Comments | rfunk: Canada by Air, Land, or Lake?

rfunk

Canada by Air, Land, or Lake?

Jul 19, 2006 12:57

Those of us in the Great Lakes states can easily forget that we're actually living in border states -- Canada is just across the lake.

With that in mind, I was interested to learn that not only will passports be required (rather than just drivers license and birth certificate) to cross the Canada border by air starting in 2007, and by land ( Read more... )

cleveland, security, rfid, canada, passport, paranoia, travel

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Anti-RFID fundamentalists rfunk July 19 2006, 21:42:23 UTC

They're not about to leave the country (God and Country and all that) so they're fine with avoiding a purported Mark of the Beast just by not getting a passport.

However, if there were a rumor floated that RFID made you and your neighbors gay or horny or both, maybe then they'd work on stopping it.

the_shampoo July 19 2006, 18:50:59 UTC

If in the case of zombie attack o rworld war three you ahve a good place to flee to, could you be a pal and alert me to it?

places to flee rfunk July 19 2006, 21:37:25 UTC

For the zombies, I know of this great mall over in Pittsburgh....

For WW3... hmm. Well, I suppose the Antarctic climate is getting more hospitable these days.

loadhan July 19 2006, 19:29:59 UTC

I don't think we have to worry about terrorist attacks on Dvis-Besse... Considering how they've been running the plant over the years, it's a surprise it hasn't already been destroyed along with the surrounding area (see one example and another incident that was partially covered up but second after Three Mile Island in severity). This doesn't even count when it was all-but struck by a tornado or when a swarm of june-bugs clogged its water intake valves. :P

Davis-Besse rfunk July 19 2006, 21:44:44 UTC

So the terrorists just wait for Toledo to destroy itself, is that what you're saying? It would seem to be the easiest route....

Re: Davis-Besse loadhan July 20 2006, 14:17:40 UTC

It's kinda like when al-Queda threatened to bomb passenger trains in the US. I knew they were just getting lazy. Our Amtrak trains derail so often as it is - they just want to take credit for it without doing anything! Tsk, tsk. Lazy-bum terrorists!

Lazy... hrm... well they do say if you go fantical against your enemy you become your enemy. I wonder if Osama watches reality TV... probably not or he'd realize he didn't need to destroy American culture - we're doing a great job of that already! ;)

ceolnamara July 20 2006, 00:19:23 UTC

I always know where my EU passport is these days. It's smart.

I think both of my passports are good until 2012... That'd be a good thing to check up on.

I wonder if one could just take a massive hammer (after covering the paper with cloth or something and then smash the passport a few times, thus smashing the chip?

My dad used is passport to get into a Vancouver when he had a conference this past spring.

I can't understand why they wouldn't regulate boat travel as well... Being that I'd be disasterously close to the epicenter for attacks on Cleveland or Davis Besse.