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Re: [LUG] OT: Medical help at one-stop surgery - polyclinics

 

On Tuesday 04 March 2008 19:21, Jaan Jänesmäe wrote:
> Hey!
>
> Many of you have read it or seen it on tv already:
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/7277275.stm
Try taking some veg from their organic garden and see how healthily they 
react!
...
> And here we go again with the old IT system: every time I have been to
> the walk-in center, i'm given a paper or two after the review for the
> next doctor. Why? Couldn't there be a really easy CRM (Customer
> relationship management) system included? Preferably open source of
> course :)
I don't know how it works in Estonia but over here we have a parliamentary 
democracy. The word parliament comes from the French verb Parlez - to talk.
And that what happens - they talk about democracy - thats all. They never 
implement it.
We get a limited set of candidates to vote for. Anyone trying to be 
independent gets a £10,000 fine for interfering with the status quo. To run 
for parliament you have to be a long standing member of a political group 
who's ideas are already laid out in a thing called the manifesto just in case 
you thought freedom of thought was part of a democracy.
In case of any outbreaks of independent (democratic) thought once elected we 
have a system of whips who can stop any MP's career in its tracks and so keep 
them under control. And if that fails the 'free press' (owned and managed by 
big business) will be called in to destroy them.
Whomever gets elected is then advised by a thing called the lobby which is a 
way for business or other wealthy  organisations to get their point of view 
into government - in a democracy it would be one person one vote so business 
would have no business in government. But that would reduce corruption and so 
is not in the parliamentarians interest.
To come back to software the lobby is there to ensure that business makes a 
profit from government. Anyone with any technical knowledge is sidelined so 
that the government can be bribed - sorry advised - by those with the loudest 
voice -  ie those with the largest amount of money to spend or gain. Its of 
little interest to the government to follow the cheapest route as the press 
and the courts will be used to ensure that it becomes a lot more expensive.
And as there is more money to be gained by repeatedly selling software that 
doesn't work than allowing a twelve year old to write a fully functioning CMR 
system in an afternoon that will work for eternity then the former solution 
is, of course, the one thats taken.
So remember a parliamentary democracy talks about democracy and doesn't 
implement it. Its an oxymoron - like 'free market economy' - markets were 
invented to gain control of the economy and prevent it being free!
Thats enough cynicism for one day, I'm off to cheer up Marvin!
Tom te tom te tom


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