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Samuel Henderson
Member #3,757
August 2003
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bamccaig said: but I don't think it's worth a cavity search. I cross the border every week and have not had a single cavity search. I find the dentist does a much better job anyways I did get asked to pull over (States side) and step out of my car once, but whatever they did was finished in less time than it took me to drink the cup of coffee they offered me. So I've been pulled over once out of at least a hundred or so visits since I got my car ================================================= |
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Arthur Kalliokoski
Second in Command
February 2005
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Samuel Henderson said: I cross the border every week and have not had a single cavity search. They all watch too much MSNBC... they get ideas. |
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bamccaig
Member #7,536
July 2006
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Samuel Henderson said:
I cross the border every week and have not had a single cavity search. I find the dentist does a much better job anyways I did get asked to pull over (States side) and step out of my car once, but whatever they did was finished in less time than it took me to drink the cup of coffee they offered me. So I've been pulled over once out of at least a hundred or so visits since I got my car I was joking about the cavity search. I've only been across maybe 3 times in the past 5 years. The first of which I had my car searched, my pockets (and all other occupants' pockets) emptied, and was questioned. The USD$300 spending money I had brought with me drew attention apparently because I distinctly remember one of the border agents holding it up to show the others. I think they profiled me because of my baggy clothes and hoody. It wasn't all that bad really. It usually isn't. Most of my encounters with law enforcement are actually kind of pleasant, but it still doesn't quite sit right when you reflect on it and realize just how powerless you were. And realize that the next time you might not get the friendly cop. I've been thinking about going across, but it's unfamiliar to me and that still scares me. -- acc.js | al4anim - Allegro 4 Animation library | Allegro 5 VS/NuGet Guide | Allegro.cc Mockup | Allegro.cc <code> Tag | Allegro 4 Timer Example (w/ Semaphores) | Allegro 5 "Winpkg" (MSVC readme) | Bambot | Blog | C++ STL Container Flowchart | Castopulence Software | Check Return Values | Derail? | Is This A Discussion? Flow Chart | Filesystem Hierarchy Standard | Clean Code Talks - Global State and Singletons | How To Use Header Files | GNU/Linux (Debian, Fedora, Gentoo) | rot (rot13, rot47, rotN) | Streaming |
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Matthew Leverton
Supreme Loser
January 1999
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Samuel Henderson said: but whatever they did was finished in less time than it took me to drink the cup of coffee they offered me. You drank the "coffee"!?? |
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Samuel Henderson
Member #3,757
August 2003
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Matthew Leverton said: You drank the "coffee"!?? Yeah. Things got all fuzzy after that. Actually it was quite good. You Americans know how to make a fine cup. (Well I suppose it was government coffee... so naturally it's all premium) Haha ================================================= |
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BAF
Member #2,981
December 2002
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I was detained and questioned for an hour at the canadian border (on the canadian side). Apparently they thought I was a terrorist because I had never used my passport before and neglected to sign it. Seriously - I asked what the problem was afterwards, and they told me it was because I didn't sign my passport... |
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Matthew Leverton
Supreme Loser
January 1999
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Quote: NOT VALID UNTIL SIGNED The document you gave them was not legal. They should have thrown you in jail until you supplied your long form birth certificate sans layers. |
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Michael Jensen
Member #2,870
October 2002
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{"name":"KDssc.jpg","src":"\/\/djungxnpq2nug.cloudfront.net\/image\/cache\/1\/6\/16fc816bf10fa3c671a000be85cf4768.jpg","w":450,"h":286,"tn":"\/\/djungxnpq2nug.cloudfront.net\/image\/cache\/1\/6\/16fc816bf10fa3c671a000be85cf4768"} Vanneto said: I agree, the oil cost should be much higher than it is now. Here, one liter is ~1.3EUR or 7.27$ a gallon. That's right it should be, but it's not yet. The real problem is "Why are we still using it? Electric cars worked and had great range 15 years ago" (by some accounts longer, but 15 years is easily verifiable.) bamccaig said: Well, not so much me anymore. I only have to travel ~8 km/day now. The amount you personally travel has little impact on how much the price of oil affects you. Think about the logistics of how food gets to your super market, and how insane gas prices would inflate the price of food. Samuel Henderson said: I cross the border every week and have not had a single cavity search. I find the dentist does a much better job anyways The same cannot be said of everyone. Jacob Appelbaum, for instance, despite not having committed any crimes, has all his technology (cell phones, memory cards, laptops, etc...) seized every time he crosses the border, he is detained for hours and "interviewed" and though the ACLU has showed up to represent him, since he's not technically under arrest (though he doesn't have the ability to leave) he doesn't have the right for his lawyers to be present during the interviews. They tell him that he's randomly selected everytime, and then immediately comment on his prior day's twitter status not a minute later... Samuel Henderson said: (Well I suppose it was government coffee... so naturally it's all premium) Haha If it was gov coffee that just means it was made by the lowest bidder. ;-P
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gnolam
Member #2,030
March 2002
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Michael Jensen said: The same cannot be said of everyone. Jacob Appelbaum, for instance Or Peter Watts. -- |
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Michael Jensen
Member #2,870
October 2002
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gnolam said: Or Peter Watts That's atrocious. Incompetent security personnel are the least of my issues with this crap. It's just disgusting.
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While this example is ridiculous in nature, that sort of thing (albeit, much less serious in nature) happens to me more often than I'd like. 
That probably has something to do with why I don't like to try new things. 
