Trapped in Suburbia…

a blog by Rafael Gomez

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IT guy, code monkey, husband, father, target shooter, but unfortunately not independently wealthy.


Archive for August, 2009

More eHealth Shenanigans.

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

The fact that the Ontario Liberal Government’s eHealth plan appears to have been nothing more than a mechanism to shovel money into friendly pockets isn’t news anymore. But what is news is that Dalton McGuinty and Health Minister David Caplan appear to have been lying when they suggested PriceWaterhouseCooper was retained to perform an independent [...]

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Guns… they make you deader?

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

It’s been over 10 years since I left the hallowed halls of academia. That being the case I may not be current on the latest trends in creative statistical-analysis. I’m fairly certain, however, that logic has been around since Aristotle. Sadly it doesn’t seem like IANSA’s Elizabeth Mandelman – a Masters student at the Hubert [...]

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Plurium Interrogationum

Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

Plurium Interrogationum, latin for “many questions”, is the logical fallacy that occurs when someone presupposes something that is not proven to be true. Wikipedia says the following: This fallacy is often used rhetorically, so that the question limits direct replies to those that serve the questioner’s agenda. An example of this is the question “Are [...]

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