Topic: Oh Canada, my home and patent free land.

[Pugnate]

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1271187/canada-business-method-patents

[Cobra951]

Woohoo!  One more reason to move to Canada.  Healthcare, and now I can start a business without getting sued for everything I try.

[idolminds]

Business methods are patentable? Gah! Patents and copyrights need such a massive overhaul at this point its not even funny.

[Cobra951]

Copyrights need to terminate at some reasonable point, rather than allowing endless renewals.  Other than that, copyright law is not bad.  But the state of patents is ridiculous.  Blowing your nose while farting is probably patentable at this point.

[Pugnate]

What Cobra said. Properly implemented copyright laws encourage innovation.

[angrykeebler]

Woohoo!  One more reason to move to Canada.  Healthcare, and now I can start a business without getting sued for everything I try.

k you know its colder than Ohio up there? ITS FREEZING.

[Ghandi]

Plus moving to Canada makes you Canadian. And that kinda sucks. Other than that, there's nothing but upsides.

[Cobra951]

I understand the downsides very well.  As things get worse here, they don't seem as bad.

[ren]

Legitimate downsides or joke downsides? Other than higher taxes, what are you referring to?

[Cobra951]

The cold and extensive desolation mostly.

[idolminds]

This kind of fits here.

[scottws]

Legitimate downsides or joke downsides? Other than higher taxes, what are you referring to?

Hockey is alright, but the CFL?  No, I could not deal with that.

[ren]

Ah. I've only lived in cities in some of the warmest parts of Canada so I haven't really experienced either.

[scottws]

Canada seems like a nice country, but I think Cincinnati gets too cold.  I actually want to move south someday, so I don't see myself ever truly considering a move to Canada.

[Cobra951]

The problem with the best climates is the quantity and quality of people you have to deal with.  Even this area has a fairly high riff-raff factor.  Go to Des Moines sometime and you'll get a better perspective.  I did.  And yes, it gets brutally cold there in the winter.  Worse than Cincy for sure.

[ren]

The last time I was in the states was driving from Toronto to Halifax on your side of the border. So pretty much I90 to Boston and then I95 up Maine into New Brunswick. One thing that was noteworthy was that Americans are nice. Canada has the stereotype for always saying please and thank you and generally being the nice country but it doesn't seem true at all. We do always say please and thank you and are generally courteous but it's mostly just out of routine. In the states, we were stretching our legs at a rest stop and a guy parks next to us to complement our car (nothing special, Ford Escape) and then just starts a conversation. In Maine we were outside The Olive Garden and a family comes out and just starts talking to my parents about how filling their meal was.  Nobody said please or thank you but everybody acted friendly and genuine, something that doesn't seem to happen that often here.

[scottws]

It just depends on where you live.  I have seen the same out of the Maine, Vermont, and New Hampshire area and the Midwest is known for that as well, but it is not at all true in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, or New Jersey.

[gpw11]

Ah. I've only lived in cities in some of the warmest parts of Canada so I haven't really experienced either.

The fact that you consider Toronto warmish might be part of the problem.  Lets face it, there's only one city in Canada that's temperate year round...and it fucking rains in the winter man.  Like, it's in the middle of a RAIN-forest.

[angrykeebler]

The last time I was in the states was driving from Toronto to Halifax on your side of the border. So pretty much I90 to Boston and then I95 up Maine into New Brunswick. One thing that was noteworthy was that Americans are nice. Canada has the stereotype for always saying please and thank you and generally being the nice country but it doesn't seem true at all. We do always say please and thank you and are generally courteous but it's mostly just out of routine. In the states, we were stretching our legs at a rest stop and a guy parks next to us to complement our car (nothing special, Ford Escape) and then just starts a conversation. In Maine we were outside The Olive Garden and a family comes out and just starts talking to my parents about how filling their meal was.  Nobody said please or thank you but everybody acted friendly and genuine, something that doesn't seem to happen that often here.

Come to L.A. Everyone here is a jackass

[ren]

The fact that you consider Toronto warmish might be part of the problem.  Lets face it, there's only one city in Canada that's temperate year round...and it fucking rains in the winter man.  Like, it's in the middle of a RAIN-forest.

Well right now I'm in Halifax which is far warmer than Toronto.

But compared to most of Canada, Toronto is warm. Temperatures across the prairies or most of the maritimes or even Ottawa will be much more severe. Winter temperatures in Toronto are basically on par with the weather in a lot of the states. Also, I have a february birthday and I can recall it raining on my birthday in Toronto many times. I suppose referring to Toronto as warm might be going a bit far but it is relatively warm compared to the rest of Canada.

But then if you factor in the whole Great Bear Rainforest area then the small differences in temperature among the rest of Canada is probably a moot point to anyone not from here.