Comments on: Mitch Altman is no longer welcome in Canada?

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By: Paul the SignGuy

Paul the SignGuy — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 20:33:46 +0000

Point Roberts would not work cause Mitch would have to cross over the border to get there. Unless he flew in on a float plane or chartered a boat.

By: Theo Macallister

Theo Macallister — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 02:58:46 +0000

Solution: Instead of conducting the workshop in Vancouver. Host the workshop in Point Roberts, USA. A geographic boot that is just next to Delta, British Columbia. Most if not all Vancouverites should be able to a. make the half an hour forty minute commute, carpooling etc. And b. cross the boarder with a valid passport. Where Mitch Altman can safely and legally present his workshop and sell the attendees his wares.

By: bruce

bruce — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 20:03:42 +0000

Just heard about this (the conference and the incident).
For the near-term, have you considered a virtual presence at some of the Canadian events (AV link over internet)?
Not the same as being there, but better than not at all (?) and a good hack in the situation at hand.
Possibly kits could be imported by other means

By: Spuug

Spuug — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 19:25:28 +0000

I am disappointed, not only due to the scratched workshops, but especially in the CSBA. I have a suggestion for the Vancouver Hackspace talks: have them at the Peace Arch Park on the border at Blaine, WA.

By: Terence Tam

Terence Tam — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 08:01:59 +0000

Here’s my experience with importing stuff into Canada. Put it to you this way, you’re much better of mailing the stuff:

http://blog.openbeamusa.com/2012/07/31/stuck-in-customs-how-not-to-import-goods-into-a-neighboring-country/

Bummer about your court records tho.

-=- Terence

By: Hackers on a Train & Super Happy Hacker House 23 - Vancouver Hack Space

Hackers on a Train & Super Happy Hacker House 23 - Vancouver Hack Space — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 06:29:27 +0000

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By: Brolin Empey

Brolin Empey — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 23:23:07 +0000

I forgot to mention I discovered this post via the Vancouver Hack Space because I reside and am employed in Greater/Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada but not in Vancouver proper (the City of Vancouver), which is my hometown.

Anyway, I need to correct myself:

“Similarly, if you find an exterior entrance, such as a door or gate, to a private property has been left unlocked, you can enter the private property without breaking anything, even if your entrance triggers an alarm or other intrusion detection system.”

Your entrance may break an electronic circuit or other connection designed to detect when the door or gate is opened but you entrance will probably not break anything in the sense of causing physical damage.

By: Brolin Empey

Brolin Empey — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 22:51:35 +0000

“As we were walking home, the police stopped us, assuming we were the people wanting to break into someone’s garage.”

I assume you meant to imply that a person who observed you and your friend trying to remotely open garage doors reported you and your friend to the police because the observer incorrectly assumed that you or your friend wanted to enter a garage without permission and possibly change, such as to vandalise, something in the garage or remove (steal) something from the garage, but why would you need to “break into” a garage if you could open its door without even touching it? Similarly, if you find an exterior entrance, such as a door or gate, to a private property has been left unlocked, you can enter the private property without breaking anything, even if your entrance triggers an alarm or other intrusion detection system.

“After meeting with a lawyer friend of my dad’s, he told me…”

I assume you meant the lawyer who was a friend of your father told you but your sentence could also be interpreted as meaning your father told you: your father is, by definition, your male parent but the gender of the lawyer is not mentioned: if the lawyer was not male, your father is the only possible antecedent of the masculine pronoun in “he told me”.

By: Someone else's words are prettier

Someone else's words are prettier — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 09:23:59 +0000

“The train to Toronto from Syracuse, NY, stops at the Canadian border for cust…”…

The train to Toronto from Syracuse, NY, stops at the Canadian border for customs and immigration. Everyone has to get out of the train with all their stuff. The line moves rather quickly, and when it was my turn, the Canadian Border Patrol wanted to ha…