On Friday 03 November 2006 09:13, David More wrote: > Oliver, > > I am stunned and deeply saddened to find any information in this domain > (i.e e-Health) should be classified in any form.
I don't think it is about clasifying information at all. It is about hiding lack of information. I imagine it like this: Chairman: looks like we blew x Million dollars in x years. Time for reporting. What do we have to show for it? (shuffling of feet, audible blushing of faces, sudden interest in the carpet pattern or ceiling pattern developed and demonstrated by all around) Chairman: Well? Somebdoy: Uh..., ahem, duh, ... Somebdoy else: shouldn't that question be put to the reporting subcommittee? (smiles light up all around. Sudden attention towards the chairman) Chairman: we haven't got a reporting subcommittee, do we? This has to be investigated. I propose forming an investing committee on this, with an initial budget of x, and a timeframe of x. Everyone in favour? [3 months of haggling out who gets to be the chair of the investigating subcommittee pass, the committee comes into existence, and after the 5th meeting in Timbuktu (they couldn't find another place that gave as many frequent flyer points to all involved, so it had to be Timbuktu) they report back that they suggest a reporting subcommittee should be formed ...] Chairman: well, the report of the reporting subcomittee please! Spokesman of tehe Reporting Subcommittee (henceforth named SOTRSC): our research has shon that so far we have - had umpteenth meetings (248 page report ofn the quality of finger food and coffee served during those attached) - produced x pages of meaningless glossy pamphlets (called "reports", pallett of samples stored in the garage, too heavy to bring nto thebuilding) - repeated x suggestions made in the previous decade by numerous predecessors (see attached folders I - XCVII) Chairman: you are telling me we have nothing to show for it? SOTRSC: That's not what I said. I said ... (see pages 48 - 738 of the minutes) Chairman: Aha. Bright Guy Form the Backrow (BGFTBR): What if we just cover it up? Make this whole emarrassing thing disappear by classifying any information about it? Chairman: I didn't hear that. Nobody did. The minutes don't show it. So what is this nonsense somebody didn't babble about? (some shuffling noises while two men in black drag the gagged BGFTBR out ofthe back door. He never existed anyway. ... Horst _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
