Canute has received an undeserved bad reputation.

He went to the seaside and ordered the tide to stop coming in. It didn't stop. However, he wasn't illustrating foolish hubris. He was tired of people in his court coming and asking him to make proclamations that weren't going to work. He really was saying "Look I'm only human and my decrees can't accomplish the impossible."

My bad, It's Wendy's that uses the maple leaf not Tim Hortons. I confused the two as a result of their wedding and then divorce.

You're right about about the cedilla, only half right about the acute accents. To the language police it's: Québecois.

With their language use laws the language police in Québec also include the QPP (Quebec Provincial Police).

Interesting factoid: Tim Hortons is Canada's most popular coffee/donut fast food restaurant. It doesn't have an apostrophe. In Québec, an apostrophe would make it English, which would make it illegal (or at least illegal if the name was displayed bigger than the French equivalent). On their signs, they use a maple leaf instead of an apostrophe. The eye sees the apostrophe instead. (I'd call it a trompe l'oeill, which would be àpropos if not entirely accurate)
 

That's a wonderful idea, let's sell our grandchildren's rights to use expressions that have been milked dry (by and large). The price is the right to clear cut the forests and destroy their environment.

There are also significant differences. If I build a house on your property, you can't. If I make a new book based on ideas from "your" book, It doesn't stop anyone else from doing the same. You don't care, you've been dead for 50 years.

I doubt it. The World Health Organization doesn't have much stake in this matter.

Your Comment Subject is correct, but only if it's referring to your comment. There are huge differences. Six weeks of 24/7 undercover surveillance for a petty drug dealer. That would be the equivalence you're drawing.

They may constantly complain, but they only go berserk twice a year.

Actually patient "0" is reported to have been a two year old child in the town of Guéckédou in Guinea.
Thomas Duncan's patient number was likely between 4,000 and 12,000.

If the international system had taken the issue seriously when Guinea announced 59 dead (March 22) instead of August, Thomas Duncan wouldn't have been a patient. Calling him patient "0" makes false assumptions about the Atlantic or Mediterranean, i.e., that they afford us some sort of protection rather than just delaying the inevitable.

My personal opinion is that this won't be an extermination event, but I don't expect to see civilization as we know it in 5 years. I hope the vaccine makers and distributers are successful and that my expectations are not met.

Where are my mod points when I need them? Somebody mod this parent up!

He and I have the same gear grinders.

The problem is that there are subsystems on a aircraft can be transparently seen to be critical or non-critical. A loose latch on door to the garbage bin in the galley is not likely to take the entire plane down.

The same can't be said of a computer system. Any program that breaks security breaks it for the entire system.

I perceive that you are paraphrasing the parent.