Re: The price of oil

BeH <[email protected]> wrote in news:[email protected]:


>> I knew that. There is project at StatCan to look into creating some
>> sort of 'people registry' like the Scandahoovian countries have.  It
>> will probably never get off the ground mostly due to the bullshit
>> levels of bureaucracy that you have to go through to do anything
>> here. 
> 
> There are some legitimate privacy issues - including that this unique 
> identifier is used in all kinds of context; health care, taxation and 
> pensions, banks et.c.
> We have a Data Protection Agency to try and keep private data out of
> the hands of people who shouldn't have it. Incidentally they recently 
> forbade a school district to use chromebooks because of privacy
> concerns vis a vis Google...

I was actually wondering how they planned on keep the information up-to-
date. They asked me for a dump from my database which is always 2 years 
behind. Not helpful.


> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> I'll try not to focus on that when I don't pay for doctors
>>>>>>>>>>>> or prescriptions or when it costs me $10 to get my teeth
>>>>>>>>>>>> cleaned.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> He-he. Silly 'merkins.
>>>>>>>>>>> But also: Dammit, I pay close to $100[1] for a teeth
>>>>>>>>>>> cleaning. And I'm supposed to have it done 4times/year
>>>>>>>>>>> because reasons. The previous government cut almost all
>>>>>>>>>>> subsidy for dental care, and the present one don't seem in a
>>>>>>>>>>> hurry to reverse that.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> BeH
>>>>>>>>>>> 1: Not actual dollars but the equivalent monetary value in
>>>>>>>>>>> the local currency.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I looked on my last bill. It costs $210 and my insurance
>>>>>>>>>> covers 90%. If I had a spouse, the co-pay would cover the
>>>>>>>>>> rest. 
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> You should get one of them, then. I mean 20 bucks is 20
>>>>>>>>> bucks... 
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Wanna help me write up a dating profile?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>      Trust me, you do not want my input for that... From what I
>>>>>>>      have
>>>>>>> learned from the internet, just don't add pictures of yourself
>>>>>>> holding a fish; or maybe that only applies to men.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> One of my friends uses online dating sites. She meets a lot of
>>>>>> guys I will politely refer to as 'undateable'.
>>>>>
>>>>> It all seems weird to me. You *know* everybody is going to lie
>>>>> through their teeth on their profile which leaves just how they
>>>>> present themselves in pictures (fish or no fish) to decide
>>>>> possible compatibility...
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'd wager the same people who lie in person like at a bar are the
>>>> same ones who lie on their dating profile. Maybe the 'catch of the
>>>> day' person has a great sense humour (or irony?). You never know
>>>> until you try something.
>>>
>>> Or maybe they smell of fish - you can't tell that from a picture.
>>>
>>> Also if someone tells you that they are an astronaut or a secret
>>> agent type they are almost certainly lying. In other cases it will
>>> be easier to evaluate their veracity face to face...
>>>
>> 
>> What a coincidence! I'm a secret agent too!
> 
> I Don't believe you - so you don't have to kill me now.
> 
>> And that fish smell? It's my new cologne --Fruit de Mer.
> 
> Very -erm- catching...
> 

See? It's working already.