I think that he still has a good point that people should be trained. I'll admit that my first aid training isn't much better than what the boy scouts taught(before some later watering down), and I get it every year.
Still, I at least get the things like CPR, managing bleeding, etc...
You call 911 first, to get the responders rolling. Then you do what you can.
What you do in the 5 minutes before the first responders get there can save a life. Slowing down a major bleed, getting an airway cleared, performing CPR.
Generally speaking, in most states unless the suing party has a unusually good case or a shark for a lawyer such a case likely won't make it to court, or spend a really brief time there if it does.
The GS laws work for the most part, by raising the bar to 'more expensive than what you can get out of the average person'. So smart lawyers recommend against suing - no money in it as you need a really tight case to win.
Doesn't prevent suing if somebody has a real bone to pick - but then, as the pants judge showed, that doesn't take much.
The fucking ingrateful bitch took him to court, sued him for exposing her breasts and a couple of other things to do with touching her cans and won damages for the humiliation of said events.
Crap, stuff like that just discourages people from helping. So he exposed her to give CPR.
Was his lawyer incompetent? Exposing the chest is part of performing CPR. It's been in all my classes, and yes, removing the bra is part of it.
Yes, elevation is very much part of the training. So isn't using a tourniquet, treating shock, eye injuries, sucking chest wounds, among other things.
AA, from what I've read, tries at least a bit to teach some real skills. At least it's proved that it can do that.
And, as enrgeeman noted, nowhere in the article does it say that he was actually military, just that he'd played the game.
I think it's more of a indicator of our school systems that people aren't taught basic first aid skills.
Matter of fact, it might not be a bad idea today to have a 'life skills' class. It's express purpose is to teach children the skills needed to survive and help in society - sex ed could be part of it, along with driver's ed. I'd also add in first aid classes, basic laundry and cooking skills, gun safety*, checkbook balancing, budgeting, why payday loans are a bad idea, etc...
Uh, I liked his social issues, so I commented on it. The others are indeed important and deserving of much work.
And I'd say that flag burning, being as it pertains to the 1st amendment, is extremely important to quantifying how said politician values/defends/attacks the constitution. And that's more important than some of the more 'concrete' issues in the long run.
Ultimately, I think that the economy is mostly capable of taking care of itself, that, like I said, the environment needs to be taken care of - but we need to be efficient about it. etc...
There are many factors I consider important in a president.
If we added up all the "thousands" of whining done by detroit cars should cost millions by now. Yet, strangely the average price inflation adjusted, has stayed about the same for 25+ years.
Actually, they should be about half the cost if it wasn't for all the safety and emission systems. Even today airbags add hundreds to the cost of a vehicle.
Who says 3k? Toyota can do it for $500. And they will squeeze another $500 in savings on the assembly line.
Toyota, to my knowledge, doesn't have a line of heavy trucks or SUVs that they'd have to make up for. And you can only squeeze so much out of assembly line improvements.
I'm all for fuel efficient vehicles, but we need to acknowledge that there will be costs.
I'm by no means an expert in our 'Freedom of Information Act', but basically it's the same as yours. All information, by default, is public. If you request a huge amount if it, the agency is limited to charging you limited copying costs. IE what it costs the agency to pull the records, run them over to the copy machine or other printing device, and run off a copy for you.
The exceptions are classified records/documents. The classification of records takes work. Most of these are military documents. Then there's the privacy act, which protects things like people's personal information such as home address, phone number, SSN, etc...
The idea that they felt the need to redact so much of a slide show makes me want to see what the heck was removed.
California needs to start banning all old and out of tune automobiles, period. There's so many junker antiques running around that it's absolutely insane.
A very good point. I've seen some studies showing that many older vehicles will literally pollute 100-1000X as much as a modern vehicle.
And, to an extent, California has made this problem worse by driving up the costs of a new vehicle - meaning people hang onto their junkers for as long as possible.
I'd need a few more viewpoints/goals, but so far you look better than the other candidates.
Seriously, I'm 100% with you on the marriage issue. As far as I'm concerned, civil unions for all, if you want to call yourself married, find a priest willing to perform the ceremony.
On flag burning, I might personally not like it, but as long as it's their own flag, aren't violating any safety/property laws, etc... It's allowed. I'll note that I DO object when protesters block access, and depending on how they do it they could get charged for littering/property damage if they damage the concrete(or flooring).
On Emissions - I'm a 'whole picture' type issue - I want to know how we can reduce dangerous emissions for the least number of dollars. I like to say that if I had control I'd concentrate on building nuclear plants to replace the dirtiest power plants still in operation.
I'd even reverse the smoking bans in favor of air quality tests - there's a lot you can do with smart ventilation systems, and with that you can have buildings with better air despite smoking than many buildings with no smoking.
Just as an example, California standards would likely sink even the new diesels, even though a small diesel would be about the best match for my commute.
In many ways, California legislatures seem to suffer from a 'It'll work if we make it a law', discounting reality. We're not talking about Futurama here where the legislature can change the speed of light because they want to.
I've seen some estimates that the new federal mileage standards will increase costs per vehicle by $3k plus.
It takes a lot of driving and high gas prices to pay that back.
I am sure that equally offensive acts have been committed in the US.
If nothing else we do have the Phelps family wandering around still. I'm amazed nobody's attacked them yet.
As for the worse part - it hit the media in a rather larger way than most incidents. That's why I theorized about a shadow media campaign that worked.
And honestly, if we're getting insulted by a foriegn country campaigning against the use of our words in their own language, we have some serious priority issues.
Straw, Camel's back... Any once incident was minor, it's just that when it all adds up that things get wierd.
I don't know, looking at France's unemployment rate and economic performance, I'd tend to say that it's not working out that great. It's working, just not great.
Of course, the same could be said for the US at the moment, but we do experience swings.
Other posters pointed out that there are costs built into the price of the book that Amazon doesn't have to worry about - like leasing & utility costs, checkout people, shrinkage*, etc.. for a physical store. Not having these expenses allow Amazon to swallow the cost of shipping a book to the customer while still making a profit.
It's kinda like how here in the states, at least, bags sufficient to place your purchases in is considered part of the purchase cost of the product - while a plastic bag doesn't cost much, you aren't seperately charged for them, so they have to be part of operational expenses factored into the cost of the products.
*It'll still exist, but be reduced without random people wandering around inside the store all the time.
Then what does the bookstore do with books that won't move at that price?
The reason is that books are supposed to be a cultural good and this law wants to enable authors to write without any pressure from the "market".
I think that the author gets his cut no matter what the book sells at, so he shouldn't feel any market pressure anyways, at least other than 'You gotta sell 10k copies or the publisher isn't going to talk to you again'.
This protectionist law is protecting their independent booksellers. What you call screwing up their economy, others call preserving their quality of life. Some people actually enjoy browsing physical books among their friends and neighbors.
If this was actually such an enjoyment, you'd think that Amazon would be no threat to the local bookstore. I know that I often went to the local bookstore for browsing purposes, and frequently bought there despite the fact that I could of probably saved a few bucks shopping at amazon.
Competition is good. I figure that a Walmart killer will eventually come around. Who knows, maybe Sears will make a comeback?
Hmm... Generally speaking, Amazon can afford to have a huge 'rare books' warehouse, as well as ties into the various resellers. I've bought a couple of used out of print books from them without problem.
Still, Amazon could have a much wider active book selection than my local Waldenbooks.
BTW, I'm boycotting Barnes&Nobles right now. They're building a new store in the local mall, and forced both the existing bookstores to close down. They haven't even opened yet, just put it into the contract.
So I was figuring on ordering a lot more books from Amazon.
Number 3 will get the attention of many americans as well. For one, defiling graves is just plain rude. But painting swastikas on graves of WWII soldiers who fell in battle is beyond the pale. It's like saying 'We'd rather not have been liberated', and 'Your sacrifice was in vain'. It's enough to make me want to hit them.
We're going to base our opinion of an entire country on the actions of some teenage hooligans?
No, but it's just one of many incidents.
Who cares whether they'll allow our words in their language? They're proud of their language, and they have strong ideas of what is and isn't a French word. So? Are we only friends with people who use English words?
No, but we quite happily steal words from other languages when they're useful(part of the reason english is a linguistic mess), and their campaign against words like 'EMail' is seen as one more insult.
Then 'Cheese eating Surrender Monkeys' got be an internet meme and the rest's history. Though sometimes I wonder if there was a directed smear campaign behind the scenes - sure they opposed us in going after Iraq in UN sanctions, but that wasn't actually that big of a deal.
I was thinking of the DVD part - and why you'd still want a seperate feed for powering internal drives.
For external drives, sure they use extra power, but you could incorporate a molex plug to keep the power off the motherboard. Or at least next to the powered external SATA plugs.
Externally unifying the cable matters a bit more than internally, at least in my mind.
Combining the power and data cable on the MB would/will complicate matters in motherboard design.
Well, 5V is pretty odd for consumer devices as well - you have the actual choice of 4.5 or 6 using normal cells.
Still, it's pretty close to 4 rechargable NiMH cells (4.8v).
12v is considered pretty high to be part of a consumer device.
What sort of consumer device? There's lots of consumer devices that run at 110V, for example.;)
Yes, 12V is high because you need 8 cells in series to get that much voltage - most devices just don't need that much wattage today. I'd mostly recommend 12V for USB simply to be able to ship a 'decent' amount of power over a thin wire.
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I think that he still has a good point that people should be trained. I'll admit that my first aid training isn't much better than what the boy scouts taught(before some later watering down), and I get it every year.
Still, I at least get the things like CPR, managing bleeding, etc...
You call 911 first, to get the responders rolling. Then you do what you can.
What you do in the 5 minutes before the first responders get there can save a life. Slowing down a major bleed, getting an airway cleared, performing CPR.
I believe that we changed it to reduce the number of false calls - 911 takes more deliberate dialing than 999.
Generally speaking, in most states unless the suing party has a unusually good case or a shark for a lawyer such a case likely won't make it to court, or spend a really brief time there if it does.
The GS laws work for the most part, by raising the bar to 'more expensive than what you can get out of the average person'. So smart lawyers recommend against suing - no money in it as you need a really tight case to win.
Doesn't prevent suing if somebody has a real bone to pick - but then, as the pants judge showed, that doesn't take much.
The fucking ingrateful bitch took him to court, sued him for exposing her breasts and a couple of other things to do with touching her cans and won damages for the humiliation of said events.
Crap, stuff like that just discourages people from helping. So he exposed her to give CPR.
Was his lawyer incompetent? Exposing the chest is part of performing CPR. It's been in all my classes, and yes, removing the bra is part of it.
I'm USAF, but my training is based of their's.
Yes, elevation is very much part of the training. So isn't using a tourniquet, treating shock, eye injuries, sucking chest wounds, among other things.
AA, from what I've read, tries at least a bit to teach some real skills. At least it's proved that it can do that.
And, as enrgeeman noted, nowhere in the article does it say that he was actually military, just that he'd played the game.
I think it's more of a indicator of our school systems that people aren't taught basic first aid skills.
Matter of fact, it might not be a bad idea today to have a 'life skills' class. It's express purpose is to teach children the skills needed to survive and help in society - sex ed could be part of it, along with driver's ed. I'd also add in first aid classes, basic laundry and cooking skills, gun safety*, checkbook balancing, budgeting, why payday loans are a bad idea, etc...
Uh, I liked his social issues, so I commented on it. The others are indeed important and deserving of much work.
And I'd say that flag burning, being as it pertains to the 1st amendment, is extremely important to quantifying how said politician values/defends/attacks the constitution. And that's more important than some of the more 'concrete' issues in the long run.
Ultimately, I think that the economy is mostly capable of taking care of itself, that, like I said, the environment needs to be taken care of - but we need to be efficient about it. etc...
There are many factors I consider important in a president.
If we added up all the "thousands" of whining done by detroit cars should cost millions by now. Yet, strangely the average price inflation adjusted, has stayed about the same for 25+ years.
Actually, they should be about half the cost if it wasn't for all the safety and emission systems. Even today airbags add hundreds to the cost of a vehicle.
Who says 3k? Toyota can do it for $500. And they will squeeze another $500 in savings on the assembly line.
Toyota, to my knowledge, doesn't have a line of heavy trucks or SUVs that they'd have to make up for. And you can only squeeze so much out of assembly line improvements.
I'm all for fuel efficient vehicles, but we need to acknowledge that there will be costs.
I'm by no means an expert in our 'Freedom of Information Act', but basically it's the same as yours. All information, by default, is public. If you request a huge amount if it, the agency is limited to charging you limited copying costs. IE what it costs the agency to pull the records, run them over to the copy machine or other printing device, and run off a copy for you.
The exceptions are classified records/documents. The classification of records takes work. Most of these are military documents. Then there's the privacy act, which protects things like people's personal information such as home address, phone number, SSN, etc...
The idea that they felt the need to redact so much of a slide show makes me want to see what the heck was removed.
California needs to start banning all old and out of tune automobiles, period. There's so many junker antiques running around that it's absolutely insane.
A very good point. I've seen some studies showing that many older vehicles will literally pollute 100-1000X as much as a modern vehicle.
And, to an extent, California has made this problem worse by driving up the costs of a new vehicle - meaning people hang onto their junkers for as long as possible.
I'd need a few more viewpoints/goals, but so far you look better than the other candidates.
Seriously, I'm 100% with you on the marriage issue. As far as I'm concerned, civil unions for all, if you want to call yourself married, find a priest willing to perform the ceremony.
On flag burning, I might personally not like it, but as long as it's their own flag, aren't violating any safety/property laws, etc... It's allowed. I'll note that I DO object when protesters block access, and depending on how they do it they could get charged for littering/property damage if they damage the concrete(or flooring).
On Emissions - I'm a 'whole picture' type issue - I want to know how we can reduce dangerous emissions for the least number of dollars. I like to say that if I had control I'd concentrate on building nuclear plants to replace the dirtiest power plants still in operation.
I'd even reverse the smoking bans in favor of air quality tests - there's a lot you can do with smart ventilation systems, and with that you can have buildings with better air despite smoking than many buildings with no smoking.
Just as an example, California standards would likely sink even the new diesels, even though a small diesel would be about the best match for my commute.
In many ways, California legislatures seem to suffer from a 'It'll work if we make it a law', discounting reality. We're not talking about Futurama here where the legislature can change the speed of light because they want to.
I've seen some estimates that the new federal mileage standards will increase costs per vehicle by $3k plus.
It takes a lot of driving and high gas prices to pay that back.
One was indeed a B.Dalton, and I figured it was going to close
The Waldens/Borders isn't B&N, and they were forced to close down. Pissed me off, as I loved that bookstore.
Plus, competition is a good thing. As is they will hardly need to offer good deals on new books, the only remaining bookstore is a used one.
"nothing as perfect as the human eye could ever have evolved naturally"
Me and my 400/400 uncorrected natural vision would like to have a word with whoever brings that up...
I am sure that equally offensive acts have been committed in the US.
If nothing else we do have the Phelps family wandering around still. I'm amazed nobody's attacked them yet.
As for the worse part - it hit the media in a rather larger way than most incidents. That's why I theorized about a shadow media campaign that worked.
And honestly, if we're getting insulted by a foriegn country campaigning against the use of our words in their own language, we have some serious priority issues.
Straw, Camel's back... Any once incident was minor, it's just that when it all adds up that things get wierd.
That's what I said, I simply dropped the DC-DC part.
I don't know, looking at France's unemployment rate and economic performance, I'd tend to say that it's not working out that great. It's working, just not great.
Of course, the same could be said for the US at the moment, but we do experience swings.
She was insulted and told me that they would not carry the trash from Virgin Books.
Wow, that's something you'd expect to see more at one of those great independent small bookstores under local control.
The local Waldens could order books, of course, but 90% of the stuff they got in was sent by corporate.
Other posters pointed out that there are costs built into the price of the book that Amazon doesn't have to worry about - like leasing & utility costs, checkout people, shrinkage*, etc.. for a physical store. Not having these expenses allow Amazon to swallow the cost of shipping a book to the customer while still making a profit.
It's kinda like how here in the states, at least, bags sufficient to place your purchases in is considered part of the purchase cost of the product - while a plastic bag doesn't cost much, you aren't seperately charged for them, so they have to be part of operational expenses factored into the cost of the products.
*It'll still exist, but be reduced without random people wandering around inside the store all the time.
Then what does the bookstore do with books that won't move at that price?
The reason is that books are supposed to be a cultural good and this law wants to enable authors to write without any pressure from the "market".
I think that the author gets his cut no matter what the book sells at, so he shouldn't feel any market pressure anyways, at least other than 'You gotta sell 10k copies or the publisher isn't going to talk to you again'.
This protectionist law is protecting their independent booksellers. What you call screwing up their economy, others call preserving their quality of life. Some people actually enjoy browsing physical books among their friends and neighbors.
If this was actually such an enjoyment, you'd think that Amazon would be no threat to the local bookstore. I know that I often went to the local bookstore for browsing purposes, and frequently bought there despite the fact that I could of probably saved a few bucks shopping at amazon.
Competition is good. I figure that a Walmart killer will eventually come around. Who knows, maybe Sears will make a comeback?
Hmm... Generally speaking, Amazon can afford to have a huge 'rare books' warehouse, as well as ties into the various resellers. I've bought a couple of used out of print books from them without problem.
Still, Amazon could have a much wider active book selection than my local Waldenbooks.
BTW, I'm boycotting Barnes&Nobles right now. They're building a new store in the local mall, and forced both the existing bookstores to close down. They haven't even opened yet, just put it into the contract.
So I was figuring on ordering a lot more books from Amazon.
Number 3 will get the attention of many americans as well. For one, defiling graves is just plain rude. But painting swastikas on graves of WWII soldiers who fell in battle is beyond the pale. It's like saying 'We'd rather not have been liberated', and 'Your sacrifice was in vain'. It's enough to make me want to hit them.
We're going to base our opinion of an entire country on the actions of some teenage hooligans?
No, but it's just one of many incidents.
Who cares whether they'll allow our words in their language? They're proud of their language, and they have strong ideas of what is and isn't a French word. So? Are we only friends with people who use English words?
No, but we quite happily steal words from other languages when they're useful(part of the reason english is a linguistic mess), and their campaign against words like 'EMail' is seen as one more insult.
Then 'Cheese eating Surrender Monkeys' got be an internet meme and the rest's history. Though sometimes I wonder if there was a directed smear campaign behind the scenes - sure they opposed us in going after Iraq in UN sanctions, but that wasn't actually that big of a deal.
However, you talked about consumer devices - which are normally powered off of batteries.
The internal voltage can be handled by various converters today rather easily.
I was thinking of the DVD part - and why you'd still want a seperate feed for powering internal drives.
For external drives, sure they use extra power, but you could incorporate a molex plug to keep the power off the motherboard. Or at least next to the powered external SATA plugs.
Externally unifying the cable matters a bit more than internally, at least in my mind.
Combining the power and data cable on the MB would/will complicate matters in motherboard design.
Well, 5V is pretty odd for consumer devices as well - you have the actual choice of 4.5 or 6 using normal cells.
;)
Still, it's pretty close to 4 rechargable NiMH cells (4.8v).
12v is considered pretty high to be part of a consumer device.
What sort of consumer device? There's lots of consumer devices that run at 110V, for example.
Yes, 12V is high because you need 8 cells in series to get that much voltage - most devices just don't need that much wattage today. I'd mostly recommend 12V for USB simply to be able to ship a 'decent' amount of power over a thin wire.