On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 12:43:45PM -0800, Tom Gal wrote: > > > > Indeed. I tend to regard the activities of lobbies as sanctioned > > corruption. > > > > > Who knows, maybe the natural order of Human behavior is that all forms > > > of government eventually degenerate to Fascism. > > > > Heh. And I thought I tended towards the cynical. :) > > > > -Stewart "The government should use public-domain and GOTS software." > > Stremler > > > > > That's kind of how I always considered medicine. The governement should not > be allowed to by anything but generic drugs, because new ones are expensive > AND have no history, but once they get it in, they make TONS of money > because they have a "patent" which is really just a sactioned monopoly.
But that's the point. We have a government that sees its highest duty as promoting obscene corporate profits. Good medicine (or technology) have nothing to do with it. > Personally I think that we're still in an era where Healthcare is much more > of an issue than technology......but not for long. > I disagree. If you consider health care as being different than technology (and that distinction may be a little strained), the importance of health care will far overshadow IT/technology soon, if it hasn't already. Are you ready for pay-for-play immortality? An aristocracy that has access to rejuvenation while the hoi polloi suffers and dies (while doing all the actual work)? All of this belongs on Kooler, of course. -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
