Re: OT: Canadian Tax Database

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: OT: Canadian Tax Database
Date: 2007-03-08 13:00:19
Message-ID: 45F008E3.90106@commandprompt.com
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Richard Huxton wrote:
> http://www.thestar.com/News/article/189175
>
> "For instance, in some cases the field for the social insurance number
> was instead filled in with a birth date."
>
> Unbelievable. Sixty years of electronic computing, fifty years use in
> business and the "professionals" who built the tax system for a
> wealthy democratic country didn't use data types.

This is Unbelievable? This is commonplace.

Joshua D. Drake

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