I agree with that a lot more. As Sherlock Holmes once said: "It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data."
But I don't think that it's the best approach to equate one person's personal experience with data. Otherwise we are just analysing anecdotes.

What irked me the most was saying people who have experience and pairing it with a negative label of the police such as "criminals wearing badges". It kind of destroys the whole idea of keeping bias out of the analysis.

seems like a good idea to me!

"You are too biased to judge, let this other extremely biased person do the analysis."

Canadian Politicians know most Canadians would never vote for anyone threatening their healthcare.However, I think there is more to this, and it's about the Canada Health Act itself:

The Canada Health Act is all about money.
Failure to comply with it means that the federal Government will not give any money out to the Provincial Health Authority.
Canada Health act on Wikipedia

Canada Health Act

tl;dr
I think that The Alberta Wildrose Alliance stance on Healthcare is more because they are catering to a Canadian population and making sure they continue receiving Federal Funds rather than whether they lean Left or Right.

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What comes to mind is the ageism trend in the technical community.
I always think about how fast the next generation of technically minded people will come up out of nowhere and immediately begin disregarding the perceived 'obsolete' members of their own community.

Maybe a reason the young generation doesn't seem to make an effort to learn from the older generation is that there isn't anyone in their workplace capable of doing the teaching?

Or like this this,
only with less horses and more jailtime.

First you make it possible,
then you make it practical.

in the office or on the streets, you're still be paying to get a RIM job...

Making it even easier to shoot yourself in the foot.

Typical /. user.
It's a late Friday night, and the only thing that got intoxicated was his computer...

If it's 11pm, and all my roommates are in their rooms alone, I think the sudden slowdown in download speeds are definitely on my end.

I just don't know how to bring up "watch less porn" at the dinner table.

Whenever I come across the weekly article on slashdot that brings up the data cap debate, I always see the same comments:

  "Ohh, who would ever come close to this cap of x? I never come close!"

That's great, it's difficult for one person to reach that cap alone... but what happens when there are more people in the house using the internet too?

I'm a student that lives with 5 other students, and with all the youtube we watch, online games we play, and other things we do on the internet instead of homework or sleeping, I'd say that we could easily exceed that limit, and that's with minimal p2p use.

Although, I can't wait for internet that fast to be offered. 105mbps / 6 means that video streaming speeds won't take a peculiar dip at 11pm.
I have yet to discover the root of this problem.

that this is the first (or last) time companies team up to take down competitors.

How these fish would make better pets than anything else. What could go wrong with a school of bionic fish in the living room?

Of course, if the people at Reverb had an ounce of sense, they'd template their reviews to be similar to the ones for the three wolf moon t-shirt on amazon.com