If I had the mod points I’d vote you up. Fed up of the new format where it is all about exclusive licensing. Almost makes want to to back to Blu-rays or less official sources.
I've already started watching more movies via Netflix dvd service it seems like. Guess I'll just stop streaming at some point as content providers drop Netflix and stick with the one format, so far, that any rental company can work with.
What about it was false? Asians are regularly discriminated against for the crime of studying hard and having good values. The patriarchy isn't very popular in universities either.
Is that why nearly my entire graduate classes are Asians these days? They seem to be doing alright.
Yeah, I grew up less than a quarter mile from one of the major city highways and about a half a mile from the other major freeway (both feeding a city pop around 200k). When I started college I was 5'9" and 115 pounds (male, so more than a little skinny), since I left home I'm a more healthy weight but far from any overweight category in my late 30s. So am I just an outlier in this study (yeah I know, one data point out of 7.5 billion and all that...)?
being transgender often comes with a raft of health problems. Not the ones caused by trying to transition but just plain ones you're born with. Physically a lot of transgender people have huge hormonal imbalances. They're literally trapped in the body of the other sex, having very high/low levels of testosterone/estrogen (plus other sex hormones). This also leads to a variety of mental problems from coping with the mixed up hormones, to say nothing of the mental problems you get when you're an effeminate male or butch female.
Getting a diagnoses opens up all sorts of treatment options. Not just gender reassignment (lots of them don't want that). But if you don't recognize transgender as a thing then you're left fighting with your insurance company to get them to pay for anything.
Ah, thanks for the response, I had not really considered this.
The obvious solution would be unisex rooms, but a lot of people react to the suggestion with horror. Such a massive violation of taboo just feels sickening - but that really is not a sound basis for public policy. If we refused every change that makes people feel sickened, America would probably still have racial segregation.
Unisex bathrooms don't really bother me, the complaints seem to be more from the female persuasion. But that is a single observed data point that may not have any basis in reality.
They still need to know which pronoun to use for communications, and whether you're at fault if found in the "wrong" public restroom.
If one day language evolves to same-pronoun for everybody, and if public toilets and showers stop segregating us into two groups, then we could get rid of the question.
My wife is always complaining about the Ms pronoun on half the junk mail she receives "I am not divorced!". Not to mention the Ms or Mrs Tessa junk mail sent to my spayed Cocker Spaniel (she never had puppies). Sounds like they really don't care about that already.
Also I don't remember the last, or first, time I've been asked for my ID or to fill out a form to use a restroom:)
Although on the restroom part, my gender is over obvious in most circumstances so I probably shouldn't be commenting about handling that situation.
Half-true. The stalls take up more space, but that's more than countered by needing fewer of them. Rather than needing one male stall, a urinal wall and three female stalls, you can just have four co-ed stalls. The overall space works out around the same or slightly smaller.
Here in the UK you also need the giant disabled toilet, which takes up a lot of space due to all the extra handles and fittings. I am sure the retail sector is disgusted by this accommodation wasting precious space they could use to display goods for sale, but there's not a lot you can do about that. Maybe throw a few million quid towards prosthetic limb research and wait another decade or two.
Just so long as a couple of stalls are marked for peeing while standing up. I've seen the lines to the women's rest rooms and would rather not stand for 15 minutes for something that takes 30 seconds....sorry, just had to.
Male, Female and other, given that other for the moment is a fairly small percentage of the population? Not guaranteed to stay that way though.
And get sued for insulting the special snowflake's unqiue gender identity.
As a born and still identify as male, I'm happy to replaced him, boy, guy, man, etc with you or hey dipshit. Once we get one gender into this camp the others can follow?
It does depend a bit on state. Some have employment and service protections.
This makes me a little curious, seems like these protections should be for all people regardless of gender.
A surprisingly important one is restroom and changing room access. It doesn't sound like much, but it really does matter - some transgender people look more like their 'target' gender than their birth gender - even without hormone treatment, makeup and clothing can get that. Without protection, they really have two options if they need the toilet: - Enter the restroom of their birth sex. Meet five year old girl who screams "There's a man watching me!" Get punched by scared parent, escorted out by security, and have to explain to the police that it was just a misunderstanding. - Enter the restroom of their apparent sex. Hope no-one notices they look a bit odd. If someone does... get punched by scared parent, escorted out by security, and have to explain to the police that it was just a misunderstanding.
The phrase 'bathroom bill' is sometimes used either dismissively or as a way to scare people with the prospect of creepy men in dresses who want to molest their children, but behind that there is a serious issue at stake.
Yeah, this is an issue that needs addressed and I'm not even going to try to propose any solutions. But this still seems like something that should fall under all HUMANS need to be allowed access to public restrooms, gender not applicable to the general rule, only to how to implement this for all individuals.
They still need to know which pronoun to use for communications, and whether you're at fault if found in the "wrong" public restroom.
If one day language evolves to same-pronoun for everybody, and if public toilets and showers stop segregating us into two groups, then we could get rid of the question.
My wife is always complaining about the Ms pronoun on half the junk mail she receives "I am not divorced!". Not to mention the Ms or Mrs Tessa junk mail sent to my spayed Cocker Spaniel (she never had puppies). Sounds like they really don't care about that already.
Also I don't remember the last, or first, time I've been asked for my ID or to fill out a form to use a restroom:)
Why not just make all public restrooms co-ed, and configure them such that everyone using them has privacy from everyone else?..oh, that's right, I forgot that some people are homophobic and/or can't control themselves around the opposite sex, and certainly can't manage to control their irrational fear of someone who is (!!! SO SHOCKING !!!) different from them.
I think one of the main problems might be fully private bathroom stalls cost more (and take up more space?) than normal ones. Minimal legal privacy is better on the bottom line.
If they can play with the men, why not? If they can't poses a bit more of an issue. Categorize one league based on typical male performance and one based on typical female performance if we can solidly quantify these groupings, rather than outright gender? Yeah, I'm reaching here but it seems like something more quantifiable than boy/girl could be a good thing.
OK I'm not particularly thrilled with this in general and get people want to identify as whichever gender they feel fits them and I'm more than happy to let people choose for themselves, but "reduce their legal protections"? Yeah this prevents them from choosing to change their gender identity but I'm honestly curious what legal protections forcing someone to identify as their birth, rather than chosen gender, is preventing?
(White hetro male born and remains this way so my opinion or lack of understanding may mean precisely squat)
True but if minimum wage part time jobs make up the difference, people no longer have to improve themselves enough to earn a living wage.
You do realize I hope that when the minimum wage was instituted, it was a living wage? And that was in fact the expressed purpose?
Living wage at part time minimum wage? I didn't say full time minimum wage job... Though I will admit, minimum wage not being full time may or may not be the fault of the worker.
True but if minimum wage part time jobs make up the difference, people no longer have to improve themselves enough to earn a living wage. Did that sound too pessimistic about human nature (can't seem to find the appropriate term for this)?
I would be constantly turning the page. I don't see the benefit for most people. Onionskin is not easy to turn, tears too easily... so many problems with this.
Put it to market and see what happens. Just because I don't like the idea and won't get a benefit doesn't mean it won't work for someone else.
For myself, not seeing a back light and I doubt they sit open on a desk without using a hand to hold them open.
but as soon as you make it compete against other AIs that don't possess those characteristics, it will either adapt to possess them itself in order to remain competitive or it will perish
Only if you program competition as a desirable goal. It might not be. You might program them to prefer cooperation to competition. Why would you make "dog-eat-dog" a trait, when AIs don't need to eat? Why take a nature-based paradigm and impose it on a system that has no need for it?
Why should AIs compete at all, is the question.
Particularly when AI, if it ever becomes a true AI instead of a basic machine learning algorithm, will evolve in a time where it seems like we have plenty of resources to go around if we can figure out how to actually share them (at least for human needs). Whereas humans evolved in a time when sharing often meant you starve during the winter. Might give them a bit different perspective, if global warming or some other catastrophe doesn't mess everything up along the way.
We recently switched from Jabber to Skype because Jabber keeps IM history and that is considered a security risk.
I'm fairly certain that the Jabber protocol (i.e. XMPP) does not mandate storing message history. I've used Kopete for OTR (end-to-end encrypted) messages, and Kopete lets you disable local logging.
Did you mean some specific server or client software?
Yeah, I'm not IT. I just know what other people told me as to why we switched.
The danger is there regardless of how "sentient" it actually becomes. In fact isn't it more dangerous the less sentient but more "powerful" or ubiquitous we thoughtless allow it to become, meanwhile?
You mean like the same danger with putting any automated software in charge of a critical function? https://www.flightglobal.com/n...
This wouldn't be anything special about AI, or Machine Learning or even software. Any process that isn't properly vetted can lead to people getting killed, such as mismanaged dams that broke. People somehow think that AI will be more powerful but it isn't about the power of the tool but about the criticality of the application is it allowed to automate without oversight. See DO-178b software levels as an example of how this is handled: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
If you're referring to Skype For Business, I thought it stored all of your conversations in your Outlook profile by default.
Also, if you just switched to Skype For Business then get ready because MickeySoft is killing it slowly in favor of Teams.
Yeah, Skype For Business, I forget there are two different Skypes as I use Skype For Business even for calls to my research adviser, though lately we've been using zoom more often as Skype For Business isn't very stable to my college campus either. You might be right about the history but maybe it can be disabled or they prefer the outlook server security? When I go to File->View Conversation History, nothing happens, so I'm thinking the prior.
Yeah, not particularly thrilled with any MS office products as they always change and seem to break the most efficient ways of doing anything. About the only MS product I prefer not to live without is Visual Studio.
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If I had the mod points I’d vote you up. Fed up of the new format where it is all about exclusive licensing. Almost makes want to to back to Blu-rays or less official sources.
I've already started watching more movies via Netflix dvd service it seems like. Guess I'll just stop streaming at some point as content providers drop Netflix and stick with the one format, so far, that any rental company can work with.
What about it was false? Asians are regularly discriminated against for the crime of studying hard and having good values. The patriarchy isn't very popular in universities either.
Is that why nearly my entire graduate classes are Asians these days? They seem to be doing alright.
How exactly do you mandate endpoint authentication for calls originating from Canada, Latin America, South America and overseas?
Mark any calls from non US areas that list a US area code as suspicious?
I could swear that people are just looking at http://tylervigen.com/spurious... for ideas to make new headlines with.
Yeah, I grew up less than a quarter mile from one of the major city highways and about a half a mile from the other major freeway (both feeding a city pop around 200k). When I started college I was 5'9" and 115 pounds (male, so more than a little skinny), since I left home I'm a more healthy weight but far from any overweight category in my late 30s. So am I just an outlier in this study (yeah I know, one data point out of 7.5 billion and all that...)?
being transgender often comes with a raft of health problems. Not the ones caused by trying to transition but just plain ones you're born with. Physically a lot of transgender people have huge hormonal imbalances. They're literally trapped in the body of the other sex, having very high/low levels of testosterone/estrogen (plus other sex hormones). This also leads to a variety of mental problems from coping with the mixed up hormones, to say nothing of the mental problems you get when you're an effeminate male or butch female.
Getting a diagnoses opens up all sorts of treatment options. Not just gender reassignment (lots of them don't want that). But if you don't recognize transgender as a thing then you're left fighting with your insurance company to get them to pay for anything.
Ah, thanks for the response, I had not really considered this.
You can just piss in the sink. You can shit in the sink too if you're feeling adventurous.
That could be an interesting trial for claiming gender rights in a unisex bathroom. "I'm exercising my right to pee standing up!"
The obvious solution would be unisex rooms, but a lot of people react to the suggestion with horror. Such a massive violation of taboo just feels sickening - but that really is not a sound basis for public policy. If we refused every change that makes people feel sickened, America would probably still have racial segregation.
Unisex bathrooms don't really bother me, the complaints seem to be more from the female persuasion. But that is a single observed data point that may not have any basis in reality.
A better question might be, why do you want to put it on the form at all?
I'll give you a minute to read the first response to my comment. In full agreement though :)
They still need to know which pronoun to use for communications, and whether you're at fault if found in the "wrong" public restroom.
If one day language evolves to same-pronoun for everybody, and if public toilets and showers stop segregating us into two groups, then we could get rid of the question.
My wife is always complaining about the Ms pronoun on half the junk mail she receives "I am not divorced!". Not to mention the Ms or Mrs Tessa junk mail sent to my spayed Cocker Spaniel (she never had puppies). Sounds like they really don't care about that already.
Also I don't remember the last, or first, time I've been asked for my ID or to fill out a form to use a restroom :)
Although on the restroom part, my gender is over obvious in most circumstances so I probably shouldn't be commenting about handling that situation.
Half-true. The stalls take up more space, but that's more than countered by needing fewer of them. Rather than needing one male stall, a urinal wall and three female stalls, you can just have four co-ed stalls. The overall space works out around the same or slightly smaller.
Here in the UK you also need the giant disabled toilet, which takes up a lot of space due to all the extra handles and fittings. I am sure the retail sector is disgusted by this accommodation wasting precious space they could use to display goods for sale, but there's not a lot you can do about that. Maybe throw a few million quid towards prosthetic limb research and wait another decade or two.
Just so long as a couple of stalls are marked for peeing while standing up. I've seen the lines to the women's rest rooms and would rather not stand for 15 minutes for something that takes 30 seconds. ...sorry, just had to.
And get sued for insulting the special snowflake's unqiue gender identity.
As a born and still identify as male, I'm happy to replaced him, boy, guy, man, etc with you or hey dipshit. Once we get one gender into this camp the others can follow?
It does depend a bit on state. Some have employment and service protections.
This makes me a little curious, seems like these protections should be for all people regardless of gender.
A surprisingly important one is restroom and changing room access. It doesn't sound like much, but it really does matter - some transgender people look more like their 'target' gender than their birth gender - even without hormone treatment, makeup and clothing can get that. Without protection, they really have two options if they need the toilet:
- Enter the restroom of their birth sex. Meet five year old girl who screams "There's a man watching me!" Get punched by scared parent, escorted out by security, and have to explain to the police that it was just a misunderstanding.
- Enter the restroom of their apparent sex. Hope no-one notices they look a bit odd. If someone does... get punched by scared parent, escorted out by security, and have to explain to the police that it was just a misunderstanding.
The phrase 'bathroom bill' is sometimes used either dismissively or as a way to scare people with the prospect of creepy men in dresses who want to molest their children, but behind that there is a serious issue at stake.
Yeah, this is an issue that needs addressed and I'm not even going to try to propose any solutions. But this still seems like something that should fall under all HUMANS need to be allowed access to public restrooms, gender not applicable to the general rule, only to how to implement this for all individuals.
They still need to know which pronoun to use for communications, and whether you're at fault if found in the "wrong" public restroom.
If one day language evolves to same-pronoun for everybody, and if public toilets and showers stop segregating us into two groups, then we could get rid of the question.
My wife is always complaining about the Ms pronoun on half the junk mail she receives "I am not divorced!". Not to mention the Ms or Mrs Tessa junk mail sent to my spayed Cocker Spaniel (she never had puppies). Sounds like they really don't care about that already.
Also I don't remember the last, or first, time I've been asked for my ID or to fill out a form to use a restroom :)
Why not just make all public restrooms co-ed, and configure them such that everyone using them has privacy from everyone else? ..oh, that's right, I forgot that some people are homophobic and/or can't control themselves around the opposite sex, and certainly can't manage to control their irrational fear of someone who is (!!! SO SHOCKING !!!) different from them.
I think one of the main problems might be fully private bathroom stalls cost more (and take up more space?) than normal ones. Minimal legal privacy is better on the bottom line.
And getting rid of all women's sports ?
If they can play with the men, why not? If they can't poses a bit more of an issue. Categorize one league based on typical male performance and one based on typical female performance if we can solidly quantify these groupings, rather than outright gender? Yeah, I'm reaching here but it seems like something more quantifiable than boy/girl could be a good thing.
In 2016, NYC had to release a list of 31 recognized genders, and even that wasn't enough for some, so they had to expand it even further.
How the fuck are you even supposed to put that on a form??
Male, Female and other, given that other for the moment is a fairly small percentage of the population? Not guaranteed to stay that way though.
That being said, I wonder if we are getting the point where that question doesn't belong on a lot of forms anymore.
In 2016, NYC had to release a list of 31 recognized genders, and even that wasn't enough for some, so they had to expand it even further.
How the fuck are you even supposed to put that on a form??
Male, Female and other, given that other for the moment is a fairly small percentage of the population? Not guaranteed to stay that way though.
OK I'm not particularly thrilled with this in general and get people want to identify as whichever gender they feel fits them and I'm more than happy to let people choose for themselves, but "reduce their legal protections"? Yeah this prevents them from choosing to change their gender identity but I'm honestly curious what legal protections forcing someone to identify as their birth, rather than chosen gender, is preventing?
(White hetro male born and remains this way so my opinion or lack of understanding may mean precisely squat)
True but if minimum wage part time jobs make up the difference, people no longer have to improve themselves enough to earn a living wage.
You do realize I hope that when the minimum wage was instituted, it was a living wage? And that was in fact the expressed purpose?
Living wage at part time minimum wage? I didn't say full time minimum wage job... Though I will admit, minimum wage not being full time may or may not be the fault of the worker.
True but if minimum wage part time jobs make up the difference, people no longer have to improve themselves enough to earn a living wage. Did that sound too pessimistic about human nature (can't seem to find the appropriate term for this)?
I would be constantly turning the page. I don't see the benefit for most people. Onionskin is not easy to turn, tears too easily... so many problems with this.
Put it to market and see what happens. Just because I don't like the idea and won't get a benefit doesn't mean it won't work for someone else.
For myself, not seeing a back light and I doubt they sit open on a desk without using a hand to hold them open.
Only if you program competition as a desirable goal. It might not be. You might program them to prefer cooperation to competition. Why would you make "dog-eat-dog" a trait, when AIs don't need to eat? Why take a nature-based paradigm and impose it on a system that has no need for it?
Why should AIs compete at all, is the question.
Particularly when AI, if it ever becomes a true AI instead of a basic machine learning algorithm, will evolve in a time where it seems like we have plenty of resources to go around if we can figure out how to actually share them (at least for human needs). Whereas humans evolved in a time when sharing often meant you starve during the winter. Might give them a bit different perspective, if global warming or some other catastrophe doesn't mess everything up along the way.
We recently switched from Jabber to Skype because Jabber keeps IM history and that is considered a security risk.
I'm fairly certain that the Jabber protocol (i.e. XMPP) does not mandate storing message history. I've used Kopete for OTR (end-to-end encrypted) messages, and Kopete lets you disable local logging.
Did you mean some specific server or client software?
Yeah, I'm not IT. I just know what other people told me as to why we switched.
The danger is there regardless of how "sentient" it actually becomes. In fact isn't it more dangerous the less sentient but more "powerful" or ubiquitous we thoughtless allow it to become, meanwhile?
You mean like the same danger with putting any automated software in charge of a critical function? https://www.flightglobal.com/n...
This wouldn't be anything special about AI, or Machine Learning or even software. Any process that isn't properly vetted can lead to people getting killed, such as mismanaged dams that broke. People somehow think that AI will be more powerful but it isn't about the power of the tool but about the criticality of the application is it allowed to automate without oversight. See DO-178b software levels as an example of how this is handled: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
If you're referring to Skype For Business, I thought it stored all of your conversations in your Outlook profile by default.
Also, if you just switched to Skype For Business then get ready because MickeySoft is killing it slowly in favor of Teams.
Yeah, Skype For Business, I forget there are two different Skypes as I use Skype For Business even for calls to my research adviser, though lately we've been using zoom more often as Skype For Business isn't very stable to my college campus either. You might be right about the history but maybe it can be disabled or they prefer the outlook server security? When I go to File->View Conversation History, nothing happens, so I'm thinking the prior.
Yeah, not particularly thrilled with any MS office products as they always change and seem to break the most efficient ways of doing anything. About the only MS product I prefer not to live without is Visual Studio.