Rampidbyter Rampid byter: A byte of my .Net developing life.

I try not to comment negatively about subjects I am not familiar with or at least not versed enough to know all sides. I just happened to find something that just bothers me a great deal. Before I go into detail I am totally against the health care reform. I think it’s going to fail, cause major problems, and end up like the postal service where packages just get lost without being able to run itself efficiently. Except packages it’s people.

I came across an article on CNN.com about ‘real people’ that are benefiting from health care reform that consists of single moms and HIV infected individuals who otherwise chose risky life styles and some living off the system already . When do we start holding people responsible for bettering their own lives? The government doesn’t need to enable these people further. We live in a country where you CAN go to college on the cheap when you’re low-income, where you CAN move anywhere in the country to get a new job/life, and where you CAN get medical help if you need it regardless of your situation from ER’s or Urgent Care clinics.

Showing me a list of individuals who have made the wrong choices in life getting a reprieve from responsibility for paying for their mistakes only compounds my dislike of the health care reform even further. It’s not making me feel sympathy for these people. The next thing you know the government is going to start running commercials showing children running next to garbage files with a bearded man holding one going “Today you provided Jose with free health-care, now his mom can go buy more cigarettes and let Jose rummage eating scraps from a garbage pile because who gives a shit if he gets sick? Thank you for making Jose’s mom less responsible for his physical well-being only you can make a difference with your tax-money, but you don’t have a choice because you’re donating anyway. HAHAHAHA”

Of course that’s kind of a skewed view of the situation, but I think it is more true than we’d all like to believe.

I’m not a huge fan of social networks partly because it seems most hardware vendors have switched from pushing performance to being mobile, and from being mobile to being socially connected. In that switch from performance to being socially connected most any hardware systems created today are always internet enabled with some sort of dashboard with instant Facebook/MySpace/Flickr/ or Twitter account hookup.

To even use these features a person has to constantly signup for an account, dump their personal information, manage yet another personal Id/password/profile, and then keep their profile up-to-date. There has been some progress made in terms of single account sign-in with OpenID, but there has been no progress in single profile management.

When developing applications it’s easy to create a PAD (Portal Application Description) for sharing product information from one author to many different consumers. It would be incredibly kick-ass to develop a SPD (social profile description) file that a person could create, and would allow social media sites to import/maintain the profiles on the social media sites using the user generated file. That gets into the whole how do you get the social media sites to open up to enable a consistent profile format across sites, who ultimately maintains these profiles, and about securing the contents of the profile file against duplication/impersonation.

Still I think it would be awesome, and it would spare me the trouble of having to log into these social sites to update my profile. Luckily my actual profile about who i am and what I do doesn’t change much. Still I would like to see social sites coming to me for updates instead of the other way around. Oh, maybe call it the OpenMe project or something of the like.

I’m finally doing it. I’ve been dreaming of one day driving a motorcycle but have absolutely no idea how. What’s worse is I don’t know anyone with a motorcycle, and going to test-drive one is just out of the question. I have been drooling over a Honda Shadow VT750 for a while, but I need to know how to drive before I can decide on a make/model.

That is where the Great Oaks comes in. They have a motorcycle safety program offering basic rider courses. Just sign up, get a temporary motorcycle license, and they provide the rest. So come June 9th I’ll be spending three weekends cruising a parking lot no doubt.