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National Park Service Says Tech Is Enabling Stupidity
theodp writes "The National Park Service is finding technology to be a double-edged sword. While new technologies can and do save lives, the NPS is also finding that unseasoned hikers and campers are now boldly going where they never would have gone before, counting on cellphones, GPS, and SPOT devices to bail them out if they get into trouble. Last fall, a group of hikers in the Grand Canyon called in rescue helicopters three times by pressing the emergency button on their satellite location device. When rangers arrived the second time, the hikers complained that their water supply tasted salty. 'Because of having that electronic device, people have an expectation that they can do something stupid and be rescued,' said a spokeswoman for Grand Teton National Park. 'Every once in a while we get a call from someone who has gone to the top of a peak, the weather has turned and they are confused about how to get down and they want someone to personally escort them. The answer is that you are up there for the night.'"
I recommend that you move a country where public health services are free at the point of delivery, funded by general taxation.
What exactly makes me a monster? Being upset at someone who uses years-old grief to continue to rip off a hospital?
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>>>>>cost me $1700 for my wife.
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>>Yep. Kinda stinks.....
Yes. Those damn greedy ambulance drivers with their million-dollar glorified vans. They should work for free and charge nothing*. What's the world coming too? Laborers expecting to be paid? Bah. Humbug.
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* Even if your government does not bill you directly, they still charge
* you for it by sucking the money out of your paycheck. You still pay.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
Thats cause the US sucks.
>>>In Canada, ambulances for life-threatening emergencies are free
You mean Canadians don't pay healthcare taxes? Wow. That's amazing. Maybe I ought to send my resume to some Canadian headhunters, get a job, and move there for all those "free" services. Do they give-away cars too?
hahahahahahahaha. I'm just ribbing you.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
I don't give empathy to faceless people posting under a pseudonym on the internet. Hey, why don't you give me some empathy? I was sexually abused by ever male figure I've ever had in my life, and psychologically by every woman. I had a wife, and three kids, they were tortured to death in front of me while I watched helpless.
Is any of that true? Maybe I'm the original poster, just stirring shit up for his own enjoyment. Who knows! Oh wait, I know who, my actual friends and family (who are all dead :( ). I'm more than willing to debate justice or morals or any number of abstract subjects on the internet, but I cannot empathize with some random account on some random forum.
Even if I could, what does my sensitivity mean? Absolutely nothing. Maybe if my karma takes a big enough hit I'll farm the other side of the conversation and play sympathetic. Should he be touched by my "awww (and then something mind-numbingly stupid that gets modded up as if I thought of something new)" that I only put there to get the +5? That's just ridiculous. Everybody's a sociopath on the internet, and everyone who isn't is dirt under their wheels.
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