Yeah, but it's still going to be hours or days before the physicians can match him with a recipient, call in the right surgeons, prep for the procedure, etc. etc. and during that time his organs will be slowly dieing, even in the care of transplant professionals. Plus it's kind of fucked up to the hospital staff and patients to put them through the experience of watching some random guy blow his brains out on in the waiting room.
I agree with you that he still has control over his own body, but there's really no legal way for him to truly maximize the probability of a successful transplant. If he wasn't worried about a successful transplant, then yeah, he could just blow his brains out and be done with it.
I cant remember where I read it, but I remember reading that "Live Donor" transplants have a higher success rate than "dead donor" harvested organs. If he planned it out ahead of time, for the highest chance of a successful transplant, he would have to notify the physicians performing the transplant operation of his suicide plans so that they would be ready to quickly perform the procedure, which I believe would cause those physicians legal trouble aw well as potentially cost them their medical licenses for not trying to prevent his suicide.
This one has a much better chance of succeeding though. Social conservatives who want to run other people's lives and Pharmaceutical Corporations interested in making a buck are the only ones who are against physician-assisted suicide, and now that they have the opportunity to profit from organ harvesting instead of profiting from end-of-life care, at least the Pharmaceutical Corporations may change their minds.
Has Microsoft announced a release date for the mood-altering-drug-dispensing expansion pack yet? Detecting emotions and eliminating them is the first step towards true friendship with our robot overlords.
That was the joke. The closest thing the left gets to the level of crazy in an average Fox News broadcast is a comedy news show on a comedy news network hosted by a comedian. The right wing political discourse in this country is literally that absurd.
Oh, definitley, I was just trying to provide an example because I'm guessing most people wouldn't even know where to start looking for an example of a left wing religious philosophy.:)
I'm not a fan of Obama, but choosing between him and Palin is a no-brainer. I probably would have voted for McCain if he hadn't chosen Palin as his running mate, but it would be completely irresponsible to put that woman one heart attack away from being president. Biden is an asshole, but at least he's an asshole who I believe knows how to tie his own shoes.
It was a lot faster to type than "that time that she fired the Public Safety Commissioner of Alaska because he refused allow her to abuse her power by firing her ex-brother-in-law as as an act of revenge during a family squabble". Plus, both google and wikipedia will redirect any uninformed parties very quickly if search for the term.
Yeah, I said that, but re-reading it, I guess my wording was a bit unclear. She racked up the millions of dollars of debt while she was the Mayor of Wassilla, not while she was Governor of Alaska.
The "complete lack of intelligence" comes from basically every interview she did during the McCain campaign. She did fine when she had a script in front of her, but every time she was interviewed without pre-screened questions, she looked like a deer in the headlights. Hell, she couldn't even name a single periodical that she read when interviewed by Katie Couric. Her respond was 'most of them'. She couldn't think of the name of a single publication that she reads. I'm guessing that's because she doesn't read, but she couldn't even think of a better lie than 'most of them' under pressure.
Hahaha! That's a good one! "Executive experience"! She ran a backwater Alaskan town into the ground, crippling it with millions of dollars of debt, then stepped down before completing her first term as Governor amid accusations of abuse of power stemming from 'troopergate' and the bribes, excuse me, I mean "Free Home Improvements" she accepted while in office.
I wouldn't trust her to run my convenience store, much less my government.
Conspiracy nutjobs exist on both sides of the spectrum. For every idiot republican who thinks that Obama is a secret Muslim Kenyan terrist who wants to make them get gay married, there's an idiot democrat who is certain that 9/11 was an inside job.
Sorry, I meant government contracting. Almost all of the jobs are at civilian companies, but you need a security clearance to do them, so you're operating under the umbrella of the DoD.
A big part of the problem is that those jobs are very unappealing. First the applicants have to get a security clearance, which weeds out all non-citizens and a good deal of other applicants, then they are forced to work in secure facilities that feel like caves or underground bunkers, and on top of that they aren't allowed to discuss what they do in anything but the most general terms. Taking a job doing cyber ops for the government is volunteering to put a giant gap in your resume that you can't discuss.
It does perform OCR, but only on the Bank Routing number and account number. My boss's signature interfered with it on one check and it refused to let me submit it. After re-scanning it 3 times, I gave up and mailed it in.
The value of the check gets verified by someone on their end. I accidentally transposed two numbers in the value of some other check and was credited the difference within 6 hours.
Re: India.
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Yeah, but it's still going to be hours or days before the physicians can match him with a recipient, call in the right surgeons, prep for the procedure, etc. etc. and during that time his organs will be slowly dieing, even in the care of transplant professionals. Plus it's kind of fucked up to the hospital staff and patients to put them through the experience of watching some random guy blow his brains out on in the waiting room. I agree with you that he still has control over his own body, but there's really no legal way for him to truly maximize the probability of a successful transplant. If he wasn't worried about a successful transplant, then yeah, he could just blow his brains out and be done with it.
I cant remember where I read it, but I remember reading that "Live Donor" transplants have a higher success rate than "dead donor" harvested organs. If he planned it out ahead of time, for the highest chance of a successful transplant, he would have to notify the physicians performing the transplant operation of his suicide plans so that they would be ready to quickly perform the procedure, which I believe would cause those physicians legal trouble aw well as potentially cost them their medical licenses for not trying to prevent his suicide.
This one has a much better chance of succeeding though. Social conservatives who want to run other people's lives and Pharmaceutical Corporations interested in making a buck are the only ones who are against physician-assisted suicide, and now that they have the opportunity to profit from organ harvesting instead of profiting from end-of-life care, at least the Pharmaceutical Corporations may change their minds.
Has Microsoft announced a release date for the mood-altering-drug-dispensing expansion pack yet? Detecting emotions and eliminating them is the first step towards true friendship with our robot overlords.
That was the joke. The closest thing the left gets to the level of crazy in an average Fox News broadcast is a comedy news show on a comedy news network hosted by a comedian. The right wing political discourse in this country is literally that absurd.
Oh, definitley, I was just trying to provide an example because I'm guessing most people wouldn't even know where to start looking for an example of a left wing religious philosophy. :)
Read up on "Liberation Theology" for religious leftism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_theology
No, "guaranteed incompetence" does not trump "possible incompetence".
I'm not a fan of Obama, but choosing between him and Palin is a no-brainer. I probably would have voted for McCain if he hadn't chosen Palin as his running mate, but it would be completely irresponsible to put that woman one heart attack away from being president. Biden is an asshole, but at least he's an asshole who I believe knows how to tie his own shoes.
It was a lot faster to type than "that time that she fired the Public Safety Commissioner of Alaska because he refused allow her to abuse her power by firing her ex-brother-in-law as as an act of revenge during a family squabble". Plus, both google and wikipedia will redirect any uninformed parties very quickly if search for the term.
Yeah, I said that, but re-reading it, I guess my wording was a bit unclear. She racked up the millions of dollars of debt while she was the Mayor of Wassilla, not while she was Governor of Alaska.
No, I've never been one, and all the one's I've ever spoken with self-identified as democrats, but it's an admittedly very small set of data.
The "complete lack of intelligence" comes from basically every interview she did during the McCain campaign. She did fine when she had a script in front of her, but every time she was interviewed without pre-screened questions, she looked like a deer in the headlights. Hell, she couldn't even name a single periodical that she read when interviewed by Katie Couric. Her respond was 'most of them'. She couldn't think of the name of a single publication that she reads. I'm guessing that's because she doesn't read, but she couldn't even think of a better lie than 'most of them' under pressure.
What are you talking about? That news show with Jon Stewart as the anchor man is always spreading left wing lies!
Hahaha! That's a good one! "Executive experience"! She ran a backwater Alaskan town into the ground, crippling it with millions of dollars of debt, then stepped down before completing her first term as Governor amid accusations of abuse of power stemming from 'troopergate' and the bribes, excuse me, I mean "Free Home Improvements" she accepted while in office. I wouldn't trust her to run my convenience store, much less my government.
Outside of the Acorn thing, all of those are demonstrations that republicans are generally stupid and ignorant, not conspiracy theorists ;)
Doh. Meant to include that both idiots will ignore facts when they conflict with the elaborate conspiracies that they have concocted in their heads.
Conspiracy nutjobs exist on both sides of the spectrum. For every idiot republican who thinks that Obama is a secret Muslim Kenyan terrist who wants to make them get gay married, there's an idiot democrat who is certain that 9/11 was an inside job.
You're not working on anything classified from your home. If you are, you're going to be in Federal prison soon.
Sorry, I meant government contracting. Almost all of the jobs are at civilian companies, but you need a security clearance to do them, so you're operating under the umbrella of the DoD.
A big part of the problem is that those jobs are very unappealing. First the applicants have to get a security clearance, which weeds out all non-citizens and a good deal of other applicants, then they are forced to work in secure facilities that feel like caves or underground bunkers, and on top of that they aren't allowed to discuss what they do in anything but the most general terms. Taking a job doing cyber ops for the government is volunteering to put a giant gap in your resume that you can't discuss.
Buy a pair of polarized sunglasses. Problem solved.
The problem isn't that they weren't aware of the privacy dramas, it's that they were perfectly aware of those privacy dramas and wanted to participate in the data harvesting at the expense of their customer's privacy. http://content.usatoday.com/communities/gamehunters/post/2010/05/blizzard-and-facebooks-friendly-social-networking-deal-launches-with-starcraft-ii-/1 The relevant quote is "Essentially, with one click I'm populating my social network in Battle.net on Facebook. "
It does perform OCR, but only on the Bank Routing number and account number. My boss's signature interfered with it on one check and it refused to let me submit it. After re-scanning it 3 times, I gave up and mailed it in. The value of the check gets verified by someone on their end. I accidentally transposed two numbers in the value of some other check and was credited the difference within 6 hours.
Re: India. "Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest" --Mahatma Gandhi