Re: The price of oil

On 08.10.2022 16.30, Merlyne wrote:
> 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.

Every citizen will obviously be self-reporting any changes.

>>>>>>>>>>>>> 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.

It would work on a cat...

BeH