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White House Correspondent Tweets His Heart Attack
Tommy Christopher, who writes for mediate.com, has reporting in his blood, so much so that he livetweeted every part of his recent heart attack. "I gotta be me. Livetweeting my heart attack. Beat that!" and "This is not like the movies. Most deadpan heart attack evar. Still hurts even after the morphine," were among his updates as he was rushed to the hospital. Christopher is now in stable condition after recovering from emergency surgery.
You must have missed the part where it said "Idle".
"Tell me doctor, with all of your defenses, are there any provisions for an attack by killer bees?"
Ironically, I'd say you care. I can't understand why you'd take the time to post a comment otherwise.
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. - Terry Pratchett
This one time, I tweeted that I ate a sandwich. I tweeted about every bite, described the taste and texture. Everyone cared a lot about that series of tweets, and waited with extreme anticipation as I made it to the last bite. I'm thinking about doing a similar series of tweets, describing the sandwich the next day as it leaves my body. It seems like shitty tweets get a lot of attention...
"He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing." --Paul Atreides, Dune
So, I guess it gave him something to do.
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
I can't wait to see the new extreme sports that come out of this. My mind races. Bungie Tweeting, sky tweeting, base jump tweeting, etc. And for that matter, it's probably only a matter of time before someone tweets there own death ("going to the light #lifeafterdeath, pray for me @joan @Derrick @slashdot") if it hasn't happened yet.
His heart?
Yeah it would have been pretty idle during a heart attack.
Oh wait you meant Slashdot category...
All civilized societies expose their elderly in order to save resources for the next generation.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrgh!
The Tweet reads, "Here may be found the last Tweet of Tommy Christopher. He who is valiant and pure of spirit may find me in the Hospital of Aaauuuggghhh... "
What?
He must have died while tweeting it.
Look, if he was dying, he wouldn't have bothered to tweet 'Aaaauuuggghhhh'. He'd just say it.
. . . etc . . .
What I don't understand, is why the hospital staff lets someone with a serious medical condition tweet . . . ?
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
I think you're missing the point. The OP doesn't care about this subject in particular, he cares about slashdot not sucking more than necessary.
but the real geek will figure out how to fit an ekg into 140 bytes
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/4/23/
I think you're missing the point. The OP doesn't care about this subject in particular, he cares about slashdot not sucking more than necessary.
I believe that is the whole reason Idle exists, for all the stuff that really isn't news per se but is still tangentially related. Twitter gets covered a lot on Slashdot but this article isn't exactly huge news so it got dumped here.
Which brings me back to my original point, the OP clearly cares enough about this article to make his or her opinion on it known. If the AC had specifically mentioned displeasure with Slashdot rather than an article in Idle of all places I'd be inclined to agree with you, but it seems the issue is with this article specifically.
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. - Terry Pratchett
Moreover, this is simply not true for most societies over most of human history. We have valued our elderly and kept them alive to pass on their wisdom, even chewing their food for them back before the days of dentures.
Only when times were extremely tight did the elderly volunteer to go off and die. No society has forced this on their elderly and I challenge you to provide even one example where killing off the elderly was commonplace.
Easily debunked lies do not help advance your argument.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
You are a hip celebrity & are having suicidal thoughts. Do you
1) Call 911
2) Call a friend
3) call suicide prevention hotline
4) tweet about it
If you chose 4, you are probably faking it so you can get on gawker.
It seems like every other day celebrities are reaching for a twitter client than hitting 911. This makes me think there isn't an actual emergency and things are a bit trumped up. "okay blood is coming out".
Recently I met this very nice girl. Well. I'll keep you posted.
Privacy is terrorism.
Now when someone updates their status in the womb or from beyond the grave: then I'll be interested!
I think you're missing the point. The OP doesn't care about this subject in particular, he cares about slashdot not sucking more than necessary.
Perhaps he should take a more constructive approach then, like suggesting that Slashdot implement some sort of filtering system. You know, a way to select if he wants to see "Idle" stories, or even if he wants full summaries of a section or just the headline. I know, it's crazy talk, but it just might be crazy enough to work!
Or maybe he thinks the world actually cares that he doesn't like Idle articles and so feels the need to post about it. Which is kind of funny, considering his complaint.
Status: Dead
Status: Dead
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When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
even chewing their food for them back before the days of dentures.
That's one game of "baby bird" I hope I never get to play.
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Worst time to have a heart attack?
During a game of Charades.
No brain, no pain.
I realize that people are using humor to deal with their fears and discomfort over death, but there's no way to make this funny:
December 17, 2009, 12:29 pm
Announcing a Child’s Death on Twitter
By LISA BELKIN
http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/17/tweeting-about-a-childs-death/
40 comments and not a single NO CARRIER jokNOCARRIER
That is bullshit, all sources, for instance, the Bible, estimate human lifespan as being essentially the same as today. The difference was child mortality rates. Most people died before the age of ten, if you know anything about statistics, you will see how that effects the average life expectancy, even though, if you lived past ten you were about a likely to live to seventy five as you are today.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
The cognitive dissonance between your post and sig must be deafening.
"That is bullshit, all sources, for instance, the Bible, estimate human lifespan as being essentially the same as today."
Ever actually read the bible? I did. It estimates lifespans that are approaching 1k yrs old which is nowhere near what we have today (or ever).
HNNNNNNGGGGG......
31 characters, all you'd need to know to schedule an angiogram.
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
How would you like those to be your last words?
"Still hurts even after the mor"
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
Thanks, the same is true for Third World life expectancies today, but the average prole has no clue how to make sense of the statistics. My in-laws had 13 children, five of whom died before the age of three. If all of the remaining 8 live to be 80 years old that will still be an 'average' life expectancy of 49. The degree of mathematical illiteracy today is depressing.
"Think about how stupid the average person is. Now, realise that half of them are dumber than that." - George Carlin
I mean this reminded me of Holy Grail where they're reading that text on some wall where apparently he died while writing it.
Did you know 80 to 90% of the moderators on slashdot wouldn't recognize a troll even if one dragged them under a bridge.
He wouldn't bother to tweet out "Aaargh", he'd just say it. Which is why he really needs voice-to-text on his cell phone.
I wouldn't call it a moral issue, but rather one of policy.
If it is your policy as a country to let people die, or suffer, or go bankrupt, merely because they have not been paid enough--irrespective of whether they deserve it or not; many people are underpaid, many are over-paid--then you will hemorrhage people whose talents are not profitable.
If it is your policy as a country to provide services for free to anyone, then certain segments of the population will take advantage of that while producing as little of value as possible. That doesn't imply that they would produce more of value otherwise; it would take a social experiment to find out. It does, however, necessarily require that a lot of resources are consumed with the bill being passed off to the government.
However, IMO, that is what the government is for. In much the same was as a group insurance policy, it is supposed to use minimal per capita loss to distribute the cost of services nobody actually wants to pay for, or that the people who would want it CAN'T pay for. For instance, if it weren't for government, there would be few, if any, paved roads outside of those necessary for intercity trade, even though ubiquitous paved roads have made suburbs possible (for better or worse).
But yeah, this is all off-topic.
There is a big difference between mediate.com and mediaite.com...
This sig is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind.
http://www.alternativeratreatments.com/eat-to-live.html
http://www.earthsave.org/news/03summer/eat2live.htm
"Chapter seven is perhaps the most powerful chapter of the book. It offers compelling evidence of dietary causes for most of the common health problems faced by Americans. Then Dr. Fuhrman explains how diet can prevent and even reverse heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, chronic headaches, and autoimmune disease. He relates true stories of patients (who gave permission to be named) who have been able to stop their antihypertensive, antianginal, and antidiabetic drugs; patients who have experienced gradual elimination of their chest pain; patients who have been able to stop their use of toxic drugs for treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. I was able to review the charts of Dr. Fuhrman's patients and verified that he is accurately presenting these results."
His diet is killing him.
A 21st century issue: the irony of technologies of abundance in the hands of those still thinking in terms of scarcity.
Better than sick care is true wellness: http://www.earthsave.org/news/03summer/eat2live.htm
A 21st century issue: the irony of technologies of abundance in the hands of those still thinking in terms of scarcity.
...their 140 characters of fame.
I remember the first, exciting days of the internet, when there were all these incredible new possibilities: ftp, that allowed you to fetch files, even 100s of K from the other side of the world, email and usenet that let you communicate in no time with people far away - for free, almost; and then gopher and the web.
And what has it come to now? SPAM, ever more intrusive and idiotic adverts, and even the most inconsequential crap has become the must have of the moment.
What's on your mind?
Ummm, worms mostly.
The killing of innocents in other countries by our soldiers is the fault of our entire society for not forcing our leaders to stop doing it. I can pretty much guarantee you that this woman doesn't want her husband to be overseas in a war.
life is a tragedy to those who feel, and a comedy to those who think