Germany goes one step further and it is a criminal offence to not to provide first aid. And if you screw it up you are protected.
I think Netherland has a similar law. The idea that helping makes you liable sounds very unDutch.
Are you really sure about this? It sounds like a "broodje aap" (urban legend). I'm no lawyer, but as far as I know, Dutch law tries not to punish sincerely helping people.
If he's untrained, he does not have the judgement to decide not to follow the instructions. If the instructions tell you to cut away the bra, you cut away the bra. If the instructions tell you to only cut away the bra in certain circumstances, you only cut it away in those circumstances. Charging him with sexual assault is only reasonable if he clearly went way beyond what the instructions told him to do.
It's not like creeps stand around with AEDs looking for women to save.
The world is bigger than your country.
But if it's anything else, taxes are so great. "Pay your share!" Despite the fact that the government doing the taxing is just going to use those resources against you in the form of militarized police, warrantless wiretaps, and drone surveillance.
The problem here is not the principle of paying your taxes, but that you guys keep electing the wrong people into office and don't punish them for giving you all that crap.
It doesn't matter what else you do. As long as you keep electing bad governments, you're going to get bad governance. Nothing is going to fix your problems until you fix that.
I'll have you know I had my home computer calculating all night long to generate a single flying toaster.
Why did this get modded down? I know Anonymous Coward regularly posts some inane crap, but this is a very valid question.
At what point would you say that one "knew" what America was. We know that Columbus didn't know it.
I don't know, but if it takes credit away from that genocidal pedophile slaver, I'll take it.
But that part is also sexism. Sexism is not just preventing women from doing interesting things, it's also treating them as valuable property. But the sexism was indeed not just NASA's; NASA obeyed the sexism in society as a whole.
Have you read the article? It mentions that she performed in the top 2%. It doesn't specify whether that was top 1.4%, but your blind assumption that her performance was not outstanding is quite clearly unjustified.
You think the first astronauts invented rockets and the necessary physics themselves?
Parent has it right. All early spaceflight was about political stunts. The USSR used it to send a positive political message: one of gender equality (well, Gagarin was still the first, but women weren't all that far behind). The US sent a negative one: only men get to go to space.
Isn't the lesson to use the best people regardless of gender? In which case, why should she go instead of someone more qualified?
When she was tested, there weren't many that were more qualified. She should have been part of the Mercury 7.
Sending her now, well, it wouldn't make sense in a role more suited for someone younger, but if she could be sent as part of aging research, like John Glenn was, then that'd be great. But mostly the article laments that a great talent was denied something she'd have been perfect for because of stupid sexist notions from the 1950s.
I'm certainly no fan of Helvetica either. I actually prefer Google's Roboto. Roboto got criticized for having too many variations in how to handle some shapes, but it's those variations that make characters easy to distinguish. In Helvetica, everything looks the same and letters start to blend together in dense text. It's pretty, sure, but it's not the most legible.
Great that people are finding out more about what shortens telomeres. But with all that data, can we also find out a way to repair them?
"Ninety percent of baseball is half mental." -- Yogi Berra
