So, forgo all the electronic gadgetry, do a simple mechanical trustworthy traceable process with paper and be done with it! Do it locally with many eyes watching over everything happening.
It's not hip enough and the results cannot be shown on live TV screens as instantly and the voting equipment companies won't do so much business - so what!
Apparently, some entities are using straight paper ballots for the sake of transparency and simplicity. Switzerland appears to be one of those. No complaints about lack of trustworthiness.
So - their wish is to have a sharper gun - best that their requests to become law upon writing/emailing anything and some SEa, Air and Land unit raiding any place graspable on this planet?
Catch 22: From: Susan Herman's book, Taking Liberties: The War on Terror and the Erosion of American Democracy:
"A number of courts have declared that no one has standing - that is, the right to bring a lawsuit - to challenge eavesdropping programs unless they can prove that the government has been listening to their own telephone calls or intercepting their own-mails. That is a true Catch-22, when the whole point of secrecy is that the target is unaware of being the target."
Bingo! Issue a NSL to an ISP for all web traffic of a particular person, erroneously accuse a person of {something}. Defense lawyer can't do his job, person disappears.
About trees and forests - I just ran across these numbers since there was a radio comment about trees not doing so well.
There is a yearly forest condition report in Germany and 28 % of trees are not doing so well in the latest, 2011 report - that's up 5 % from the year before. One reason is stress caused by higher temperatures.
And coming up in this context - German average forest area per person is 1200 sqm (square meters) - that's ~ 0.3 acres
And the misconception how to resolve conflicts and disputes between humans efficiently is too big. Just rev up the volume (and your ego), keep the green buck rolling and feel good about it.
Creates reality for the dreamer. A joke is a threat. Doodling on a napkin is interpreted as a plan to attack. Threats are dreamed up and millions suffer.
So an X-ray taking by a chiropractor is not, then, part of medical records. At least, not unless your actual doctor asks for them to help him fix what your chiropractor broke.
Could it be that I sense nit-picking and bias or even prejudice against chiropractors?
To put (maybe) your concerns about correctness at ease, the situation I was referring to was a workman's comp situation of a work related injury and clearly a medical issue.
Your viewpoint probably depends where you live and how you allowed your surrounding to shape you.
The chiropractors I have gone to for treatment have benefited me a lot and my opinion is that they practice medicine and keep records of same kind.
Medicine: The science or practice of the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease.
I also think that you have no clue what you are talking about.
I gather he's implying that chiropractors are not medical practitioners hence the records they generate can't be medical records. Something like that.
Doesn't matter, same goes for other disciplines - coming by medical records is a pain and the deck is stacked against the individual being treated. Sure not open source the whole med business.
Going to a chiropractor, shell out $ 300 for X-rays and he keeps them for good to sell the films later for silver recovery (or something like that) after a set time period - ?? years. What do I pay for and who owns what I pay for? Consumer ripoff!
The only way is to have a doctor friend to request the medical records from another doctor and then give them to you or tell them you will be going out of the country and absolutely need your medical records now.
Once I saw a demo by a forest person about some geological features. He had a 2 m stick and said this represents the age of the earth (making comments about subsections). Then he asked what the age of humanity would be on that scale and to give the answer, he put a sheet of paper on top of the stick. The thickness of this paper represents the time humans are on this planet.
To put this (and you) on a cosmic scale and time with galaxies, universes and super clusters of universes wanting to make any guesstimates you are attempting, I wish you good luck!
If amino acid building blocks are found on comets coming from outside our solar system, live in complex forms may be a common appearance on that vast scale - or not, who cares?
Humans have a temporary appearance on this planet, just see what they are making of it.... More advanced civilizations elsewhere may have concluded that tending their own planet and living happily there is the way to go - why bother about some stuff light years away when the environment you evolved in is just right, enjoyable and precious.
"Astronomers think that there are hundreds of billions galaxies in the universe"
Ok, so estimate 500 billions - thats 500 000 000 = 5 x 10 ** 8
That would be 5 * 10 ** 19 = 50 000 000 000 000 000 000 possible stars/suns
That's a number beyond human comprehension and applying any statistical probability will return a true chance.
So - be assured that "we" are not alone and with current means can never visit other planets within one person's life-span. What the heck! In the meantime, the basis for live as it was existing up to now on this planet the human race is going down the tube!
Slashdot Mirror
Lotsa cheap used devices becoming available!
(punched on one of those dinosour "real" thumb keyboards with a click one can feel)
Good points - another idea is to move elections from Tuesdays to Sundays where most people don't work.
So, forgo all the electronic gadgetry, do a simple mechanical trustworthy traceable process with paper and be done with it! Do it locally with many eyes watching over everything happening.
It's not hip enough and the results cannot be shown on live TV screens as instantly and the voting equipment companies won't do so much business - so what!
Apparently, some entities are using straight paper ballots for the sake of transparency and simplicity. Switzerland appears to be one of those. No complaints about lack of trustworthiness.
So - their wish is to have a sharper gun - best that their requests to become law upon writing/emailing anything and some SEa, Air and Land unit raiding any place graspable on this planet?
The Genie is out of the bottle and won't go back easily, if at all.
Examples: National Security Letters
"The Justice Department's Inspector General has reported that between 2003 and 2006, the FBI issued nearly 200,000 NSLs. The inspector General has also found serious FBI abuses of the NSL power."
(from: http://www.aclu.org/national-security-technology-and-liberty/national-security-letters )
Catch 22:
From: Susan Herman's book, Taking Liberties: The War on Terror and the Erosion of American Democracy:
"A number of courts have declared that no one has standing - that is, the right to bring a lawsuit - to challenge eavesdropping programs unless they can prove that the government has been listening to their own telephone calls or intercepting their own-mails. That is a true Catch-22, when the whole point of secrecy is that the target is unaware of being the target."
Bingo!
Issue a NSL to an ISP for all web traffic of a particular person, erroneously accuse a person of {something}. Defense lawyer can't do his job, person disappears.
About trees and forests - I just ran across these numbers since there was a radio comment about trees not doing so well.
There is a yearly forest condition report in Germany and 28 % of trees are not doing so well in the latest, 2011 report - that's up 5 % from the year before. One reason is stress caused by higher temperatures.
And coming up in this context - German average forest area per person is 1200 sqm (square meters) - that's ~ 0.3 acres
Everyone put a new flowerpot up and water regularly to fight global warming
And the misconception how to resolve conflicts and disputes between humans efficiently is too big.
Just rev up the volume (and your ego), keep the green buck rolling and feel good about it.
Creates reality for the dreamer.
A joke is a threat.
Doodling on a napkin is interpreted as a plan to attack. Threats are dreamed up and millions suffer.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2798679275960015727
In this case - aren't they loosing their ticket purchase price, reservations and vacation days?
I just hope that there is some legal process to sue.
Give me your phone number and I tell you your credit worth.
Start it in another country where it's possible, then expand...
The "need" to have those gadgets for whatever reason.
Redundant: "more than $500 million in lost revenue" - as if anyone downloading would buy their stuff instead if the site would not exist.
Duh!
If GMO food labeling would be happening in the US, some priorities on affected companies would change there as well.
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So an X-ray taking by a chiropractor is not, then, part of medical records. At least, not unless your actual doctor asks for them to help him fix what your chiropractor broke.
Could it be that I sense nit-picking and bias or even prejudice against chiropractors?
To put (maybe) your concerns about correctness at ease, the situation I was referring to was a workman's comp situation of a work related injury and clearly a medical issue.
Your viewpoint probably depends where you live and how you allowed your surrounding to shape you.
The chiropractors I have gone to for treatment have benefited me a lot and my opinion is that they practice medicine and keep records of same kind.
Medicine: The science or practice of the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease.
I also think that you have no clue what you are talking about.
I gather he's implying that chiropractors are not medical practitioners hence the records they generate can't be medical records. Something like that.
Doesn't matter, same goes for other disciplines - coming by medical records is a pain and the deck is stacked against the individual being treated. Sure not open source the whole med business.
Going to a chiropractor.....
I'm sorry, maybe you missed the subject, but this thread is about medical records.
Ah - X-rays are then not part of medical records - right?
If that pisses you off, just wait until you realize you've been seeing a chiropractor.
done that - had to redo all X-rays because they "got lost" .....
Going to a chiropractor, shell out $ 300 for X-rays and he keeps them for good to sell the films later for silver recovery (or something like that) after a set time period - ?? years. What do I pay for and who owns what I pay for? Consumer ripoff!
The only way is to have a doctor friend to request the medical records from another doctor and then give them to you or tell them you will be going out of the country and absolutely need your medical records now.
Trying to squeeze deep pockets for dough.
I withhold the details how this works or why it failed.
Ah - you probably haven't had or don't know somebody who had a drug-resistant bug and had "just" to wait until a drug is found...
We just haven't found a drug
What a jerk you are!
Once I saw a demo by a forest person about some geological features. He had a 2 m stick and said this represents the age of the earth (making comments about subsections). Then he asked what the age of humanity would be on that scale and to give the answer, he put a sheet of paper on top of the stick. The thickness of this paper represents the time humans are on this planet.
To put this (and you) on a cosmic scale and time with galaxies, universes and super clusters of universes wanting to make any guesstimates you are attempting, I wish you good luck!
If amino acid building blocks are found on comets coming from outside our solar system, live in complex forms may be a common appearance on that vast scale - or not, who cares?
Humans have a temporary appearance on this planet, just see what they are making of it....
More advanced civilizations elsewhere may have concluded that tending their own planet and living happily there is the way to go - why bother about some stuff light years away when the environment you evolved in is just right, enjoyable and precious.
There:
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/business-tech/science/120112/every-star-milky-way-galaxy-has-alien-planet
http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_c2#/video/bestoftv/2012/01/12/nr-milky-way-100-billion-planets.cnn
You can feel even more special.
Total baloney! You have no clue about probability and chance - just stay proud about your perceived uniqueness and be happy.
of very common behavior in humans:
- lack of empathy
- control others by fear
on one end, on the other
- fear, dependency and paranoia
So, co-dependent.
Has been present for ages, will it ever change even now, with resources getting limited?
How many suns exist?
From: http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEM75BS1VED_index_0.html :
"there are something like 10**11 to 10**12 stars in our galaxy"
From: http://www.universetoday.com/36610/how-many-galaxies-have-we-discovered/ :
"Astronomers think that there are hundreds of billions galaxies in the universe"
Ok, so estimate 500 billions - thats 500 000 000 = 5 x 10 ** 8
That would be 5 * 10 ** 19 = 50 000 000 000 000 000 000 possible stars/suns
That's a number beyond human comprehension and applying any statistical probability will return a true chance.
So - be assured that "we" are not alone and with current means can never visit other planets within one person's life-span.
What the heck! In the meantime, the basis for live as it was existing up to now on this planet the human race is going down the tube!