HIPAA is a real crock of shit. It does nothing to protect the kind of patient privacy people care about - privacy from marketers, insurance cartels, and the gestapo. But it does a fine job of impeding medical research. Which is the one and only case where most people DO want their data shared.
I wonder who bribed B. Clinton, and how much, to get HIPAA made law.
Well hello Comrade Wang - so glad you could join us!
Why yes, I'm go glad you inquired. The revolution is scheduled for this Saturday. Please show up at the Starbucks on 12th Ave in New York at 2:30pm SHARP. Be sure to bring your bazooka, any mechanized artillery units you happen to have laying around, and a brown bag lunch.
Remember there is a secret password so other revolutionaires will know you. When you arrive at Starbucks first order your latte. Then shout, as loud as you can, "I am a cock smoker! Who's your daddy?" That's the signal for the revolution to begin!
Hahaha... You think our economy is based on int'lectule pooperty!
Get real, broham. Our economy is in a state of near collapse. Building bombs, entombing our countrymen in the Gulag, selling surveillance tech to repressive regimes/megacorps, and natural resources extraction are about the only things were have left.
Oh, and the US dollar as an instrument of financial bamboozlement. And nearly the whole value of the dollar is backed by... wait for it.. the US Air Force's willingness to bomb the shit out of anyone selling oil in a non-dollar currency.
Interesting. So in the Fake-Progressive dialect of Newspeak, "psycho" means "decent red-blooded American who is unenthusiastic about serfdom". Thanks, good to know!
Then why don't they EVER talk about class domination, alienation of labor, property as theft, or communist revolution? Oh wait - it's because they *are* the face of capitalism/financialism.
A relative handful of inbred upper class twits will live in splendor and ease sufficient to make Nero envious. While the rest of us die in the street like dogs.
Google has gained too much monopoly power, and has become far too intrusive into people's private lives. It's time for Uncle Sam to step in and break up Google.
At very least, each of the units below needs to become a fully separate company that is legally barred from exchanging data with the others.
Android Search Surveillance ("advertising") Gmail Cloud platform Maps Media content (play music, play books, etc) Chrome browser ChromeOS
Slashdot Mirror
You tell 'em, Comrade Wang!
Secret laws, secret courts, tyranny.
Pardon me brother, can you spare a couple hundred million dollars? I need to get a law changed!
Absolutely! Partisan humbug and rancor aside, transparency is a good thing. If it's not transparent and reproducible, it's NOT science.
Secret laws, secret courts, tyranny.
Secret data, secret science, charlatanism.
HIPAA is a real crock of shit. It does nothing to protect the kind of patient privacy people care about - privacy from marketers, insurance cartels, and the gestapo. But it does a fine job of impeding medical research. Which is the one and only case where most people DO want their data shared.
I wonder who bribed B. Clinton, and how much, to get HIPAA made law.
Shareblue trolls sure do have strong homoerotic feelings for Emperor Trump.
Shareblue trolls sure do love sophomoric, homophobic insults.
Ah, my dear Doctor Pangloss! So nice to see you again in this, the best of all possible worlds.
Well hello Comrade Wang - so glad you could join us!
Why yes, I'm go glad you inquired. The revolution is scheduled for this Saturday. Please show up at the Starbucks on 12th Ave in New York at 2:30pm SHARP. Be sure to bring your bazooka, any mechanized artillery units you happen to have laying around, and a brown bag lunch.
Remember there is a secret password so other revolutionaires will know you. When you arrive at Starbucks first order your latte. Then shout, as loud as you can, "I am a cock smoker! Who's your daddy?" That's the signal for the revolution to begin!
All of my geopolitical rivals are drunken incompetents! No one is as cool as ME!
Why exactly do you think people join the NRA?
Bill Clinton sold out the American working class to the Chinese in exchange for a big bribe.
I'm a cornflake, not a snowflake, you insensitive clod!
Hahaha... You think our economy is based on int'lectule pooperty!
Get real, broham. Our economy is in a state of near collapse. Building bombs, entombing our countrymen in the Gulag, selling surveillance tech to repressive regimes/megacorps, and natural resources extraction are about the only things were have left.
Oh, and the US dollar as an instrument of financial bamboozlement. And nearly the whole value of the dollar is backed by... wait for it.. the US Air Force's willingness to bomb the shit out of anyone selling oil in a non-dollar currency.
Interesting. So in the Fake-Progressive dialect of Newspeak, "psycho" means "decent red-blooded American who is unenthusiastic about serfdom". Thanks, good to know!
Then why don't they EVER talk about class domination, alienation of labor, property as theft, or communist revolution? Oh wait - it's because they *are* the face of capitalism/financialism.
It's not what the masses want - it's what their masters want them to see (or not see).
Moscow probably has a lot better air defences than our usual targets for military aggression.
Capitalist stooges sure are proud of mass censorship.
Interesting theory. Infantalize the content, and you end up with only infants as your audience. Sure hope you're right!
The answer is obvious: Big Brother Google loves us all. If Google wants to enserf us, it's *for our own good*.
"Not sure how the economy will work then."
A relative handful of inbred upper class twits will live in splendor and ease sufficient to make Nero envious. While the rest of us die in the street like dogs.
Yay capitalism!!!1!11!!!
Google has gained too much monopoly power, and has become far too intrusive into people's private lives. It's time for Uncle Sam to step in and break up Google.
At very least, each of the units below needs to become a fully separate company that is legally barred from exchanging data with the others.
Android
Search
Surveillance ("advertising")
Gmail
Cloud platform
Maps
Media content (play music, play books, etc)
Chrome browser
ChromeOS
Left = right = center = authoritarian financialist.
Get over this stupidity, man.