You do realize where the biggest (almost all) source of black market guns in Canada is? The US needs to get their shit together,whether that is mental hospitals or strict gun control I don't know. Someone has to get some balls and take responsibility instead of nothing changing after evey massacre.

Photstream of one of these in action at UBC...

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Not that I really disagree, but from Canada's point of view who is a serious threat? China launching a marine invasion and holding the second biggest country on earth? The only serious threat to Canada is the USA and that war would be over rather quickly, so why bother with a huge military to defend against that?

Would it be possible for the 9 pin apple connector to hold an adaptor that is flush with the phone and take a micro-usb? I thought there was some EU directive that wanted phones to all have a micro-usb connector?

How about a 4k or 8k 27" monitor? They can market it as a TV if they want too.

We bought our first GPS receiver in 1992 for $1500. Today we have GPS receivers for pennies in your cell phone with better accuracy. Why have costs not come down on higher end systems? Patents? Lack of Competition? For instance, in agriculture you buy a 1500$ receiver and the vendor sells you different levels of $2000 software unlock codes to go from 8" to 4" to 2" to 1.5" to 1" accuracy. Are they selling the receivers initially at a loss?

Derailing.....
"But what about democratic countries like Canada and Germany, which nonetheless have anti-hate-speech laws that are inconsistent with American free speech guarantees?"
  What exactly are these free speech guarantees you speak of? It almost seems like you are implying that the US has free speech with zero or no restrictions???

Ahh, but you are forgetting one thing. The people in Canada have one power the US doesn't have, they have the power to vote governments out (ie decimate the party). See Campbell/Mulroney or the recent Liberal defeat.
Yes they may jave 5 years to wreck the country, but at least you know you can get rid of them. In the US, with all the gerrymandering there are so many safe seats the equivalent could never happen.

We need a "just works" encryption system for this, so google doesn't know what is stored.

Many hours wasted here over the years, but definitely a very big net benefit.

Except it is very anti-tourist. My "zip code" has letters in it. I can't type it in, thus pay at the pump has ceased to work at most gas stations in the US. Major pain in the ass.

Bell/Rogers/etc are a monopoly. AKA a market failure, thus heavy government regulation is required since there is no real competition. Allowing bandwidth to be charged at 2$ per gigabyte is ridiculous when it really costs pennies. Have all the charges you want, but at 7 cents a gigabyte.
Bell/Rogers/etc are in the TV business, they want expensive bandwidth charges to run companies like netflix out of business.
What I find appalling is that the CRTC (regulator) should have investigated what bandwidth actually costs (all costs) and then put a proper return of 15% and regulate it.

I want a IPv6 /48 prefix from my ISP. That is all. Tunnels are great for testing, but really they have had years and years and years to prepare.