The clearest example of this is the various chemotherapy drugs. They're absolutely toxic - poisons. They're just not as bad as dying.
Sometimes they are worse than dying. That was the decision my mother made when her cancer returned -- she opted for palliative care the second time around, instead of the chemo.
Your points are valid. Many treatments have side effects and risks. There is a need for a rational assessment of the risk versus the benefit.
but sometimes quality of life is more important than not dying.
This is very true. My mother always regretted having treatment for cancer when in her '80s. The treatment indirectly destroyed her quality of life and when the cancer returned, she opted for palliative care instead of treatment, knowing that death was inevitable.
Following your argument, no-one would ever get in a car and drive it down the street.
Pharma companies make their money from introducing new drugs. They are not going to stop that just because the risks are higher. Instead, they will find ways to manage the risk.
I think that the Dyson dryers are the worst. There is usually a small pool of water in the device, just ideal for bacteria to grow in, then the air blows, potentially taking tiny droplets of this bacteria-infected water into your face.
All the decisions that proclaim that "corporations are people" are based on lies. A lie that Congress intended this and then a lie that the Supreme Court had already decided this.
Elon is trying to staunch the bleeding by emailing this "story" out to every single media outlet on the planet.
Its quite clear that there are companies and people out there with an agenda to push Tesla's share price down and they are planting stories of dubious accuracy in the media.
Firstly: Daily Mail. Not a good idea to cite this if you dislike being shown to be wrong.
Secondly: This page makes it clear that the Disney actions do not describe the type of action that I challenged Walterbyrd to cite.
In the Disney case, Disney fired the IT employees and contracted their work out to a company that brings in lots of H1B employees. So Disney did not directly replace Americans with H1Bs. Disney used loophole that needs to be fixed.
Firstly, that paper didn't address my point that there is no evidence that the H1B program is "designed to replace Americans with cheaper offshore workers" rather than my point that employers use a work-around that has that effect. A work-around that I believe should be addressed.
Secondly, you should read on a bit further on the page you cited:
On the other hand, complements in production benefited substantially from immigration, and immigration also lowered prices and raised the output of IT goods by between 1.9% and 2.5%, thus benefiting consumers.
The H1B program is designed to replace Americans with cheaper offshore workers.
Got a citation for that? Or is it just more racist bullshit from the likes of Breitbart, Fox News, etc.?
Employers have used a work-around which clearly goes against the intent of H1B visas: fire the Americans and outsource their jobs to contracting companies that use mostly H1B employees. IMHO, this practice should not be legal.
Can you cite a case where Americans were directly replaced by H1B workers?
Who can expect anyone to believe they "lost 16 years" of data? 192 consecutive months without backups? Zero offline storage? Pull the other one: it's got bells on it!
You are looking at this backwards. As explained by the program "Yes Minister", losing files can be very convenient:
James Hacker: [reads memo] This file contains the complete set of papers, except for a number of secret documents, a few others which are part of still active files, some correspondence lost in the floods of 1967...
James Hacker: Was 1967 a particularly bad winter?
Sir Humphrey Appleby: No, a marvellous winter. We lost no end of embarrassing files.
I know someone who has a liberal arts education (all the way to PhD) and then went to one of these coding boot camps. She now describes herself as a "full stack" developer, despite very little training and experience in the field.
because I won't own a car where the manufacturer can issue over-the-air updates that I cannot control and which materially affect the performance of the vehicle,
You should buy a new car soon, then, because I suspect that in 5-10 years time, all cars will do OTA updates.
Bullshit. The post office is shrinking (email). It would be insane _not_ to require a shrinking service to fund its retirement obligations.
Requiring them to fund retirement is obligations that have been earned already is reasonable (but see my next point). This law requires the post office to fund retirement obligations that have not yet been earned. That's crazy.
No other government department or agency and very few companies have fully funded its vested retirement obligations. Why is the USPS singled out in this respect? The reason is simple: it's a Republican plot to destroy the USPS so that private companies can take over.
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Wasn't Apple slapped down recently for not honouring the statutory 2-year warranty on electronics?
It's like they never heard of the Magnuson-Moss Act.
Or they just hope their customers have never heard of it.
I don't think they are. This is just the same as blocking http: resources that are loaded from an https: page (mixed content blocking).
Sometimes they are worse than dying. That was the decision my mother made when her cancer returned -- she opted for palliative care the second time around, instead of the chemo.
Your points are valid. Many treatments have side effects and risks. There is a need for a rational assessment of the risk versus the benefit.
This is very true. My mother always regretted having treatment for cancer when in her '80s. The treatment indirectly destroyed her quality of life and when the cancer returned, she opted for palliative care instead of treatment, knowing that death was inevitable.
Following your argument, no-one would ever get in a car and drive it down the street.
Pharma companies make their money from introducing new drugs. They are not going to stop that just because the risks are higher. Instead, they will find ways to manage the risk.
This post is an excellent detector of Microsoft fanboys.
Anyone who claims to be using a WP today by choice is clearly a diehard Microsoft fan.
App support for WP was always bad and in recent years, important apps, such as banking apps have been withdrawn.
I think that the Dyson dryers are the worst. There is usually a small pool of water in the device, just ideal for bacteria to grow in, then the air blows, potentially taking tiny droplets of this bacteria-infected water into your face.
So you reacted to the Democrats being insufficiently left wing by voting for the right-wing party?
That, right there is why this country is fucked, over the long term.
All the decisions that proclaim that "corporations are people" are based on lies. A lie that Congress intended this and then a lie that the Supreme Court had already decided this.
There are also some large funds that have sold TSLA short. They are overtly involved in the attacks on Tesla.
Its quite clear that there are companies and people out there with an agenda to push Tesla's share price down and they are planting stories of dubious accuracy in the media.
Of course Elon is responding to this.
Do people not read anything any more?
Firstly: Daily Mail. Not a good idea to cite this if you dislike being shown to be wrong.
Secondly:
This page makes it clear that the Disney actions do not describe the type of action that I challenged Walterbyrd to cite.
In the Disney case, Disney fired the IT employees and contracted their work out to a company that brings in lots of H1B employees. So Disney did not directly replace Americans with H1Bs. Disney used loophole that needs to be fixed.
Firstly, that paper didn't address my point that there is no evidence that the H1B program is "designed to replace Americans with cheaper offshore workers" rather than my point that employers use a work-around that has that effect. A work-around that I believe should be addressed.
Secondly, you should read on a bit further on the page you cited:
Google name-based virtual hosting.
Your ISP knows which IP addresses you connected to, but a single IP address may host multiple sites.
Got a citation for that? Or is it just more racist bullshit from the likes of Breitbart, Fox News, etc.?
Employers have used a work-around which clearly goes against the intent of H1B visas: fire the Americans and outsource their jobs to contracting companies that use mostly H1B employees. IMHO, this practice should not be legal.
Can you cite a case where Americans were directly replaced by H1B workers?
You are looking at this backwards. As explained by the program "Yes Minister", losing files can be very convenient:
At one time, I was surprised by Microsoft's approach: defending their customer's privacy.
Now they are selling them out. I don't think that this is a good business decision: it will dissuade non-US customers from using Microsoft's services.
I know someone who has a liberal arts education (all the way to PhD) and then went to one of these coding boot camps. She now describes herself as a "full stack" developer, despite very little training and experience in the field.
You won't be able to rip out the SIM card because either it will be an eSIM, or it will be buried so deep behind the dash that you will never find it.
You can remove the antenna, but then you won't have a functioning radio in the car. Modern cars use only one antenna for all radios.
You should buy a new car soon, then, because I suspect that in 5-10 years time, all cars will do OTA updates.
Libertarian paradise in our times! [see my signature!]
You have been corrected on this point. At this point, you are not just displaying your ignorance, you are displaying your stupidity.
But, I'll say it again: the USPS has been required to fund retirement for employees who don't exist.
If the Republicans want to shut down or reduce the size of the USPS, they should do it openly, not this underhanded bullshit.
Requiring them to fund retirement is obligations that have been earned already is reasonable (but see my next point). This law requires the post office to fund retirement obligations that have not yet been earned. That's crazy.
No other government department or agency and very few companies have fully funded its vested retirement obligations. Why is the USPS singled out in this respect? The reason is simple: it's a Republican plot to destroy the USPS so that private companies can take over.
Alternative translation:
We are going back to leveraging our Windows monopoly at the expense of all other initiatives.