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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.'"
People who can use a map want to take one and if your smart enough to bring one they your really not going to be relying the GPS to get to point B from point A.
Wow. What an incredibly stupid sig.
How is it that you can go through losing a child without learning that sometimes life sucks for no reason and there's nothing you can do about it?
I guess you did do something about it, which is not pay the bill (and hopefully ruined your credit in the process), but either way fuck you for your sense of entitlement. Somebody has to pay for that, and who better than the parents who had the sex to make it, made the decision to keep it, and now don't have to pay the hundred(s) of thousands of dollars to raise it? Cold? Hey, I'm not the one who made this about a balance sheet, you are.
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Yeah, sure. It, along with Obama, is busy reinforcing the idea that the state is here to take care of all your wants and desires. You have a problem? Call the government it's supposed to take care of you in every way possible.
This is the very predictable outcome of progressive policies that encourage people to trust the state for everything rather than look to themselves to take care of themselves.
"while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude." de Tocqueville
this guy is being sarcastic you fuck-tard
Oh calm down, I'm not suggesting someone should have their Visa ready if their baby isn't breathing, but the care had been given, and this person was offended that the hospital had the almighty gall to charge him for an ambulance, the EMTs, the emergency operators, the doctors on call, etc., etc., that they provided, I am absolutely certain, without even thinking about cost at the time.
What I am suggesting is that this guy felt no gratitude whatsoever for their efforts, and apparently thinks that they should only be paid for results, damn it *pounds fist on table*.
Should there maybe be a grief clause? Eh, I don't know, it seems weird to me. But until there is one, if you get a bill you pay it. You don't just arbitrarily decide "I'm too sad to pay this one."
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Ethics and morals? You mean like the ethics of coldly using the excuse of grief to stiff the people who tried to save your baby's life?
No, that is no kind of ethics I've ever heard of.
And for the record, I'm all for 100% covered healthcare for every person in our borders, citizen or not. But until that time comes when we decide as a country to do it, if you don't play by the rules we all have to follow, what does that say about you? Are you too good for rules? What, because your candidate didn't get elected you get to do whatever you want?
Finally, I'll send a "fuck you" your way too. How dare you wish harm on me for calling someone out who is trying to make up his own exceptions as he goes? I never said I was happy for what happened to him, (or his child, let's not forget who really lost something) but I do hope that he has to deal with the consequences of the decision he made, and is continuing to make. He could go find out what's up with his debt right now but he'd rather bury his head in the sand, with the potent excuse of a dead baby, whose corpse he will apparently pull out and shake in the face of whoever dares to ask for money for the constantly ripped off hospitals, ripped off by the assholes in congress who kick and scream because they don't want to pay for other people, ripped off by insurance companies who don't want to pay anyone, ripped off by this guy who sees a chance to not pay and takes it, and ripped off by people who've been ripped off by life and can't pay. And this is the guy you're defending? Fuck you.
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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
Know what they call bear pepper spray in grizzly country? After dinner mint... bells = dinner bell. Bring a few guns in grizzly country. But I agree with your post 100% people iz dumb.
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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