Right, and the best way to deal with a bad law (...) is to ignore it.
Hmmm, let me guess: the Libertarian project to 'take over' a state by getting masses of Libertarians to move there and vote as a bloc, has failed. Your new secret plan is to take over the prison system by convincing all of the Libertarians to break laws willy-nilly and get incarcerated. I doubt that you will be able to actually 'take over' the prisons (they won't let you take your guns to prison with you), but the LP could become the largest prison gang.
They're performing a simple surgery, not a barbaric mutilation.
Hey, when it's your turn to be God, You can tell Your chosen people which parts come off and which parts stay on. Until then, shut up and hold still; this won't hurt a bit.
Did they also pride themselves on the patients survival rate?
Let's see...points for speed...points for style...nope, nothing here about survivability. Of course if the patient lives through the end of the surgery, and dies two days later on the ward, his death is obviously the nurses' fault. He was alive until the nurses got ahold of him.
Of course you can do war bad[ly] or well. You can kill hundreds of thousands of enemy soldiers and civilians, lose hundreds of thousands of your own, and win. Or you can kill hundreds of thousands of enemy soldiers and civilians, lose hundreds of thousands of your own, and lose. War may never be worth the cost (a possibility, not an assertion), but once engaged some outcomes are worse than others.
Please supply your Credit card details using morse code on the ToiletFlush(tm); button.
Another reason to upgrade to one of those toilets with the yin-yang 'low-flow/higher flow' buttons: you can use the two buttons to enter binary (higher-flow=1, lower-flow=0) instead of having to learn Morse Code. Computer geeks rejoice. Radio geeks need not upgrade.
Of course not, it was.. err, will be outlawed in 2025. (of course, Slashdotters complained that when time-travel is outlawed, only outlaws will time-travel)
No,/. was outlawed in 2023. The last holdouts (all of whom had less than 4-digits in their IDs) were executed in the manner best befitting virgins....He's dead Jim. AHHHH! He's dead Jim. AHHHH! He's dead Jim. AHHHH!...
Don't you think that like coal miners, bar employees either already bear the risks
You are operating under a false assumption. Let me clear it up for you. Mine workers are not allowed to choose to work without their safety equipment. Employers are forced to provide, and employees are forced to use, their helmets and respirators if hazardous conditions exist.
If a bar wants to force their employees to wear certified HEPA breathing packs, then that bar should be exempt from any worker-health laws that ban smoking in bars. Workers who need a job to keep a roof over their childrens' heads are often not in a position to demand safe working conditions. That is why OSHA, MSHA and other government agencies protect workers' rights.
The best argument I've heard for laws that force bars to ban smoking has to do with worker health. Neither a mine operator, nor a mine worker, is allowed to say "I don't need a respirator. If I die of black-lung, then I die of black-lung." There are laws to keep workers from being exposed to carcinogens and toxins. So unless the bar owners want to issue HEPA masks to their waitresses, and force the waitresses to wear them whenever they are in the bar, you have an unsafe workplace if smoking is allowed.
As a tax-payer, how much of MY money is going towards playing puking sound effects on the radio?
A lot less than the money you would be paying for Medicare to treat the lung cancer, emphysema, and heart disease of ex-smokers. And low-birthweight babies (due to smoking or other causes) cost a lot to deliver (some of which you pay for as a taxpayer, some of which you pay for as a user of medical services or a purchaser of health insurance).
'Truth' ads are not a case of the government using force to impose their will on the people. They are a case of the government spending a tiny amount of money wisely on public health education, to avoid having to spend a lot of money stupidly on healthcare.
Legalizing heroin use doesn't mean that we have to allow people to shoot-up in public establishments. It would be perfectly consistent to say, "We are legalizing heroin in support of the rights of those who want to use it, but heroin use (like smoking) will not be allowed in any establishment that has employees, out of respect for the rights of those employees."
At one point in time it was illegal to free slaves in the US. And you'd be hard pressed to find an elected official at this point that would still defend that stance.
You are not entitled to pay the raw cost of blank media.
You missed the point. Apparently, in some jurisdictions, media companies are entitled to a chunk of my money, when I buy CDRs to back-up my data. In other words, anything that you can bribe/bully your legislators into, becomes an entitilement. If we can get the laws changed, to outlaw DRM, then we will be 'entitled' to DRM-free content.
when I find someone claims to support free speech except when it's racist/sexist/whatever/else/they/don't/like I know they're a hypocrite
If they call for the government to arrest someone for speech that is racist/sexist/whatever/else/they/don't/like, then they are a hypocrite, and they don't support free speech. If they merely call the 'offending' speaker a dickwad, then not only are they not hypocrites, they are demonstrating the power of free speech.
Try protesting the rise of a fascist government. If the UK is anything like the US, then to your elected officials and mainstream media, you will be completely invisible.
First is the millions of illegal aliens who have no insurance.
Why mention illegal aliens? There might be as many as 11 million illegal aliens in the US, but there are definitely 40 million uninsured Americans (mostly poor). The uninsured Americans go straight to Emergency Rooms too, and for the same reasons that you mention.
Blame the corporations for being the originators and benficiaries of the abuse. Blame the governments if they don't provide strong consumer and worker protection from that abuse. The only reason that I can see blaming the governments more than the corporations, is that it is the governments job to protect people, while it is not the corporations job to shy away from abusing people.
Of course, every time a government tries to protect its people (*cough* Venezuela *cough*), the corporations (including their media outlets), band together to demonize and manipulate or destroy that government.
Slashdot Mirror
Hmmm, let me guess: the Libertarian project to 'take over' a state by getting masses of Libertarians to move there and vote as a bloc, has failed. Your new secret plan is to take over the prison system by convincing all of the Libertarians to break laws willy-nilly and get incarcerated. I doubt that you will be able to actually 'take over' the prisons (they won't let you take your guns to prison with you), but the LP could become the largest prison gang.
Remember kids, 'plausible deniability' is so much easier if you never read anything.
Don't you mean "FUD" and "rumors"?
Hey, when it's your turn to be God, You can tell Your chosen people which parts come off and which parts stay on. Until then, shut up and hold still; this won't hurt a bit.
Let's see...points for speed...points for style...nope, nothing here about survivability. Of course if the patient lives through the end of the surgery, and dies two days later on the ward, his death is obviously the nurses' fault. He was alive until the nurses got ahold of him.
Of course you can do war bad[ly] or well. You can kill hundreds of thousands of enemy soldiers and civilians, lose hundreds of thousands of your own, and win. Or you can kill hundreds of thousands of enemy soldiers and civilians, lose hundreds of thousands of your own, and lose. War may never be worth the cost (a possibility, not an assertion), but once engaged some outcomes are worse than others.
Another reason to upgrade to one of those toilets with the yin-yang 'low-flow/higher flow' buttons: you can use the two buttons to enter binary (higher-flow=1, lower-flow=0) instead of having to learn Morse Code. Computer geeks rejoice. Radio geeks need not upgrade.
Cheaper than usual, if they had accepted Ballmer's bribe, but still more expensive (TCO) than switching to Linux.
No, /. was outlawed in 2023. The last holdouts (all of whom had less than 4-digits in their IDs) were executed in the manner best befitting virgins. ...He's dead Jim. AHHHH! He's dead Jim. AHHHH! He's dead Jim. AHHHH!...
Liebowitz.
You are operating under a false assumption. Let me clear it up for you. Mine workers are not allowed to choose to work without their safety equipment. Employers are forced to provide, and employees are forced to use, their helmets and respirators if hazardous conditions exist.
If a bar wants to force their employees to wear certified HEPA breathing packs, then that bar should be exempt from any worker-health laws that ban smoking in bars. Workers who need a job to keep a roof over their childrens' heads are often not in a position to demand safe working conditions. That is why OSHA, MSHA and other government agencies protect workers' rights.
The best argument I've heard for laws that force bars to ban smoking has to do with worker health. Neither a mine operator, nor a mine worker, is allowed to say "I don't need a respirator. If I die of black-lung, then I die of black-lung." There are laws to keep workers from being exposed to carcinogens and toxins. So unless the bar owners want to issue HEPA masks to their waitresses, and force the waitresses to wear them whenever they are in the bar, you have an unsafe workplace if smoking is allowed.
A lot less than the money you would be paying for Medicare to treat the lung cancer, emphysema, and heart disease of ex-smokers. And low-birthweight babies (due to smoking or other causes) cost a lot to deliver (some of which you pay for as a taxpayer, some of which you pay for as a user of medical services or a purchaser of health insurance).
'Truth' ads are not a case of the government using force to impose their will on the people. They are a case of the government spending a tiny amount of money wisely on public health education, to avoid having to spend a lot of money stupidly on healthcare.
Thanks to the 40-year-long decline in cigarette smoking, you are out of luck.
Legalizing heroin use doesn't mean that we have to allow people to shoot-up in public establishments. It would be perfectly consistent to say, "We are legalizing heroin in support of the rights of those who want to use it, but heroin use (like smoking) will not be allowed in any establishment that has employees, out of respect for the rights of those employees."
Anti-Capitalist Meddling:
I think we could use a little bit more meddling.
George 'Macaca' Allen
You missed the point. Apparently, in some jurisdictions, media companies are entitled to a chunk of my money, when I buy CDRs to back-up my data. In other words, anything that you can bribe/bully your legislators into, becomes an entitilement. If we can get the laws changed, to outlaw DRM, then we will be 'entitled' to DRM-free content.
If they call for the government to arrest someone for speech that is racist/sexist/whatever/else/they/don't/like, then they are a hypocrite, and they don't support free speech. If they merely call the 'offending' speaker a dickwad, then not only are they not hypocrites, they are demonstrating the power of free speech.
Try protesting the rise of a fascist government. If the UK is anything like the US, then to your elected officials and mainstream media, you will be completely invisible.
Why mention illegal aliens? There might be as many as 11 million illegal aliens in the US, but there are definitely 40 million uninsured Americans (mostly poor). The uninsured Americans go straight to Emergency Rooms too, and for the same reasons that you mention.
Silly rabbit. WIND POWER BLOWS.
Blame the corporations for being the originators and benficiaries of the abuse. Blame the governments if they don't provide strong consumer and worker protection from that abuse. The only reason that I can see blaming the governments more than the corporations, is that it is the governments job to protect people, while it is not the corporations job to shy away from abusing people.
Of course, every time a government tries to protect its people (*cough* Venezuela *cough*), the corporations (including their media outlets), band together to demonize and manipulate or destroy that government.
Are we still allowed to get bent out of shape when people misspell "especaly"?
If it's true that "Good things come to those who wait.", then DNF will be the best game ever !