“If you find somebody on the ground who’s bleeding to death – do you
stop for a minute and decide if they“deserve” to be rescued? Or do
you try your best to help them?”
I hate to say it, but nowadays, if you try to help an injured stranger,
you are setting yourself up for a ruinous lawsuit. Even if you win, the
expense of defending yourself in court will bankrupt you.
I’m not sure I’d risk everything I own trying to help a stranger. Even
medical personnel are warned, “If you’re off the clock, don’t get involved.”
As litigious as western societies have become I do not think I would be all that eager to help.
If I came upon the scene of an auto accident or a mugging, no question I would call 911. I do
not carry any first aid supplies in my car so calling for help would be the extent of what aid I
could reasonably provide. I haven’t had any first aid training in decades so I really would not
be qualified to help. “Good Samaritan” laws do not prevent you from being sued penniless.
While I was In High School my Dad witnessed a vehicle going off the road and down an
embankment and ran to try and help the driver. This was 55 years ago so cell phones were
not yet a thing. When he got to the vehicle, the driver was engulfed in flames. Dad pulled the
door open and had to cut the man’s seatbelt with his pocket knife. Then, having nothing
else, he beat the flames in the man’s clothing out with his hands. Meanwhile another driver
on that road called in the accident using citizens band radio. The poor driver succumbed to
his injuries 3 days later. The man had been heading to San Antonio to attend to the birth of
his first grandchild. He lived long enough to know that he had a grandson and the child’s
name. The man’s family was very grateful to Dad. At least the man didn’t die on the child’s
birthday. The family sent Dad Christmas cards for hears. Today I would be afraid to be sued.
My fear would be that some shyster lawyer would convince the family to sue me for everything I
own. Sidenote: My Dad drove trucks for a living. The man was wearing a nylon shirt (anybody
remember “banlon”?) and Dad wound up burning his hands (1st & 2nd degree) and was unable to
drive for a couple of weeks. He had little slivers of melted nylon growing out of his hands for
months. Also, this was not the only time my Dad pulled a man from a burning automobile. He
did it while I was in 4th grade, too. My Dad was a real-deal, by damn hero!
As far as I know, over here you’re still legally REQUIRED to
help.
As long as you’re acting “Nach besten Wissen und Gewissen”
(= to the best of your abilities and consciousness) you should
be safe from charges, even if you do additional damage.
Of course that leaves plenty room for interpretation.
We do have a different – very disturbing/sickening – problem here:
bystanders who obstruct or even attack rescuing authorities.
There’s even some who’d argue with police or fire fighters because
they “need to get through because they have an urgent meeting”
or such.
I am in a very bad spot here. I was an Army medic for ten years.
While I was in Germany, I volunteered in a German hospital
emergency room (Where my wife worked). I learned a LOT about
trauma care and treatment that I was never officially trained for.
But that was years ago. I no longer have any certification, although
I have the knowledge and skill. I’ve kept up.
Because I lack certification, I can only do what an average citizen
can do in response to an emergency, no more.
For example: I come upon an auto accident. The driver’s throat has
been crushed, he – is – going – to – die – no – shit.
I know how to do a tracheotomy. So I cut, allowing him to breathe.
I’ve saved his life, but not only will I be sued for creating a scar, I
will be arrested and sent to prison for practicing medicine without
a license.
God help me if he dies from his other injuries.
It’s easier to just not take the risk of inadvertently going beyond
what the average civilian could do.
Because I know that if I get involved, I will enter a familiar space
and go too far: “You’re my patient, I WON’T let you die, dammit!”
Being a retired Nurse – I can readily relate – and have thought about this aspect a lot.
As Bill, I no longer carry my Nurse Kit nor first aid equipment since I allowed my Indiana RN License and malpractice insurance to go inactive.
I see the wisdom in calling 911, but that has to be it. . . . sadly.
I was certified as a trained first aid with CPR training and this was brought
up in class, sadly when I truly needed it was when my mother slipped into
a coma and stopped breathing. I called 911 and ran in and tried to put her
on the floor but I couldn’t do it safely so I had to leave her on the bed and
deal with it for the 15 mins it took the EMT’s to show up. She didn’t make it
and I felt her ribs go while I was doing that, I would of been sued as well
if it was a stranger. The movie “The Incredibles” depicted exactly this very
thing, people are sue happy and it doesn’t matter that you saved their life,
only that they get free money out of it.
@Me, the problem isn’t the possibility of criminal charges but of facing some sort of ruinous civil suit.
(Sidebar: The only thing less “civil” than “civil law” is civil war.) Unfortunately, on this side of the pond
we have little in place to preclude/prevent/punish frivolous lawsuits. My understanding is that in
Europe you folks have the principle of “loser pays” which would tend to make someone leery of filing a
possibly frivolous lawsuit. Even the presence of laws ostensibly shielding one who acts in good faith
from lawsuit, it is still possible to be sued, often with ruinous results. I don’t know who writes the laws
in Europe but here in the U.S. it’s mostly lawyers. One could easily characterize our legal system (both
criminal and civil) as a full-employment scheme for lawyers.
But we (as in Germany) have our own special brand
of brain damaging litigations, if you’re interested …
It’s call “Abmahnung” (something like a cease and desist
order).
There’s ton of stuff you have to do in very specific ways or
your competitors might feel treated unfairly.
Thing is: they don’t have to sue you themselves for it, even if
none of your competitors noticed your mistakes – heck even if
ALL of them make these same errors themselves, if some
lawyer notices you might be infringing they can tell you to stop,
and make you pay for “their trouble” plus fines and whatever.
There’s law firms specializing in that stuff. “We noticed that the
small print on your website is just a teeny bit too well hidden, please
pay us 50k€, or else”
(There’s been trying to reign these in – with some limited success so far)
As for “loser pays”: that usually doesn’t apply if you settle.
In that case normally both sides pay their own fees.
And of course, there’s always those who can afford to drag
a litigation on and on and on – and others who can’t
(or just settle anyway just to bury the issue and get out of
the headlines fast).
There was an interesting proposal put forward here once.
Loser would pay only the amount they spent on the case.
I buy a new car, it has a design defect that damages me,
I sue the manufacturer.
They spend a million dollars defending themselves, I spend
a thousand.
I lose, I have to pay them a thousand dollars. They lose, they
pay me a million. On top of the jury award.
This would prevent anyone from running up the possible bill
hoping to intimidate their opponent.
The proposal never went anywhere.
That’s even better an idea than the one I had:
nobody ever gets to choose their lawyers.
They’re all just randomly appointed by the courts.
Of course that might mean nobody smart enough
to be a good lawyer would ever pick up lawyering …
The proposal you mention might backfire in some
cases. If you’ve already payed your lawyers three
or four million and are looking at losing a 5 million
dollar lawsuit you might feel inclined to spent yet
another million to try and avoid losing that 9 mio
total.
And you still can wear your opponent down by dragging
it out and out and out and …
Maybe it would help a lot if the system was changed
so that you’re barred from civil litigation if a criminal
case already found you innocent?
I mean you do have something like nobody can be prosecuted
twice for the same crime – so why not extend that to civil litigation
at least in some cases?
Petercat: Christmas weekend, when we had the blizzard up here.
A cop (21, just started service) finds a pickup truck in the
ditch. He goes to see if the couple in the car need help.
They buried him a few days later. The couple were on the run,
the truck was stolen, and the jackass who shot him was seeking
‘suicide by cop.’
There once was a song called “Living next door to Alice”, a British
version (by Smokie) of which has been quite a success over here.
A decade later some Dutch(?) band made fun of it by yelling
“Alice! Who the fuck is Alice!” whenever the original lyrics were whining
about not having the nerve to talk to her.
That version had been very popular in clubs and on parties.
She seems to be a good person, stopping to ask what’s going on
rather than heading for the hills, even taking part in the evac.
Slimy is showing the ideas of the core, keep them down, keep them
helpless, make them obedient. Sad thing is? that’s what the church
and most kings did and their kingdoms failed and fell to someone
stronger all the time. You can’t sustain any economy like that, sooner
or later something happens and everything collapses. In this case,
the Empire. Only way the core has a hope of surviving is to accept
the new economy created by the Empire, or have each core world
drown under the weight of it. Queen Ann’gijin sees this and is acting
the right way, who knows what the rest will do, other than PC of course
President Elect Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH Neanderthal B Woodman Domestic Violent Extremist SuperStraight
The core don’t get it, The Empire doesn’t want control, they just want
to get along with everyone. No control, just progress and prosperity.
The core wants complete control on what they do and how, no one
can be as strong as them. They want everyone to be weak and unable
to develop normally, they just want money at any cost. The worst kind
of tyranny, the peons just slave away until they die, very medieval.
Anyone within the Empire pays only 75% of the shipping costs the
Core Worlds charge.
Anyone not part of the Empire but wants to trade with it (i.e.
Neutral) pays an additional 10% in tariffs for the shipping.
But what’s worse for the Core Worlds is the part with fair trade.
They can’t beat the transport prices of the Empire.
They also don’t want to pay the fair prices the Empire pays. Their
economy depends on squeezing the Fringe Worlds to an inch of
their existence. We haven’t seen much of an orbital or even stellar
infrastructure. One can’t expand their population because they
need the medicine provided by the imports. The Dogusians can’t
expand beyond one continent. Neither can exploit the resources
of their own star system in any way.
Other Fringe Worlds are probably in a better position, but that
doesn’t necessarily mean much considering we have seen that
the ‘Batshits’ feel the sting of just one missing shipment.
I read Taritha’s statement as being that non-empire members who stayed neutral would pay a
10% tariff on their goods and would be charged a freight rate equal to 75% of what core worlds
shippers would charge. My understanding is that core world shippers were charging ruinous
rates to ship fringe world goods. IIRC they also charged exorbitant prices for the goods as well.
Essentially core world merchants were taking unfair advantage of having what amounted to a
monopoly on goods and transport. While I don’t believe the empire’s practices would truly ruin
anybody’s economy, it would reduce shipping concerns’ profits which would doubtless reduce
tax revenue as well as bribes currently going to some core world officials. It would be painful in
the short run but it might just end up benefiting the core worlds in the long run. Just not some
long established entities.
Nope. The neutral shippers, even with the 10% tariff added in, will find their shipping costs will only
be 75% of what they’re currently paying to core shippers.
If they’re members of the empire, their shipping costs will be 65% of what the core charges.
Yeah, it was 4 am and I should of looked at it the other way around
with the wife still in rehab I can’t sleep well or much. She’s in isolation
right now since she caught my cold (grrrrr…..) so I can’t go see her…
The way it works is that the standard freight rates are about 68% of Core freight rates.
Imperial worlds pay standard freight rates.
Neutral worlds pay the standard rates plus 10%, which equals about 75% of Core
freight rates.
To simplify:
Core charges 100 Kore to move X kilos Y distance.
Imperial haulers charge Imperial worlds 68 Kore.
Neutral worlds pay 68 + 6.8 Kore. 74.8 Kore total.
Call it an incentive to join. You and I are members of the Empire, we both have 100
items to trade, Slimy also has 100 trade items he wants to trade with either of us.
Taritha said even with the tariff they’d still get the shipping at 75% less of the cost,
while members of the Empire would get it at 85%. The trade item count would reflect
those costs. So we trade 50 – 7.5 of the trade items for shipping on both sides while
Slimy would only get 50 – 12.5. The core costs would mean each side out of 50/50
trade items they’d both only get 12.5 items each. 42.5 items versus 12.5. Money
makes trading simpler is all. And avoids constant diplomatic meetings over trade values.
Well kinda, there’s always going to stupid arguments over value and costs…
I would too! They are some tasty lookin’ steaks.
I wonder if they are like the Shitbats, no anus.
(starts looking for the stun baton…)
That would explain much, everyone feels relaxed
after a good “unload” heh.
I think it’s because Slimy is bummed out, he can’t
do anything to the Pride or Taritha and it depresses
him.
Many states have a “Good Samaritan” law that protects medical and non medical
persons from being sued for anything except willful injuries. In case of drug
overdose reporting the police can’t charge a
for having drugs and paraphernalia on them. check your state’s laws to see
if they have one and what it covers.
My wife called me a bit ago, she has pneumonia, I don’t know if
they are just going to treat it or send her back to the hospital as
yet, it’s going to be a long night for me….
Her breathing doctor told me with her stage 4 COPD something
like this could be bad. sorry i’m a mess.
What the hell? I guess that one webcomic is determined not to lose first
place again. Voting for February started two hours ago, and they have
14,000 votes already.
Yeah, it smells and is obviously not correct. They say to never attribute to
villainy what can be explained by incompetence, and maybe some idjit at
TWC just failed to clear their last month’s tally. But such an obvious mistake
n such a prominent position would have been spotted by now and hopefully
corrected. This reads as foul play.
To be fair, there’s some of those who are
more-or-less abandoned (so their authors
probably don’t care either way), but do have
fans who keep returning to them just in
case.
I wouldn’t surprised if some of these vote
just as an incentive for the writer to pick
it up again.
Me-
To answer you from yesterday:
“If you find somebody on the ground who’s bleeding to death – do you
stop for a minute and decide if they“deserve” to be rescued? Or do
you try your best to help them?”
I hate to say it, but nowadays, if you try to help an injured stranger,
you are setting yourself up for a ruinous lawsuit. Even if you win, the
expense of defending yourself in court will bankrupt you.
I’m not sure I’d risk everything I own trying to help a stranger. Even
medical personnel are warned, “If you’re off the clock, don’t get involved.”
Sad but true, I’ve always tried to help people out
and I’ve been burned. Every. Single. Time.
Yeah. There’s that too, of course.
…
I think this might derail into something political
quickly.
Oh I’d bet on it.
The “Good Samaritan” laws are supposed to prevent that. But I’m still wary. If they are
conscious, I ask if they want me to “try to help”.
As litigious as western societies have become I do not think I would be all that eager to help.
If I came upon the scene of an auto accident or a mugging, no question I would call 911. I do
not carry any first aid supplies in my car so calling for help would be the extent of what aid I
could reasonably provide. I haven’t had any first aid training in decades so I really would not
be qualified to help. “Good Samaritan” laws do not prevent you from being sued penniless.
While I was In High School my Dad witnessed a vehicle going off the road and down an
embankment and ran to try and help the driver. This was 55 years ago so cell phones were
not yet a thing. When he got to the vehicle, the driver was engulfed in flames. Dad pulled the
door open and had to cut the man’s seatbelt with his pocket knife. Then, having nothing
else, he beat the flames in the man’s clothing out with his hands. Meanwhile another driver
on that road called in the accident using citizens band radio. The poor driver succumbed to
his injuries 3 days later. The man had been heading to San Antonio to attend to the birth of
his first grandchild. He lived long enough to know that he had a grandson and the child’s
name. The man’s family was very grateful to Dad. At least the man didn’t die on the child’s
birthday. The family sent Dad Christmas cards for hears. Today I would be afraid to be sued.
My fear would be that some shyster lawyer would convince the family to sue me for everything I
own. Sidenote: My Dad drove trucks for a living. The man was wearing a nylon shirt (anybody
remember “banlon”?) and Dad wound up burning his hands (1st & 2nd degree) and was unable to
drive for a couple of weeks. He had little slivers of melted nylon growing out of his hands for
months. Also, this was not the only time my Dad pulled a man from a burning automobile. He
did it while I was in 4th grade, too. My Dad was a real-deal, by damn hero!
As far as I know, over here you’re still legally REQUIRED to
help.
As long as you’re acting “Nach besten Wissen und Gewissen”
(= to the best of your abilities and consciousness) you should
be safe from charges, even if you do additional damage.
Of course that leaves plenty room for interpretation.
We do have a different – very disturbing/sickening – problem here:
bystanders who obstruct or even attack rescuing authorities.
There’s even some who’d argue with police or fire fighters because
they “need to get through because they have an urgent meeting”
or such.
I am in a very bad spot here. I was an Army medic for ten years.
While I was in Germany, I volunteered in a German hospital
emergency room (Where my wife worked). I learned a LOT about
trauma care and treatment that I was never officially trained for.
But that was years ago. I no longer have any certification, although
I have the knowledge and skill. I’ve kept up.
Because I lack certification, I can only do what an average citizen
can do in response to an emergency, no more.
For example: I come upon an auto accident. The driver’s throat has
been crushed, he – is – going – to – die – no – shit.
I know how to do a tracheotomy. So I cut, allowing him to breathe.
I’ve saved his life, but not only will I be sued for creating a scar, I
will be arrested and sent to prison for practicing medicine without
a license.
God help me if he dies from his other injuries.
It’s easier to just not take the risk of inadvertently going beyond
what the average civilian could do.
Because I know that if I get involved, I will enter a familiar space
and go too far: “You’re my patient, I WON’T let you die, dammit!”
Ok. That’s something different again.
My bet would be, you’d be into the same kind of
trouble here, too.
The “do what you can” paragraph explicitly is about
laymen providing first aid – and only that.
Not about “I’m more then able to perform this risky
procedure, but I lack formal qualification.”
Being a retired Nurse – I can readily relate – and have thought about this aspect a lot.
As Bill, I no longer carry my Nurse Kit nor first aid equipment since I allowed my Indiana RN License and malpractice insurance to go inactive.
I see the wisdom in calling 911, but that has to be it. . . . sadly.
I was certified as a trained first aid with CPR training and this was brought
up in class, sadly when I truly needed it was when my mother slipped into
a coma and stopped breathing. I called 911 and ran in and tried to put her
on the floor but I couldn’t do it safely so I had to leave her on the bed and
deal with it for the 15 mins it took the EMT’s to show up. She didn’t make it
and I felt her ribs go while I was doing that, I would of been sued as well
if it was a stranger. The movie “The Incredibles” depicted exactly this very
thing, people are sue happy and it doesn’t matter that you saved their life,
only that they get free money out of it.
@Me, the problem isn’t the possibility of criminal charges but of facing some sort of ruinous civil suit.
(Sidebar: The only thing less “civil” than “civil law” is civil war.) Unfortunately, on this side of the pond
we have little in place to preclude/prevent/punish frivolous lawsuits. My understanding is that in
Europe you folks have the principle of “loser pays” which would tend to make someone leery of filing a
possibly frivolous lawsuit. Even the presence of laws ostensibly shielding one who acts in good faith
from lawsuit, it is still possible to be sued, often with ruinous results. I don’t know who writes the laws
in Europe but here in the U.S. it’s mostly lawyers. One could easily characterize our legal system (both
criminal and civil) as a full-employment scheme for lawyers.
It’s (still) a bit different here …
But we (as in Germany) have our own special brand
of brain damaging litigations, if you’re interested …
It’s call “Abmahnung” (something like a cease and desist
order).
There’s ton of stuff you have to do in very specific ways or
your competitors might feel treated unfairly.
Thing is: they don’t have to sue you themselves for it, even if
none of your competitors noticed your mistakes – heck even if
ALL of them make these same errors themselves, if some
lawyer notices you might be infringing they can tell you to stop,
and make you pay for “their trouble” plus fines and whatever.
There’s law firms specializing in that stuff. “We noticed that the
small print on your website is just a teeny bit too well hidden, please
pay us 50k€, or else”
(There’s been trying to reign these in – with some limited success so far)
As for “loser pays”: that usually doesn’t apply if you settle.
In that case normally both sides pay their own fees.
And of course, there’s always those who can afford to drag
a litigation on and on and on – and others who can’t
(or just settle anyway just to bury the issue and get out of
the headlines fast).
There was an interesting proposal put forward here once.
Loser would pay only the amount they spent on the case.
I buy a new car, it has a design defect that damages me,
I sue the manufacturer.
They spend a million dollars defending themselves, I spend
a thousand.
I lose, I have to pay them a thousand dollars. They lose, they
pay me a million. On top of the jury award.
This would prevent anyone from running up the possible bill
hoping to intimidate their opponent.
The proposal never went anywhere.
That’s even better an idea than the one I had:
nobody ever gets to choose their lawyers.
They’re all just randomly appointed by the courts.
Of course that might mean nobody smart enough
to be a good lawyer would ever pick up lawyering …
The proposal you mention might backfire in some
cases. If you’ve already payed your lawyers three
or four million and are looking at losing a 5 million
dollar lawsuit you might feel inclined to spent yet
another million to try and avoid losing that 9 mio
total.
And you still can wear your opponent down by dragging
it out and out and out and …
Just a crazy thought …
Maybe it would help a lot if the system was changed
so that you’re barred from civil litigation if a criminal
case already found you innocent?
I mean you do have something like nobody can be prosecuted
twice for the same crime – so why not extend that to civil litigation
at least in some cases?
Petercat: Christmas weekend, when we had the blizzard up here.
A cop (21, just started service) finds a pickup truck in the
ditch. He goes to see if the couple in the car need help.
They buried him a few days later. The couple were on the run,
the truck was stolen, and the jackass who shot him was seeking
‘suicide by cop.’
The “Alice’s” place in the 1st strip should/i> have been a restaurant, not a dress shop.
(Just sayin’)
Can you get anything you want?
Excepting Alice.
Alice? Who the fuck is Alice?
Ok. You probably won’t get that reference.
That song hasn’t been very successful outside
of Europe, I guess.
Link?
This should work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsrfovOPcjk
(Sorry, can turn on audio atm)
There once was a song called “Living next door to Alice”, a British
version (by Smokie) of which has been quite a success over here.
A decade later some Dutch(?) band made fun of it by yelling
“Alice! Who the fuck is Alice!” whenever the original lyrics were whining
about not having the nerve to talk to her.
That version had been very popular in clubs and on parties.
Never thought I would see that song referenced here. The artist is Gompie, an alias for Peter Koelewijn. He is indeed Dutch.
That.. is hilarious. Thanks.
You’re welcome
She seems to be a good person, stopping to ask what’s going on
rather than heading for the hills, even taking part in the evac.
Slimy is showing the ideas of the core, keep them down, keep them
helpless, make them obedient. Sad thing is? that’s what the church
and most kings did and their kingdoms failed and fell to someone
stronger all the time. You can’t sustain any economy like that, sooner
or later something happens and everything collapses. In this case,
the Empire. Only way the core has a hope of surviving is to accept
the new economy created by the Empire, or have each core world
drown under the weight of it. Queen Ann’gijin sees this and is acting
the right way, who knows what the rest will do, other than PC of course
Sounds like Taritha has been studying computer logic.
“If-then”, lather, rinse, repeat.
One think about the 10% thingy I don’t quite
understand.
Does her notion of “neutral” imply that they
have to pay that 10%?
Or is the 10% tariff just an offer for those who
stay neutral – which would allow those to trade
with both sides.
Also: members of the Empire not paying anything
at all is a bit free-lunchy, ain’t it?
I think the 10% is in addition to normal freight rates. Everyone pays normal freight rates. Non-imperial pays an extra 10%.
That’s my read on it anyway.
The core don’t get it, The Empire doesn’t want control, they just want
to get along with everyone. No control, just progress and prosperity.
The core wants complete control on what they do and how, no one
can be as strong as them. They want everyone to be weak and unable
to develop normally, they just want money at any cost. The worst kind
of tyranny, the peons just slave away until they die, very medieval.
Anyone within the Empire pays only 75% of the shipping costs the
Core Worlds charge.
Anyone not part of the Empire but wants to trade with it (i.e.
Neutral) pays an additional 10% in tariffs for the shipping.
But what’s worse for the Core Worlds is the part with fair trade.
I think his problem is that he can’t or doesn’t want
to beat the prices set by their new competition?
It sucks if you’ve been the only shipping company
in the market for hundreds of years and suddenly
somebody shows up “stealing” “you” business.
They can’t beat the transport prices of the Empire.
They also don’t want to pay the fair prices the Empire pays. Their
economy depends on squeezing the Fringe Worlds to an inch of
their existence. We haven’t seen much of an orbital or even stellar
infrastructure. One can’t expand their population because they
need the medicine provided by the imports. The Dogusians can’t
expand beyond one continent. Neither can exploit the resources
of their own star system in any way.
Other Fringe Worlds are probably in a better position, but that
doesn’t necessarily mean much considering we have seen that
the ‘Batshits’ feel the sting of just one missing shipment.
I read Taritha’s statement as being that non-empire members who stayed neutral would pay a
10% tariff on their goods and would be charged a freight rate equal to 75% of what core worlds
shippers would charge. My understanding is that core world shippers were charging ruinous
rates to ship fringe world goods. IIRC they also charged exorbitant prices for the goods as well.
Essentially core world merchants were taking unfair advantage of having what amounted to a
monopoly on goods and transport. While I don’t believe the empire’s practices would truly ruin
anybody’s economy, it would reduce shipping concerns’ profits which would doubtless reduce
tax revenue as well as bribes currently going to some core world officials. It would be painful in
the short run but it might just end up benefiting the core worlds in the long run. Just not some
long established entities.
My interpretation is that the 10% tariff is 75% less then what the
core worlds are currently charging (i.e. they charge 40% tariff?)
Those prices had been called excessive by fringe-worlders, but
don’t forget that the core worlds don’t have a grav drive …
Maybe a fair price for both core and fringe worlds would be some
like 20%? Which would still be double of what the Empire’s asking.
In that case the current prices are way too high but “fair” pricing
would still not be competitive.
Nope. The neutral shippers, even with the 10% tariff added in, will find their shipping costs will only
be 75% of what they’re currently paying to core shippers.
If they’re members of the empire, their shipping costs will be 65% of what the core charges.
Yeah, it was 4 am and I should of looked at it the other way around
with the wife still in rehab I can’t sleep well or much. She’s in isolation
right now since she caught my cold (grrrrr…..) so I can’t go see her…
The way it works is that the standard freight rates are about 68% of Core freight rates.
Imperial worlds pay standard freight rates.
Neutral worlds pay the standard rates plus 10%, which equals about 75% of Core
freight rates.
To simplify:
Core charges 100 Kore to move X kilos Y distance.
Imperial haulers charge Imperial worlds 68 Kore.
Neutral worlds pay 68 + 6.8 Kore. 74.8 Kore total.
Call it an incentive to join. You and I are members of the Empire, we both have 100
items to trade, Slimy also has 100 trade items he wants to trade with either of us.
Taritha said even with the tariff they’d still get the shipping at 75% less of the cost,
while members of the Empire would get it at 85%. The trade item count would reflect
those costs. So we trade 50 – 7.5 of the trade items for shipping on both sides while
Slimy would only get 50 – 12.5. The core costs would mean each side out of 50/50
trade items they’d both only get 12.5 items each. 42.5 items versus 12.5. Money
makes trading simpler is all. And avoids constant diplomatic meetings over trade values.
Well kinda, there’s always going to stupid arguments over value and costs…
You’re overthinking it. See just above^.
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Cost is the price the seller demands.
Value is the price the buyer is willing to pay.
sometimes it helps to read numbers, at least for an aging man
with too much on his mind.
A headline that just begs for an explanation:
“Man dies after being crushed by hydraulic urinal outside London theatre”
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1727207/London-Trafalgar-Square-air-ambulance-emergency-incident-latest
From the pictures I think the poor man got killed by one of
these https://www.mediamatic.net/en/page/231844/pop-up-urinals
As I read the story, he had been trying to repair the thingy.
Taritha is demolishing those steaks!
Meanwhile Slinom is barely grazing at his sushi.
A very subtle, and individual, clue to their different cultures :}
I would too! They are some tasty lookin’ steaks.
I wonder if they are like the Shitbats, no anus.
(starts looking for the stun baton…)
That would explain much, everyone feels relaxed
after a good “unload” heh.
I think it’s because Slimy is bummed out, he can’t
do anything to the Pride or Taritha and it depresses
him.
Many states have a “Good Samaritan” law that protects medical and non medical
persons from being sued for anything except willful injuries. In case of drug
overdose reporting the police can’t charge a
for having drugs and paraphernalia on them. check your state’s laws to see
if they have one and what it covers.
My wife called me a bit ago, she has pneumonia, I don’t know if
they are just going to treat it or send her back to the hospital as
yet, it’s going to be a long night for me….
Her breathing doctor told me with her stage 4 COPD something
like this could be bad. sorry i’m a mess.
Damn. I don’t know what to say.
Nothing to say except, “I’m sorry, just damn.”
What the hell? I guess that one webcomic is determined not to lose first
place again. Voting for February started two hours ago, and they have
14,000 votes already.
I noticed that. Shame to suspect skullduggery,
it’s another comic I follow and like.
Suspect????
They were at 14,545 at 0400, two hours after voting started.
Ten hours later, they’ve only gained another 130 votes???
Yeah, it smells and is obviously not correct. They say to never attribute to
villainy what can be explained by incompetence, and maybe some idjit at
TWC just failed to clear their last month’s tally. But such an obvious mistake
n such a prominent position would have been spotted by now and hopefully
corrected. This reads as foul play.
clearly someone had a huge number of robot accounts
just for this reason, to boost numbers.
It’s not any worse than comics that haven’t
been worked on in over two years getting a lot of votes.
Something smells.
To be fair, there’s some of those who are
more-or-less abandoned (so their authors
probably don’t care either way), but do have
fans who keep returning to them just in
case.
I wouldn’t surprised if some of these vote
just as an incentive for the writer to pick
it up again.
There’s a comic that hasn’t updated in years I vote as hard as
I do TGW for that very reason. So, yes.