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No, I wouldn't believe it if they used the comments section of their news sites to gather information. Would you?

So, in effect, import the people who made their own countries into economic basket cases? We have enough PhDs in Ballet and Circumpolar Marine Biology thank you very much. What seems odd to me Argus is that you haven't been paying attention to the news: Reshape and rejuvenate workforce through immigration: Kenney I am pretty sure Jason Kenny comes on to this forum just to hear what you have to saying about immigration. It seems that what he is doing is what you have been advocating for all along. Aren't you happy? See? And since most of the "predominantly young, well educated, highly skilled, and fluent in English or French" in Western Europe are likely working somehow that only leaves the rabble and rioters. We don't want them do we? Oh-oh... Oh, no...

Yeah because that's what you do.

What kind of drum?

How do you know that some, part or all of them are not in XML?

Sounds like you are a CBC "reader" too with all the insider information like that.

Nope. Dre only suggested easy ways to format and publish the data. Not review and classify it. So then I will put the question to you, as above. Do tell... Optimum "levels" is a guideline Michael, and what might be appealing in a blog simply might not be possible with data contained in some form of native or prorpietary hierarchical structure. Like databases that require queries. Even still, the Project Browser from the CIDA site was a link off their homepage into a query form. That is pretty useable to me. Archival data is a swamp, forget about that.

You mean, like the police? Recall that Ford cut revenues also. Duh. Would I say what? That they are going in the wrong direction? Oh, it always is isn't it? Right. It's the unions' fault of course. But, oh, wait. Are you in the private or public sector? Skilled Trades = Jobs for Life.

Damned historians!

Are they all CBC "readers?"

Pointed out by whom? I have already asked who would actually review and classify all this data, seeing the sheer volume of it, including archival data and the only response I got back was crickets. Go figure: if it is that difficult, according to you, with current staffing levels in departmental information management units managing specific requests for information, how are they going to manage putting all of the data out there in public? Minor expense indeed.

Oh yeah, "devastating" comments by a bunch of cranks. I see how that works.

And somehow end up with a bigger bureaucracy...

So a Union negotiating in good faith with an employer, ought to be subject to a collective bargaining contract nullification at the employers whim because... what was that again? The Union "demands" more than the public can pay? Seems to me that the "public can pay" the last time the contract was negotiated now doesn't it? So what changed? Ideology is what changed, not any public ability to pay, don't kid yourself. That is as horseshit a reason as I have ever heard. Who is? Let me quote: Somehow you have managed to involve the Occupy movement in this Boges. At least not seen by you since your employment sector is getting shat upon and there is nothing you can do about it because, most likely, your sector doesn't have the brains or balls or organize. The Ideology of Misery Loves Company?

Penn State Said to Be Planning Paterno Exit Amid Scandal I agree B-C, he fulfilled his legal duty and we can all make heads or tails about the moral duty. I suppose for me it's that Joe Paterno impressed me as the kind of guy that would have raised hell over this, would have followed it up and made sure that this guy was dealt with. If he did hear the details, and he legally has the benefit of the doubt, but if he did and realized that it was never really dealth with, and never brought it up again... for shame.

Trust me, there is no need to defend the practice of government because there is no real case presented against it and when there is, the evidence is almost always anectdotal based on some esoteric and highly personal metric. Its like blaming the book for illiteracy. Uh-uh. The more one has a vested interest in the information, the more time and effort one is willing to put into research - not only for the end goals, but for the means and methods as well. I think that is plainly clear concept that is taught and demonstrated from grade school and up and results in research libraries and departments and so on. Heck, you might even be looking for data that doesn't even exist and your quarrel is with something else altogether.

Which is Gov 2.0 isn't it? I am sure you are aware of Shared Services Canada, one of initiatives with a goal of consolidating data centres and server farms. That will go towards Gov 2.0. Then there are the billion dollar hardware and infrastructure renewals. It is not like the government can go into TigerDirect and start filling up the cart. Secondary to all this is the sheer amount of data to be classified, which you yourself agree is an important component. So who reviews and classifies it all? A very impotant billion dollar question.

Qualified on what premise? Your personal feelings?

And you don't think it is?

What is reasonable likely has a direct affect on the level of interest or need on the subject being researched. Wouldn't you say? I have spent hours upon hours searching JSTOR and EBSCO for information of interest. I should have just Googled it and then given up.

Really? 10 minutes to become versed on an issue? I am a little more patient than 29 seconds. I bet most people that are, have a little more success. I expect someone to put in as much time as required for them to feel like they have some reasonable understanding based on the complexity of the issue they are researching. Don't you? Do you expect someone to become familiar with an issue in 30 seconds? 10 minutes? Is there some sort of metric that the "public" is to be known by?

Joe Paterno, Penn State failed miserably in sad Sandusky case Who knows. Maybe Joe Paterno thought it was a "routine" sexual assault and thus not really worth the trouble of reporting.

Oh, gawd Michael! 10 minutes out of your life for an issue that is just burning you up, even making posters change the font size in disgust? I found the 'Project Browser' on the left hand menu from the CIDA in 30 seconds. Thank God the sale of Canadian armaments to ethnic warlords doesn't burn you up. That might take an hour or even a day. Or, *gasp* even having to reference an expert.

yes, but you would be "cheating."