Comments by "Morgan Olfursson" (@morganolfursson2560) on "CBC News" channel.

  1. This happened in japan about 10 years ago , the problem lasted 2 months . They found the equivalent company in Japan of Via Communications , the telephone companies disclosed their addresses (no confidentiality in Japan when the police asks for it) and the police wiped them out in a week. 20 years time of jail for the CEO and his associates with no right of extradition and parole , all the employees got sacked and the ones who were not Japanese were sent back to their country with their visa cancelled and no right to ever re-enter Japan , even as tourists . There is never been one telemarketing problem ever since , because after this incident , telemarketing is now illegal in Japan . Besides in Japan , it is very easy to say who is not Japanese born and raised and anyone with a foreign accent calling a private house on behalf of a company will only hear the click of the person hanging up . What you don't understand is that the CRTC is a company, and their aim is to make money , and if they solve the problem, they won't be making money anymore , so they blame the police and the police blames them and this just goes on and on and nowhere .
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  2. I own 11 real estate properties in Europe (UK, France, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway and Iceland), and i must say i don't lease to Chinese, this is not anti Asian at all, because i will prioritize Japanese among any other ethnic group or country. I am also reticent to lease to Black people who are actually from Africa, i have absolutely no problem with Middle Easterners, and as for Whites i will prioritize Swiss then Scandinavians, Belgians, Dutch, Irish, Americans, Germans, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Brits, Italians, Eastern Europeans, Greek, Turks. This is not based on race but on experience. The people i have had the most difficulties with were Chinese, Africans and Eastern Europeans, the ones i have never had a single problem with are Japanese, Swiss, Middle Easterners and Scandinavians.
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  3. Hi neighbour, I'm from Iceland ( I just lived in Japan for a long time) and i understand perfectly how Finnish people think, this is the same with Icelandic people and i think most Scandinavians . We don't waste our time with random people calling home , and unless you were born and raised in Iceland , Finland, Noway , Sweden or Denmark , there is no way , you can ever sound like a native and if you don't , nobody will trust you on the phone or buy anything you try to sell. I think this is a great advantage to live in countries where foreigners have a hard time learning or speaking the language , it creates a natural barrier and only people who really try to make the effort to learn the language have a chance to settle for a long time . Plus the weather alone in Scandinavia is enough to dissuade people .
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  4. Exactly !
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  5. IT happened because we are destroying this planet and we do not want to stop being selfish and self indulgent and keep being self righteous. The planet is dying and it is now fighting back. Cities like venice are irrelevant compared to life on this planet. If it disappears, then so be it, it had its time and it was never meant to last forever, nothing is. Only this planet is supposed to stay alive for another few billion years, but we have damaged it more in the past 150 years that it has been damaged ever since mankind started. and for the entire existence of the planet. Venice is flooding, the icecaps are melting, the seasons are becoming more and more extreme, and this has nothing to do with some BS problem with urban infrastructure, it has to do with a global egological catastrophe we are all responsible of. The best thing to do is no to fix the problem of venice, but to fix the problem of the way we are slowly but surely destroying our planet and all forms of life on it.
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  6. That fine kitten can come snuggle with me anytime . And he can bring the cat too.
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  7. That's why my young kids don't have a cell phone , why i have one that i use very reluctantly and always with headphones so it never gets close to my head , plus i hate talking on the cellphone so my calls never exceed 2 minutes , they actually rarely exceed 30 seconds I have a landline at home and at work which is more than enough . and when i am on holiday my cellphone stays at home and turned off , actually it is turned off most of the day . I even still have a pager so that of anyone needs to contact me, they usually contact me on the landline at home where i'll pick up if i am there , or they contact my PA at work who will page me and then i will deal with the situation. But my cell phone is only to get emergency calls from my kids (the older ones who are adults and have their own cellphone now) , my kids' school or my husband and parents, for whom i set up the same specific ringtone so i know it is important , but if i hear another ringtone i don't even bother checking who's calling . I only check the pager .
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  8. You think this is extra packaging, you should see what you find in supermarkets and convenience stores in Japan. They wrap every strawberries, cherries, figs, plums, lemons, even chestnuts and walnuts individually, they even wrap watermelons. When you buy a lunchbox, each piece in it is wrapped individually and placed in a plastic container, itself placed on a disposable wooden tray,itself with a matching lid and the whole wrapped in clear film. And it comes with disposable chopsticks and a wet cloth also wrapped in plastic. I was embarrassed as a human being when i lived in japan and mostly left the country because of how disgustingly non ecological it is. 99% of the japanese wouldn't buy anything if it is not wrapped twice , and they couldn't care less about environmental issues. I am married to a Japanese who would get mental in supermarket and was even escorted out by security and the police on numerous occasions for trying to explain how wrong this is.
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