I don't think that gender is a metric that these algorithms should be using in their calculations. Lets just assume for argument's sake that, yes on average women do worse with credit, this results in them on average having lower credit scores. Those who are worse with credit are already being penalized by having lower credit scores. However there are also some women that are much better with credit than most men are. Now why would you penalize those who go out of their way, and work extra hard to elevate themselves from the masses. The system should be encouraging and people to do this, that is the entire point. Instituting penalties that apply to everyone of {Blank} including the people who are trying to do better and elevate themselves, is discrimination. The stick and the carrot. Penalize those who do bad, reward those who do good without discrimination and you will have plenty {Blank} people trying to do better at {blank}. That is my simplified social ideology (it is actually much more complicated, but it'll take many people much smarter than myself to work out many of the problems with the system)

This whole discussion is making me think, let's just kill those birds and all sit down for some nice Buffalo wings, and blue cheese; or maybe I am just hungry...

My wife worked in one of those industries that are 95% male dominated, on a daily basis she put up with sexism on a daily basis, from co-workers and customers. She worked in the industry for 15 years till she said enough is enough and switched fields because it was really starting to get to her

oh, yea just like my vacuum says whisper quiet but I swear I think hearing protection would be a good idea for it

I remember watching a show about how the US clamped down on US immigrants from japan during WW2 severely harassing or imprisoning many of them, but they still allowed tourists to come from japan. Many of those tourists were low level spies however here with their cameras to take pictures of American infrastructure in preparation of an Japanese invasion.

Well apple learned from it's mistakes, it had trouble canceling Jobs too...

The funny part is the story I read about how when shooting was heard outside of the doors, Harper ran away from his security handlers to hide in a closet while many other MPs notably the leaders of the other parties grabbed flag poles to use as spears and positioned themselves on either side of the doors.

Islam is just currently going through the phase of its growth that is very similar to the phase the aggressive growth period Christianity went through during the Dark ages. The big difference is that the weapons are mostly more modern and deadly, though even that is moderated somewhat by the free flow of information. One of the biggest problems is that governments and different agencies are trying to control and distort that information, which pits people against each other, and grants them more power to pursue their own radicalized ideals.

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin

Given that most of the reasons the that the economy kept chugging around were the results of previous governments. Especially the 'economic Team Canada' efforts of his predecessors to diversify the Canadian economy so that we were less US-centric. The previous governments also tended to focus on creating many strong small to mid-sized business as opposed to focusing on strengthening larger corporations which the cons tend to focus on (I have often found that to be a key difference between Libs and Cons economically). Economically the cons did do a fair job, I just tend to believe that their focus on the few large corporations is the wrong way. The reason Canada did so well was the focus on diversifying our economy, and trying to lift other economies up, we were still largely US and EU centric so we took a hit but we also had many small and mid sized businesses doing business with the Asian countries that weren't so impacted by the US collapse

Our quality of life is a result on a combination of fiscal responsibility and social programs (health care, etc), our quality of education is mediocre at best, low crime is attributable to a combination of our Canadian personality and conservative crime agenda though having adequate social programs greatly helps this as well. Conservative and Liberal agendas have their benefits and drawbacks which is why it is good to have semi-frequent government turn over these long presiding governments that we have lately are polarizing and are not as good for the country in the long term.

Now I can make this http://youtu.be/ebfLWAB8bY4

You are a nice little sociopath now aren't you. You would make a great case study on the subject if you'd meet a friend of mine at work I am sure that he would be fascinated by you... though he may not let you leave.

I am not surprised at all, it is a 'free' service to the public and nothing is truly free, don't be naive, of course you will be exchanging something for it. If you were paying google directly for your Gmail account, you could call yourself a customer, unless you are you are not their customer, you are merely using a service that they are providing for the purposes of data mining and promoting goodwill towards google.