G77

That used to be the case, but I thought email was now considered legally binding?

BristolUK

But the real document can be altered prior to scanning/faxing as well. If one has a sample of a person's signature, it's easy to place that sample appropriately on a document and then photocopy or scan it and then fax it. The fax received has the appearance of having been signed when it wasn't.

I'm amazed people accept such faxes unless it's within the same organisation and the sender is confirming all is above board.

BristolUK

A couple of answers given already, but those that work with disabled people and some disabled people themselves have long since disapproved. I have no strong feelings either way but who am I to disagree with such folk.

The UK abandoned words like spastic, backwards, MSN (mentally sub-normal) and organisations dropped them from their titles. New descriptions have replaced old ones.

We are now encouraged to refer to 'learning disabilities' and does anyone remember we used to use terms like Mongol or Mongoloid?

Rich_007

...and the Microsoft fun boys joyously adopted MSN. Smart move, geeks.

R.

Rich_007

So now there's a lot more armed robberies from banks.

Robbing, the Canadian way:

Teller: "Good morning sir"
Robber" "Hi maam, please give me all your cash and don't make a fuss"
Teller: "Why certainly sir".
Robber: "Why thank you maam".
Teller: " Is there anything else I can help you with today, sir?"
Robber: " No maam I'm good".
Teller: "Why that's just hunky dory then, have a great day sir".
Robber: "You too, maam".

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Pretty Flowers

I got told today that my skills and experience were two years ahead of Canadian businesses. Apparently this is not a good thing

Rich_007

No. It is not a "good thing".

There'll be gossiping, bitching, and back stabbing.

Just act dumb. Polite, but dumb. And run at half speed, that'll do it.

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Monkey Puzzle

It's interesting thinking about this ....

Certain technologies are certainly behind the times. At first I missed internet grocery shopping and banking. (These are available here now but have a bit of catching up to do.) Mobile phones seem "old-fashioned" ..but only by a year or two. (I remember a sales assistant in a Rogers store seeing our UK phone and just about peeing his pants with excitement! )

Far fewer people seem to care about fashion labels or fancy new cars. (Perhaps the car thing is because second hand ones are so flippin expensive?)

Anyway, it's a slower pace of life here where we are on Vancouver Island. Literally. I swear I'm so used to going at 80kmh on the highway that when I have to drive at 80mph (to keep up with everyone else) on the motorways in the UK it actually feels scary!

retsujou

Not unless the email has been digitally signed and thus message integrity and the "sender's identity" can be cryptographically ascertained. To verify the sender the Certificate Authority gets consulted and those need to be government approved.

retsujou

What I was trying to say is that the law assumes once the file, the actual original is _inside_ the fax buffer, it is impossible to alter it. Of course you can feed a faked document into it but that is not what concerns the law.

MB-Realtor

Its not all behind the times.

Real Estate: its years ahead of the UK on the transactional and representational side, maybe not the marketing to the public side.

Parking: Never a problem.

Fried Chicken:- every where.

Tim Hortens:- every where


er...... thats all folks ......

Rich_007

I tend to think it's a different type of 'fashion' - more geared to the outdoors lifestyle. Not yer Armani jeans or D+G t-shirt.

Ever been to a ski hill or bike park ? It's all about stylin'. Turn up looking like a jerkwad with tatty old crap and you'll be laughed off the hill. etc.

Bling is dead. Long live the bling.

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Settlers_Unlimited

As we've discovered, unless you live in that "wilderness", access is easier or the same in Europe for most of people. Meaning that driving several hundred kilometers one way is not what you normally do on weekend. In most of Europe you can have nice scenery after driving two or three hours away from metro areas.

Living in relative "wilderness" is possible in Europe too, but same as in Canada, most of us will get no jobs there.

Rich_007

How do you define wilderness ?

10 minute drive to the bush (local parks) and 25 minutes into total wilderness.

Some of us manage it; you just have to trade of your oh-so-sophisticated busy urbanite lifestyle for redneck ways.

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DaveLovesDee

Yet!

That's enough talk of Milton Keynes for now!