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I was a Funeral Director in a previous life. I would remove pacemakers if the deceased was to be cremated. We had bags of them. They are cheap and disposable, don't believe anyone that tells you otherwise. Go ask your local Funeral Director for one.
And you're in tech now? That's an interesting career transition. You might write it up sometime; I love stories like that.
Call up CNN and offer to demonstrate how BIOTRONIC is so evil that they refuse to fix their pacemakers. Hook it up to an ECG and use your phone to make it flatline. Then turn to the camera and tell the audience, "because BIOTRONIC doesn't want to pay to fix their product, I can now kill your grandmother just by walking past her on the street." Watch how long it takes them to fix it then, and watch how reactive they b…
Terrible advice to pull a media stunt. First, you have no idea what the manufacturer needs to do to fix the problem, alert customers, do recalls and recertifications, and the like. Second, you put yourself directly in the line of fire unnecessarily and for all the wrong reasons. You could find yourself on the end of all kinds of legal trouble, and on top of that you would be morally culpable for any harm. Do it the r…
Guns don't kill people...
Call up CNN and offer to demonstrate how BIOTRONIC is so evil that they refuse to fix their pacemakers. Hook it up to an ECG and use your phone to make it flatline. Then turn to the camera and tell the audience, "because BIOTRONIC doesn't want to pay to fix their product, I can now kill your grandmother just by walking past her on the street." Watch how long it takes them to fix it then, and watch how reactive they b…
Terrible advice to pull a media stunt. First, you have no idea what the manufacturer needs to do to fix the problem, alert customers, do recalls and recertifications, and the like. Second, you put yourself directly in the line of fire unnecessarily and for all the wrong reasons. You could find yourself on the end of all kinds of legal trouble, and on top of that you would be morally culpable for any harm. Do it the r…
If the company you're criticising doesn't like critics, doesn't care about bad PR, and has to feed their lawyers, you won't have a good time any way you do it.
Some rare occasions you might be better off with a strong public opinion supporting you and people coming out of the bush to help your case, than trying to do it the sneaky way and still get caught in a hell of legal troubles that not much people really heard of, and you get cast as the little guy trying too pull money from the big corp because of the narrative sold to the media by your opponent.
Of course you can. Executing this type of attack would be more technically complex then executing a plain old murder, with say a simple gun.
Call up CNN and offer to demonstrate how BIOTRONIC is so evil that they refuse to fix their pacemakers. Hook it up to an ECG and use your phone to make it flatline. Then turn to the camera and tell the audience, "because BIOTRONIC doesn't want to pay to fix their product, I can now kill your grandmother just by walking past her on the street." Watch how long it takes them to fix it then, and watch how reactive they b…
- Contact the FDA, or other regulatory bodies. - Contact the customers. They'll likely have standing to sue (they were sold a defective product). - Class-action attorneys may be interested for this reason. - Did you know you can pay a very, very modest amount of money to file a press release saying anything you want? - Contact some investors. Short sellers will have a vested interest in making sure the information ge…
What is legality regarding the investors shorting?
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The oft-recommended prudence of having a lawyer's advice for most any action in the public realm indicates a de facto protection racket. Specifically, the above comment references having a lawyer handle (and moderate) what should be open technical communication with the manufacturer and regulatory agencies, the implication being that simply disclosing facts put you at grave risk from an endlessly complex legal system…
1) You really shouldn't have an open conversation about knowledge that can easily kill people. 2) I'm pretty sure that communication isn't the problem, the problem is that he want's to pressure them into fixing their mess, and that is exactly the point where things get messy from a legal perspective. I can hardly imagine a legal system in which a situation like this would be unproblematic.
You mean like guns, toxins, and martial arts?
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Terrible advice to pull a media stunt. First, you have no idea what the manufacturer needs to do to fix the problem, alert customers, do recalls and recertifications, and the like. Second, you put yourself directly in the line of fire unnecessarily and for all the wrong reasons. You could find yourself on the end of all kinds of legal trouble, and on top of that you would be morally culpable for any harm. Do it the r…
I wonder if a lawyer really caring about his client wouldn't straight up say "just forget about it". If the company you're criticising doesn't like critics, doesn't care about bad PR, and has to feed their lawyers, you won't have a good time any way you do it. Some rare occasions you might be better off with a strong public opinion supporting you and people coming out of the bush to help your case, than trying to do…