Good grief - safety pins can be used for torture - maybe they should be banned!
It will be amusing to see how the "no waterboarding" crowd defends itself against this. Exactly how is waterboarding worse than remote control assassination of anyone unfortunate enough to be nearby a US target at the wrong time?
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Just what is this supposed to stimulate and how?
Just thought I'd ask
Tendonitis caused by excessive use of the mouse (playing Doom) sent my mediocre handwriting into a tailspin from which it has never recovered. Now I avoid handwriting for anything that anyone else has to read. Has this happened to you?
Here's a link to the filings in the case. When I look at the language that's the subject of the complaint, it looks like the kind of rant that goes on in many business disputes without usually going to court - read and judge for yourself. To me, it seems clear that the plaintiff is very touchy about third party payment issues as many chiropractors are and wants to intimidate his former patient into silence. Also, if you look at the history, it's clear that the defendant ignored multiple notifications about the action and had to back down in order to avoid a summary judgement against him - not a good move on his part.
It's unfortunate that the article didn't like to the "offending" post, so it's hard to say exactly what's alleged. That a chiropractor would respond harshly to criticism of practices around billing and insurance is hardly surprising though. Generally they're in a difficult spot - many chiropractors claim to cover a wide range of conditions but are only authorized to bill a narrow range of services. They need to retain patients, but can't unless they can bill all their services to insurance. As a result they have a lot of incentive to interpret the services they are authorized for very broadly. Going too far in this direction is billing fraud. The chiropractor's defense in these cases will sound a log like what's in the article - talk about disagreement about billing practices rather than dishonesty. It would be nice to have a link to the actual allegations to see what's going on in this case.
Chiropractors have had many detractors over the years and have a long history of using political manipulation and legal intimidation in response. They pursue a variety of goals including suppression of criticism of their questionable practices and mandating insurance coverage for chiropractic "care." They have generally been successful. That they try to suppress online criticism is a predictable continuation of longstanding behavior
Factorials were someone's attempt to make math LOOK exciting.