I've heard this argument before, and I tend to respectfully disagree. Fear and war go hand in hand (shock and awe, hiroshima, etc.). You remove the psychological element from war entirely; you are attempting to sanitize it. It's nice to wrap it in an intellectualism of a military campaign, but if you look at how any war has been fought, you see terrorist (per your definition- to promote fear) being taken by either side.
If a war is desperate enough, there are no illegitamite targets (the Geneva convetion kind of faulters in the face of biological and thermonuclear war). Not to mention guerilla tactics; lables are pretty meaningless to either side except for propaganda concerns.
What defines an action as terrorism is simply who is in power... Doublespeak serves its' masters well.
"Here's the part where the idealist hippie chimes in about how copyrights are evil and file-trading is a "culture movement" and so on, which doesn't even merit a response."
Actually, it's the part where the neo-fascist chimes in about how law and order must be sacrificed to maintain law and order.
Here, let me help you out: when the FBI kills the wrong guy, it's still murder.
The RIAA got the wrong person. A decent person would appologize and perhaps reconsider their methods. The RIAA...
Beyond the fact I have no taste in music, you kind of miss the point.
If I am not aware of it, no good music exists. If I don't want to go through the hassle of P2P (is it a file, or is it a virus?), all that is left to me is radio, the oddball recommendation of friends, chumping down $20 on the hopes of a new CD, or filtering through loads of less-than-appealing MP3s. In short, communication breakdown.
Radio use to promote new bands or trends. It was very much like a filter to separate chaff from the wheat. Yes, it was marketing, but the market was diverse. And if it wasn't diverse enough, college/pirate (aarrgh!) filled out the gaps.
It is now more monochromatic. Even web radio has caught hell from this juggernaut that is the recording industry. For every gripe you make about how people don't know about great bands, you have vindicated the recording industry's attempts to maintain control.
And yes, new music genres do manage to expand against the RIAA, but as anyone who has established the groundwork will tell you, it is a HUGE pain in the ass. It is hard enough just to get the word out. It is another thing entirely when a monolith stands in your way.
And has the recording industry exerts more control, everyone's worldview gets a little bit smaller; the mundane ever closer to hyped superstardom.
If the media is stale or boring, assure yourself someone wants it that way. Should I be a sheep and listen to your recommendations as to what makes good music? The RIAA's? Proclaiming to see the light without seeing the darkness is still blind.
Honestly, I can't tell you. I don't live there. I seem to remember a story on/. about how there are only two main pipes for contact with the rest of the world. Prices for broadband seemed quite high.
I would caution however; I've seen posts from people in NZ and stories about; it seems they have their own brand of problems.
I find myself in the same boat (perhaps literally) as you; the laws are pretty repugnant across the board. I'm waiting on the next elections (and a vacation there) to make my decision.
Anyway, if you happen to go, do drop a line and tell what you see. I fear the current climate isn't an isolated event.
So I take it you only have sex for money (and you manage to find people to pay you for it)?
Payoff means different things to different people... everyone starts as an unknown.
Might want to check out thr latest Rolling Stone (perhaps it was Spin?). A lot of "mindless punk rock by kids who can't play their guitar" on the greatest guitarists of all time list.
Let me guess; you're over 30, right (ah shit, so am I)?
As pointed out by the multitudes who write, draw, write software, etc. for fun (and even Burning Man); there is an over-abundance of good ideas. Slavishly hording your ONE good idea seems bloody stupid in a world of plenty.
Funny how people will get in a furor over child porn, but no one talks about banning the Catholic Church. Make the analogy to ISPs. Somehow it's worse if you take pictures.
The largest producer of child porn during the late 70's, early 80's was... the United States Postal Service (government study. Look it up.) for sting operations. I vaguely recall a sting operation during the 80's: most of the people busted committed suicide before they were ever brought to trial.
The APA released a study a few years back that stated that kids who are molested suffer no more long-term adverse effects than found in the general population. The fallout from that study was enormous to which the APA recanted and withdrew the study.
But there is always the other statistics: the US has the highest rate of child molestation while having the strictest laws. Places where child porn is legal have the lowest rates. Cultures and attitudes towards sex are different, however. Make of it what you will.
The point of all this? I don't see Brittany Spears being tagged as kiddie porn. I see a nebulous distinction made between child molestation and rape, even though the sense of violation is the same for both. I see a society that glorifies youth to a point where pedophilia is the natural outcome.
In short, I see a lot of posturing and bullshit, and damn little that is being done.
I hate you I hate you I hate you! How dare you use logic and reason to defend that lowliest of creatures, the lawyer. My god man, I may have to break down and conceed the opposing side isn't just a bunch of blood-thirsty vultures hellbent on disconfabulating truth and justice for greed.
Something hinted at by the story and some of the comments but really bears being pendantic: too few teachers.
It is lucridous to expect a teacher to go over 150 essays as it is for me to expect getting a reasonable education when I am 1 of 150 faces trying to gleen something more than an "A" from a class.
The software is attempting to address this imbalance, but ultimately it will make the level of education worse: it can grade a paper, it can't offer insights on how to improve. And it will give administrators a reason to pile 50 more into a class, which will in turn lead to GradeStar MkII and onward into a vicious circle.
And yeah, the software is just a tool, but like so many tools, that's not how it will be utilized.
It's a cop-out, nothing more.
Didn't Ms. Rosen already state that "If you're using KaAaA today, you're getting, in my view, a crappy quality song -- not what the artist did in the studio..."?
If that be the case, does the DCMA really apply (and therefore the subpoena) since the premise of the law was to stop "perfect digital copies"?
Seems odd to apply a copyright law to something that was "not what the artist did in the studio", and especially when no one else is profiting from the violation (I can draw a picture of Mickey Mouse for my own personal use [and even give it away] without breaking the law. It's only when I try to sell it...).
The only complaint is by them means and format. I really question the application of the law.
"Hitler maintained that only human beings who had certain genetic characteristics were worthy of life."
In a sense, hasn't this always been the case. You get mutations and deformities that aren't viable to life. Still very much Homo Sapien. The only thing different is the criteria (blue eyes compared to hydrocephaly).
And onward: depression (and the requisite suicide attempts) probably has a genetic disposition to it... I was lucky enough to born into a family that had the resources to ensure a healthy upbringing. No more worthy of life, except for the genetic characteristics I share in common with my forbearers.
Your argument that everyone is worthy of life only works in a world of unlimited resources. Yeah, everyone is worthy, but there is only so much to go around. What is the ethical choice now? Best suited? Least cost? Smartest? Prettiest? Who will you say will die so another can live?
I do not support eugenics, but Mother Nature has done it all the while (selective breeding to improve the strain). All stem cell research really says is that Mother Nature won't be the sole arbiter of life and death. You can't acquiesce the moral choice to some nebulous entity. We're here now. Better make the ethics work.
"War: the alchemy of turning gold into lead."- R. Gentile
Umm, $120 is closer to what a portable costs today (retail). Go back 13 years, and the cost is WELL over $200 (closer to $300). The TV tuner dropped to about $80 after the first year of release. So $380-$420 for a portable TV and the first 16-bit handheld. Yeah doomed to fail-20/20.
And the furor with Nintendo's marketing practices had nothing to do with it (would have been nice to buy one if you could find one).
Very much a NEC fanboy (my Duo gets more time than the other systems I have), so...
The Express could also double as a portable TV. Given that, and you could take a game in progress on the road, it had a lot of appeal (to me at least). It was just hard to justify $300 when the base system was $150 (and you were terminally broke from buying new games). They never really pushed the portable TV aspect. A handheld color TV for $300, at the time, was a steal.
It was also a matter of timing. There really wasn't a base of mature gamers to afford the Express. For that, Nintendo makes the grade not because of an intrinsic value other than it being disposable.
Now things are very much different. People routinely drop more than $300 on PDAs just to play games. Cell phones are common to a younger subset, and with that, games. Nintendo still dominates the handheld market, but if you include every mobile device that can play games, its' market share has dwindled.
This tendency of console manufacturers to focus on target groups is misguided. Why bother with GBA or the next console to be when I can get similar games on a PDA plus porn, and driving directions? Indra(?)probably had the best shot at toppling the Sony juggernaught just because the game range would be all over the place. Even billions of dollars won't buy you creativity (X-box).
Unless Nintendo can develop an entirely new market or make something that will appeal across the board... well, I'm not holding my breath for their next foray (nor Sony's or Microsoft's).
Ever heard of the Witch Trials? The Inquisition? Maybe he is guilty. Maybe he has relatives in Afghanistan. Maybe his children. Would you take up arms against your own kids? I've got relatives overseas. If the US declared war on them... ain't nothing black and white.
I could give the long list of the US Gov. aluminum hat conspiracies (MK-ULTRA, radiation experiments on the tards, spraying biological agents on San Francisco, etc.), but it wouldn't matter. Since those things have never happened to you personally, they don't exist. You are a void.
If it were as easy to be optimistic; to shut out the rest of the world... nevermind. Just a hate filled rant. Go America!
Not necessarily either camp's version of the truth, but a basic explanation of what issues are involved with P2P networks, what the hell does this EULA mean, why will the RIAA slap a law suit on me for sending this song to my friends back home, etc. If you are going to teach them about computers, you might as well give them an overview of the landscape.
As an acquaintance of mine pointed out (she works for Wyoming's power dept.) the wet scrubber stacks have about 80% efficiency of removing particles and other baddies from the air. No catalytic converter even comes close.
And when they quit asking for bailouts every five years and accept no federal or state monies, they can make any damn rule they want. Until then...
Why do you insist on giving a business the same rights as a citizen when they don't bear the same responsibilities? Ever heard of Monsato being put up for the death penalty? Me neither.
It is kind of hard to order me off their property when I'm 15,000ft in the air. So can we at least say the same rules wouldn't apply.
It's not property, it's a service. Terms of service are very much conditional under law. If I don't have to fly on their planes, they don't have to accept my money either.
I think last year around x-mas there was a hubabaloo concerning people walking into stores and videotaping security cameras. Mass panic with store security; when people were doing nothing more than what is routinely done to them.
And since people have been known to die when airlines muff it (a lot more than in terrorist attacks), where are the security cameras on the pilots, mechanics, and ground crew? Why don't they bear the same scrutiny?
"Well", you say, "it's an assumed risk." It's an assumed risk I might be a terrorist. Deal with it.
Unfortunately, another translation of "make people aware" is brainwashing. Replace the crap they are currently viewing with someone else's crap. It doesn't go anywhere.
Can't tell you how many political movements were based upon "re-educating the populace". Most of them died in obscurity (check out the history of European anarchist movement if you're interested. In essence, the same intents.).
From my cult. Anthropology class, there were 7 factors in place for any type of revolution (four needed to sustain it). I forget them all (they were like mass starvation, massive devaluation of the monetary system, catastrophic events where the leadership seemed enervate, etc.). The US always seems to teeter on two or three.
Anyway, re-educating the populace reeks of holier-than-thou. Better think of another way.
And I forgot about the bar-bet I made with my friend concerning Bush and the likelihood of war. Thanks for reminding me.
Before you can become a health professional, you will have to go to school. Part of that schooling will entail case studies. How do you rectify education concerns without, by measure of degree, infringing on someone's right to privacy?
Consent is one thing. Privacy is another. If someone really wanted to push the issue, there can be no legal consent given because the person(s) are in an obvious state of distress. MDs get consents for operations. That doesn't prevent them from being sued.
So again, it is fine and good to quote the regs, but what do they actually mean? Ever asked a colleague their opinion on how to best treat a particular case? Did you get the client's permission beforehand? Please, do tell.
Great! Entrapment as a means of maintaining law and order. Treat people like criminals, and they tend to act like criminals.
How about teaching hospitals? Private information is routinely passed back and forth between people who do not directly affect you care. Interesting case studies are gone over as means of education. Hell, some people check records just to know you made it through alright (gasp! they care).
Does it really sound like a crime?
Also, open reports and rounds tend to be common among hospital staff. The "need to know" basis for information exchange is a bit pedestrian in potential crisis situations. Having everyone fully informed tends to be the best course of action: Suppose an MD happens upon you lying on the floor. Would you prefer a MD had some general information concerning your case (even though, at the time, they were not directly involved with your care), or would you prefer them to go through your chart while you are having chest pains?
The problem isn't so much "poking around" as ill-conceived information systems. Any system that denies people's basic nature is doomed to fail. Curiosity shouldn't be a crime. Know for a fact the MDs are repulsed about your hemorrhoids, just as much as you are repulsed by goatese. But you still look, don't you?
One banana, two banana, three banana, four Four bananas make a bunch and so do many more Over hill and highway the banana buggies go Comin' up to bring you the Banana Splits show Makin' up a mess of fun, makin' up a mess of fun Lots of fun for everyone Tra la la, la la la la, Tra la la, la la la la
Four banana, three banana, two banana, one All bananas playin' in the bright warm sun Flippin' like a pancake, poppin' like a cork Fleegle, Bingo, Drooper and Snork Tra la la, la la la la, Tra la la, la la la la
Two banana, four banana, one banana, three Swingin' like a bunch of monkeys hangin' from a tree Hey there everybody, won't you come along and see How much fun Banana Splits for everyone can be
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I've heard this argument before, and I tend to respectfully disagree. Fear and war go hand in hand (shock and awe, hiroshima, etc.). You remove the psychological element from war entirely; you are attempting to sanitize it. It's nice to wrap it in an intellectualism of a military campaign, but if you look at how any war has been fought, you see terrorist (per your definition- to promote fear) being taken by either side.
If a war is desperate enough, there are no illegitamite targets (the Geneva convetion kind of faulters in the face of biological and thermonuclear war). Not to mention guerilla tactics; lables are pretty meaningless to either side except for propaganda concerns.
What defines an action as terrorism is simply who is in power... Doublespeak serves its' masters well.
"Here's the part where the idealist hippie chimes in about how copyrights are evil and file-trading is a "culture movement" and so on, which doesn't even merit a response."
Actually, it's the part where the neo-fascist chimes in about how law and order must be sacrificed to maintain law and order.
Here, let me help you out: when the FBI kills the wrong guy, it's still murder.
The RIAA got the wrong person. A decent person would appologize and perhaps reconsider their methods. The RIAA...
Beyond the fact I have no taste in music, you kind of miss the point.
If I am not aware of it, no good music exists. If I don't want to go through the hassle of P2P (is it a file, or is it a virus?), all that is left to me is radio, the oddball recommendation of friends, chumping down $20 on the hopes of a new CD, or filtering through loads of less-than-appealing MP3s. In short, communication breakdown.
Radio use to promote new bands or trends. It was very much like a filter to separate chaff from the wheat. Yes, it was marketing, but the market was diverse. And if it wasn't diverse enough, college/pirate (aarrgh!) filled out the gaps.
It is now more monochromatic. Even web radio has caught hell from this juggernaut that is the recording industry. For every gripe you make about how people don't know about great bands, you have vindicated the recording industry's attempts to maintain control.
And yes, new music genres do manage to expand against the RIAA, but as anyone who has established the groundwork will tell you, it is a HUGE pain in the ass. It is hard enough just to get the word out. It is another thing entirely when a monolith stands in your way.
And has the recording industry exerts more control, everyone's worldview gets a little bit smaller; the mundane ever closer to hyped superstardom.
If the media is stale or boring, assure yourself someone wants it that way. Should I be a sheep and listen to your recommendations as to what makes good music? The RIAA's? Proclaiming to see the light without seeing the darkness is still blind.
Where is my Lotus Elise?
Honestly, I can't tell you. I don't live there. I seem to remember a story on /. about how there are only two main pipes for contact with the rest of the world. Prices for broadband seemed quite high.
I would caution however; I've seen posts from people in NZ and stories about; it seems they have their own brand of problems.
I find myself in the same boat (perhaps literally) as you; the laws are pretty repugnant across the board. I'm waiting on the next elections (and a vacation there) to make my decision.
Anyway, if you happen to go, do drop a line and tell what you see. I fear the current climate isn't an isolated event.
Um, New Zealand is consistently ranked as one of the freest places on Earth. Ireland and a few others (I forget).
But anyplace can turn to shit. I like the free state idea, but you'd really have to do it as a nation.
So I take it you only have sex for money (and you manage to find people to pay you for it)? Payoff means different things to different people... everyone starts as an unknown.
Might want to check out thr latest Rolling Stone (perhaps it was Spin?). A lot of "mindless punk rock by kids who can't play their guitar" on the greatest guitarists of all time list.
Let me guess; you're over 30, right (ah shit, so am I)?
As pointed out by the multitudes who write, draw, write software, etc. for fun (and even Burning Man); there is an over-abundance of good ideas. Slavishly hording your ONE good idea seems bloody stupid in a world of plenty.
More truth here than is comfortable to admit.
Actually, I was thinking of the RIAA position that P2P promotes kiddie porn...
Well, it would be one way to pay the fine. Just not the connection between the two I thought the RIAA was making.
Lessor Demon: "We got $2000 from a 12 year old girl in public housing, and got her to sell herself to pay the $2000."
Satan: "Excellent."
Ah, so time=money. On an order of magnitude, as much as a 50% difference for life expectancy. Variation of 50% on fines.
Except life expectancy is fairly finite. Money isn't.
Not to mention a lifetime prison sentence looks dramatically different to a 20 year old than to an 80 year old.
False analogy. Your turn.
Funny how people will get in a furor over child porn, but no one talks about banning the Catholic Church. Make the analogy to ISPs. Somehow it's worse if you take pictures.
The largest producer of child porn during the late 70's, early 80's was... the United States Postal Service (government study. Look it up.) for sting operations. I vaguely recall a sting operation during the 80's: most of the people busted committed suicide before they were ever brought to trial.
The APA released a study a few years back that stated that kids who are molested suffer no more long-term adverse effects than found in the general population. The fallout from that study was enormous to which the APA recanted and withdrew the study.
But there is always the other statistics: the US has the highest rate of child molestation while having the strictest laws. Places where child porn is legal have the lowest rates. Cultures and attitudes towards sex are different, however. Make of it what you will.
The point of all this? I don't see Brittany Spears being tagged as kiddie porn. I see a nebulous distinction made between child molestation and rape, even though the sense of violation is the same for both. I see a society that glorifies youth to a point where pedophilia is the natural outcome.
In short, I see a lot of posturing and bullshit, and damn little that is being done.
I hate you I hate you I hate you! How dare you use logic and reason to defend that lowliest of creatures, the lawyer. My god man, I may have to break down and conceed the opposing side isn't just a bunch of blood-thirsty vultures hellbent on disconfabulating truth and justice for greed.
Thanks for ruining my day.
Something hinted at by the story and some of the comments but really bears being pendantic: too few teachers. It is lucridous to expect a teacher to go over 150 essays as it is for me to expect getting a reasonable education when I am 1 of 150 faces trying to gleen something more than an "A" from a class. The software is attempting to address this imbalance, but ultimately it will make the level of education worse: it can grade a paper, it can't offer insights on how to improve. And it will give administrators a reason to pile 50 more into a class, which will in turn lead to GradeStar MkII and onward into a vicious circle. And yeah, the software is just a tool, but like so many tools, that's not how it will be utilized. It's a cop-out, nothing more.
Didn't Ms. Rosen already state that "If you're using KaAaA today, you're getting, in my view, a crappy quality song -- not what the artist did in the studio..."?
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If that be the case, does the DCMA really apply (and therefore the subpoena) since the premise of the law was to stop "perfect digital copies"?
Seems odd to apply a copyright law to something that was "not what the artist did in the studio", and especially when no one else is profiting from the violation (I can draw a picture of Mickey Mouse for my own personal use [and even give it away] without breaking the law. It's only when I try to sell it...).
The only complaint is by them means and format. I really question the application of the law.
"Hitler maintained that only human beings who had certain genetic characteristics were worthy of life."
In a sense, hasn't this always been the case. You get mutations and deformities that aren't viable to life. Still very much Homo Sapien. The only thing different is the criteria (blue eyes compared to hydrocephaly).
And onward: depression (and the requisite suicide attempts) probably has a genetic disposition to it... I was lucky enough to born into a family that had the resources to ensure a healthy upbringing. No more worthy of life, except for the genetic characteristics I share in common with my forbearers.
Your argument that everyone is worthy of life only works in a world of unlimited resources. Yeah, everyone is worthy, but there is only so much to go around. What is the ethical choice now? Best suited? Least cost? Smartest? Prettiest? Who will you say will die so another can live?
I do not support eugenics, but Mother Nature has done it all the while (selective breeding to improve the strain). All stem cell research really says is that Mother Nature won't be the sole arbiter of life and death. You can't acquiesce the moral choice to some nebulous entity. We're here now. Better make the ethics work.
"War: the alchemy of turning gold into lead."- R. Gentile
Umm, $120 is closer to what a portable costs today (retail). Go back 13 years, and the cost is WELL over $200 (closer to $300). The TV tuner dropped to about $80 after the first year of release. So $380-$420 for a portable TV and the first 16-bit handheld. Yeah doomed to fail-20/20. And the furor with Nintendo's marketing practices had nothing to do with it (would have been nice to buy one if you could find one).
Very much a NEC fanboy (my Duo gets more time than the other systems I have), so...
The Express could also double as a portable TV. Given that, and you could take a game in progress on the road, it had a lot of appeal (to me at least). It was just hard to justify $300 when the base system was $150 (and you were terminally broke from buying new games). They never really pushed the portable TV aspect. A handheld color TV for $300, at the time, was a steal.
It was also a matter of timing. There really wasn't a base of mature gamers to afford the Express. For that, Nintendo makes the grade not because of an intrinsic value other than it being disposable.
Now things are very much different. People routinely drop more than $300 on PDAs just to play games. Cell phones are common to a younger subset, and with that, games. Nintendo still dominates the handheld market, but if you include every mobile device that can play games, its' market share has dwindled.
This tendency of console manufacturers to focus on target groups is misguided. Why bother with GBA or the next console to be when I can get similar games on a PDA plus porn, and driving directions? Indra(?)probably had the best shot at toppling the Sony juggernaught just because the game range would be all over the place. Even billions of dollars won't buy you creativity (X-box).
Unless Nintendo can develop an entirely new market or make something that will appeal across the board... well, I'm not holding my breath for their next foray (nor Sony's or Microsoft's).
Ever heard of the Witch Trials? The Inquisition? Maybe he is guilty. Maybe he has relatives in Afghanistan. Maybe his children. Would you take up arms against your own kids? I've got relatives overseas. If the US declared war on them... ain't nothing black and white.
I could give the long list of the US Gov. aluminum hat conspiracies (MK-ULTRA, radiation experiments on the tards, spraying biological agents on San Francisco, etc.), but it wouldn't matter. Since those things have never happened to you personally, they don't exist. You are a void.
If it were as easy to be optimistic; to shut out the rest of the world... nevermind. Just a hate filled rant. Go America!
Not necessarily either camp's version of the truth, but a basic explanation of what issues are involved with P2P networks, what the hell does this EULA mean, why will the RIAA slap a law suit on me for sending this song to my friends back home, etc. If you are going to teach them about computers, you might as well give them an overview of the landscape.
As an acquaintance of mine pointed out (she works for Wyoming's power dept.) the wet scrubber stacks have about 80% efficiency of removing particles and other baddies from the air. No catalytic converter even comes close.
And when they quit asking for bailouts every five years and accept no federal or state monies, they can make any damn rule they want. Until then...
Why do you insist on giving a business the same rights as a citizen when they don't bear the same responsibilities? Ever heard of Monsato being put up for the death penalty? Me neither.
It is kind of hard to order me off their property when I'm 15,000ft in the air. So can we at least say the same rules wouldn't apply.
It's not property, it's a service. Terms of service are very much conditional under law. If I don't have to fly on their planes, they don't have to accept my money either.
I think last year around x-mas there was a hubabaloo concerning people walking into stores and videotaping security cameras. Mass panic with store security; when people were doing nothing more than what is routinely done to them.
And since people have been known to die when airlines muff it (a lot more than in terrorist attacks), where are the security cameras on the pilots, mechanics, and ground crew? Why don't they bear the same scrutiny?
"Well", you say, "it's an assumed risk." It's an assumed risk I might be a terrorist. Deal with it.
Unfortunately, another translation of "make people aware" is brainwashing. Replace the crap they are currently viewing with someone else's crap. It doesn't go anywhere. Can't tell you how many political movements were based upon "re-educating the populace". Most of them died in obscurity (check out the history of European anarchist movement if you're interested. In essence, the same intents.). From my cult. Anthropology class, there were 7 factors in place for any type of revolution (four needed to sustain it). I forget them all (they were like mass starvation, massive devaluation of the monetary system, catastrophic events where the leadership seemed enervate, etc.). The US always seems to teeter on two or three. Anyway, re-educating the populace reeks of holier-than-thou. Better think of another way. And I forgot about the bar-bet I made with my friend concerning Bush and the likelihood of war. Thanks for reminding me.
Before you can become a health professional, you will have to go to school. Part of that schooling will entail case studies. How do you rectify education concerns without, by measure of degree, infringing on someone's right to privacy? Consent is one thing. Privacy is another. If someone really wanted to push the issue, there can be no legal consent given because the person(s) are in an obvious state of distress. MDs get consents for operations. That doesn't prevent them from being sued. So again, it is fine and good to quote the regs, but what do they actually mean? Ever asked a colleague their opinion on how to best treat a particular case? Did you get the client's permission beforehand? Please, do tell.
Great! Entrapment as a means of maintaining law and order. Treat people like criminals, and they tend to act like criminals.
How about teaching hospitals? Private information is routinely passed back and forth between people who do not directly affect you care. Interesting case studies are gone over as means of education. Hell, some people check records just to know you made it through alright (gasp! they care).
Does it really sound like a crime?
Also, open reports and rounds tend to be common among hospital staff. The "need to know" basis for information exchange is a bit pedestrian in potential crisis situations. Having everyone fully informed tends to be the best course of action: Suppose an MD happens upon you lying on the floor. Would you prefer a MD had some general information concerning your case (even though, at the time, they were not directly involved with your care), or would you prefer them to go through your chart while you are having chest pains?
The problem isn't so much "poking around" as ill-conceived information systems. Any system that denies people's basic nature is doomed to fail. Curiosity shouldn't be a crime. Know for a fact the MDs are repulsed about your hemorrhoids, just as much as you are repulsed by goatese. But you still look, don't you?
Enron, Worldcom, curent contracts going to Halbutron, RTC scandal, Nike, Nintendo...
One banana, two banana, three banana, four
Four bananas make a bunch and so do many more
Over hill and highway the banana buggies go
Comin' up to bring you the Banana Splits show
Makin' up a mess of fun, makin' up a mess of fun
Lots of fun for everyone
Tra la la, la la la la, Tra la la, la la la la
Four banana, three banana, two banana, one
All bananas playin' in the bright warm sun
Flippin' like a pancake, poppin' like a cork
Fleegle, Bingo, Drooper and Snork
Tra la la, la la la la, Tra la la, la la la la
Two banana, four banana, one banana, three
Swingin' like a bunch of monkeys hangin' from a tree
Hey there everybody, won't you come along and see
How much fun Banana Splits for everyone can be