Re: Re: Please drop the health forwards (was Re: [BayCHIDiscussions] FYI - HHS is doing a PARTICIPATORY web conf right now reHealth IT)

 From where that insanity stems may deserve an investigation.
On Jan 11, 2011, at 6:13 AM, Christian Crumlish wrote:

> there does seem to be an element of insanity in this thread
>
> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 8:11 PM, Greg Austin  
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> The entire issue is pure insanity--certainly not science.
>
> On Jan 10, 2011, at 7:50 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>
> I agree with greg, at least for this point...
>
> No one should be posting a message to this discussion list if they  
> refuse to discuss it. Its a discussion list, not a spam list. I'm  
> offended that people are posting messages here saying, I'm just the  
> messenger. Well, if you aren't willing to discuss your topic, you  
> shouldn't post it.
>
> Thanks for reading,
> Carrie
>
> Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Austin <[email protected]>
> Sender: [email protected]
> Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 19:07:43
> To: Justin Maxwell<[email protected]>; Discussion Board at BayChi<[email protected] 
> >
> Subject: [BayCHI Discussions] Re: Please drop the health forwards  
> (was Re: [BayCHI
> Discussions] FYI - HHS is doing a PARTICIPATORY web conf right now re
> Health IT)
>
> So please correct me if I'm wrong: The political entity--The United
> States Health and Human Services Department--that which is the
> enforcement embodiment of The McCarran-Fergusen Antitrust Exemption of
> 1945 (legislation that monopolizes the entirety of healthcare funding
> for every man, woman, and child within the United States), as well as
> that which mandates Medicare's ICD9 Fees for Services codes that
> effectively promotes illness by directly funding it...
>
> ... is recruiting assistance from the science community ...
>
> ... so it continues to contact Bay Area Computer Human Interaction--a
> science-based, non-political group--that maintains interest in
> usability science.
>
> BayCHI members are persistently offered "an opportunity" to further
> facilitate this extortion plot, a plot that has been forwarded by the
> very authoritarians that gain from its proliferation...
>
> ... because "science is selfless and altruistic."
>
> Usability scientists are expected to cast their pearls before the same
> political authorities that obfuscate for political gain free market
> competition and responsible information exchange that would otherwise
> be held to tort.
>
> As the result of this top-down fail, the correct response from BayCHI
> members is to attack fellow individuals, since speaking out against
> the sordid monopolists who offer no real financial gain anyhow
> wouldn't offer a financial gain to the BayCHI members who gladly
> submit their free discoveries.
>
> Now do I have it right?
> On Jan 10, 2011, at 1:16 PM, Justin Maxwell wrote:
>
> Your deduction is incorrect, your points were not even read.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Jan 10, 2011, at 12:55 PM, Greg Austin <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> Only following suit, Justin.
>
> Clearly my points have struck a nerve--because the one who has
> initiated this tread was NOT addressed in the same fashion.
>
> Maybe the initiator of the thread in question may be interested in
> your suggestions.
>
> I, however, will mind my OWN email--thank you very much. Further, I
> will continue to counter any disinformation I receive--and will
> continue to counter-educate any persons on my list who has been
> subjected to the same blatant misinformation that I have received--
> under the guise of "just a messenger for The Firm".
> On Jan 10, 2011, at 11:11 AM, Justin Maxwell wrote:
>
> Greg, could you please refrain from forwarding this ongoing strife
> with health issues to the BayCHI list?  The small segment of users
> on this list who find the topic of concern can follow it
> themselves.  This is more about your own interests than anything
> related to CHI, the field or the organization.  Perhaps you can
> set up your own listserv for these things and invite interested
> BayCHI members.
>
> Thanks,
> Justin
>
>
>
> On Jan 10, 2011, at 10:47 AM, Greg Austin wrote:
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: Greg Austin <[email protected]>
> Date: January 10, 2011 10:36:53 AM PST
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [BayCHI Discussions] FYI - HHS is doing a
> PARTICIPATORY
> web conf right now re Health IT
>
> If I don't want a discussion about things--I don't initiate
> discussion.
>
>
>
> justin maxwell
>
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> Greg Austin
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> Greg Austin
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