesn't justify the
means. The means must justify themselves.
While drugs aren't strictly legal here, you will probably find a lot more
tolerance. This may be related to the lower number of guns in Canada. You
might not want to hallucinate that bats are in the house with armalites
around.
But I think that we've learned to solve optimization problems with more than
three variables. There are many factors to consider when you choose where to
live.
Like the price of gas.
Whoops.
Je pense donc je habite ici.
James
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim May [SMTP:tcmay@got.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 1:55 AM
> To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
> Subject: Canada
>
> At 9:02 PM -0700 1999-08-24, Adam Shostack wrote:
> >| /*
> >| "It's disappointing that US consumers must look to other countries
> >| for protection from a government they feel is overstepping its
> >| investigative authority," said David Sobel, general counsel for
> >| the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington, DC. "The
> >| United States should be in the forefront of privacy technology,
> >| not trying to circumvent it."
> >| */
> >
> >Its fairly typical for Americans, fed up with our government, to go to
> >Canada. E.g. draft dodgers, escaped slaves. Nice of the Canadians to
> >be so accepting. :)
> >
>
> As a fed up gun owner, I plan to escape to Canada with my guns.
>
> Oh, you mean Canada is vastly more restrictive about guns?
>
> But at least I can escape to Canada and be beyond repressive pornography
> laws.
>
> Oh, you mean Canada actually passed the feminazi Dworkin-McKinnon agenda?
>
> At least the taxes are lower...
>
> Whoops.
>
> I guess Canada is a statist's dream. So why can't we get Feinswine,
> Schumer, Reno, Freeh, Boxer, Kennedy, and the tens of thousands of other
> statists to move to Canada? Maybe Hillary could become Mistress of Culture
> or something.
>
>
> --Tim May
>
> Don't tread on me.
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