[OT] Orwell is alive and well in Canada

[Kurt Wall]

On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 05:53:57PM -0500, burns took 19 lines to write:
> They just had a clip on the news where the Chief of Crash Avoidance Technology 
> for the Canadian Department of Transportation  (Transport Canada) was 
> demonstrating technology that they were considering making mandatory across 
> the country...
> 
> A satellite GPS-enabled device that calculates your speed and will prevent the 
> gas pedal from being depressed further once you have reached the mandated 
> speed limit. Apparently, Toronto and Ottawa's speed zones have already been 
> digitally mapped.

Good grief.

> Time to move to Texas.

You and yours would be welcome in Pittsburgh. You could buy more house
for less money and still have money left from the sale of your Ottawa
home.

Kurt
-- 
Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side?  And hain't that a big
enough majority in any town?
		-- Mark Twain, "Huckleberry Finn"