# What a good idea! Let's have Lockheed fucking Martin conduct the Canadian census! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 10, 2003, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-good-idea-lets-have-lockheed-fucking-martin-conduct-the-canadian-census/206666 "2003-10-10T13:28:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Uzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/91b2a8/32.png) [@Uzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uzi)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2003, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-good-idea-lets-have-lockheed-fucking-martin-conduct-the-canadian-census/206666/101 "2003-10-14T04:31:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by matt\_mcl \* > \*\*What makes you think he isn’t? \*\* Well, he seems to be ranting about how evil the American government and companies are and skipping the fact that Canada is the one giving them the data freely. He goes on to say he is glad his fiance is now a Canadian citizen to prove that there is something wrong in the US. I don’t get it: Americans = Evil (see Scott’s reasons below), Canadians = Incompetent boobs for giving away private, sensitive information to evil people? Me, I’d prefer to be evil. At least I’d have a clue. > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Scott Evil_ > And given the recent (well, ongoing) fabricated war (GWB’s virtual Viagra), I don’t think concern over dishonesty and easily-forced hands within the U.S. military-industrial complex - which you all seem to think is a wonderful, noble, glorious thing - is restricted any longer to tinfoil hat-wearing conspiracy freaks. > What I see going on in your country is frightening. And my fiancé, who got his Canadian citizenship this February, is really glad he got out when he did. But that’s for another discussion. I’m done here. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2003, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-good-idea-lets-have-lockheed-fucking-martin-conduct-the-canadian-census/206666/102 "2003-10-14T04:42:42Z")
Um, from where I’m sitting he’s telling why he’s worried about the US government, military-industrial complex, etc., as reasons why the Canadian government should not contract out census taking to LM. In other words, he’s addressing the OP. ---
**Author:** ![scott\_evil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@scott\_evil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scott_evil)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2003, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-good-idea-lets-have-lockheed-fucking-martin-conduct-the-canadian-census/206666/103 "2003-10-14T04:51:16Z")
Yeah. Duh. Because of the overwhelming denseness in replies to this thread, I had to restate why I find the possibility described in the OP cause for concern _several different times in several different ways_… but this only served as fodder for certain tardos to jump on me for being “paranoid” and that I had no argument to begin with. When I get frustrated that no one is seeing the obvious point, I tend to come off as shrill and hysterical. Whoopdeeshit, it’s a character defect I’m working on. Oh, no. No reason for concern. Take my data, please. :rolleyes: Thanks **matt**. ---
**Author:** ![Extraneous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/0ea827/32.png) [@Extraneous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Extraneous)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2003, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-good-idea-lets-have-lockheed-fucking-martin-conduct-the-canadian-census/206666/104 "2003-10-14T06:08:31Z")
Raw data is practically an international commodity - it transcends borders, and is valued like yesterday’s news - something which, if sliced and diced enough, may yield useful info, but not likely. And, if I wanted to locate anglo-canadian, male homosexuals living in Quebec, with a distrust of American military/intelligence organizations - I really wouldn’t need to question ever single Canadian to find them, now would I? Or don’t you know that you have no privacy once you engage in any civic activity? ---
**Author:** ![scott\_evil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@scott\_evil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scott_evil)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2003, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-good-idea-lets-have-lockheed-fucking-martin-conduct-the-canadian-census/206666/105 "2003-10-14T10:21:08Z")
And you’ve finally realized that **matt** and I are i) not the same person and ii) not French-Canadian? Wow. Now if you’ll excuse me, this shrill drama queen has some pearls to clutch. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2003, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-good-idea-lets-have-lockheed-fucking-martin-conduct-the-canadian-census/206666/106 "2003-10-14T16:27:48Z")
**Moderator’s Notes:** > [@](#): > > Now if you’ll excuse me, this shrill drama queen has some pearls to clutch. Before you toddle off, Scott, I gotta pass along something from the staff. It’s a formal warning, I’m sorry to say. You will not ever again post physical threats to another member, such as: > [@](#): > > Finally, do not call me dear again or I’ll ram my Canadian flagpole so far up your ass your cherry will come out your throat or counsel suicide as you have here: > [@](#): > > And do try that autoerotic asphyxiation thing. I hear it’s the shiznit. Failure to follow this rule, which by the way is stated in the registration agreement, thusly: > [@](#): > > You agree, through your use of this service, that you will not use this BB to post any material which is . . . threatening . . . may result in termination of your membership privileges without additional warning. I apologize for the lengthy delay between your violations and the issuance of this warning, but that in no way lessens the severity of it. UncleBeer, for the SDMB [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-good-idea-lets-have-lockheed-fucking-martin-conduct-the-canadian-census/206666.md?page=5)