The Oracle of Evil

Ellison is such a conniving sociopath.

Let's all spend a few minutes each day visualizing the
well-deserved bankruptry of Oracle and Ellison where he needs
to be -- living in a halfway house for nut jobs.

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Oracle's Ellison Says U.S. Should Centralize Data

Fri Jul 19, 9:06 PM ET

By Judith Crosson

DENVER (Reuters) - Larry Ellison, chief executive of Oracle
Corp. on Friday renewed his campaign for a
government-initiated database of U.S. medical and criminal
records, the kind of sweeping and controversial project the
No. 2 software vendor has offered to undertake before.

"There should be one system," Ellison told some 3,000
attendees at Colorado Gov. Bill Owens' third annual technology
conference in Denver.

A unified system would be both cheaper and safer, eliminating
many of the current problems in health care and criminal
justice, he said.

For example, patients risk adverse drug reactions because one
pharmacy that fills a prescription has no way of knowing
another pharmacy might have provided a second drug that could
make the patient sick if both were taken together.

"Government should take a lead in this so we can stop killing
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people," Ellison said.
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[So what are the actual numbers on this?]

Centralized database systems would also allow emergency
medical personnel to better treat someone in an accident far
from home and help police departments better track criminals,
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he said.

[In Atlas Shrugged Rand said that that society needs to make
everyone a criminal with absurd laws so they can justify
controlling and tracking them.]

"You're saying 'What a threat to privacy,"' he said to an
audience that seemed sometimes skeptical that such information
could be responsibly entrusted to a single system.

[Yes the government can be trusted with your medical data!
Just like the States don't sell your driver's license data to
commercial interests for their own unlimited use.]

PRIVACY BARTERED FOR CREDIT

But Ellison, who founded Oracle in 1977 after a deal with the
Central Intelligence Agency that helped launch the firm, said
security would be enhanced, not diminished, by centralizing
control of sensitive data.

[And the CIA is such a nice organization. Such lovely people
like notorious CIA director International Drug Kingpin George
Bush Sr.]

"You barter 100 percent of your financial privacy in exchange
for credit," he said, referring to credit card companies' use
of central databases to assess credit standing.

[Not only is it not 100% but it is completely voluntary and a
contract with a nongovernmental entity.]

Besides, he said, a central database with controls would be
more secure than leaving records at a physician's office where
employees have access to them.

[PLEASE take note of that statement which is the Big Lie
technique in action - say the opposite of what is true and
repeat it over and over until people believe it. Do not fall
for this!]

Oracle has maintained close ties to federal, state and local
governments and such contracts make up an estimated 25 percent
of its revenue.

[Why is that not surprising.]

In the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the company
joined a partnership to focus on airport security. At one
point, Ellison also offered to supply the government software
to create a national ID system to thwart terrorists.

[I thought all the terrorists had legitimate IDs. So how is
this supposed to work again?]

More recently, Oracle became the center of a controversy over
a major sale of its software to California, after auditors
said the contract was rushed through without competitive
bidding and could end up costing taxpayers too much. Oracle
defended the agreement and produced its own analysis of the
deal to show that it would actually save the state millions of
dollars over the life of the contract.

[No competitive bidding. That's odd. Can you say "Payola"
children? I knew you could!]

Oracle shares closed at $9.72 on Friday, less than half of its
52-week high of $20.

[Still no where near its real value though. It's have to fall
somewhat to hit it.]

But Ellison mocked the idea that depressed stock prices,
layoffs in technology and the disappearance of scores of
dot-com companies spelled the demise of the information
economy.

"It's just the dawn of the Information Age. You ain't seen
nothing yet," Ellison said.

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