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Attention Apple: Canada is not a U.S. territory

dvd_helpEarlier today while reading Splorp, a favorite blog of mine, I came across this post. Seems that, buried deep within the help files for Apple's DVD Player is the screen depicted at the right, which mistakenly lists Canada as a U.S. territory. We may share some land mass with our next door neighbors, but that's really where it ends. See a full version of the screenshot in Splorp's Flickr account. Oops.
 

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Earlier today while reading Splorp, a favorite blog of mine, I came across this post. Seems that, buried deep within the help files for...
 

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sherwood baker

Hey guys, time to take the aluminum foil off of your head. When you outsource your programming to places like India, Russsia, and the Phillipines, what do you expect?

June 22 2005 at 10:43 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Thomas Hugh

Its amazing how the so called intelligent people on both sides of the boarder can act so stupid over a simple typo error that does no harm to any one.

June 22 2005 at 10:36 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
rampancy

I, for one, welcome our new American overlords... (Sorry, couldn't resist!)

June 22 2005 at 9:13 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dave Caolo

Come on, folks, let's keep it on topic, ok? This is a tech blog. . .

June 21 2005 at 10:03 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
tnkgrl

Apple's just envious of our health care system :) tnkgrl (a canadian living and working in San Francisco who is spending more money on her co-pays with insurance in SF than she used to spend out-of-pocket without insurance in Canada for the same meds)

June 21 2005 at 3:05 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Al

Please, please take us over and free us from the socialized dictatorship that those left winged crooks in Ottawa have foisted upon us over the last 50 years. The natural ruling party here has stolen, misplaced and given away billions in taxpayers money over the last 10 years. Annexation is our only hope.

June 21 2005 at 12:54 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Adam

Canada should sue Apple... Everyone else is, eh.

June 21 2005 at 12:00 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Willful Expose'

Hahaha! This is just my kind of humor, and, Alex K, that's why I care. Canada's expected us to try to annex them for hundreds of years. Maybe Apple is finally going to make it happen. Time to buy some AAPL.

June 21 2005 at 11:40 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Richard Taylor

There seems to be this abiding feeling among Canadians that the U.S. wants Canada. Americans in truth DON'T CARE about Canada and think of it (when they think of it at all, which is almost never) as ice-bound. This is reminiscent of Britain's "51st state" concerns back in the '60s. Current events to the contrary (God, I hope they're to the contrary), Americans are a peace-loving people who yearn for picket fences, clapboard houses, and home-baked good ol' American apple pie. However, my Canadian friends, should there ever be a run on ice cubes, well...

June 21 2005 at 11:40 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Sam

"Well, it's about time that we foreclose on Canada anyway." I don't think us Americans should be throwing around the word "foreclose" just now.

June 21 2005 at 10:33 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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