But with "opt out," government healthcare is deprived of resources which would be made available to it if the rich and powerful could not opt out. Because the wealth have no incentive to ensure the system is well-funded, rather than equalizing things for everyone, it ensures substandard health care for all but the rich and powerful who can go abroad for it. Health care, as a fundamental right, should not be based on how much one can afford.
How could it work any other way? If the goal is equal access to health care, there can't be allowed to exist a parallel system. Which is why, in fact, it is illegal for doctors to accept payments outside of the system. Ideally, Canadian citizens would be penalized for leaving the country to circumvent the system, just as citizens of many countries are subject to penalties for crimes (e.g. underage sex tours) committed outside their own borders in nations where those activities aren't illegal.
The problem isn't necessarily the current government abusing all that data, but the fact that a future one can. That should be self-evident to anyone acquianted with history, particularly Italy's.
With RFID, they'll be able to (and eventually be required to) track what dead tree books are being read in the library. This may only be the case for "sensitive" material such as chemistry and biology texts, subversive materials, etc. Once electronic paper catches on, the call-home DRM will keep track of what we're reading so the predictive terrorism model (which by the very knowledge of its existence perturbs reality, but I digress) can be used to pick up those reading "suspiciously."
It's interesting to see Italy harkening back again to its fascist roots.
If it were so great why do Canadians often jump the border to get healthcare here?
Because they can. If the rich in Canada had to live under their system, I guarantee it'd get better. Single payer can only work if the rich can't opt out, and as you've pointed out, they can.
Didn't realize it was a series. I assume what I read was the first, and I didn't like it at all.
Morphing and going into hiding, more likely.
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The IP blocks they use are widely known and have become ineffective against savvy filesharers. More likely, they're going to go under deeper cover, sourcing bandwidth from consumer sources like cable modem and DSL providers to spy on file sharers and pollute the networks. I'm surprised it's taken this long.
Actually, if the problem gets addressed at all, it'll only be for the rich, famous, and connected. So I wouldn't take any solace in such a person's ability to strongarm Wikipedia. I do feel for you for the suffering you described, but without the ability to at least subpoena the poster (apparently reserved for the *AA), there doesn't seem to be much a regular person can do.
If the RIAA actually has a case (which I honestly don't know, as IANAL--I'd hope they don't, but with the price of Congress so cheap, I wouldn't be surprised if they did), then they would see the release of source as a "f*** you" and proceed with a suit.
Those "private" institutions wouldn't exist without Federal and state money. And with that money comes the obligations of a quasi-governmental agency, which they have become by accepting those funds. I hope the former student's shysters clean Marquette's clock in court.
The best solution is to go back to the policies of Clinton's presidency. Let us, the people, take care of our own security without government intrusion, as is our natural right and privilege.
I'm not sure that's really what you want. IIRC, the attempts to make key escrow mandatory with Clipper were on Clinton's watch. The sooner we quit believing that one party or another is interested in freedom, the sooner we have a chance to preserve the dwindling amount of it we have left.
That's where they're headed. The eye-tee glass house hierarchy will win the day, using security as the hammer. Long live the glass house and the priesthood. Only the priests will mostly be in India and China now.
Cameras are potentially accountability, and thus potentially liability. They don't like anything taking pictures that could be evidence (except for their own cameras--with those, evidence could be "lost" or "inadvertently destroyed").
Some of us are apparently naïve enough to believe that these new taxes will supplant, rather than supplement, the old ones. Just like advocates for a national sales tax try to sell it as a replacement to the income tax--whom are we kidding here?
I hear you. I'm keeping my vintage Volvo 240 running for as long as I can, and should I have to replace it, it's going to be with a pre-OBD-II, pre-big-brother, pre-Vetronix-readable-black-box machine.
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But with "opt out," government healthcare is deprived of resources which would be made available to it if the rich and powerful could not opt out. Because the wealth have no incentive to ensure the system is well-funded, rather than equalizing things for everyone, it ensures substandard health care for all but the rich and powerful who can go abroad for it. Health care, as a fundamental right, should not be based on how much one can afford.
Peer-to-peer sharers thwarted in their ability to control who participates in sharing by a peer-to-peer protocol.
How could it work any other way? If the goal is equal access to health care, there can't be allowed to exist a parallel system. Which is why, in fact, it is illegal for doctors to accept payments outside of the system. Ideally, Canadian citizens would be penalized for leaving the country to circumvent the system, just as citizens of many countries are subject to penalties for crimes (e.g. underage sex tours) committed outside their own borders in nations where those activities aren't illegal.
Of course, anyone who advocates national health care must be a Communist.
The problem isn't necessarily the current government abusing all that data, but the fact that a future one can. That should be self-evident to anyone acquianted with history, particularly Italy's.
It's interesting to see Italy harkening back again to its fascist roots.
Because they can. If the rich in Canada had to live under their system, I guarantee it'd get better. Single payer can only work if the rich can't opt out, and as you've pointed out, they can.
Didn't realize it was a series. I assume what I read was the first, and I didn't like it at all.
The IP blocks they use are widely known and have become ineffective against savvy filesharers. More likely, they're going to go under deeper cover, sourcing bandwidth from consumer sources like cable modem and DSL providers to spy on file sharers and pollute the networks. I'm surprised it's taken this long.
Actually, if the problem gets addressed at all, it'll only be for the rich, famous, and connected. So I wouldn't take any solace in such a person's ability to strongarm Wikipedia. I do feel for you for the suffering you described, but without the ability to at least subpoena the poster (apparently reserved for the *AA), there doesn't seem to be much a regular person can do.
Ugh. Don't remind me of that awful book.
If the RIAA actually has a case (which I honestly don't know, as IANAL--I'd hope they don't, but with the price of Congress so cheap, I wouldn't be surprised if they did), then they would see the release of source as a "f*** you" and proceed with a suit.
Those "private" institutions wouldn't exist without Federal and state money. And with that money comes the obligations of a quasi-governmental agency, which they have become by accepting those funds. I hope the former student's shysters clean Marquette's clock in court.
Oops -- wrong thread. Please mod parent and this down.
Bring it on. I have more karma than God.
Sure you can. The next time an iTunes version (plugin API change, for example) breaks it, it's done. Now if had been open source, you would be right.
Says he, the brave man using his real name on Slashdot. Oh, wait. Spare me the self-righteous crap.
I'm not sure that's really what you want. IIRC, the attempts to make key escrow mandatory with Clipper were on Clinton's watch. The sooner we quit believing that one party or another is interested in freedom, the sooner we have a chance to preserve the dwindling amount of it we have left.
No, but listening on port 80 constitutes permission for me to make requests of your server.
That's where they're headed. The eye-tee glass house hierarchy will win the day, using security as the hammer. Long live the glass house and the priesthood. Only the priests will mostly be in India and China now.
Thanks for the links -- I've never seen a list at all before this, but it is my understanding that GM cars have *all* had black boxes for awhile.
Cameras are potentially accountability, and thus potentially liability. They don't like anything taking pictures that could be evidence (except for their own cameras--with those, evidence could be "lost" or "inadvertently destroyed").
Some of us are apparently naïve enough to believe that these new taxes will supplant, rather than supplement, the old ones. Just like advocates for a national sales tax try to sell it as a replacement to the income tax--whom are we kidding here?
I hear you. I'm keeping my vintage Volvo 240 running for as long as I can, and should I have to replace it, it's going to be with a pre-OBD-II, pre-big-brother, pre-Vetronix-readable-black-box machine.
It's going to be great -- it'll do square roots, cube roots, nth roots, and root.