It's becasue patients don't know how to respond to condition, try to self medicate based on there uneducated interpretations, don't know how to apply that data in contrast to the larger population. The will put there own interpretation on top of it that is likely to do them harm.
Disclaimers: I used to work in the medical field and had access to large volumes of patient data.
Do you know how it works? I do, and I can thing of 3 ways to implement this with a very high success rate, and ti would require exactly NO change for the users.
I use the postal system, and I haven't waited more then 3 minutes that vast majority of the time. Of course if you only show up on Dec 20, yeah there is going to be a wait.
You have the ISP pay a tax for every email that passes through them and they passes to the consumer. They can do it per email, or a flat increase. Bear in mind that but increase we are talking very little money per person.
This method is also easy to automate for the government.
"So what this guy wants is to tax a service that the USPS doesn't provide, to help fund the USPS. That's fucking idiotic. " The idea that things should only be taxed to support that thing is a common fallacy that is actually very bad. Schools, fire, police and many other citizen services have nothing to tax to support just them. So you need a wide net.
"It's 2013 and nobody uses the USPS for anything that is time sensitive. " not true, but not as time sensitive as it use to be. I advocate 3 day postal delivery. 1 day sounds nice but do you know they move over 200 Billion pieces of mail a year? You aren't delivering that in a day. Plus, that is only saving on careers, it all has to be processed every day. NEWS FLASH, the is more to the USPS then the person putting mail in your box.
"The only thing I get in my mail is junk. I have a trash min literally at my door, just so I can reach out the door, get the mail, and directly dump it into the trash every day." becasue that's easier then filling out PS Form 1500: Application for Listing and/or Prohibitory Order?
". I do not need mail delivery five " you aren't the only person that uses it, jackass.
(X) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money not true. I can think up a way to do this right now.
(X) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email not needed. (X) Users of email will not put up with it too broad of a statement. Meaningless.
(X) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once false. (X) Unpopularity of weird new taxes so? (X) Technically illiterate politicians what does that have to do with creating a policy?
(X) Sending email should be free It's not free now. Do you think magic pixies run the system?
(X) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it. which is short hand for "I can't actually put together an argument, so Ad Hom it is!"
203 billion pieces of mail, the vast majority of which is 1oz envelopes.
So, as shocking as this will be to you, many people find the post office really useful. You DO know you can opt out of junk mail right? or did you just complain about something you actual know nothing about so you can be a whiny bitch?
"First, government is massively inefficient at every level thanks to the "government job" mentality and the tendency to over-hire bureaucrats." false. Government employees, and agency are very much aware they use tax payer money and consistently work on efficiency.
"Second, many government programs are pure pork barrel designed to appease certain special interest groups or make cronies rich." Extremely rare.
"Finally, government is a self-justifying agenda. " also extremely rare.
First off, your delusion the private corporation cut fat is wrong. Secondly Private companies are far LESS efficient then the US Government.
The VAST majority of government project, at every government level are on time within budget.
There are a couple of factors at play here: 1) The Government is staffed by tax paying Americans. 2) Keyhole effect. Someone see one tiny bit of complex projects or systems, and they complain about stuff they don't understand. 3) The media. In a private corporation 80% of all project fail. 20% succeed. However private corporation control their press access so when a company had a project fail, no one hers about it. With the government well OVER 80% of all projects succeed, and 10% or so fail the media focuses on that 10%. Now that's fine and it should BUT people need to be aware of the 10's of thousand of projects that go on as planned.
Full disclosure: I spent 30 years in the private sector.
One of my jobs prior to working a government job was creating a system that compiled federal and state budget information, production, timeline, and over run information. Quite a pleasant eye opener. We where all sure we would find monumental waste. Turns out, there is very little. Another one of my jobs was to write software that took complex Budget and planning numbers and put them neatly in a spread sheet that could be distributed to project managers. Setting up this system, meant that the consultant would need to figure out the companies books and then we would create the link from their system to our system.
I can not tell you how many time there where line items that the CFO had no clue what they where for, or who was getting the money. On time there was a line item with a code next to it for about 10 million dollars. No one knew where it was actually going to. Heads would roll if that happened at a government agency. Ever been to a upper management Dinner? I've seen dinners for 8 people break 1000 dollars. Again there would be hell to pay in a government agency.
The fiscal information for the federal and local governments is available tat most libraries. I suggest you read it.
I am current working for a City government agency.
Yes, preparing for future retirement that you agreed to is SOOOO unfair.
It's a cost of doing business. But it involve retirement benefits, so it WRONG!!!!
Pension is what everyone should get. I say that as a middle aged man who has seen his saving disappear twice, through not fault of my own. Financial Companies doing illegal things then going out of business.
"We all know an e-mail tax is infeasible," Do you not know how email works? The tax would go to your ISP would would pass it to the consumer. 1 penny per 100 email. So not much at all.
" and sales tax for online purchases and for digital purchases are likely unavoidable forever," Good.
" but here's hoping talk of taxing data usage doesn't work its way to Washington." hmmm. I don't know. We may be in a situation where a tiny tax could go a very long way.
We hold as undeniable truths that the governments of the various States, and of the confederacy itself, were established exclusively by the white race, for themselves and their posterity; that the African race had no agency in their establishment; that they were rightfully held and regarded as an inferior and dependent race, and in that condition only could their existence in this country be rendered beneficial or tolerable. —Secession Convention, "A Declaration of the Causes which Impel the State of Texas to Secede from the Federal Union"[3]
yeah, what a lovely state it was~
Yeah. Texians turned their back on their native country, couldn't stand on their own and then needing help joined the US. We Know. Texas FAILED at independence.
Whats up wiot it is that you nede to stop getting your information from 'news' sites.
"assassinate Americans using robotic aircraft"
sigh. Again, it's not different now then when Bush, or anyone else in the last 40 years was in office. It's just the same thing with a different piece of military equipment. You probably should look into the situation that must occur before authorization is given and accepted.
look hard? bwahahaha Rampant entrenched homophobia 4th highest crime rate: Taxes: Do you known the different between Ca. Taxes and Texas actual tax rates? 1.3%. whoopee save 1.3% and have substantial lower dynamic atmosphere, economy, and services.
Population: The people moving out of the state are wealthier than those moving in.
Health: The most polluting state.
Science denialism throughout the culture. AGW and Evolution for starter.
religion: They constantly force others to have to deal with christian beliefs, while having their own ignored.
Education: Ranked last in the nation.
Both have the same min wage, Texas has FAR less services for the low income. So while you 'have more' in Texas, you need to spend it no more to get the same services.
""Victory or Death!"" I notice you lost and didn't all die.
Taxes: Do you known the different between Ca. Taxes and Texas actual tax rates? 1.3%. whoopee save 1.3% and have substantial lower dynamic atmosphere, economy, and services.
Population: The people moving out of the state are wealthier than those moving in.
Health: The most polluting state.
Science denialism through out the culture. AGW and Evolution is frowned upon.
religion: They constantly force others to have to deal with christian beliefs, while having their own ignored.
Education: Ranked last in the nation.
By every metric living in Texas is worse then pretty much every where else. hee-fucking-haw.
Not, on to the bill at hand.
yes, it's a example on how Texas will create do nothing bills to make themselves look good, and an example of how Texans can't actually read a bill. "—Notwithstanding any other 5 provision of this chapter, it shall not be unlawful for an 6 officer, employee, or agent of the United States in the nor- 7 mal course of the official duty of the officer, employee, 8 or agent to conduct electronic surveillance, as authorized 9 by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 10 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.)."
SO it doesn't nothing for anyone who may fall under those broad terms..but wait, there is more:
"IN GENERAL.—It shall not be unlawful 13 under this chapter for a governmental entity to 14 intercept, use, or disclose geolocation information 15 pertaining to an individual if that individual has 16 given prior consent to that governmental entity for 17 such interception, use or disclosure. "
SO anyone pressured into giving consents and: "CHILDREN.—A parent or legal guardian of 19 a child may consent on behalf of a child for the pur- 20 poses of paragraph " I will assume that by children, they mean minors. But any law enforcement agency can pressure consent.
"It shall 22 not be unlawful under this chapter for a governmental en- 23 tity to intercept or access geolocation information per- 24 taining to an individual through any system that is config 1 ured so that such information is readily accessible to the 2 general public" SO if it's in the open, they can intercept it. AND this is farther down, the section is lengthy so I didn't want to post it. "‘‘(II) conspiratorial activities 11 threatening the national security in- 12 terest; or"... "‘‘(ii) requires geolocation information 16 be intercepted or used before an order au- 17 thorizing such interception or use can, with 18 due diligence, be obtained;"
AND "EXCEPTIONS.—A person providing covered serv- 24 ices may disclose geolocation information—"
Yeah, your a shining example of how Texas blindly go along with anything that as the word Texas on it, well done.
"Converting their constituent atoms to a plasma in a few nanoseconds is always an option, though." no, it isn't. DO you people simple not understand nuclear weapons and the fallout? or do you think NK is not near anyone else?
They can't deliver Nukes to US soil. Not Yet, anyways. Since they are a cult, their leader seems to be just as delusional as his father(in scary ways) if they did have the tech to get to us, I wouldn't have any problem with the US hitting them first, conventionally.
Of course, would rather introduce the new leader to stripper, fast food, action movies, and video games. Even paying him a billion dollars to let corporate chains set up shop would be worth it.
Story of the moy who cried wolf is an interesting one.
I have never blamed the boy for his demise. He was a child prankster. The parents, who let the biy into the woods ahve responsibility to klook after the boy every time he cries wolf, or leave him at home.
NK can can not be ignored becasue they have been continuing to advance there weapon technology. They are a fanatic cult.
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It's becasue patients don't know how to respond to condition, try to self medicate based on there uneducated interpretations, don't know how to apply that data in contrast to the larger population. The will put there own interpretation on top of it that is likely to do them harm.
Disclaimers: I used to work in the medical field and had access to large volumes of patient data.
Do you know how it works? I do, and I can thing of 3 ways to implement this with a very high success rate, and ti would require exactly NO change for the users.
I use the postal system, and I haven't waited more then 3 minutes that vast majority of the time.
Of course if you only show up on Dec 20, yeah there is going to be a wait.
You have the ISP pay a tax for every email that passes through them and they passes to the consumer.
They can do it per email, or a flat increase. Bear in mind that but increase we are talking very little money per person.
This method is also easy to automate for the government.
no, it's horrid. it feeds into a short sighted bias. It's just a bunch of statements with no actual argument behind them.
"So what this guy wants is to tax a service that the USPS doesn't provide, to help fund the USPS. That's fucking idiotic. "
The idea that things should only be taxed to support that thing is a common fallacy that is actually very bad.
Schools, fire, police and many other citizen services have nothing to tax to support just them. So you need a wide net.
"It's 2013 and nobody uses the USPS for anything that is time sensitive. "
not true, but not as time sensitive as it use to be. I advocate 3 day postal delivery. 1 day sounds nice but do you know they move over 200 Billion pieces of mail a year? You aren't delivering that in a day. Plus, that is only saving on careers, it all has to be processed every day. NEWS FLASH, the is more to the USPS then the person putting mail in your box.
"The only thing I get in my mail is junk. I have a trash min literally at my door, just so I can reach out the door, get the mail, and directly dump it into the trash every day."
becasue that's easier then filling out PS Form 1500: Application for Listing and/or Prohibitory Order?
". I do not need mail delivery five "
you aren't the only person that uses it, jackass.
(X) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
not true. I can think up a way to do this right now.
(X) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
not needed.
(X) Users of email will not put up with it
too broad of a statement. Meaningless.
(X) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
false.
(X) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
so?
(X) Technically illiterate politicians
what does that have to do with creating a policy?
(X) Sending email should be free
It's not free now. Do you think magic pixies run the system?
(X) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
which is short hand for "I can't actually put together an argument, so Ad Hom it is!"
based on.. what?
Yes I know they aren't free to collect.
203 billion pieces of mail, the vast majority of which is 1oz envelopes.
So, as shocking as this will be to you, many people find the post office really useful.
You DO know you can opt out of junk mail right? or did you just complain about something you actual know nothing about so you can be a whiny bitch?
"First, government is massively inefficient at every level thanks to the "government job" mentality and the tendency to over-hire bureaucrats."
false. Government employees, and agency are very much aware they use tax payer money and consistently work on efficiency.
"Second, many government programs are pure pork barrel designed to appease certain special interest groups or make cronies rich."
Extremely rare.
"Finally, government is a self-justifying agenda. "
also extremely rare.
First off, your delusion the private corporation cut fat is wrong. Secondly Private companies are far LESS efficient then the US Government.
The VAST majority of government project, at every government level are on time within budget.
There are a couple of factors at play here:
1) The Government is staffed by tax paying Americans.
2) Keyhole effect. Someone see one tiny bit of complex projects or systems, and they complain about stuff they don't understand.
3) The media. In a private corporation 80% of all project fail. 20% succeed. However private corporation control their press access so when a company had a project fail, no one hers about it. With the government well OVER 80% of all projects succeed, and 10% or so fail the media focuses on that 10%.
Now that's fine and it should BUT people need to be aware of the 10's of thousand of projects that go on as planned.
Full disclosure:
I spent 30 years in the private sector.
One of my jobs prior to working a government job was creating a system that compiled federal and state budget information, production, timeline, and over run information. Quite a pleasant eye opener. We where all sure we would find monumental waste. Turns out, there is very little.
Another one of my jobs was to write software that took complex Budget and planning numbers and put them neatly in a spread sheet that could be distributed to project managers. Setting up this system, meant that the consultant would need to figure out the companies books and then we would create the link from their system to our system.
I can not tell you how many time there where line items that the CFO had no clue what they where for, or who was getting the money. On time there was a line item with a code next to it for about 10 million dollars. No one knew where it was actually going to.
Heads would roll if that happened at a government agency.
Ever been to a upper management Dinner? I've seen dinners for 8 people break 1000 dollars. Again there would be hell to pay in a government agency.
The fiscal information for the federal and local governments is available tat most libraries. I suggest you read it.
I am current working for a City government agency.
Yes, preparing for future retirement that you agreed to is SOOOO unfair.
It's a cost of doing business. But it involve retirement benefits, so it WRONG!!!!
Pension is what everyone should get.
I say that as a middle aged man who has seen his saving disappear twice, through not fault of my own. Financial Companies doing illegal things then going out of business.
"We all know an e-mail tax is infeasible,"
Do you not know how email works?
The tax would go to your ISP would would pass it to the consumer.
1 penny per 100 email. So not much at all.
" and sales tax for online purchases and for digital purchases are likely unavoidable forever,"
Good.
" but here's hoping talk of taxing data usage doesn't work its way to Washington."
hmmm. I don't know. We may be in a situation where a tiny tax could go a very long way.
We hold as undeniable truths that the governments of the various States, and of the confederacy itself, were established exclusively by the white race, for themselves and their posterity; that the African race had no agency in their establishment; that they were rightfully held and regarded as an inferior and dependent race, and in that condition only could their existence in this country be rendered beneficial or tolerable.
—Secession Convention, "A Declaration of the Causes which Impel the State of Texas to Secede from the Federal Union"[3]
yeah, what a lovely state it was~
Yeah. Texians turned their back on their native country, couldn't stand on their own and then needing help joined the US. We Know.
Texas FAILED at independence.
The actual tax difference between Texas and CA is 1.3%.
Read the bill. In no way are they barred from providing it.
Whats up wiot it is that you nede to stop getting your information from 'news' sites.
"assassinate Americans using robotic aircraft"
sigh. Again, it's not different now then when Bush, or anyone else in the last 40 years was in office. It's just the same thing with a different piece of military equipment.
You probably should look into the situation that must occur before authorization is given and accepted.
"Where are all the peace demonstrators for example?"
have you been keeping you head under a rock?
And read the bill. It doesn't actually change anything. You know all those reason the government uses to not need a warrant? they're all exempt.
look hard? bwahahaha
Rampant entrenched homophobia
4th highest crime rate:
Taxes:
Do you known the different between Ca. Taxes and Texas actual tax rates? 1.3%. whoopee save 1.3% and have substantial lower dynamic atmosphere, economy, and services.
Population:
The people moving out of the state are wealthier than those moving in.
Health:
The most polluting state.
Science denialism throughout the culture.
AGW and Evolution for starter.
religion:
They constantly force others to have to deal with christian beliefs, while having their own ignored.
Education:
Ranked last in the nation.
Both have the same min wage, Texas has FAR less services for the low income.
So while you 'have more' in Texas, you need to spend it no more to get the same services.
""Victory or Death!""
I notice you lost and didn't all die.
Texas, blowhard capital of the world.
More on Texas you seemed to have mysteriously overlooked:
Rampant entrenched homophobia
http://law.onecle.com/texas/penal/21.06.00.html
4th highest crime rate:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_cities_by_crime_rate
Taxes:
Do you known the different between Ca. Taxes and Texas actual tax rates? 1.3%. whoopee save 1.3% and have substantial lower dynamic atmosphere, economy, and services.
Population:
The people moving out of the state are wealthier than those moving in.
Health:
The most polluting state.
Science denialism through out the culture.
AGW and Evolution is frowned upon.
religion:
They constantly force others to have to deal with christian beliefs, while having their own ignored.
Education:
Ranked last in the nation.
By every metric living in Texas is worse then pretty much every where else.
hee-fucking-haw.
Not, on to the bill at hand.
yes, it's a example on how Texas will create do nothing bills to make themselves look good, and an example of how Texans can't actually read a bill.
"—Notwithstanding any other
5 provision of this chapter, it shall not be unlawful for an
6 officer, employee, or agent of the United States in the nor-
7 mal course of the official duty of the officer, employee,
8 or agent to conduct electronic surveillance, as authorized
9 by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (50
10 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.)."
SO it doesn't nothing for anyone who may fall under those broad terms..but wait, there is more:
"IN GENERAL.—It shall not be unlawful
13 under this chapter for a governmental entity to
14 intercept, use, or disclose geolocation information
15 pertaining to an individual if that individual has
16 given prior consent to that governmental entity for
17 such interception, use or disclosure. "
SO anyone pressured into giving consents
and:
"CHILDREN.—A parent or legal guardian of
19 a child may consent on behalf of a child for the pur-
20 poses of paragraph "
I will assume that by children, they mean minors. But any law enforcement agency can pressure consent.
"It shall
22 not be unlawful under this chapter for a governmental en-
23 tity to intercept or access geolocation information per-
24 taining to an individual through any system that is config
1 ured so that such information is readily accessible to the
2 general public"
SO if it's in the open, they can intercept it.
AND this is farther down, the section is lengthy so I didn't want to post it.
"‘‘(II) conspiratorial activities
11 threatening the national security in-
12 terest; or"...
"‘‘(ii) requires geolocation information
16 be intercepted or used before an order au-
17 thorizing such interception or use can, with
18 due diligence, be obtained;"
AND
"EXCEPTIONS.—A person providing covered serv-
24 ices may disclose geolocation information—"
Yeah, your a shining example of how Texas blindly go along with anything that as the word Texas on it, well done.
Relevvant links
http://lofgren.house.gov/images/stories/pdf/online%20communications%20and%20geolocation%20protection%20act%20-%20lofgren%20-%20030413.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Act
"Converting their constituent atoms to a plasma in a few nanoseconds is always an option, though."
no, it isn't. DO you people simple not understand nuclear weapons and the fallout? or do you think NK is not near anyone else?
What if you child was a crazy violent sociopath with a gun?
Ignore it and it will fester far worse.
why would the US have casualties?
They can't deliver Nukes to US soil. Not Yet, anyways.
Since they are a cult, their leader seems to be just as delusional as his father(in scary ways) if they did have the tech to get to us, I wouldn't have any problem with the US hitting them first, conventionally.
Of course, would rather introduce the new leader to stripper, fast food, action movies, and video games. Even paying him a billion dollars to let corporate chains set up shop would be worth it.
NK knows no one will nuke them.well, no major power.
Seriously, do you think SK, China, and Japan would raise in concerns about the radioactive fallout raining down upon them?
We can do the same damage conventionally, and with better targeting. Nuke are just quicker.
Story of the moy who cried wolf is an interesting one.
I have never blamed the boy for his demise. He was a child prankster. The parents, who let the biy into the woods ahve responsibility to klook after the boy every time he cries wolf, or leave him at home.
NK can can not be ignored becasue they have been continuing to advance there weapon technology.
They are a fanatic cult.
These are the people you do not ignore.
Sanctions a re a response to the action NK does that are creating the tensions.