FTL: "Data show that there is accelerating fragmentation of care of seriously ill Americans at the end-of-life. Dying patients continue to be hospitalized and subjected to ineffective therapies that erode their quality of life and their personal dignity. Doctors' attitudes have hardly changed in the past 23 years despite the passage of the PSDA. Our data show that doctors they have a striking personal preference to forego high-intensity care for themselves at the end-of-life and prefer to die gently and naturally. This study raises questions about why doctors provide care, to their patients, which is very different from what they choose for themselves and also what seriously ill patients want."
I suppose rich people have too much money to think for themselves, eh?
If the expensive (or even cheap) hotel I was staying at is charging anything, I feel insulted, as it demonstrates that they think I'm a fool.
And actually, I would be a fool if I paid (really?) $1K/day for WiFi... Jeepers, for a thousand dollars you could buy a no-contract cell phone, a no-contract/burner SIM card, and use the phone as a WiFi hot-spot. Bonus: you don't have to worry about whether the hotel set up the security well (usually they don't).
That and "Just 'cuz it's done one way in the 'States and a different way just about everywhere else, doesn't mean that the American way is the best, eh."
See? This is why I keep coming here: commentary that refuses to substitute straw-man and ad hominem drive-by attacks for cogent, considered, calm arguments.
Keep it up, Whatever... You'll surely win this audience to your side.
My fingertips ache just thinking about tapping on a hard surface at 40 wpm (that's rapping a desk surface about three times a second). These guys must be bible-method typists.
And with no tactile feedback?
Engineers spend a lot of time and effort to provide tactile feedback. In the seventies, a lot of effort was put into photographic cameras so that the user could feel the point where, if the pressed the shutter down 'just a hair', the camera would shoot.
Likewise, for keyboards. There's a reason that these schemes keep failing. The public really doesn't want them.
You clearly haven't been paying attention if you think that the government, along with its handmaidens and handlers (y'know, the NSA, the CIA, NYC cops, and the 1% of the 1%) doesn't consider the American and the world's citizenry - especially an informed citizenry, the enemy.
Coincidentally enough, this morning I got an email message from the TrueCrypt Audit Indiegogo letting me know that the gifts/rewards for contributing to the campaign were going out in the mail....
On the post: DailyDirt: Logan's Run For Octogenarians, Tricenarians... Or Pick An Age?
Dr. Emanuel might not be such a rare bird.
Periyakoil et al - Do Unto Others: Doctors' Personal End-of-Life Resuscitation Preferences and Their Attitudes toward Advance Directives
FTL: "Data show that there is accelerating fragmentation of care of seriously ill Americans at the end-of-life. Dying patients continue to be hospitalized and subjected to ineffective therapies that erode their quality of life and their personal dignity. Doctors' attitudes have hardly changed in the past 23 years despite the passage of the PSDA. Our data show that doctors they have a striking personal preference to forego high-intensity care for themselves at the end-of-life and prefer to die gently and naturally. This study raises questions about why doctors provide care, to their patients, which is very different from what they choose for themselves and also what seriously ill patients want."
Also:
How Doctors Die by Ken Murray, MD
Talk to people who work with terminal and geriatric patients. What's important, if you ask me, is how well you lived, not how long you lived.
On the post: FCC Fines Marriott For Jamming Customers' WiFi Hotspots To Push Them Onto Hotel's $1,000 Per Device WiFi
I suppose rich people have too much money to think for themselves, eh?
And actually, I would be a fool if I paid (really?) $1K/day for WiFi... Jeepers, for a thousand dollars you could buy a no-contract cell phone, a no-contract/burner SIM card, and use the phone as a WiFi hot-spot. Bonus: you don't have to worry about whether the hotel set up the security well (usually they don't).
On the post: Internal Emails Show Harris Corp. Misled The FCC On Stingray Device Usage In Order To Receive Approval
Lying to a federal government official? Isn't that illegal?
On the post: Canada Appears To Be Split On Whether To Extend Culture Tax To Internet Services
Re:
That and "Just 'cuz it's done one way in the 'States and a different way just about everywhere else, doesn't mean that the American way is the best, eh."
On the post: Iranian Grand Ayatollah Issues Fatwa Against 'Immoral' High-Speed Internet Connections
Net Neutrality is evil?
Heh.
On the post: DailyDirt: Butter. Mmm. Butter.
Re: Re: heated butter compartments: they catch fire.
http://www.waltersforensic.com/articles/fire_investigation/vol2-no2.htm
On the post: California Lawmaker Votes To Kill Uber... Then Caught Driving Drunk Just Hours Later
Re: Caught you politics
Keep it up, Whatever... You'll surely win this audience to your side.
On the post: DailyDirt: Butter. Mmm. Butter.
Re: My Fridge Has A Butter Conditioner
If you have a fire fighter in your entourage, ask them whether you should turn it off.
On the post: DailyDirt: Better Keyboards
A hard non-tactile surface as a keyboard?
My fingertips ache just thinking about tapping on a hard surface at 40 wpm (that's rapping a desk surface about three times a second). These guys must be bible-method typists.
And with no tactile feedback?
Engineers spend a lot of time and effort to provide tactile feedback. In the seventies, a lot of effort was put into photographic cameras so that the user could feel the point where, if the pressed the shutter down 'just a hair', the camera would shoot.
Likewise, for keyboards. There's a reason that these schemes keep failing. The public really doesn't want them.
On the post: Conan Doyle Estate Asks Supreme Court To Step In And Block Sherlock Holmes From Being Public Domain'd
We can't let the copyright expire...
On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
re. chronological order...
On the post: Clueless Lawyer Sues Tor Project Because Revenge Porn Site Made Use Of Tor
He forgot to sue Intel and AMD...
They've got way more money than tor.org does, no?
On the post: Fans Mad At Ubisoft For Nixing Female Characters In 2 Games; Ubisoft Mumbles Something About Cost
Of course they have to watch their pennies.
On the post: DailyDirt: It's The Little Things That Matter...
Re: Re: plastic beads in soap
But plain soap doesn't have the devastating effects on the environment and on people's health resulting from pervasive presence of tricoslan and micro-beads in everything.
On the post: Quick Hack Will Now Alert People When The Supreme Court Quietly Changes Rulings On Its Site
Re:
On the post: Law Enforcement Agencies Continue To Obtain Military Equipment, Claiming The United States Is A 'War Zone'
Re:
And where the enemy lives, that's a war zone.
On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
Re: Response to: Jay on Jun 8th, 2014 @ 3:37pm
Every other week, when 'Anonymous' gets the funny or insightful nod from Mike or the minions, it's really ME!
On the post: TrueCrypt Page Says It's Not Secure, All Development Stopped
Re: Occam's Razor suggests...
..or was it the NSA? Hmmmm.
On the post: State AG Tries To Order Removal Of Public Records From Journalist's Blog, Resulting In Records Being Posted Everywhere
What's sauce for the goose...
When Ledar Levinson does this, he's threatened with jail time...
On the post: Should It Be Against The Law To Say That The Watch You're Selling Was Worn By Sandra Bullock?
As long as you're not trying to sell me..
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