[OT] Orwell is alive and well in Canada

[Ted Ozolins]

Bill Campbell wrote:

>On Thu, Dec 01, 2005, David Bandel wrote:
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>>On 12/1/05, burns <linux at burnsmacdonald.com> wrote:
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>>>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...
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>>>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.
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>>That's not only stupid, it's criminally, negligently dangerous.
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>>If the speed limit is 50 and some moron wants to drive 45, how are you
>>going to safely accelerate and pass if your car stops accelerating at
>>50 (but the bozo has suddenly decided he likes 49).  I see head-on
>>collisions coming.  And anyone having one should sue the pants off the
>>DOT for wrongful death.
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>I thought there might have been similar lawsuits when the Quebecois made it
>mandatory to have French-only traffic signs.
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>Bill
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There have been countless lawsuits re French only, only to have Quebec
invoke the "not withstanding clause" rendering all such suits void.

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Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO)
Westbank, B. C