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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 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html