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  1. The psychiatric and psychological professional communities overwhelmingly disagree with your sentiment. They do not consider transgenderism to be a mental disorder.

  2. You watch too much TV. The military does so much more than simple destruction. Being able to respect people who are different is a useful and valuable skill in the military.

  3. Re:This is just a distraction on Donald Trump Says US Military Will Not Allow Transgender People To Serve (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Anything can fail if you scuttle it. That is the only reason why Obamacare is failing. You are being lied to. Millions becoming uninsured is a far greater failure.

  4. Are you implying that this has caused the military to fail? Can you cite examples? And I'll stop you right there with Manning, as she was closeted when she broke the law this order would not have prevented this. I'm under the impression that the military needs the ability to be adaptive. If it can't handle something as simple as allowing trans soldiers then it's a good thing to learn about this so we can fix it. Besides, this is not the reason Trump gave. He said it was because we can't afford it; even though that makes very little sense. If you fight for my freedom, I believe the least I can do as a taxpayer is support you getting any care you need. What a fantastic jobs-creator Trump is. He just laid-off 15,000 people.

  5. So if I can point out a non-trans person who broke the law, does that mean that cis-gendered people shouldn't be allowed to serve either?

  6. Perhaps that decision should come from the pentagon, and not a president with very little time interacting with the military.

  7. Re:No surprise. on Donald Trump Says US Military Will Not Allow Transgender People To Serve (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    FWIW, if you are on stimulant therapy for ADD, they will not allow you to enlist. But if you can get by without meds, they're happy to take you. (There is no indication that transgendered people are unable to function without hormone therapy, they should be able to serve.)

  8. Re: No surprise. on Donald Trump Says US Military Will Not Allow Transgender People To Serve (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Good job dehumanizing people that you don't agree with.

  9. This doesn't happen. If unconscious deflated titty syndrome was a real and common problem among transgendered people, I'd be fine with Trump's decision. It is not. A soldier is able to follow orders, access to hormone supplements or not.

  10. If your argument is that some trans are schizophrenic, then 4-F the schizophrenic ones.

  11. Re:How expendable are you? on Microsoft Paint To Be Killed Off After 32 Years (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Selfishly speaking as a software developer, that is one of the few tools I can depend on easily getting access to in my activity. Everything else is a "oh, we didn't think about that." With a compiler, I can write short bits of code, but with things like the GIMP, i'd have to load the source, which, because security isn't _completely_ stupid, they consider to be nearly the same concern. I suppose I could hand type it and get away with that, but, no.

  12. Re:Forced in what way? on Microsoft Paint To Be Killed Off After 32 Years (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1
    Your desktop was updated? So you downloaded the update? So it needs to be downloaded? So I'm still right?

    My desktop is up to date too. No paint 3D on my box.

    Save your profanity when you actually have something worth being upset about. I'm not even saying that this will never change. Just that it is not yet the norm. Calm down.

  13. Called it yesterday on Microsoft Confirms It's Not Killing Off Paint After Outpouring of Support (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1
    https://slashdot.org/comments....

    Unfortunately, They still don't seem to understand that it should be on desktops by default. I shouldn't need to go to the garbage Windows Store to have a rudimentary image editor on a machine fresh out of the box.

  14. The problem was that Trump compared apples and oranges. He deceptively spoke about those not employed and framed those numbers as alarmingly high when they are in fact not particularly unreasonable. They sound high because people are accustomed to hearing the unemployment rate. He then implied that the unemployment rate rose or failed to fall under Obama when evidence does not support this. He did not invent this tactic, it's been in use for ages. It's a deceptive way of manipulating a base that doesn't critically question your claims. That was the problem that non-trump-supporters had. It's perfectly fine to discuss metrics such as "those no longer looking for work" but it's difficult to discuss it well without further numbers that attempt to categorize the reasons why they are not looking for work.

  15. Re:Frustration on The Proton Is Lighter Than We Thought (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Sometimes it takes Slashdot a few moments to update; other times it pretends it failed when a post in fact went through. It looks like you tried like 6 times to repost your comment, they're all here now. I'm familiar with sci-hub, thank you for that. But I'm stuck looking for less controversial sources.

  16. Re:Frustration on The Proton Is Lighter Than We Thought (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Well that's a little rude, AC. I'm not part of academia, but I'm fully aware of publish or perish. Nor am I a sophomore. I'm a software engineer with 10 years experience beyond college. By avoiding academia, I was able to do things like make an actual income, and buy a decent house soon after college despite being in a region with expensive housing costs. It means there are aspects of academia that I don't understand, but there's no need to be insulting because I happen to be confused and frustrated about something. If you had read what I wrote, you'd see that I understand the amortizing cost. I understand that running a business is expensive. But more net revenue is more net revenue. I might not have an MBA, but I learned my business understanding from business classes, economics classes, business statistics, business law. (I've tried reading Ayn Rand, but I'm not a fan) If you sell 100 units at $25 vs 1000 units at $5, and the cost per unit is 0, then you're losing money by not selling it for $5. The editor can figure out which articles are gonna have demand; you just tag it with one of three categories. This adds zero labor expenses after the initial tweak to the website, which you already pay a support contract or have someone on staff to maintain. But whatever, you go right ahead thinking you're better and more learned than random people on the Internet because that makes ya feel good.

  17. Re:Forced in what way? on Microsoft Paint To Be Killed Off After 32 Years (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Paint3D is not a tool that is installed on default at the moment. It needs to be downloaded, so it's the same struggle. But yeah, that might change upon removing paint. As long as I can export to common image formats, then yeah, that'd be ok, I guess.

  18. Re:How expendable are you? on Microsoft Paint To Be Killed Off After 32 Years (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I mean to say I can write that in about 5 lines of code, so I don't need approval to acquire anything.

  19. Re:How expendable are you? on Microsoft Paint To Be Killed Off After 32 Years (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1
    I don't believe mspaint supports icon format directly, but you can convert bitmaps into icon files programmatically.

    It's true, switching realms is something to consider if you really can't stand dealing with that stuff. Thankfully, my industry realizes that it makes devs jump through lots of aggravating arguably stupid hoops that you don't have to deal with in realms like many small businesses. Because they realize this, they usually pay accordingly for the trouble.

  20. Re:Forced in what way? on Microsoft Paint To Be Killed Off After 32 Years (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Again, the aggravation is that I shouldn't have to worry about these things if all I want to do is make a quick goofy little icon or whatever. It's the sort of thing that is useful as a default-installed tool on even a stock desktop machine. In some sectors, trying to improve Process is beyond your scope. It possibly shouldn't be. But sometimes, part of the job includes knowing when to pick your battles. You can mention the concerns to the people above you, but streamlining Process tends to be a slow iterative effort. While waiting for these glorious agile improvements to kick in, I just want to puts some circles and arrows on a screenshot. I shouldn't have to worry about contract obligations, product evaluations, downloads, installs, approved lists, etc. to do that. As long as mspaint hangs around, I don't have those issues. When it is taken away, I may have those issues.

  21. Re:Watch this get retracted on Microsoft Paint To Be Killed Off After 32 Years (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The fact that it isn't called "MSPaint", and the fact that when TFA describes it, it talks about it being for doing 3D creations. Some quick investigation shows sources indicating that was at least originally lacking some features from MSPaint. That said, I've yet to use it.

  22. Re: Watch this get retracted on Microsoft Paint To Be Killed Off After 32 Years (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The windows 10 image viewer really is total garbage. Last time I checked, it still didn't have a shortcut key to go to the next file.

  23. Re:Watch this get retracted on Microsoft Paint To Be Killed Off After 32 Years (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Right, I figured that out from the article. I'm saying they should have something that means "not under active development, but won't be removed" as opposed to "not under active development and may be removed at any time." And the term "deprecated" should mean "you shouldn't use this because this other thing is better for reasons explained below."

  24. Re:Forced in what way? on Microsoft Paint To Be Killed Off After 32 Years (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    That's what would happen. But it might take a month. I don't want to backburner a task while waiting for stuff to be installed just because of the whims of Microsoft.

  25. Re:Doesn't everyone? on Millennials Only Have a 5 To 6 Second Attention Span For Ads (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Same here. Between adblocking, and YouTube's algorithms figuring out that ads don't influence me, I never got ads beyond YouTuber sponsorship interludes (which I don't usually mind when done appropriately). But I still bought YouTube Red because it allows the channels I like to get money without wasting my time. I also heavily invest my money via Patreon. I took the money i used to spend on cable, and spread that among my favorite channels that participate in Patreon.