Yuppers on the fix

As with all the bitching & moaning (here and elsewhere) about the OBVIOUS corruption on all scales:

Muricans always wait until we are IN a palpable Emergency.. to begin.. thinking about organizing a loyal opposition to - obvious corrupt trends. This is so IMhO re about everything you can attach a label to:

Absurdly Expen$ive medical care, (with None for tens of millions!) - made so via armies of suited insurance, litigation and other highly-paid leeches, who eat hundreds of billions of our now trillion-$ health non-care 'Industry' (life? die? as industry?) HMOs are For-Profit Corprations: now the most lucrative ones, too.

Ed-ja-Cay-shun - admins out the Ouzoo, religious litigation to indocrinate All in.. One Group's fav tenets, crumbling infrastructure etc.

Prisons for Profit! (fastest growning CA industry today, last I heard) nuff said?

ie. the trend is the cockamamie idea that; if only that Eevul Elected Govmint were replaced with CIEIOs doin all that stuff.. for Profit: why we'd have a Disneyland on Earth\ufffd [and.. we Would!]

Yeah.. we decidedly need something like your ACCC. But every lobbyist in every hi-rise - will oppose any such thing, via DDT on any roots that might spring up. And they'll manage this via meaningless slogans as always seem to work just fine here.

(I have a theory - that we have redefined what 'work' means here: moving papers around in an office is: everyone's Right today, to avoid anything which actually resembles physical effort, thought and perseverence. It's just a theory, but it can explain some of the pointlessness of many daily 'jobs' - especially the very Best-Paid ones.)

Ashton
..and if your CCCA be mentioned as an example -?- why someone will opine, "well them Aussies are kinda backward.. it wouldn't be appropriate for our Advanced culture". Guess how many would find that convincing?

Post #48,929 by wharris2 8/10/02 1:20:24 PM Reply	Yuppers on the fix But with Sony, RIAA, etc. lobbying out the wazoo, you think they have a chance? The lawyers would mostly rather be what they are than get out of the way even if the cost was Hammerfall. - Jerry Pournelle
Post #48,981 by static 8/11/02 1:59:38 AM Reply	You need an ACCC. Like [link\|http://www.accc.gov.au/\|ours]. Wade. "Ah. One of the difficult questions."
Post #49,004 by Ashton 8/11/02 4:28:37 PM Reply	Dead Right-On, Wade! As with all the bitching & moaning (here and elsewhere) about the OBVIOUS corruption on all scales: Muricans always wait until we are IN a palpable Emergency.. to begin.. thinking about organizing a loyal opposition to - obvious corrupt trends. This is so IMhO re about everything you can attach a label to: Absurdly Expen$ive medical care, (with None for tens of millions!) - made so via armies of suited insurance, litigation and other highly-paid leeches, who eat hundreds of billions of our now trillion-$ health non-care 'Industry' (life? die? as industry?) HMOs are For-Profit Corprations: now the most lucrative ones, too. Ed-ja-Cay-shun - admins out the Ouzoo, religious litigation to indocrinate All in.. One Group's fav tenets, crumbling infrastructure etc. Prisons for Profit! (fastest growning CA industry today, last I heard) nuff said? ie. the trend is the cockamamie idea that; if only that Eevul Elected Govmint were replaced with CIEIOs doin all that stuff.. for Profit: why we'd have a Disneyland on Earth\ufffd [and.. we Would!] Yeah.. we decidedly need something like your ACCC. But every lobbyist in every hi-rise - will oppose any such thing, via DDT on any roots that might spring up. And they'll manage this via meaningless slogans as always seem to work just fine here. (I have a theory - that we have redefined what 'work' means here: moving papers around in an office is: everyone's Right today, to avoid anything which actually resembles physical effort, thought and perseverence. It's just a theory, but it can explain some of the pointlessness of many daily 'jobs' - especially the very Best-Paid ones.) Ashton ..and if your CCCA be mentioned as an example -?- why someone will opine, "well them Aussies are kinda backward.. it wouldn't be appropriate for our Advanced culture". Guess how many would find that convincing?
Post #49,041 by ben_tilly 8/12/02 6:29:31 AM Reply	Yes, because this isn't a lobby effort This is a [link\|http://eon.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/eldredvashcroft/cyber/\|lawsuit]. OTOH this is a lawsuit that goes before the same judges who decided to elect Bush... Cheers, Ben Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. -- Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (1930-2002)
Post #49,503 by tuberculosis 8/15/02 4:04:37 PM 8/21/07 5:47:28 AM Reply	Very cool Time to put copyright law back where it belongs. I am out of the country for the duration of the Bush administration. Please leave a message and I'll get back to you when democracy returns. Edited by tuberculosis Aug. 21, 2007, 05:47:28 AM EDT Expand All History

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