When the Government Controls Healthcare

[centrehice]

It isn't really that the paranoia is unfounded. The last few years are littered with revelation after revelation of the government invading the privacy of individuals, keeping records on law abiding citizens as if there is some hidden agenda and circumventing Constitutional rights, all in the name of public safety. Believe it or not, people actually do have the right to personal privacy. Some analyst in Denver should not be able to access the results of my blood test or take a peek at what medicines I take just because they have nothing better to do.

Kool-Aid, Kool-Aid (clap) tastes great;
Kool-Aid, Kool-Aid, (clap) can't wait.

You are an educated man, and you actually buy that? In fairness to you, your country creates paranoia, peddles it to your media at Wholesale, your media then distributes it Retail at an alarming rate, not at all cost effective.

[duane1969]

Kool-Aid, Kool-Aid (clap) tastes great;
Kool-Aid, Kool-Aid, (clap) can't wait.

You are an educated man, and you actually buy that? In fairness to you, your country creates paranoia, peddles it to your media at Wholesale, your media then distributes it Retail at an alarming rate, not at all cost effective.

I make my own decisions on things. I rarely watch TV news or read news articles. I can read technical articles on how certain software in my phone works and grasp that the "handshake" aspect is a reality. As I look at my phone right now I see that it has connected with about 30 different Wi-Fi networks in my travels, yet only 3 or 4 of them are Wi-Fi networks that I have used. It doesn't take a paranoid person to come to the conclusion that connecting to my phone via Wi-Fi and hacking the relatively weak security measures on phones would be a simple task.

Being naïve is no better than being paranoid. Trusting the government whole-heartedly is foolish. Government never does anything that doesn't benefit itself first. Thinking that the government will always do what is best for you and never exploit you is supremely foolhardy.

[centrehice]

Have all your communications re-routed through a TOR network, and access everything the way it was meant to be accessed, anonymously. There is only naiveté when people don't try hard enough.

Who said anything about trusting the government? Not me. I come from a country where not one single person has ever been imprisoned for not filing a Tax Return, late or otherwise.

If the chit fits, wear it.

[duane1969]

I actually use an Ironkey Workspace for most of my online activity so a TOR isn't necessary, but there is little that we can do for phones. Heck I have even turned off my Wi-Fi on my phone only to find it enabled later.

[centrehice]

I don't own a cell-phone for 3 reasons.

1. You already explained
2. Any woman that knows you will drive you to drink if you own one.
3. I cannot take the laziness of texting seriously. You need to bother me? Well then I need to hear your voice.

[duane1969]

If my wife didn't travel for work and need to be able to reach me immediately if there is an emergency, I wouldn't own one.

[centrehice]

I am a Home-Dad. Wife is the career junkie. Phone rings in the kitchen, I answer it. If anyone has an excuse for not being able to contact me, means that they are not even trying.

[duane1969]

I am the anti of being a home dad, I am never home. My wife and I joke that after the kids are out of the house we are getting a van down by the river (Chris Farley joke, if you never heard of it).

[centrehice]

I was a career guy for 30 years, 3.6 landings and take-offs on average for 38 weeks of the year. I accumulated 22 million air miles via the Air Canada and Canadian Airlines greater network, and I used every single one of them traveling to 120 different countries, many of them numerous times.

It cost me one marriage (Gold digger - no kids thank jeebus).

The home dad thing, I embraced, but now my Teenage Son and Wife think that I am working them.

[Wickabee]

Oh, so when it's a government who can't agree on anything this is how it works.

Health care isn't the problem, your 2 party system is.