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For complex systems any given statistic gives an indication of underlying conditions not a direct reading of them. There is also no guarantee that the stats your looking at will be dominant in the short, medium or long term if ever. Part of the current problem is investors looking at basic stats...

If your mortgage ends up in one of the CDOs it is then owned by the government with all the other mortgages purchased by the government at a discount over face value. If a lot of them don't default the government will end up making money. Possibly a *lot* of money. By clearing some bad debt off...

If the US economy contracts by 80% the per capita GDP will be equal to that of Russia. During the depression period of 1929-33 unemployment rose from 3 to 25 percent as the nation's output fell over 25 percent and prices over 30 percent, in what has been called the Great Contraction. Adjusting...

I emailed the CBC ombudsman, today I received a response. It's a general response to all who inquired about the issue. Findings of the Office of the Ombudsman, 2008/2009. The short summary (conclusions) stated are:

Seems to be trying to imitate the "stream of stupidity" writting style of Maureen Dowd. Lot quicker for her to write whatever crap pops in her head instead of doing actual journalism. The construct an argument/viewpoint, research facts to support it and write with a reasoned measured approach...

I think the maxim "Defense everywhere is defense nowhere" applies here. With the size of the US a better course of action would be improving response to incidents so the damage is mitigated and going on the offensive. Combine it with massive intelligence gathering to uncover attacks in the...

Your ISP (Rogers) is doing that. In this case on the SMC router they gave you. They also do the same on their name servers but to http://www20.search.rogers.com instead. Whenever a DNS look up fails instead of giving a failure notice they return those webpages so they can make money off the ads...

From the Elections Act, Part 2: CHIEF ELECTORAL OFFICER AND STAFF. 

My understanding is after the expenses in question were submitted for reimbursement to elections Canada by the conservatives they were rejected as not being eligible riding expenses. There is nothing to pay back, as far as I know they never got anything. In fact the conservative lawsuit is about...

No contradiction. Without caps and restrictions spending on elections has tended to spiral upwards. As I said the public funding was a trade off to get the caps and restrictions in place. An example of spending out of control would be Vancover municipal elections in 2005: Vancouver Election...

Spending caps, donation limits, restrictions on what is considered a political party and gag laws all have to be combined to have the effect desired. Take away any one and it's trivial to circumvent the others. The $1.75/year/vote was a deal to get the amendments passed. For example, start a...

Whichever party(1) you voted for gets $1.75/year till the next federal election. Same for everybody else and it doesn't matter if it's a fringe party that has no representatives in parliament, they still get the funding. More rules have been passed since like capping individual donations at...

Russia had been pushing hard for this to happen. Eventually they pushed hard enough and Georgia responded at which time Russia put the forces they had close by into action. Just like after lots of problems from the region Russia invaded Chechnya to put a stop to it, Georgia like wise attacked...

When I was young Scientific American contained actual science, usually real papers rewritten for a wider audience and it was a valued resource of detailed information for me. These days it's the science equivalent of Popular Mechanics with interesting but shallow articles. You get about the same...

The article linked doesn't support your subject line. There is no reference at all to troops in Pakistan and even a warning to stay out of tribal areas, something they of course couldn't do if there were already inside them.

Most schools of Islamic scholarship say Kafir (non-believers) should not be given money from the Zakat (charity tax) which is one of the five pillars of faith. This is in marked contrast to the western concept of charity being open to all only based only on need. What individual Muslims do...

They didn't dump all tea, they dumped East India Company tea. The import tax was on several commodities at first. After protestes it was reduced to just tea. Then the British exempted the East India Company from the tax. This pissed off the colonists and brought the tax issue back to the front...

I don't buy that line of reasoning. Corruption and incompetence at a company will hit it's stock price once it's made public. Through actions like the side deals on the sale of company assets he caused both to happen. The side deals themselves look to have taken money from shareholders...

Canada has a lot of lakes, Atlas Of Canada:Lakes and I guess it's easier to contain an existing body of water than to contain an artificial tailings pond. What I am not sure about is don't tailings ponds usually have some form of liner on the bottom and how an equivalent would be done for an...

Iran has been calling for the destruction of Israel. That Israel will attack a hostile nation to prevent it from acquiring nuclear weapons isn't news. They did it against Iraq's Osirak reactor and also very likely against a Syrian reactor more recently.