Re: Fw: To Clarify My Point of Last Post

[Guest guest]

At 11:42 PM 4/10/2002 -0500, you wrote:

>This tragic situation points out not only an abuse of power but raises

>serious questions about when to make use of medical technology and who

>should decide. Would state officials have preferred the outcome if

>extreme measures had kept alive a severely handicapped child who really

>wasn't meant to live? Who among us does not fear that, as we age,

>medical technology will trap us into a prolonged and helpless purgatory,

>that will not let us elders die when we are ready?

This stuff scares me too, esp. in the context of the anti-terrorism

" guidelines " that are coming out (with no vote of the people or Congress,

for that matter). Already there is a $10,000 fine per occurrance that is

levied against small airlines if they don't gather certain information on

their passengers. Yesterday on the radio they were saying the estimate to

implement the new rules will be 10-15% of the GNP, but it will not be

funded by the government. States and businesses are supposed to do the work

themselves. In the case of airline reservations, this is requiring a lot of

software development, with is very expensive -- ok for the big airlines

with in-house programmers maybe, but what about the small ones? (This is a

situation I'm involved in personally: I have no idea what other things are

going on I don't know about).

My guess is that a lot of the new rules won't have so much to do with

terrorism as with a lot of things some people have wanted to do for a long

time but didn't have the power to implement. Like irradiation of all food

(good way to stop biological terrorism, right?).

Heidi Schuppenhauer

Trillium Custom Software Inc.

heidis@...

[Guest guest]

On Thu, 11 Apr 2002 10:14:05 -0700 Heidi Schuppenhauer

<heidis@...> writes:

My guess is that a lot of the new rules won't have so much to do with

terrorism as with a lot of things some people have wanted to do for a

long

time but didn't have the power to implement. Like irradiation of all food

(good way to stop biological terrorism, right?).

Heidi Schuppenhauer

Trillium Custom Software Inc.

heidis@...

Just read an article the other day saying exactly that! Leviathin

continues to rear its ugly head.

Bianca

[Guest guest]

At 06:41 PM 4/12/2002 -0700, you wrote:

>On Thu, 11 Apr 2002 10:14:05 -0700 Heidi Schuppenhauer

><heidis@...> writes:

>My guess is that a lot of the new rules won't have so much to do with

>terrorism as with a lot of things some people have wanted to do for a

>long

>time but didn't have the power to implement. Like irradiation of all food

>

>(good way to stop biological terrorism, right?).

>

>

>Heidi Schuppenhauer

>

>Just read an article the other day saying exactly that! Leviathin

>continues to rear its ugly head.

>

>Bianca

No kidding! I was just guessing. I heard one group DID try to infect the

vegies in the supermarket with Salmonella sometime back but apparently no

one got sick. (and of course irradation wouldn't have helped unless they

start irradiating at the checkout stand ... oh, let's not go there ...).

-- Heidi