Pan Am Games: Link to our website without permission and we'll sue
The organisers of the Pan American Games in Toronto, which start this week, require that people seek formal permission to link to its website at toronto2015.org. Under the website's terms of use, amid piles of incomprehensible legalese seemingly designed to hide from the fact that social media exists, it is decreed that no one …
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Saturday 11th July 2015 21:36 GMT JeffyPoooh
"...mockery..."
Well done!!!!
PS. Ashamed to be Canadian right about now. At least I'm a good two days drive from Toronto, which is just about enough.
PS2. It's also about two days to get to the further east point in Newf. And it's about two days from Toronto to the middle of Canada at Winnipeg. Let's review. If you're already two days from the extreme east, and you drive two more days then you'll reach Toronto, which is about two days from the middle of Canada. Big place.
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Saturday 11th July 2015 21:44 GMT Anonymous Coward
Ex-Mayor of Toronto Rob Ford
Drugs and Anger Enthusiast Ex-Mayor of Toronto Rob Ford was recently seen piloting his over-sized ego and Escalade vehicle in the special lanes set aside for High Occupancy Vehicles, cars containing several people. He was with all his friends, i.e. alone. To be fair, he fills the vehicle all by himself.
Toronto. Sigh...
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Sunday 12th July 2015 03:13 GMT JeffyPoooh
Re: @ JeffyPooh - "...mockery..."
@Koch "...when I was 20..."
When I was but a wee lad and had the inevitable hot hatch, I did ~2000 km commutes with an average speed... oh, never mind... ...overnight. Been there, done that, t-shirt and souvenir SOTs.
But now that I'm older and just happen to have a nice big loaded Mercedes that's got a couple of gears left when the hot hatches are all out of ideas, it somehow seems more pleasant to go about 1 Mm/day.
The big Merc is fully capable of shrinking Canadian provinces to the size of a small coconut, but I just can't be bothered, ...most of the time.
'Kock'? Ah, I think that Clarkson's been talking about you. :-)
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Sunday 12th July 2015 00:15 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: "...mockery..."
It's also about two days to get to the further east point in Newf. And it's about two days from Toronto to the middle of Canada at Winnipeg. Let's review. If you're already two days from the extreme east, and you drive two more days then you'll reach Toronto, which is about two days from the middle of Canada. Big place.
Pfft. I can drive for two days from my home town in Queensland and I'm still in Queensland. Bigger place.
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Sunday 12th July 2015 05:16 GMT Denarius
Re: "...mockery..."
Qld, Gestapo one day, Stasi the next. Dont let Tony know, he might think it a goal to aim for. If one is motorcycling, in two days the marsupials, eagles, emus and Min Min Lights might have generated a scare or two and the cops will have added more justified hate to their existance after a couple of strip searches by side of road for no reason other than two wheeled vehicle use. All for society's safety you know.
However Qld is only 2.5 days north south, 2 days east west in my experience. WA beats it comfortably in both x and y axis. Without the compulsory arbitrary roadside strip searches too, so far. Also has camels to hit so one has more choice of things to be wiped out by. Roadtrains carrying stupendous equipment is common to both states.
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Sunday 12th July 2015 02:29 GMT Tim99
Re: "...mockery..."
Pfft. I can drive for two days from my home town in Queensland and I'm still in Queensland. Bigger place.
Pfft. Western Australia, is half as big again as QLD. My home, south of Perth, to Kununurra is over 2,000 miles. I admit that I have not driven it myself, but I did drive to Derby, which is only 1,500 miles. I made a couple of diversions on the way, so I clocked up over 5,000 miles on the trip.
Unless we have a motorist from the Sakha Republic, I claim this >>=======>
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Monday 13th July 2015 13:40 GMT TonyJ
Re: "...mockery..."
"...Australia wins on the poisonous spider competition..."
Australia wins on the "everything and anything trying to kill you" competition.
FTFY
I refer to the old joke about the boffins doing the longest, largest study ever undertaken with regards to dangerous flora and fauna in Australia.
After many years, they finally reported that the only thing harmless to humans there are some of the sheep.
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Sunday 12th July 2015 12:52 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: "...mockery..."
I could drive for two days in the UK
Two days in London and not get very far. I'm a Londoner by birth so I feel your pain. btw, just for the sake of perspective, the nearest conurbation of consequence to me is roughly the same distance as London to Bristol.
It's not how big a place you live in that counts, it's how fast you drive
I agree. The problem here is that the main road up the east coast, the Bruce Highway (our equivalent of the M1), is one lane each way with a 60 mph (100 km/h) speed limit and few places to overtake. It's crawling with speed camera cars, large wandering marsupials and pensioners towing caravans. It should have been called the Highway To Hell.
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Monday 13th July 2015 08:57 GMT A K Stiles
Re: Welcome...to the A9"
At least they had the decency to stick some signs on it that say "If you're driving well below the (safe) speed limit, stop in the next layby and enjoy the scenery, and let the poor sods behind you who still have a 4 hour drive get past" - I may be paraphrasing slightly!
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Monday 13th July 2015 04:49 GMT batman997
Re: "...mockery..."
"I can drive for two days from my home town in Queensland and I'm still in Queensland. Bigger place."
I am not sure if you skipped geography class or something. Canada is the second largest country in the world after Russia. Australia is 6th largest, so it definitely is not "bigger place".
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Monday 13th July 2015 07:42 GMT imanidiot
Re: "...mockery..."
PS2. It's also about two days to get to the further east point in Newf. And it's about two days from Toronto to the middle of Canada at Winnipeg. Let's review. If you're already two days from the extreme east, and you drive two more days then you'll reach Toronto, which is about two days from the middle of Canada. Big place.
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SpaceCanada is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly big it is. I mean you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts toSpaceCanada."I'll get going now, long way to go. Yeah, mines the one with the Electronic Thumb in the pocket and the towel in the other.
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Monday 13th July 2015 14:17 GMT Snowman
No need for Canada to say sorry over this
"PS. Ashamed to be Canadian right about now."
The fault here rests on the Pan American Sports Organization, basically an organization formed by all the national olympic committees in North & South America. Host cities/countries rarely get much say in changing PASO rules and it is not uncommon to have to change laws to 'win' the bid to host.
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Monday 13th July 2015 16:31 GMT pollyanna
Re: "...mockery..."
I live on the outskirts of Toronto and it's about 2 days drive into the city due to the crazy games high occupancy lanes (oops, #TO2025 #HOVLanes) which have essentially grid-locked much of the city day and night. Even driving OUT of #TO2015 took almost 4 times longer than normal) and I watched the stationary traffic tailed back all the way to Hamilton as I went. Sounds like it was the same lawyers who came up with the traffic scheme too.
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Saturday 11th July 2015 20:55 GMT Anonymous Coward
You fell for their trap!
The best way to rise in Google search results is to have a lot of people linking to your site. The best way to get a lot of people linking to your site is to tell people they can't, and watch all the tech sites scream bloody murder about how that's ridiculous and link to their site in their stories, in their comments, and in their blogs just to stick it to them.
The Pan Am Games would like to thank you for helping their search ranking.
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Sunday 12th July 2015 00:48 GMT Vic
Re: Okay... let me be the first to do this here...
I think you should have linked to the twats page. If enough people do, they might start to understand...
Vic.
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Sunday 12th July 2015 08:25 GMT Fred Flintstone
Re: Okay... let me be the first to do this here...
I think you should have linked to the twats page. If enough people do, they might start to understand...
I like the idea of filling up their logfiles with choice insults, but I think they have spent more money on lawyers than on technology (as the article indicated). It is not a given that anyone will EVER look at the 404 logs..
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