Bob,

 Kudo's for you stepping in and taking control of the situation.  And
for knowing what to do in this=20
 situation.  My former employer's both had Medical Emergency Training
including Mouth to Mouth=20
 Rescusitation, CPR, and First Aid.  Many employees took the training
classes.  As far as I know, none=20
 of them have had to use it yet.   But, better to know it and not need
it than the other way around.=20

 And I'm sure Steve (or what ever his real name is) appreciates you
knowing what to do, and will be=20
 ever grateful for your actions.  This is an obviously good example of
people helping people in need.

 I say good show Bob, especially knowing the outcome, and keep up the
good work.
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 Regards,

 Jim

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [OT] Is using USPS ethical? was:Paranoid or just a
> coincidence?
> From: "Bob Blick" <bobblick@ftml.net>
> Date: Mon, November 29, 2010 11:24 am
> To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." <piclist@mit.edu>
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> On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 09:38:07 -0500, "Alexandros Nipirakis" said:
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> > Since my opinion adds nothing to the conversation (RE: how moral is
> > the postal service, how good is it for the government to regulate
> > price gouging) I won't say my opinion (and besides, others have
> > already expressed it so it would be redundant at this point).  I think
> > the only relevant thing I can bring to the table is that this is (in
> > my opinion) clearly political, and I think you really have to look
> > past a good deal of the conversation not to find the politics in here.
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> > In the US, there are two theories, one that says the government can
> > and should provide certain services, the other that says the
> > government cannot and should not provide certain services.  The debate
> > is clearly partisan between left and right, and even if you are not in
> > the US, the debate is essentially the same everywhere.  I trust that
> > all those involved know that what they were posting was political, and
> > they are also able to predict the obvious consequence of such an
> > action.
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> > I think that people on this list already get up in arms enough about
> > issues having nothing (or little) to do with politics without
> > interjecting core (and largely subjective) conversations onto the
> > list.  I feel that if this is what the list is to become, it will
> > become boring for most people that actually follow the list.
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> > With that said, I think that the admins have the ultimate right to
> > decide what is and is not allowable.
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> Excellent summation of my feelings, and better than anything=20
> I could have written.
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> But I can share something that may help some of you understand why I may
> seem more sensitive than others.
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> Earlier this year I helped save a man's life. One of the other tenants
> where I work burst into my office and said "come quick, Steve's hurt
> bad"(His name isn't really Steve). He was laying dead of a heart attack
> just inside the large courtyard of the business complex my office is in.
> I gave Steve CPR while my neighbor called emergency services(911). About
> six or seven minutes later a fire truck with paramedics showed up and
> took over. A few minutes after that an ambulance came. They gave Steve a
> hypodermic in the chest and also jolts of electricity and got his heart
> going and off they went to the hospital where he spent three weeks in
> intensive care and another two in the cardiac center after having an
> implanted defibrillator. He's doing fine now and scheduled for a bypass
> operation soon. Steve is a small business owner and in today's economy
> has lots of debt and almost no income and has no health insurance. But
> he has gone through the paperwork to be declared indigent and his
> medical bills are going to be paid by the state.
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> If any of the Vitaliy's social or economic policies had been in place,
> Steve would be dead today. Either there would be no emergency phone
> number, the firemen wouldn't have been trained paramedics or would have
> refused to come, the ambulance wouldn't pick him up because he had no
> means to pay, the hospital would have refused him, he wouldn't have
> gotten the defibrillator, or he would have committed suicide because of
> the $729,000 final medical bill(yes, I saw it, it really was $729,000).
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> So I don't want to hear about Libertarian politics. My friend is alive
> today, and they'd have him dead.
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> Thanks for listening.
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> Best regards,
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> Bob
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