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Evolution is the process, not the distance. Not being able to breed makes it a different species, but "the process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of the earth" (or "the gradual development of something, especially from a simple to a more complex form") covers the intermediate generations too.

It's not EXACT nor finite distance.
For the "process" to be taking place, there has to be genetic change. Not just expression of different genes, already present.
Distance has to be covered, but just covering the distance is not what it is all about.
Nor is the "quality" of covering those distances related to speed (i.e. time) one spends during the process or at any particular location in it.

A better analogy would be journey vs. distance. Going from 1 to 47 (and beyond) one passes locations of 12, 15, 25, 37 and 41.
So while at 12 one is "on a journey" just like one is "on a journey" while moving from point 15 to point 37.

But it's a process whose every step is a distance from which there's no going back.
If two animals can produce non-sterile offspring which can continue to breed with the species of of its progeny - they're all the same species. Same chromosomes.
Both sides in the process providing one side of the MATCHING pair.

You know that thing about humans and chimps sharing 90-something percent of genes? Yeah... well... that's the thing.
Our chromosomes don't contain the same genes. Nor the same number of chromosomes - we have 23 pairs and they have 24.
THAT'S the product of the process of evolution. Different SETS of genes - not just a difference in recessive and dominant genes, and whether a particular gene is active or not.
Without that difference... we'd be the same species. And it wouldn't be an evolution.

What the PP is talking about is simple breeding.
Giving ataxia to German Shepherds and various other illnesses to other dog breeds.
Still the same species. You could still mate it with wolves or breed a wolf from a poodle. You can still go back.
Cause it's not evolution but simply gene expression.
If you could turn genes on and off like throwing switches, you could get a pair of poodles to give birth to a wolf or a bulldog.
No new genes, no mutation... same old poodle wolf.

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For a really funny treatment of this rather serious topic, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... where it is alleged that, having run a biological weapons research program from 1918 until 1973, the Pentagon then decided to end it. Cold. Yeah, sure.

We desperately need ISP's to be regulated like our electrical utilities are.

No, we need electrical utilities deregulated like our ISPs are. The case for their de-facto nationalization, based on the mythical "natural monopoly" concept, back then was completely bogus.

This big bump in the 1930s, as documented by Dr. James Hansen, noted global warming advocate, in a peer reviewed journal and posted on NASA's server. Of course, it was later "adjusted away" because it didn't support the proper conclusions, so the record was changed. As so aptly put in 1984, "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."

I actually think that this has to do with the gradual erosion of male values. Men seem increasingly unnecessary and vilified, male employment has taken a serious downturn, husbands/fathers are less societally respected, and the sexual market of old (goodJob->getGirl->getMarried->haveSex) is now nearly entirely vanished (gotoBar->Gamechicks->haveSex). I feel like it is gradually turning to a winner-takes-all system where the top 20% of men get the majority of both money and women. On an individual level, this means "OMG, get in the top 20% immediately!", but it means that the majority of men are getting locked out for resources (money/women) and left with nothing.

I am a young professional scientist and the *majority* of my male colleagues (PhD scientists in their early 30s!) are unmarried non-churchGoers frustrated in the sexual/family market. It is truly crazy to think that a 6-figure salary and a doctorate cannot attract a wife in the current market, and that they go home lonely each night. NOTE - I am not immune to these trends, and I am on my second wife (first wife left me for a drummer in a band... which is also crazy to think), and seriously contemplated suicide in my first divorce (called the hotline... don't call the hotline).

Essentially, men are unmooring into the ocean. Limited religious participation, erosion of the typical husband/wife structure (through divorce, the pill, family court structure, etc.), and lower overall participation in the workforce (no longer a preReq for sex, increased competition). This pretty quickly puts men into a "no money, no family, no one that cares about me, no reason to live" rationale.

Sad analysis:
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I really feel like someone needs to do something about it - but there are so many incentives lined up against it that I have no idea what to do. Locally, I started/ran a mens group, where these issues came up pretty commonly.

It's a "solved problem in computer science"... but the people who solved it were auditors!

Have a peek at How NASDAQ solved YouTube’s problem. While this is not a perfect fix (you tube has some unique issues), it's a pattern that has worked for large-scale, high-volume trading.

Why is that strange? CO2 concentration started rising in early 1800-s: https://robertscribbler.files....

Nice article. Very helpful. Google assistant is one of the most awaited technologies of 2018.
Hopefully, it will come with all what people wanted out of it with no major flaws.
If you do face any issues with any Google application or product, you can visit our website Google Support for all the tips and support available all the time.

Thank you.

how about you lift your finger and read one or more of the entire books written on the subject?

a little light reading to get you on your way:
https://coreyrobin.files.wordp...

what's happened to the price of food

Generally represents lower of our consumer expense share each year; caveat: we eat more out-of-home, and food out-of-home is food plus paying for a time-share of servants to cook and serve and clean for us, which is more than just food.

Construction costs

Screwing around with international trade and making oil more-expensive has been a part of it; the bigger part has been running down mortgage interest prime rates, causing home prices to run up so the monthly mortgage payment is the same (which pins consumers to their mortgage, whereas a high prime rate market with depressed home values enables consumers to put little extra payment into their mortgage and avoid large amounts of interest costs).

Since you absolutely must pay 2-3 times as much of the cost of the house to buy it, we can charge 2-3 times as much for the same house if we build it, and so construction workers can run up their labor prices and take a big chunk of that, too. Want home improvement? That guy could be building a house for twice as much; you better up your hourly offer or he's not fixing your bathroom.

That's still not the whole story. It's huge and complex and annoying because of how the housing market works (it's not strictly a production market, but mostly a market of trading family heirlooms).

It has slowed down a bit in recent decades. Oddly enough, food and clothing keep going even when the overall trend pauses.

what's happened to the price of food

Generally represents lower of our consumer expense share each year; caveat: we eat more out-of-home, and food out-of-home is food plus paying for a time-share of servants to cook and serve and clean for us, which is more than just food.

Construction costs

Screwing around with international trade and making oil more-expensive has been a part of it; the bigger part has been running down mortgage interest prime rates, causing home prices to run up so the monthly mortgage payment is the same (which pins consumers to their mortgage, whereas a high prime rate market with depressed home values enables consumers to put little extra payment into their mortgage and avoid large amounts of interest costs).

Since you absolutely must pay 2-3 times as much of the cost of the house to buy it, we can charge 2-3 times as much for the same house if we build it, and so construction workers can run up their labor prices and take a big chunk of that, too. Want home improvement? That guy could be building a house for twice as much; you better up your hourly offer or he's not fixing your bathroom.

That's still not the whole story. It's huge and complex and annoying because of how the housing market works (it's not strictly a production market, but mostly a market of trading family heirlooms).

It has slowed down a bit in recent decades. Oddly enough, food and clothing keep going even when the overall trend pauses.

In related news, "Forty-seven percent of the school leaders surveyed by Education Week said they feel mild or strong pressure to expand computer science from vendors and the technology industry. That's compared with 28 percent who said they feel such pressure from parents and 23 percent from teachers."

South Australia leads the way for the rest of the world. You're welcome, and please do come here.

No thank you.

South Africa is also the rape capital of the world. No stats on who is raping who or why, though.

No stats needed.

In South Africa, blacks are the perpetrators, 100% guaranteed, and anyone with a lick of sense knows it.

( cue the chorus of whining little SJW idiots who will accuse me of being a racist. Yeah, you just keep on indulging in your Walt Disney version of the world, SJWs. It will however fail you miserably when you are the victim of violent crime perpetrated by blacks. )

South Africa is also the rape capital of the world. No stats on who is raping who or why, though.

How do you figure?
https://www.cbpp.org/sites/def...
https://timebusinessblog.files...

If you were as smart as you think you are you'd be ruthlessly putting yourself on the correct side of that divide for the sake of your offspring because it will be nearly impossible to cross it by the time a child born today has grandchildren unless something major changes.

Please explain your stance that the problem is correcting itself. I think this is denial so you don't have to man up.

rezone a whole lot of real estate to be multi-family / apartments

That will play right into the hands of developers who will just build high rent units targeting the techie hipsters.

Seattle wants to build and operate their own subsidized housing.

The scooter drivers have a right to be on the road.

They're on the sidewalk.

This is really a problem with LA traffic law & culture since it's legal to ride bicycles, skateboards and other "exclusively human-powered" vehicles on the sidewalk. This has led to the public perception that anything goes on the sidewalks.

Technically, scooters are powered and thus aren't allowed on the sidewalk, but LA cops aren't keen to wade into this so they just ignore the entire issue -- like they pretty much ignore anything that happens off the roadway. Scooters, electric-assist bicycles, etc rule the sidewalks.

I'm liking more and more what I'm reading, and experiencing with the low, low carb thing, with good Fat intake, then protein, and lastly..carbs.

I"m trying within that framework, to eat a LOT of veggies...so, far it seems to be working.

In a few months, on next blood workup, hoping to see positive results, and in a year, I wanna be off ALL meds.

So far, I think this is the way.

I've been doing LCHF for over 2 years now and am in better health than 20 years ago. It took me about 6 months to get my doctor to agree that I don't need medication anymore. There's no need to rush, but you do need to keep an eye on blood glucose and blood pressure. Some of these medications are more dangerous than what you are taking them for when you no longer need them. (I have no idea what you're taking, I was on a "standard early diabetic" course when I found Low Carb Down Under on youtube.)

There is a good macro estimator website to help you set your goals. I need less protein than sibling post by PopeRatzo, more like 70-90g/day is good for me. Try it out. My personal tolerance for carbs is about 40g/day. With 25g in a day it's easy to stay sharp, but if I creep up over 50g in a day I start feeling like crap. I start to get all my old inflammation pains back in my knees and back, etc. On LCHF I haven't felt the need to take any pain medication in 2 years. That baseline background noise of constant pain is just not there anymore.

You may also be interested in learning about autophagy and protein-cycling. There's an excellent book by Ron Mignery on it. In a nutshell, take occasional breaks from overeating and your body can do some amazing stuff to fix itself. You don't have to fast, you just skip protein for a day once in a while.

"Grain Brain" and "good calories, bad calories" are good reads down that rabbit hole too. I tend to avoid the extreme end like rigorous macro calculation and strict intermittent fasting. You will find it easier when you start to use a food scale and record macros closely until you establish your own baseline. After you retrain yourself to feel real hunger as opposed to just "carb-cravings" I don't feel it is necessary anymore. I lost 40lbs or so very quickly and have been at my target +/-5 for 2 years or so without even trying. French fries, donuts, coconut cake, cookies, corn chips and queso... stuff I used to like tastes like crap now that I've grown used to real food that makes me feel alive and well.

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Well, given the dimensions of the trench, and the average mass of a grocery bag is around 9 grams, and the density of LDPE is around 0.94 g/cc, it would take about 1.87 * 10^22 bags to fill the trench to the surface of the ocean.or about 2.4 trillion bags per person on the face of the Earth.

Of course they are.

Perhaps something like this?
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Describe to me the new tech they're using to enrich uranium. Or encryption methods used to communicate between countries. Or laws and embargo that are going to affect tech and equipment. Or at least something interesting.

Otherwise skuttle away to breitbart or huffpost or somewhere else that suits your fancy.

Just because Obama did it doesn't automatically make it right; just because Trump is doing it doesn't automatically make it right either. Go away and do something useful -- like come up with ideas, not just complain, to your mayor or state representatives. Otherwise, like talk radio, we're just wasting each other's time. I'm not going to convince you, you're not going to convince me, and neither one of us knows what's really going on.

BTW, in the '70s, the world was all "going to soon come to an end" as well. I just wish that this time they'd hurry up and do it before next Christmas so I won't have to shop.

Someone has quoted this in another comment, presumably from the CoC in question:

Our open source community prioritizes marginalized people’s safety over privileged people’s comfort. We will not act on complaints regarding:
‘Reverse’ -isms, including ‘reverse racism,’ ‘reverse sexism,’ and ‘cisphobia’
Reasonable communication of boundaries, such as “leave me alone,” “go away,” or “I’m not discussing this with you”
Refusal to explain or debate social justice concepts
Communicating in a ‘tone’ you don’t find congenial
Criticizing racist, sexist, cissexist, or otherwise oppressive behavior or assumptions

This does sound overly broad. For example, under these rules, it would appear that one of the "penetration is always rape" radfems could tell a cis white male that they're a rapist (which is a valid accusation if you subscribe to these notions) - and the latter would have no recourse, because it would be "reverse sexism", no complaints accepted. In fact, they would even be unable to ask why they're so accused, since that would involve "explaining or debating social justice concepts". You could argue that this isn't an example of such - but those people would sincerely disagree, and who decides what is a valid social justice concern, and what isn't?

Aubrey De gray's finding has the attention of the Polymath Project, "a collaboration among mathematicians to solve important and difficult mathematical problems by coordinating many mathematicians to communicate with each other on finding the best route to the solution."

You can follow their current conversation here.

> Its not as bad as you would think and it's designed for those devices and the graphics are way better than you think.

Yes it is. It's far worse. Whales are < 2% of the customers, but make > 95% of the money for game developers.

https://venturebeat.com/2013/0...

5th Planet chief executive Robert Winkler revealed at the Game Developers Conference Online in 2012 that with its game Clash of the Dragons, 40 percent of revenue came from 2 percent of players who spent $1,000 or more. Ninety percent came from those who spent $100 or more, and the top whale had spent $6,700.

As an ex-professional game developer 95+% of mobile games are crap

* Hurry-up-and-wait gaming that constantly nag you
* Exploitative predatory tactics such as gambling (loot boxes), in-app-purchases, and ads.
* Mobile games tend not to respect your time, money, or space.

There ARE games that don't exploit the players:

* Hidden Folks
* Limbo
* Minecraft
* Terreria
* The Room (and all its sequels)
* The Witness
*etc.

You have to look, but they are there.

> No one wants to lug around a PC computer to play a multiplayer game.

Uh, that's what mobile gaming is -- by definition.

This is ignoring the fact that some games just DON'T work (well) on a mobile. i.e. Let me know when I can play:

* Starcraft 2
* World of Warcraft

on a phone.

Mouse + Keyboard is vastly superior for some games.

Mobile gaming is here to stay. That's NOT the problem. The problem is the exploitative behavior.

It is bullshit like this is driving the mobile games straight into the ground.

... I guess I only play games in the 5% then, like any other platform (THANKS Steam Greenlight).
Warhammer Quest, Neuroshima Hex, Settlers of Catan, Smash Up, Exploding Kittens, my favorites.

Whales, we care because? Some people buy tons of Steam games on sale and never play them. On $3000 computers, bitching about frame rates until rounds of performance patches and driver updates come out.

Who said phones need to run Starcraft or WoW, you just came out of nowhere with that.

So keep your keyboard and mouse??

This whole post is strangely combative.

Oh and I'm a Linux administrator, so that makes me an expert on stuff.

> Its not as bad as you would think and it's designed for those devices and the graphics are way better than you think.

Yes it is. It's far worse. Whales are < 2% of the customers, but make > 95% of the money for game developers.

https://venturebeat.com/2013/0...

5th Planet chief executive Robert Winkler revealed at the Game Developers Conference Online in 2012 that with its game Clash of the Dragons, 40 percent of revenue came from 2 percent of players who spent $1,000 or more. Ninety percent came from those who spent $100 or more, and the top whale had spent $6,700.

As an ex-professional game developer 95+% of mobile games are crap

* Hurry-up-and-wait gaming that constantly nag you
* Exploitative predatory tactics such as gambling (loot boxes), in-app-purchases, and ads.
* Mobile games tend not to respect your time, money, or space.

There ARE games that don't exploit the players:

* Hidden Folks
* Limbo
* Minecraft
* Terreria
* The Room (and all its sequels)
* The Witness
*etc.

You have to look, but they are there.

> No one wants to lug around a PC computer to play a multiplayer game.

Uh, that's what mobile gaming is -- by definition.

This is ignoring the fact that some games just DON'T work (well) on a mobile. i.e. Let me know when I can play:

* Starcraft 2
* World of Warcraft

on a phone.

Mouse + Keyboard is vastly superior for some games.

Mobile gaming is here to stay. That's NOT the problem. The problem is the exploitative behavior.

It is bullshit like this is driving the mobile games straight into the ground.

It isn't invalid to highlight hypocrisy

"Highlighting" hypocrisy is invalid as an argument obviating the wrong-doing of a given party. If, OTOH, you are merely pointing out some fact, --eg. that Google has even more data on individuals than Facebook, --without turning it back on any accusation --eg. discrediting a justifiably claim by a Google employee that Facebook has excessively spied on users --it isn't even making a claim of hypocrisy. Since the article above doesn't excuse Facebook's behaviour, quite the opposite actually, but instead points to the reality that their activities are only the tip of the iceberg, the claim of whataboutery is simply misplaced here.

Take them all down.

Good luck with that.

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In addition the physics chemistry is well known and can be derived.

> If cable companies had ever offered the ability to get extra channels like Discovery, or
> Lifetime as individual items instead of giant bundles, they could have been the ones transitioning
> us all into streaming and being the natural gateway for quality streaming delivery.

It's the content-owners' fault. E.g. Disney owns ABC, multiple ESPN channels, and multiple Disney channels. They offer *ALL-OR-NOTHING*. I.e. if a cableco wants ABC and Disney channels, they *MUST* put ESPN on basic on 80% of their subscribers. A cable company would love to go "ESPN-free". But Disney knows that a cable service without ABC and Disney channels won't fly. Disney is the worst, but there are other groups that use the same forced-bundling tactics. See PDF file https://pmcvariety.files.wordp... for a display of who charges how much for what in 2016 and 2017.

Debian is not derived from RedHat. Debian 0.0.1 was created in 1993. Redhat first release was in 1995.

Every major distro uses systemd now. By all means, feel free to use any of the init-based distribution if you feel strongly about it.

I think creimer might be a fan of Captain Pissgums

Thought I'd drop by and clarify on this point, as someone who speaks Chinese (simplified Mandarin / mainland Chinese). Sadly Slashdot doesn't support UTF-8 so I can't demonstrate the details reliably. I will try to use some, but I dunno how they'll turn out. I'll try to stick to ASCII + descriptions + links.

True pinyin cannot use the Latin character set (ex. ISO-8859-1) because it lacks several glyphs that contain necessary diacritic marks for its vowels. Written pinyin requires several different diacritics to be accurately represented, always written above vowels (a, e, i, o, u, and French u (u with two dots above it)):

* A straight line (crummy ASCII example: hyphen: -) indicating 1st tone
* A rising line (crummy ASCII example: forward slash: /) indicating 2nd tone
* A rising-falling line (crummy ASCII example: letter v: v) indicating 3rd tone
* A falling line (crummy ASCII example: backslash: \) indicating 4th tone
* No diacritic means no tone (which some call "5th tone")

Here's a reference for pinyin tonal depiction on Wikipedia.

There are several variances of romanized Chinese created over the years -- Yale, Wade-Giles, Sin Wenz, and several couple others that slip my mind. For example, I can't read most of them, but can (grudgingly) read Wade-Giles when forced to (some 1960s educational books were written in this format); I was taught pinyin in (American) school. I do not believe Chinese today are taught any of these variances; they are, however, taught pinyin as children. Whether or not they remember it is an entirely separate matter. :-)

Here is a better Wikipedia article on actual Chinese romanization methods. The variances if compared side-by-side look innocent/minor but are actually quite annoying if encountered in bulk.

Anyway, to combat the limitation/annoyance of diacritic marks, many people online use a bastardised combination of pinyin and Wade-Giles, allowing for romanized Chinese using pure ASCII. You may see this version occasionally. Again, lack of UTF-8 on Slashdot makes this hard, but the sentence "tonight I went to the Beijing language institute" would, in this format, be written as jin1tian1 wan3shang4 wo3 qu4 le bei3jing1 yu3yan2 xue2yuan4. No number means a word without tone (ex. particles).

There's also what's called bopomofo which is the system Taiwanese use. Please note the tonal marks section. Cantonese (Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, etc.) use the Jyutping system.

By the way: Korean Hangul has the same problem -- several romanization variances with no widespread standard. Someone will probably chastise me for this, so I'd better correct myself (kind of): the Korean government deployed a standard called RR or MoC2000 for street signs, and wants it adopted in all other mediums (textbooks, etc.). But adoption has been extremely slow outside of road signs, and it's a fairly new/recent method (though to their credit: RR doesn't use diacritics). I learned Korean only a few years after the introduction of RR, so I got a strange intermixed combination of Yale and RR. But not even South Koreans seem to get it right: take this street sign for example, which reads "Dohwa Jct" and "Dowon Stn"... except the "do" is the same character in Hangul; someone added the "h" by mistake (because habits). Easier to just use actual Hangul, especially because it's super easy to learn; King Sejong was remarkably intelligent, focused on making something even "country bumpkins" could remember.

Asian linguistics lesson over.

If you exclude the "superstars" you know... the people who are already stinking rich, and instead focus on the other 99.9999% of actual musicians then it's (43 + 9.3 + 3.6) / 3.6 = 6.4%

Pretty low, but I honestly was expecting sub percentage :P basically unless you are a superstar you have no leverage and almost all of the profit goes to the mob unless you deal directly with the consumer or specialise in live music.

To this day Nissan has never sold a replacement battery pack (there is a part number and a price, about $4k).

$5,5k plus installation, according to this. For the 2011-2015 (84 mile) leafs.This more recent article suggests $6,2k for the 24kWh, $7,6k for the 30kWh pack, and $7800 kWh for the 40kWh pack. Being made available in May. So I'm not sure where you're getting this "To this day Nissan has never sold a replacement battery pack" stuff.

There were some early issues with the Leaf packs in certain climates that Nissan resolved, but beyond those they have proven to be remarkably reliable robust.

It's not just been one pack. The introduction of the 30kWh pack led to a new wave of degradation problems. Not that the improved 24kWh degradation rate was stellar, it just wasn't catastrophic for people in hot climates like it previously was.

Nissan seems to go through battery problems every time because of their cost-cutting no-active-cooling system approach. The most recent is #RapidGate; the 40kWh pack generally hits an overheat temperature around 200-250km, sometimes as much as 300km, into a trip, and from thereout charging rates are cut in half.

Nissan is finally introducing active pack cooling next year. About bloody time.

Take a look at this image; which trend is from which period? If the rise from 1895 to 1943 is indistinguishable from the rise of 1957 to 2005 - then how much is increased CO2 driving our climate change?

Not that it will matter, but here's what I keep seeing on how well the model predictions match the measurements. Not very well.

But that's a Red Team web site and you're Blue Team. So nevermind. Blue Team says models are awesome and predict measurements right on. Red Team says nope, here's a graph. Disbelieve Red. Trust Blue. Wave the flag. Go Team!

Take a look at this image. If someone says "the science is settled", then they are clearly NOT being scientific. At best you may have an idea, but to call it settled - when we're seeing the EXACT SAME THING repeating itself over 60 year cycles, is the antithesis of science.

Skepticism used to be the foundation of science; now it's badgered and attacked as "anti-science".

The article could have been an example.... if it were written by a really smart person.

See also https://ttoes.files.wordpress....

Back on April 11th, Vice News put up a really interesting documentary titled, "Street Gangs on the Dark Web". In the video, a reporter interviews a former drug dealer who has been using Bitcoin and the Dark Web to buy blank credit cards, reprogram them using stolen credit card data on the Dark Web, use the cards to get cash and goods, then use some of the gains to buy Bitcoin anonymously at these exchanges to continue funding his enterprise. And they also shared that a large majority of these walk-up Bitcoin exchanges are in the state of New York.

I suspect the attorney general watched the documentary as well. Because the video has mysteriously been taken down, with no mention found ask to why, and a Google search for "Vice News Street Gangs on the Dark Web" proves the video at one point did exist, but none of the links contain the video any longer. Mod points to anyone who can find a working copy of the video.

Third wave feminists are generally sex-positive, and in favour of bodily autonomy in general. Otherwise they wouldn't support things like trans rights or reproductive rights.

Abortions are not a matter of sex. They are a matter of getting rid of the effects of having sex with a male. Note, I am pro choice. As for transgender, gender is not the province of women to justify or condemn, it is the province of the person who decides what gender they are. And it is not necessarily related to sexual acts. According to Facebook agender is a gender, Arguing that agender has something to do with sex is like calling atheism a religion. Then we can get into Tumblr's list of genders, most which seem to have no relation to any sexual act at all.

But this sex negative versus sex positive thing - apparently there aren't many third wave feminists by your definition. I did a little research on the topic, and aside frmo women who are obscuring the issue by declaring sex negative is actually sex positive and vice versa, but there is what appears to be a consensus that sex positive is simply playing into the hands of the patriarchy. https://www.lipstickalley.com/...

As well, much of what is referred to as sex-positive these days is same sex activity between women. As this woman notes from https://radtransfem.wordpress....

"Under patriarchy, sex is power, power is sexy, and sex is compulsory. That is to say, the sex act is attractive in a way that is conditioned by its qualities of power and violence sex is not above criticism. Not bad sex, not sex gone wrong, not the sex that other people have. Our sex.

https://taikonenfea.wordpress....

Reading the lit, sex positive among third wavers aould appear to be positive in the notion of lesbian sex. Sex with men is largely negative. That's okay, I don't really care who puts what where, but we need to know that the definitions are gender fluid.

Those positions also affirm the belief that women are strong, intelligent and capable enough of making decisions about their bodies on their own.

You are working the conversation into some sort of men ruling over women's bodies here. But okay, lets have some of that strong and intelligent business.

http://www.ggenyc.org/programs...

Do not hand me the idea that women are strong when winking at one is legal sexual harassment and damages the woman. As well, when looking at a woman is sexual harassment. All she has to do is define it as innapropriate or harassing and legally, it is just that. Yeah, when you can be intimidated or mentally damaged by a man who winks at you - it's pretty difficult to call that a strong person.

Regardless, the reaction to #metoo, the wholesale drugging of male children to keep them in line, a lot of men raised in single parent households (alomst all women HOH) and the divorce laws and society are enabling what women apparently want - to be left alone. There is a reason that the marriage rate has dropped precipitously. Less children are being born, and a whole lot of men have decided that LWA is the proper response. This is a win for women.

They are also the ones who have been really pushing to make sex more enjoyable for women by removing the taboo of talking about it and recognizing that women's bodies often need more than just penetration to get off. Sales of sex toys are way up because of this mini-revolution.

Well now - masturbation is not sex, it is a substitute for sex. And another interesting area opens up. Did you know that a man can rape a sexbot?

Third wave feminists are generally sex-positive, and in favour of bodily autonomy in general. Otherwise they wouldn't support things like trans rights or reproductive rights.

Abortions are not a matter of sex. They are a matter of getting rid of the effects of having sex with a male. Note, I am pro choice. As for transgender, gender is not the province of women to justify or condemn, it is the province of the person who decides what gender they are. And it is not necessarily related to sexual acts. According to Facebook agender is a gender, Arguing that agender has something to do with sex is like calling atheism a religion. Then we can get into Tumblr's list of genders, most which seem to have no relation to any sexual act at all.

But this sex negative versus sex positive thing - apparently there aren't many third wave feminists by your definition. I did a little research on the topic, and aside frmo women who are obscuring the issue by declaring sex negative is actually sex positive and vice versa, but there is what appears to be a consensus that sex positive is simply playing into the hands of the patriarchy. https://www.lipstickalley.com/...

As well, much of what is referred to as sex-positive these days is same sex activity between women. As this woman notes from https://radtransfem.wordpress....

"Under patriarchy, sex is power, power is sexy, and sex is compulsory. That is to say, the sex act is attractive in a way that is conditioned by its qualities of power and violence sex is not above criticism. Not bad sex, not sex gone wrong, not the sex that other people have. Our sex.

https://taikonenfea.wordpress....

Reading the lit, sex positive among third wavers aould appear to be positive in the notion of lesbian sex. Sex with men is largely negative. That's okay, I don't really care who puts what where, but we need to know that the definitions are gender fluid.

Those positions also affirm the belief that women are strong, intelligent and capable enough of making decisions about their bodies on their own.

You are working the conversation into some sort of men ruling over women's bodies here. But okay, lets have some of that strong and intelligent business.

http://www.ggenyc.org/programs...

Do not hand me the idea that women are strong when winking at one is legal sexual harassment and damages the woman. As well, when looking at a woman is sexual harassment. All she has to do is define it as innapropriate or harassing and legally, it is just that. Yeah, when you can be intimidated or mentally damaged by a man who winks at you - it's pretty difficult to call that a strong person.

Regardless, the reaction to #metoo, the wholesale drugging of male children to keep them in line, a lot of men raised in single parent households (alomst all women HOH) and the divorce laws and society are enabling what women apparently want - to be left alone. There is a reason that the marriage rate has dropped precipitously. Less children are being born, and a whole lot of men have decided that LWA is the proper response. This is a win for women.

They are also the ones who have been really pushing to make sex more enjoyable for women by removing the taboo of talking about it and recognizing that women's bodies often need more than just penetration to get off. Sales of sex toys are way up because of this mini-revolution.

Well now - masturbation is not sex, it is a substitute for sex. And another interesting area opens up. Did you know that a man can rape a sexbot?

I'm saying the in the cold war the Russian threat was more real so where's the disagreement. If you know Orwell's 'freedom of the press' article you also know that after the war there was too much goodwill and self censorship in the UK towards Russia.

Western level of propaganda now has gone through the roof. We've become a propaganda society. The WMD claims are a good example. Maybe I'm overstating but I would claim that in the last 25 years it has been clear to all regimes that if you have any semblance of a WMD program and it is not really potent - like a fully developed nuclear arsenal, then it can be used as a pretext to attack you. Chemical weapons programs are orders of magnitude less potent than nukes and certainly chlorine.
That is why Qadaffi decided to give up his fledgling nuclear program 15 years ago. That is why Assad was ready to give up his chemical weapons program. That is also why , when Obama drew a red line about chemical weapons in 2012 everyone in the opposition knew what to do: arrange an incident. And Assad knew what to do: too many downsides to actually using chemical weapons. Not worth it. This is not an issue of 'Assad is not that cruel'. It is 'no regime is that stupid'.

With the last incident there have at least been two British generals willing to point out that this was not credible (listed on this page https://timhayward.wordpress.c... , the owner of the page has meanwhile had his moment on the Times front page, accusing him of being a Russian asset). There is military value sometimes to using chemical weapons but in this case Ghouta was about to fall and it was entirely redundant.

And then here are two headlines in the NYTimes from today:
"Pentagon Says Syria Strikes Hit ‘Heart’ of Chemical Weapons Program".
What program?
"A Hard Lesson in Syria: Assad Can Still Gas His Own People".
If Assad had a chemical weapons program it could be verified. There are no such claims. No accusations of suspected sites.
And ‘Mission Accomplished!’ But What Is the Mission in Syria?' starts with :
'The strike on chemical arms sites reflected President Trump’s competing impulses: ...'
There are no such sites.

Jerry!! Hello!!

https://fwtc.files.wordpress.c...

Except, I live in a town with a bunch of racist fucks like this guy

Is that the same town that says that any middle aged white male needs to stand in the back of the room because of "white privilege" or that he is not deserving of any rights because he belongs to the "patriarchy"? Maybe it's the same college town that chased off a professor because he was white and refused to not leave the campus that he was employed at to teach at?

Racist fucks indeed.

That graph you show could have made your point better:
Homicide rate is 50% lower than 1980.
Or made it worse:
Homicide rate is 20% higher than 1960
Or
2015's murder rate was the highest in 6 years.

Only slightly related, from 1960 to now the US population has nearly doubled, 179 million to 325.7 million. During that time guns doubled PER CAPITA. Somebody get me a calculator. Does that mean 4x number of guns?

Should have invested in gun manufacturers.

Ok, so from 1968 to 2012 the number of guns per capita doubled.

Yet the U.S. Homicide rate is currently about 20% lower than it was in 1968! You've proven increasing the number of guns in the U.S. doesn't result in more people being murdered. Congratulations.

P.S. Schools are much safer than in the 90s, shooting incidents involving students have been declining for decades.

There may be another.
Not really.

Yes you can do it yourself with a FPGA. The tools will set you back a couple hundred dollars. Some people have already done this, and there were some evaluation boards floating around.

See RISC-V on an FPGA, pt. 1