You don't get water rights automatically with property. You have to buy them separately. Plus water rights apply to the origin point of springs or gallons per minute from a body of water, not entire rivers.
You sir have just proven my point. Now you two are going to argue until the cows come home about minor details, not unlike Shiites and Sunnis. In the meantime your country is still going to the shitter.
I'm not American and quite honestly I don't CARE about the republican/democrat name calling. What I care about is your country is trying to force its oppressive laws down every other country's throat. You guys need to put out the fire in your own house before trying to screw around with other people's problems. And this idiocy that passes for politics in the plutocracy you live in is where you start.
If I were shot in front of you and you turned around and walked away, refusing to treat me
You would not be able to do anything. I don't have to treat you. Now if you get shot and come to a hospital I am working in then I am obliged to treat you because there is an implicit agreement here - just going to the hospital means you are seeking treatment, and me working at the hospital means I am willing to take on the responsibility of treating people in exchange for a wage. But on the street? Nope, sorry, I don't have to treat anyone unless I'm wearing a lab coat and standing under a sign saying "medical treatment here".
Now I'm playing the devil's advocate here because to be honest I probably would treat you EVEN if I didn't like you. I've treated all sorts of people in my career and everyone gets the same effort from me whether they are felons brought to me in custody or children or grand-mothers. But that is besides the point - doctors do not HAVE to treat anyone outside a hospital setting, and even in a hospital they don't have to treat everyone (example hostile or belligerent patients) although they do have the obligation not to leave them in the lurch and help defuse the situation or arrange for care for them.
If a patient comes in with something you correctly diagnose
Your point here was touched upon by my previous point - a hospital setting is different than a random situation in the street. However even in a hospital I am not obliged to treat people just because they want treatment. Hospital resources are limited and the physician is the one who decides how best to allocate those resources. How much fun is it going to be when the whole staff are busy treating people who think they have H1N1 influenza after watching the news and people with heart attacks start dying in the waiting room? While you might want a chest CT scan because you think you're dying, you're not going to get it unless we think you need it. Your going to get the cliché - "take two and call me in the morning".
If she dies because of the actions or inactions of the company, the company could be successfully sued,
I am a doctor. I have no plans to treat this patient. I don't even live in the same country as this patient. And to be honest I couldn't care less about this patient. I challenge you to sue me for my inaction if anything happens to her.
Get this in your head: DOCTORS ARE NOT OBLIGED TO TREAT ANYONE. That is why passive euthanasia is 100% legal all over the world. All doctors have to do is 1) Not harm the patient (you can't harm someone by not doing something to them) and 2) if and only if they decide to treat someone and that person consents to be treated, they must apply the norms and standard of care of their profession when doing so. However the latter option does not apply if you are not treating someone.
This is why doctors are allowed to do things like go on holiday, sleep, go to the bathroom, retire, etc. Not treating someone is not doing anyone harm. The person has a medical condition which they acquired all on their own. This is not the doctor's fault. Should the person die, this is due to the disease. Not the doctor's fault. If you do not accept this, we step back 2000 years where doctors are blamed for the deaths of people who die from their illnesses. Doctors are educated people who understand anatomy, physiology, pathology and pharmacology. They are not miracle workers. They are not superhuman. And if they have a patient for long enough, that patients is going to die - because EVERYONE dies sooner or later. Doctors cannot prevent this because it's a fact of life.
Now, if a patient dies because of the ACTIONS of a doctor, we're talking a whole new ball-game. A doctor's ACTION should never, ever cause someone to die. That's called homicide.
DEMANDING to see the source code before allowing the pacemaker vendor to increase her life expectancy
The pacemaker is not obliged to increase her life expectancy. It cannot prevent her from walking in front of a bus or getting cancer or jumping off a bridge. It just has to do its job and perform in the way it has been show to perform by testing. No source code inspection is necessary for this. If I were the pacemaker vender I would refer this client to my competitor with great pleasure.
No it doesn't. Just like you don't have the right to get to see Coke's "secret formula". It's a trade secret. The manufacturer created a devices that has had a known performance under extensive testing. Take it or leave it. There are other manufacturers, and if not, well, you don't HAVE to get an implant. You can let YOUR disease take its natural course.
You say that as if it was a bad thing. There is no shortage of people, anywhere. The more people there are, the better it is that people die. Of course not for the ones doing the dying - but for the survivors it means less competition for limited resources. Hard fact, and politically incorrect, but a fact nonetheless.
Yep - I implied it's the store's fault, not the clerk's fault. Ultimately it comes down to bad management, not requiring inspection of returned items from employees.
That's the price they pay for clerks that are too lazy to check what they are handing out money for when they accept returns. If I am going to hand out money from the till you bet your ass I am opening the package first. It's called due dilligence.
World English Dictionary shill (l)— n slang a confidence trickster's assistant, esp a person who poses as an ordinary customer, gambler, etc, in order to entice others to participate
etc.
Wow, actually your definition is the one that is incorrect. Perhaps you are shilling for someone...
Certainly, there are no end of cases of people looking up symptoms on the internet and deciding that they have a combination of ebola, bubonic plague and some obscure disease that only affected horses in 13th century Denmark
This happens now anyway. Please stop trying to protect people from themselves. Paternalism didn't work in medicine, and it certainly doesn't work in government. People are adults and ultimately are responsible for their own actions/inactions. Patient autonomy is a fundamental component of modern medical ethics. Let people live their own life how they want, right or wrong. It's very easy to tell people how to live. How do you feel when they tell you that you are the one who is wrong? Or are you never wrong?
Or the mere couple dollars/kW for solar/wind etc. But I'm sure that if you manage to tamper with all those security devices and open up his magic box, you'll find a car battery.
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Blood from one pig? Not at all. Blood from thousands of pigs per day, every day? You alter the whole ecosystem.
He's not spying on the factory farm, he's spying on the river.
No, munitions are classified as "fireworks". At least Patriot missiles are.
You don't get water rights automatically with property. You have to buy them separately. Plus water rights apply to the origin point of springs or gallons per minute from a body of water, not entire rivers.
Why? Rivers are not private property. Just like beaches, you can't own one. You can own all the land around it, but you can't own the river.
You sir have just proven my point. Now you two are going to argue until the cows come home about minor details, not unlike Shiites and Sunnis. In the meantime your country is still going to the shitter.
the republicans are MUCH worse
I'm not American and quite honestly I don't CARE about the republican/democrat name calling. What I care about is your country is trying to force its oppressive laws down every other country's throat. You guys need to put out the fire in your own house before trying to screw around with other people's problems. And this idiocy that passes for politics in the plutocracy you live in is where you start.
I forgot the combination. You open the safe.
after years of Republican rule
You continue to believe in the myth that the political party in power actually makes a difference.
What would be the purpose of a bank destroying the contents of the vault?
Insurance companies can be funny that way.
If I were shot in front of you and you turned around and walked away, refusing to treat me
You would not be able to do anything. I don't have to treat you. Now if you get shot and come to a hospital I am working in then I am obliged to treat you because there is an implicit agreement here - just going to the hospital means you are seeking treatment, and me working at the hospital means I am willing to take on the responsibility of treating people in exchange for a wage. But on the street? Nope, sorry, I don't have to treat anyone unless I'm wearing a lab coat and standing under a sign saying "medical treatment here".
Now I'm playing the devil's advocate here because to be honest I probably would treat you EVEN if I didn't like you. I've treated all sorts of people in my career and everyone gets the same effort from me whether they are felons brought to me in custody or children or grand-mothers. But that is besides the point - doctors do not HAVE to treat anyone outside a hospital setting, and even in a hospital they don't have to treat everyone (example hostile or belligerent patients) although they do have the obligation not to leave them in the lurch and help defuse the situation or arrange for care for them.
If a patient comes in with something you correctly diagnose Your point here was touched upon by my previous point - a hospital setting is different than a random situation in the street. However even in a hospital I am not obliged to treat people just because they want treatment. Hospital resources are limited and the physician is the one who decides how best to allocate those resources. How much fun is it going to be when the whole staff are busy treating people who think they have H1N1 influenza after watching the news and people with heart attacks start dying in the waiting room? While you might want a chest CT scan because you think you're dying, you're not going to get it unless we think you need it. Your going to get the cliché - "take two and call me in the morning".
If she dies because of the actions or inactions of the company, the company could be successfully sued,
I am a doctor. I have no plans to treat this patient. I don't even live in the same country as this patient. And to be honest I couldn't care less about this patient. I challenge you to sue me for my inaction if anything happens to her.
Get this in your head: DOCTORS ARE NOT OBLIGED TO TREAT ANYONE. That is why passive euthanasia is 100% legal all over the world. All doctors have to do is 1) Not harm the patient (you can't harm someone by not doing something to them) and 2) if and only if they decide to treat someone and that person consents to be treated, they must apply the norms and standard of care of their profession when doing so. However the latter option does not apply if you are not treating someone.
This is why doctors are allowed to do things like go on holiday, sleep, go to the bathroom, retire, etc. Not treating someone is not doing anyone harm. The person has a medical condition which they acquired all on their own. This is not the doctor's fault. Should the person die, this is due to the disease. Not the doctor's fault. If you do not accept this, we step back 2000 years where doctors are blamed for the deaths of people who die from their illnesses. Doctors are educated people who understand anatomy, physiology, pathology and pharmacology. They are not miracle workers. They are not superhuman. And if they have a patient for long enough, that patients is going to die - because EVERYONE dies sooner or later. Doctors cannot prevent this because it's a fact of life.
Now, if a patient dies because of the ACTIONS of a doctor, we're talking a whole new ball-game. A doctor's ACTION should never, ever cause someone to die. That's called homicide.
DEMANDING to see the source code before allowing the pacemaker vendor to increase her life expectancy
The pacemaker is not obliged to increase her life expectancy. It cannot prevent her from walking in front of a bus or getting cancer or jumping off a bridge. It just has to do its job and perform in the way it has been show to perform by testing. No source code inspection is necessary for this. If I were the pacemaker vender I would refer this client to my competitor with great pleasure.
No it doesn't. Just like you don't have the right to get to see Coke's "secret formula". It's a trade secret. The manufacturer created a devices that has had a known performance under extensive testing. Take it or leave it. There are other manufacturers, and if not, well, you don't HAVE to get an implant. You can let YOUR disease take its natural course.
we're better off with more people dead.
We are ALL dead. It's just a matter of when. This doesn't seem to have dawned on you yet but as you get older it will.
will kill actual people.
You say that as if it was a bad thing. There is no shortage of people, anywhere. The more people there are, the better it is that people die. Of course not for the ones doing the dying - but for the survivors it means less competition for limited resources. Hard fact, and politically incorrect, but a fact nonetheless.
Love the precedent. I can't wait for CHINESE law to be enforced in the US.
Yep - I implied it's the store's fault, not the clerk's fault. Ultimately it comes down to bad management, not requiring inspection of returned items from employees.
That's the price they pay for clerks that are too lazy to check what they are handing out money for when they accept returns. If I am going to hand out money from the till you bet your ass I am opening the package first. It's called due dilligence.
He pulled it out of his rectum, the birthplace of all great shill ideas.
shill [shil] noun 1. a person who poses as a customer in order to decoy others into participating, as at a gambling house, auction, confidence game, etc. 2. a person who publicizes or praises something or someone for reasons of self-interest, personal profit, or friendship or loyalty. verb (used without object) 3. to work as a shill: He shills for a large casino. verb (used with object) 4. to advertise or promote (a product) as or in the manner of a huckster; hustle: He was hired to shill a new TV show. Origin: 1920–25; origin uncertain Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2012.
World English Dictionary shill (l)— n slang a confidence trickster's assistant, esp a person who poses as an ordinary customer, gambler, etc, in order to entice others to participate
etc.
Wow, actually your definition is the one that is incorrect. Perhaps you are shilling for someone...
I'm confused now, what was it again? Oh yes. Two legs good, four legs baaaaaaaa-ad. Drones are good now, right?
Certainly, there are no end of cases of people looking up symptoms on the internet and deciding that they have a combination of ebola, bubonic plague and some obscure disease that only affected horses in 13th century Denmark
This happens now anyway. Please stop trying to protect people from themselves. Paternalism didn't work in medicine, and it certainly doesn't work in government. People are adults and ultimately are responsible for their own actions/inactions. Patient autonomy is a fundamental component of modern medical ethics. Let people live their own life how they want, right or wrong. It's very easy to tell people how to live. How do you feel when they tell you that you are the one who is wrong? Or are you never wrong?
Yours,
A physician.
I don't see you helping either, big-mouth. Go back to your TV.
Or the mere couple dollars/kW for solar/wind etc. But I'm sure that if you manage to tamper with all those security devices and open up his magic box, you'll find a car battery.