Back to your original point, I violated my rule concerning jacking about with peoples' names. I more or less regretted that one as soon as I hit 'Submit'.
To be fair a single NHS IT system is a very good idea. Its just a shame the contractors smelt money and decided to milk it for all it was worth rather than bother to deliver a working system.
No offerings from the Good Idea Fairy survive contact with reality. The contractors always go under the bus, every time. As Mark Knopfler intoned: "They punish the monkey, and let the organ grider go."
The fundamental problem here is that, for reasons of political power, politicians ever asserted that having the government manage individual health was somehow a swift idea. If the politicians were as good at implementing systems themselves as they were at blaming the contractor (yet, somehow, re-hiring them at the next go-around) then Utopia would arrive with the sunrise.
"And while you're at it,
Mark & Abe, get that bison rug
out of here. It's not the
horns I mind so much
as the five tons of buffalo
standin' behind 'em."
--John Wayne
However, those two years have brought on voter registration laws designed to disenfranchise, laws so blatantly racist that it's pants-on-heads insane that anybody let them get away with it.
No hyperbole there.
Gerrymandered districts can't be fixed til the next census. Mobile voting could be a hell of a stopgap before then.
In my perfect future America, there would be a GPLv3 mapping algorithm that calculated all of the districts. You tell me how many parameters. But let the code and (read-only) data be free, and let the bun-fight move to how the data get collected and validated.
Screw these political parties. To the wall. With a large drill. And some jello on top.
Well, if your district doesn't turn out enough votes for a certain party in power, and there is a fire/flood/tornado/whatever, you might not see a response as prompt as other areas. Just sayin'.
for the best medical system for your population as a whole
Medical needs occur individually. We do no show up at the clinic "as a whole" for a flu shot. Socialized medicine is the ecological fallacy writ large & tragic.
The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Eccl 1:9
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Police, below roughly the Sheriff level, tend not to be elected officials.
Back to your original point, I violated my rule concerning jacking about with peoples' names. I more or less regretted that one as soon as I hit 'Submit'.
And, I mis-spelled 'accused'.
No one ever accuse Joe Bidet of being smart.
As you say.
To be fair a single NHS IT system is a very good idea. Its just a shame the contractors smelt money and decided to milk it for all it was worth rather than bother to deliver a working system.
No offerings from the Good Idea Fairy survive contact with reality.
The contractors always go under the bus, every time. As Mark Knopfler intoned: "They punish the monkey, and let the organ grider go."
The fundamental problem here is that, for reasons of political power, politicians ever asserted that having the government manage individual health was somehow a swift idea. If the politicians were as good at implementing systems themselves as they were at blaming the contractor (yet, somehow, re-hiring them at the next go-around) then Utopia would arrive with the sunrise.
"And while you're at it,
Mark & Abe, get that bison rug
out of here. It's not the
horns I mind so much
as the five tons of buffalo
standin' behind 'em."
--John Wayne
Those barbarians with the bows & arrows are completely dishonorable, unmanly, and don't know how to fight with coura--UGHH! [thump]
they have significantly differing views on the relationship of the role of government to the citizenry and the economy
The debate between R's & D's is not "Should we get our Thelma & Louise on?", but, rather, who gets to drive.
Just own the fact that the cancer is more Progressive than it is partisan. The two-party gag is merely a ruse.
Mostly
Why do you H8 the government?
It won't happen without significant pressure from the voters, which, I concede, is difficult to gather.
However, those two years have brought on voter registration laws designed to disenfranchise, laws so blatantly racist that it's pants-on-heads insane that anybody let them get away with it.
No hyperbole there.
Gerrymandered districts can't be fixed til the next census. Mobile voting could be a hell of a stopgap before then.
In my perfect future America, there would be a GPLv3 mapping algorithm that calculated all of the districts. You tell me how many parameters. But let the code and (read-only) data be free, and let the bun-fight move to how the data get collected and validated.
Screw these political parties. To the wall. With a large drill. And some jello on top.
Not if the election is conducted properly.
Well, if your district doesn't turn out enough votes for a certain party in power, and there is a fire/flood/tornado/whatever, you might not see a response as prompt as other areas. Just sayin'.
So you're saying "as a whole" = "a large percentage"? Yeah, maybe cancer would've been a better example.
for the best medical system for your population as a whole
Medical needs occur individually. We do no show up at the clinic "as a whole" for a flu shot. Socialized medicine is the ecological fallacy writ large & tragic.
I was thinking of Ace of Spades over on Twitter.
All I said was "could've moved". You're the one who had to make it dark.
Too soon. Could've moved to Colorado, like some junkie cosmonaut.
If you don't use this currency, you're raaaaacist.
The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Eccl 1:9
Life imitates Dilbert.
Isn't Reid that guy in the Senate or something?