Well I'm Canadian so that makes me a terrorist I guess anyways?

As if the NSA isn't treating American citizens with the exact same hostility, fat chance. It's always been government vs public in every police state ever...

So the government is probably spying on everyone, but a particular person doesn't have standing unless they can specifically prove they were spied on.

On the other hand, selectively not answering certain questions is now equivalent to answering those questions with whatever answer fits the police officer's narrative.

Interesting what counts as speculation and what doesn't.

Great so basically we give up all our liberties and get no safety, but at least we can find the terrorists after they blow things up.

When have innocent people ever in the history of humanity been unfairly punished? Come on, guys.

Very true. Hadn't thought of it from that angle before but excellent point. Of course if they ever get into power they can just enact their own laws (presumably they have support if they were voted in..)

So much win. so. much. win.

We should totally just wait and see, and while we're waiting lets continue changing the biosphere.

It's sort of like inventing new chemicals and giving them to people as medicine because testing them is not feasible or possible. I agree, there isn't enough data, which is precisely why we should keep the planet as it is until we understand exactly what we can safely do to it.

Yea it's BS there are tons of ways around these things. Also, they can't pay him because he isn't an adult old enough to abide by their terms and conditions or whatever, doesn't that gut every EULA everywhere? "My 16 year old installed it."

Unless the next sentence is, "And now that I'm aware of it I'm going to make an effort to not be so hateful," then you need a different profession.

cool story bro. Pay more for less if it makes you happy :)

Your country is hardly a shining example of independence, giving the hold corporations have over your "elected" officials.

Fair enough :) my bad.

I'd still take Canadian healthcare and affordable education with the Harper government over the US approach.

Hunger overrides aversion to insects. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/07/0715_040715_tvinsectfood.html QED on the instincts part.

Aversion to eating dog in Western society is about as strong as their aversion to consciously eating insects, and we can easily see how the former is culturally taught.

Ditto. We laugh in your general direction, US. (that is, south...for those of you priced out of knowing that we are to your north).

Affordable education, free healthcare (even in taxes it costs less per capita than what you pay, and our population is healthier by most measures), fewer crazy extremists....

Get it together, America...you're embarrassing the continent. Especially when you scream "We're number 1!" Number one in what? Per capita incarceration? Yay.

Sure it's wrong to say that "large diverse group" are all bigoted. But the odds of encountering bigotry, both in quantity and severity, is higher in the south than other areas.

Also, strictly speaking, it's more regionist than it is racist, though admittedly race does play a factor. For example, I'm less likely to have a bias against a white person in Canada as a bigot than I am a white person from the US south, rightly or wrongly.

Lastly, it is funny when people of the south cry "racism" about being broad brushed as racists. To them, I say, "Hurtful, isn't it?" Rather than complain, they should take comfort in the fact that otherwise you belong to the dominant group of society and take it as a learning opportunity of how difficult it is for people who don't get that luxury.

You're absolutely right. There is no statistical quantitative or qualitative difference between the punishments meted out to white students vs the rest, neither within the school system nor with the larger criminal justice system. How could anyone even suggest that?

Surely if there were someone would have kept track of it and brought it up by now. Oh wait. But forget the numbers. I like my privilege and we can't have the other colours getting uppity, best be keeping them in check.