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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (21660)	8/13/2001 1:45:54 PM
From: average joe	Respond to of 82486

I don't think you would have a problem doing that. Most Canadians keep their Canadian citizenship when they live in the US for tax reasons and asset protection even when they have an American spouse. An American living in Canada is much different than an American that wants Canadian citizenship living in Canada. I think you would get citizenship automatically after a few years. Victoria is a very nice choice.

To: Lane3 who wrote (21660)	8/13/2001 2:32:41 PM
From: The Philosopher	Respond to of 82486

Hey, if you do retire to Victoria we can say hi occasionally. You'll be right across the water from us. You'll love the climate, especially after DC (today, for example, is a lovely sunny 71 degrees with a light breeze.) And Victoria is a lovely city to visit. Can't speak about living there, never done it. And despite living so close to Victoria I have no idea what's required to buy property or move there.

To: Lane3 who wrote (21660)	8/13/2001 3:22:31 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

For those of you interested in privacy, you might find this amusing. Tucson, Arizona Monday, 13 August 2001 A judicial right to privacy Federal judges are sometimes regarded as lofty black-robed beings perched high above the rest of society. So it was refreshing to see the human side of the judiciary emerge this week in a story describing how some judges are rebelling against government efforts to monitor their office computer use. A federal court administrator in Washington, D.C. had software installed in all federal courts to detect downloading of music, streaming video and pornography. This outraged judges in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals who ordered the program disconnected, the New York Times reported. It would seem that when it comes to workplace spying, federal judges are a lot like regular folks. They find it just as offensive as do workers in more mundane occupations. "We are concerned about the propriety and even the legality of monitoring Internet usage," Chief Judge Mary Schroeder of the Ninth Circuit said in a June memorandum to the the Administrative Office of the Courts. The Ninth Circuit covers nine Western states including Arizona. The Washington adminstration office said it ordered the monitoring software to increase security and discourage computer use unrelated to judicial work. Officials there said the program was installed after a survey "revealed that as much as 3 to 7 percent of the judiciary browser's traffic consists of streaming media such as radio and video broadcasts, which are unlikely to relate to official business," according to the Times report. The administrators said monitoring revealed some cases where pornographic websites had been accessed from court work stations, although there was no evidence that judges were the culprits. Dozens of employees were disciplined over those incidents, even though the workers were never given clear notice of the court's computer use policy, said the memo from Schroeder, the chief judge. Judge Alex Kozinski, also a member of the Ninth Circuit, responded with 18-page memo that said in his view the the computer monitoring "may be a felony" because it could violate anti-wiretapping laws. The legality of computer monitoring "is something that we as federal judges have jurisdiction to consider. We have to pass on this very kind of conduct in the private sphere," Kozinski's memo said. Some courts around the nation have ruled that private employers have the right to spy electronically on employees as long as they warn workers that they are subject to such monitoring. The U.S. Supreme Court, has not yet ruled on the issue directly but privacy experts believe it's only a matter of time before such a case ends up there. In the meantime, Arizona employees can take some comfort that if they ever are embroiled in such a case, it will be judges the likes of Schroeder and Kozinski who will be ruling on their right to privacy. azstarnet.com

To: Lane3 who wrote (21660)	8/13/2001 9:48:31 PM
From: Greg or e	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Hi Karen I just got back from the Island, (the one with Victoria on it, not that other one) and it was incredibly beautiful. My wife and I took a logging road across the island, to Port Renfrew and visited a botanical beach. WOW!!! All we could say was we have to move here, we have to move here. My son has defected, er, moved to the US. and he had to jump through all sorts of hoops to do that, even though he was marrying a US Gal (aprox 3.8 liters), so I guess the border works both ways. I heard that they were going to open the Canada US border soon so that driving across, would be no more difficult than crossing a State of Provincial line. We would get a lot more guns, and you would get a lot more high grade marijuana. What do you think?.