Saturday linkfest
Saturday, June 28th, 2014- I guess this has been around a while, but I just saw it: David Codrea’s Physician Liability Form. Print this out and hand it to any boundary-violating doctor who tries to poke into your gun ownership!
- I found that via Kurt Hofmann who delivers a hearty smackdown to Mike the anti-gun “Gun Guy.” Anti-gun Mike’s latest BS is that the doesn’t think disabled people should be “allowed” to defend themselves.
- Speaking of people who want to determine what’s good for you, the push to data-mine more of our health info is getting stronger and creepier.
- Larry Page of the increasingly
Don’t BeEvil Google thinks he could save “100,000 lives” a year if we’d all just trust him more. This is the same Google that’s basically an arm of the NSA. The same Google that just announced plans to ban all “dangerous” advertising. Which (she sighs with weary resignation) of course includes ads for you-know-what. - Oh yes, and it’s the same Google whose already-creepy surveillance products can be hacked so pathetically easily that real hackers wouldn’t even consider it a challenge.
- But that ain’t nothin’, folks. Ain’t nothin’. You want to see real fanboy worship of Total Control Through Technology (TM)? Read this Economist article on birth-to-death e-ID. Wow. Such glowing. Much foolish. (Doge meme for anyone who thinks I’ve just lost all sense of grammar.)
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June 28th, 2014
Claire, I give myself a break on the weekends and don’t read any bloody news. But you’ve just given me five out of six bad items to peruse. Does that mean I shouldn’t read your blog on the weekends, too? (I do like the Physician Liability Form, however.)
June 28th, 2014
Find a doctor like this: http://www.surgerycenterok.com/
http://surgerycenterofoklahoma.tumblr.com/ (Dr. Smith’s blog)
More and more medical professionals are leaning this way, and if you go looking for them, it will encourage the practice.
No medicare, medicaid or insurance accepted. They will cooperate with you to give you the records needed to bill your insurance yourself, but they won’t deal with them directly. Prices are a fraction of regular hospial and doctor charges, often less than your “deductible.”
And on top of that, they do not use the electronic medical records, and do not share your records with anyone without a specific court order.
June 28th, 2014
Sorry, Pat. Just had to get those links out of my browser, but I know what you mean.
If it’s any consolation, I’ve got a pair of much, much happier posts queued up for tomorrow. Many links with only one negative in the bunch (and even that negative implies some positive developments)
June 28th, 2014
More speaking of datamining, your tax dollars at work: NIH/NCRR/NIDA bucks for a study that IDed, and tracked by age, the subscribers to a marijuana Twitter feed. So they could show that social media needs to be regulated to keep people from talking about drugs.
June 28th, 2014
I was just reading, the other day, about the health data broker business. (4th graph) BTW, the Risks Digest is a great resource. Uh, possibly depressing as well.
So … how about a cat picture! (Dog included)
BTW, today is Field Day. I suppose I should take the radio out in the yard, and call CQ while on battery power — pro forma, of course. Somehow, I don’t see how engaging in a frenzy of making radio contacts helps me prepare for disaster communications.
June 28th, 2014
Love to see Trevor Baucom visit Mike.
http://www.trevorbaucom.com/
I also have several students I’d take along.
June 29th, 2014
Wow, that Doge meme site attempted to set a shit-load of cookies. And that cat picture site did too.Talk about annoying…
That physician liability form is cool. I take care of the problem by avoiding doctors for the most part. Anyway I have never had a doctor ask about guns.
Thanks for those links MamaLiberty.
June 29th, 2014
I do 97% of my web surfing with cookies and JavaScript disabled. I tend to not notice those things. And, those things are why I set my brower up that way to start with.
June 29th, 2014
Which (she sighs with weary resignation) of course includes ads for you-know-what.
Well, I used to. But the list is getting so long… Now it’s pressure cookers?
July 1st, 2014
I hope this link works. Trying the Apple thing for the first time since the 90’s. Anyways, this is about a section of Los Angeles built pre 1933.
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/5527394?utm_hp_ref=huffpost-home&ir=HuffPost+Home