In the long run, it can definitely make Canada safer. Prohibiting this behavior means that we won't do stupid shit that will cause even more enemies.to appear. The number of threats that the Anglosphere faces that we didn't create ourselves is incredibly small.

you really hold an organization like ISIS and the US Govt on the same moral equivalency?

i don't care how much you hate the USA, you fail the ability of coherent thought if you think the USA and ISIS are morally the same

From a group that made its name slaughtering helpless civilians, I wouldn't expect a whole lot of guile.

Don't be silly - incitement to murder is still illegal. Your link about a public pedophile registry case has NOTHING to do with this.

10% is 10% no matter what the purchase price is, the Proportions are the same.

The only way where they get out of balance is where corporations can purchase larger quantity and get a lower sale price per unit then the smaller consumer for a given item.. So you will not be removing the buying power element, but even then you are capturing the taxes and doing it based on money changing hands.

Look, it is one of those apple fans who talk about apple's "war chest" like it is a badge of honour to overpay for a device to fund said war chest (which by the way is overseas to avoid taxes).

I see, so it IS okay for Apple to strong arm banks into doing things Apple's way, provided Apple's way meets your standard. Funny that.

I mean obviously this is a foul up and both the banks and Apple should work to fix it, they're BOTH responsible. The idea that banks are just helpless ninnies at the mercy of Apple, forced to conduct their business exactly as Apple demands, is dumbass.

Geez, if Apple told you to jump off a cliff, you have to, right? I mean they have "such a large war chest."

At a certain point surely the responsibility of bankers to keep their customers' accounts secure entails-- it's the very basis of their profession.

and anyway, what exactly are they afraid of? Did they even ask to implement the necessary security features? Did they ask, and did Apple refuse? Has Apple threatened any sort of sanctions against banks that don't comply? It's all very amorphous, and again, seems to rely on the idea that bankers have minimal accountability or responsibility, and may respond to undefined, mysterious, and unsubstantiated "fears" without basis.

In the states, we current use magnetic stripe for physical transactions. The "security" offered is in signature. I hate it, it's dumb, it's getting fixed supposedly, but it is what it is for now.

For us, Apple Pay means not having to extract a card, and with Touch ID it offers a somewhat real level of physical security as well.

Anything Apple might charge will be a rounding error compared to the 3-5% the credit card companies charge merchants. Furthermore those fees get passed on to the customers so merchants only give a shit if their competition doesn't have to pay the same fees.

Regarding the fraud, it sounds like the banks aren't following their own security procedures which results in... duh, fraud.

Apple supporters were right to call out Mr. Abraham - he is biased and attempting to create FUD against Apple and Apple Pay. The real fault and finger pointing needs to be directed to the banks and they need to get their houses in order.

Someone from Canada is Canadian. Someone from the USA is USAian. Get used to it, it'll become common usage soon enough.

I'm from the US, fairly well traveled, and unlike you I do not live in my mother's basement. I lived in Europe for awhile (Turkey, Germany, UK).. they call us Americans.. I've screwed a couple of women from Chile and Argentina down in South America.. they call us Americans.

The only, and I mean ONLY fucking place I've heard the idiotic term USian is here, so fuck your 'it'll be common usage soon enough' remark. You're just another term of SJW... (oh no mommy, it's the big bad cultural imperialists!)

I'm not sure why you would need to distinguish like that. Canadians are not american, they are north american just like the mexicans even though there is the artificial central america designation for the area. Or do south americans somehow fail to qualify for your quirk in reasoning? America is not the continent, its North America. There is also a South America, and an invented Central America if you want to jump from continental designation to a useful geographic distinction.

What you essentially are doing is trying say that heard looks like a flock so you will create a term like dogian to distinguish a pack of dogs. The problem is, theee are already valid names and terms that achieve the goal and it is pure ignorance when other terms are invented and substituted.

Whatever word you want to use. We have people here in the USA who namecall that way. They use terms like 'Commie' to refer to those foreign people they don't like. Welcome to the same league, dude.