Think about living in constant pain, mental confusion, maybe even in a coma which you a guaranteed to never come out of. And you know you're not ever going to get better--only worse. And all you're doing is adding more and more onto the medical bills that your family may end up being be stuck with. Would you really want one more day of pain, or one more day of not even knowing where you are, or one more day of simply breathing and nothing more? To what end? That's not "life."
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a patient suffers from severe illness, old age, or a terminal disease
Had one branch of the family that was real religious. Didn't believe in anything even *resembling* euthanasia. Insisted on keeping my aunt alive, no matter what. It was an ugly, sad end. Bad stuff.
Had another branch that had a much better attitude, IMHO. Had hospice care that was not afraid to push the painkillers well into the dangerous zone, a "do not resuscitate" understanding with the hospital, etc. My cousin's mother died a *much* more noble death.
Can't stop death from coming. And there is a time to fight for life, but also a time to recognize when the fight is over.
Christ, this incident must have REALLY struck a chord. I post a VERY mild defense of the guy and I'm immediately modded flamebait and blasted by everyone. I've gotten less heat here for saying Windows is better than Linux. I'm surprised this guy doesn't have a lynch mob outside his apartment.
Ah yes, the Giant Panda--the ursine family equivalent of that retarded cousin who gets pulled over and tells the cop "Yeah, I've been drinking a little, but I swear I wasn't smoking any of that crack I have in the trunk."
Voted into office for 4 years, campaigning for 2 of them.
Heard a quote not long ago from a retired Senator that was something along the lines of "Being in Congress these days means you spend 20% of your time legislating, and 80% of your time fundraising."
The whole thing looked way blown out of proportion to me. So this guy was having a rough spot in his life and was a little brusk and unprofessional in the initial email exchange. Conversely, the guy on the other end was WAY overboard on wanting that controller by Christmas (must be a helluva controller). And things just escalated from there to levels where they both sounded like children. Very unprofessional on Christoforo's part, for sure. But hardly worthy of the massive scorn he's gotten.
I think he's really just become a stand-in for all this shitty customer service reps we've all encountered (particularly around Christmas). And he's taking the heat for a lot of shit that he had nothing to do with.
Yes, because there was a time when conversations on/. didn't immediately turn to shit.
It was back in 1923, and everyone on/. was serious, I tells ya. There were no lame memes or potty-mouthed jokes in those days, kiddo. Back in them days, we was all behind Cool Cal for President and everyone just sat around smoking fine cigars and having serious discussions about the markets. We had our hot grits plain in them days. Natalie Portman wasn't even a gleam in her daddy's eye. And we liked it, dagnabbit!
No, they're not. Google is only worth about half as much as Comcast alone. Combine all the big media players and you're looking at something like $300 billion in muscle. If you include GE in that figure (who still own about half of NBCUniversal) and you're talking closer to half a trillion $.
Actually, Larry and Sergei could buy all of the movie and music studios with their personal money.
Uh, yeah...you're on crack. Comcast alone is worth about $120 billion. Of course, they could opt for the cheaper NBCUniversal at about $30 billion. And that's just the biggest two of the six major players in the media biz.
Because it's only "bribery" if you give it to them in $50,000 in a suitcase full of cash. Give that same $50,000 to them as a "campaign donation", or in paid ads that you've bought for them, and it's all perfectly legal. Such is the American political system.
There was a time when I would recommend GoDaddy as a host to my smaller clients. But their incredibly sleazy ad campaigns (that look more like ads for "Girls Gone Wild" videos than for a web hosting company) started to become so embarrassing that I stopped recommending them. I couldn't very well recommend them to a serious client only have that client catch one of their Hooters/strip-club ads during the Super Bowl.
Obama and most of the Democratic Party are owned by the big Hollywood studios. The Republican Party is owned by big business in general. The only reason this hasn't passed already (without even a public debate) is that Google and a handful of other big players are fighting it. But even Google is a relatively small fish in this money game.
As for those of us without deep pockets--well save yourself that stamp on a letter to your Congressman.
That's not a joke, BTW. So every time you really have to defecate and some greedy business or city has installed a pay toilet, you can thank John Nevil Maskelyne--the noble inventor who pioneered the idea of charging people a penny to take a shit.
There was an old joke about the medieval obsession with holy artifacts that went "If you assembled every piece of the True Cross on display in medieval churches, you could build a fence across Europe." You might have to throw in some Saint's bones to help in that construction too.
The story is nonsense. By the time the ziggurat was built, pretty much all the language families known today were already in existence.
No one is saying the existence of the temple that formed the basis of the story of the Tower of Babel lends any credibility to the rest of the story. That's sort of like saying "Well, Jerusalem actually existed--which lends evidence to the claim that Jesus was the Son of God." Many of the sites, people, and events mentioned in the Bible really existed, or at least had some basis in historical fact. That doesn't mean that everything else in the Bible must therefore be true too.
Size doesn't matter. You should see how small the Derek Zoolander Center For Children Who Can't Read Good And Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too is
Is there no politician on the ballot that doesn't do these things?
Nope. And even if there was, you and I probably wouldn't have any way of knowing it.
Then people should write in their own and vote for him.
Sure, as soon as "him" comes forward. Tell me, do you see any "hims" in the 2012 Presidential race so far? Do you see any in the Senate or House races in your district?
Sorry, but there is no fucking way a company is going to lease me solar panels at anywhere near what I would save in electricity each month with no upfront cost.
Let's use a best case scenario here. You've got a $25,000 upfront cost for installation. I average about $120 a month on my electric bill. Now, with that $25,000 upfront, let's say they give me a VERY generous interest rate on that loan of 10% (not likely, but this is best case scenario). That's $2,500 a year just on the INTEREST--not even factoring in their maintenance costs, system depreciation, any payment on the principal, etc. So even if the system generated enough electricity to cover 100% of my electric bill (again, hardly likely, but we'll stick with the best case scenario), I would still only be paying them about $1,400 a year. That's $1,100 less than just the INTEREST on their upfront investment. There is no way any company in their right mind is going to do that. Unless the government is going to be subsidizing that upfront with a 0% interest rate loan, there is just no way to make those numbers work.
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Think about living in constant pain, mental confusion, maybe even in a coma which you a guaranteed to never come out of. And you know you're not ever going to get better--only worse. And all you're doing is adding more and more onto the medical bills that your family may end up being be stuck with. Would you really want one more day of pain, or one more day of not even knowing where you are, or one more day of simply breathing and nothing more? To what end? That's not "life."
a patient suffers from severe illness, old age, or a terminal disease
Had one branch of the family that was real religious. Didn't believe in anything even *resembling* euthanasia. Insisted on keeping my aunt alive, no matter what. It was an ugly, sad end. Bad stuff.
Had another branch that had a much better attitude, IMHO. Had hospice care that was not afraid to push the painkillers well into the dangerous zone, a "do not resuscitate" understanding with the hospital, etc. My cousin's mother died a *much* more noble death.
Can't stop death from coming. And there is a time to fight for life, but also a time to recognize when the fight is over.
Christ, this incident must have REALLY struck a chord. I post a VERY mild defense of the guy and I'm immediately modded flamebait and blasted by everyone. I've gotten less heat here for saying Windows is better than Linux. I'm surprised this guy doesn't have a lynch mob outside his apartment.
Ah yes, the Giant Panda--the ursine family equivalent of that retarded cousin who gets pulled over and tells the cop "Yeah, I've been drinking a little, but I swear I wasn't smoking any of that crack I have in the trunk."
Soon we can turn Antarctica into a useful human settle-able land with farming and cities.
Only if you bring your own dirt. Antarctica doesn't have any.
Voted into office for 4 years, campaigning for 2 of them.
Heard a quote not long ago from a retired Senator that was something along the lines of "Being in Congress these days means you spend 20% of your time legislating, and 80% of your time fundraising."
The whole thing looked way blown out of proportion to me. So this guy was having a rough spot in his life and was a little brusk and unprofessional in the initial email exchange. Conversely, the guy on the other end was WAY overboard on wanting that controller by Christmas (must be a helluva controller). And things just escalated from there to levels where they both sounded like children. Very unprofessional on Christoforo's part, for sure. But hardly worthy of the massive scorn he's gotten.
I think he's really just become a stand-in for all this shitty customer service reps we've all encountered (particularly around Christmas). And he's taking the heat for a lot of shit that he had nothing to do with.
Shit matters.
Gotta love /. these days.
Yes, because there was a time when conversations on /. didn't immediately turn to shit.
It was back in 1923, and everyone on /. was serious, I tells ya. There were no lame memes or potty-mouthed jokes in those days, kiddo. Back in them days, we was all behind Cool Cal for President and everyone just sat around smoking fine cigars and having serious discussions about the markets. We had our hot grits plain in them days. Natalie Portman wasn't even a gleam in her daddy's eye. And we liked it, dagnabbit!
But Google is actually bigger than Hollywood.
No, they're not. Google is only worth about half as much as Comcast alone. Combine all the big media players and you're looking at something like $300 billion in muscle. If you include GE in that figure (who still own about half of NBCUniversal) and you're talking closer to half a trillion $.
Actually, Larry and Sergei could buy all of the movie and music studios with their personal money.
Uh, yeah...you're on crack. Comcast alone is worth about $120 billion. Of course, they could opt for the cheaper NBCUniversal at about $30 billion. And that's just the biggest two of the six major players in the media biz.
Because it's only "bribery" if you give it to them in $50,000 in a suitcase full of cash. Give that same $50,000 to them as a "campaign donation", or in paid ads that you've bought for them, and it's all perfectly legal. Such is the American political system.
There was a time when I would recommend GoDaddy as a host to my smaller clients. But their incredibly sleazy ad campaigns (that look more like ads for "Girls Gone Wild" videos than for a web hosting company) started to become so embarrassing that I stopped recommending them. I couldn't very well recommend them to a serious client only have that client catch one of their Hooters/strip-club ads during the Super Bowl.
Obama and most of the Democratic Party are owned by the big Hollywood studios. The Republican Party is owned by big business in general. The only reason this hasn't passed already (without even a public debate) is that Google and a handful of other big players are fighting it. But even Google is a relatively small fish in this money game.
As for those of us without deep pockets--well save yourself that stamp on a letter to your Congressman.
I live in San Fransisco.
I said in America.
That's not a joke, BTW. So every time you really have to defecate and some greedy business or city has installed a pay toilet, you can thank John Nevil Maskelyne--the noble inventor who pioneered the idea of charging people a penny to take a shit.
And, as an American, god bless you Committee to End Pay Toilets in America--for keeping this scourge mostly out of the land of the free crapper.
But then they found out that New Yorker readers were far too smug to lower themselves to reading email.
not every cross dug up is the True Cross
There was an old joke about the medieval obsession with holy artifacts that went "If you assembled every piece of the True Cross on display in medieval churches, you could build a fence across Europe." You might have to throw in some Saint's bones to help in that construction too.
The story is nonsense. By the time the ziggurat was built, pretty much all the language families known today were already in existence.
No one is saying the existence of the temple that formed the basis of the story of the Tower of Babel lends any credibility to the rest of the story. That's sort of like saying "Well, Jerusalem actually existed--which lends evidence to the claim that Jesus was the Son of God." Many of the sites, people, and events mentioned in the Bible really existed, or at least had some basis in historical fact. That doesn't mean that everything else in the Bible must therefore be true too.
Size doesn't matter. You should see how small the Derek Zoolander Center For Children Who Can't Read Good And Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too is
Is there no politician on the ballot that doesn't do these things?
Nope. And even if there was, you and I probably wouldn't have any way of knowing it.
Then people should write in their own and vote for him.
Sure, as soon as "him" comes forward. Tell me, do you see any "hims" in the 2012 Presidential race so far? Do you see any in the Senate or House races in your district?
Do you feel guilty for going to the zoo, Mr. Judmental?
Sorry, but there is no fucking way a company is going to lease me solar panels at anywhere near what I would save in electricity each month with no upfront cost.
Let's use a best case scenario here. You've got a $25,000 upfront cost for installation. I average about $120 a month on my electric bill. Now, with that $25,000 upfront, let's say they give me a VERY generous interest rate on that loan of 10% (not likely, but this is best case scenario). That's $2,500 a year just on the INTEREST--not even factoring in their maintenance costs, system depreciation, any payment on the principal, etc. So even if the system generated enough electricity to cover 100% of my electric bill (again, hardly likely, but we'll stick with the best case scenario), I would still only be paying them about $1,400 a year. That's $1,100 less than just the INTEREST on their upfront investment. There is no way any company in their right mind is going to do that. Unless the government is going to be subsidizing that upfront with a 0% interest rate loan, there is just no way to make those numbers work.
Where was this concerned Italian government when MTV sent over the Jersey Shore cast?
Please, don't compare GoDaddy to prostitutes. At least the services prostitutes offer are honest.
Prostitute's ads are also a lot less sleazy.