Yes. Because this is the one film they'll make this year and flops like The Interns aren't at all a problem for the industry.
The Interns wasn't that *bad* a movie, really... I saw it yesterday with a friend. If you're expecting high brow intellectual humour, you're going to find it sorely lacking, and it's slow to start, but if you can sit through the whole thing it's entertaining. I'd wait for it on Netflix, though. With the amount of product placement in the film, I'm a bit surprised they had the gall to charge a ticket price in the first place.
I had a few good laughs at parts of the movie that weren't even supposed to be funny though, like one scene where they were having a discussion about whether vi or emacs would be a better code editing environment, and they had a bar graph showing usage statistics up on the wall, which showed vi and emacs about even, and nano a distant third....
What do you think decides which way that feeling points?
I don't know. It's probably a combination of outside societal pressures, and internal pressures as well, but I don't think I'm qualified to explain what those pressures are. All I know is that I come into contact with trans people on a regular basis and am good friends with many of them (I do community outreach through the local LGBT center), and every single one of them has always considered themselves to be their identified gender, not their physical sex.
It's a fair point... but you are not in the majority with your approach to life. The world would be a better place if more people viewed the "other" the way you do.
Then again, it's probably also got something to do with geography... I'm in Canada, and while Canada isn't anywhere near as bad as the US, it's still not as forward-thinking and liberal-minded as Europe or Australia on subjects like this.
it doesn't seem to be a reliable cure for the distress
Actually, it is very reliable. It's got the best success rate of any treatment in psychiatry, which is one of the main reasons that they're considering de-listing gender dysphoria as a mental illness in the new version of the DSM : If there's a single treatment which is near 100% effective, and which removes the need for further psychiatric assistance, then it's an acute medical problem and not a mental illness. Mental illness usually implies that there's ongoing life-long problems associated with it, which will require continued treatment.
Try to understand... there's a handful of doctors in the world who are licensed to perform gender reassignment surgery, and between them, there's maybe 100-200 people every week who have the surgery, and many more who don't bother to go through with the surgery either because they can't afford it, or because simply living as their identified gender and taking HRT is good enough. While it's a vanishingly small percentage compared against the world's 7 billion population, the 1 or 2 every several years who claims it was a mistake to go through with the surgery is a vanishingly small percentage of the people who transition. Meanwhile, there's a near 50% suicide rate among transgendered people who don't have treatment, and the rate among those who do have treatment is less than the national average. The reason you don't hear about it is that most trans folk just want to get on with their lives, and are not attention-seeking publicity whores. It's actually very rare to find somebody who's willing to publicly out themselves and try to do something about educating the masses.
Further, the state of the art is really good. You could be dealing with transfolk on a daily basis and not know about it: a surprisingly large number of male-to-female transgendered people are able to slip under the radar, as it were, and never need to disclose their past to anybody other than their doctor (and, depending on their ethics, their lovers). As for female-to-male transgenders, it's even easier for them to go unnoticed because the hormones cause voice deepening, muscle growth, and facial hair. For them, it's near 100% that are able to go "stealth".
If you're doing any selective marketing or sales campaigns or you show them any form of targeted advertising or you're selling customer lists then it does matter or at least it has value. Statistically speaking males and females of same age have vastly different interests, so they're not going to stop collecting that information.
The information is bad to begin with. If an organization sends out a coupon for tickets to some sporting event, but only to men on their list, then they're going to annoy a lot of men, and miss a lot of sales opportunities from women. (and yes, I'm using an obvious/stereotypical example). The list of products that men never buy (but women do buy), and which women never buy (but men do buy) is exceedingly short: I can't actually think of a single product on the list. If a marketing company is using that identifier as a way to target advertising, they are completely missing the point of collecting data in the first place.
I was curious about whether you tried testosterone therapy and it didn't work? I can't tell if that's what you're saying or if you feel like you were abused by yourself for producing testosterone.
Most of the transwomen that I know view the body's natural production of testosterone to be the body slowly poisoning itself, in a circumstance where they have a hard time convincing a doctor to give them a treatment which can stop it. This is one of the major reasons why transgendered people have a very high suicide rate among those who haven't had treatment.
I'm curious about this statement too.. you're saying your heart may tell you you're a woman. What does that mean? Is there some feeling that all women have that men aren't supposed to feel?
Self identification. You think of yourself as a man (I assume). The GP identifies herself as a woman. The difference is that you (assuming you're male) have the dangly bits to go with it, so there's no discord between your identified gender and your physical sex. For a transgendered person, their physical sex does not match their identified gender, and that clash can cause serious body image issues, severe depression, and suicidal behaviour. Usually, the only effective treatment for somebody in that situation is to start living as their perceived gender, and almost universally, once a transperson starts their real life experience (long before they get any kind of surgery), the depression and other mental issues disappear very quickly.
I know it's difficult to wrap your head around... usually the only way to understand it is to go through such a change yourself or (in some cases) to know people before/after their transition and see for yourself the positive difference it makes in their life, but there is a distinction between a person's physical sex and their gender identity. These are two distinct and separate variables that go into the definition of "you", and when the two do not have the same value, it causes problems. Since there isn't really a way to change one (gender), the only effective treatment is to look at the other.
Thank you. I was trying to find a good way to tell that person he was quoting idiots, but I don't think I can do it any more eloquently than you.
There's a particularly insidious branch of feminism (and I use that word because that's how they identify, not because I consider them feminists) which seems to think that you are only female if you were born that way, and that you're only male if you're born that way. One of the most obvious examples of this would be the kerfluffle that blew up over the last few years with Dianic Wicca, but that opens up an entirely different can of worms on this forum, and isn't really germane to the discussion.... the point I'm making is that these people claim to be feminists, but the ideas they espouse are the antithesis of feminism. These are the people who believe that it's not possible for men to be feminists, either, which is utterly wrong. Real feminism is inclusive, both of men who want to do more to help women be treated as equals, and of transwomen who should be accepted as women, without the need for the "trans" identifier. (and the same for transmen)
Now, I fully expect that some people are shitheads, and will probably find a way to give you flak for what you've written. For that, you have my sympathy. But you do have allies here, and out there, and I wanted you to know that.
You raise a good point, but sometimes it's not as easy as you seem to think... In some jurisdictions, all you need is a letter from your doctor and they'll change the sex on your driver's license. In some, they won't change it at all, even after you've had reassignment surgery. Without more information, we have no way of knowing whether the person in question chose not to update her driver's license.
Actually, it's a heavily politicized issue in most of the world... there's *very* few countries in the world where gender reassignment surgery is covered by public health care, and it's usually a very politically charged argument over whether it should be covered.
Such political impetus is usually the main reason that trans people in some areas have a really hard time getting databases updated, and in others it's really easy, too. In this neck of the woods, it's simply a question of getting a letter from your doctor, and they'll update your health card, your driver's license, your birth certificate, and your passport. Don't even need to have surgery.
For those not familiar, go look up "epigenetics". I've been pointed to some studies in which there are identical twins who grow into adulthood -- one is gay (for example, pick your LGBTQ?) and the other is not. This being evidence that it's not "genetic" per se, but is epigenetic
The counterpoint to this being that even though there's examples where one's gay and the other isn't, the statistical probability that both twins are gay is several orders of magnitude higher than it is for non-twin siblings, suggesting that there is probably still a genetic correlation.
The counter-counterpoint is that there's also a statistically significant probability that later children will be gay (a woman's 1st son has X percentage chance, her 5th son has X+Y percentage), which suggests that homosexuality may actually be a biological response to overpopulation, and that there's hormonal triggers in utero which can cause it.
Likely, as the GP says, there's a very large number of factors, and people are making mistakes by trying to single out an individual factor as the cause. This also goes for transgenderism, which, as the GP says, should be treated on basis of "they're human, they deserve equal treatment", not "they're different, they deserve equal treatment".
Okay. As the sibling points out, counselling is necessary for surgery. I have a friend who is trans* who complained quite a bit about how absurd the counselling requirements are and how he had to essentially lie to the psychologist to be the textbook perfect "good trans* person" in order to be allowed to get surgery.
Depends where you are, but yes, that's a story I've heard a lot as well, from several trans friends. I do community outreach through the local LGBT center, and deal with trans folk on a regular basis because of it....
That being said, things are changing in most places. The US is still batshit insane, but I know a transwoman who went through the folks in Toronto last year, and didn't have to pretend to be anything she wasn't. She even blatantly told the psychiatrist that she was a lesbian and had no intention of ever being with a guy, and still got the surgery... something that even 5 years ago wouldn't have been possible because it wasn't "textbook".
I absolutely text at a stop light...ONLY at a stop light and ONLY when I have a friend to tell me if the light is green.
Why on earth wouldn't you just have the friend read the text for you, and then type out the reply? I have a hard time imagining a situation where you need to send a text while driving *that* badly, and where the content of said text is questionable enough that you'd be worried about the friend knowing what's in it....
It'd be interesting to see the numbers on my own system, I suppose... I have an i5-2500k (sandy bridge) that I bought right when ivy bridge came out, which I have clocked at 4.8GHz. That's running with a Cooler Master Hyper 212+, and doesn't exceed 65'C even when transcoding blu-ray/dvd videos to h.264... I've kept it pegged at 100% CPU for 6 days straight without exceeding that temperature....
I'd be surprised if that heatsink could provide >200W of cooling, given that it's a big radiator with a fan. To be fair the case has a *ton* of airflow (Antec Eleven Hundred), but I'm still doubtful that it's capable of providing *that* much cooling... Cooler Master's own specs say it can only handle about 180W of TDP....
Windows 8... That answers everything. Remember a year ago, when the browser creators were complaining, because Windows 8 wouldn't let them run their renderer natively, so they had to either take a CPU hit to run interpreted code, or use the Trident rendering engine?
I'd like to see the same test done on Windows 7...
Dell, HP, IBM, and BCE are all windows shops, or at least were when I worked for them, and all of them have *well* over 10,000 employees. I still work for BCE. We've got 65,000 employees in Canada, and they're all on Windows. (well, some of the field repair technicians are being switched to Android, but that's still *well* over 10,000 Windows licenses).
Who actually plays media directly on a car stereo any more?:P
If I'm in the car, I'm usually listening to the radio, which works perfectly well. If I want to play stuff from my music collection, I play it via bluetooth from the cell phone, which we've already discussed.:) This usually only happens when I'm on a long distance road trip in the boonies where there's no radio stations (as recently as 2 weeks ago... you know it's rural when you see a sign that reads "isolated route, next turn 223km, next gas 240km", which happens in some parts of northern Canada.
With MP3 of course you are losing fidelity, and with FLAC you are using more disk space and limiting the devices on which your audio data can be played back.
My cell phone (which doubles as the portable music player) can play FLAC, as can my computer and my network-connected home theater receiver. I think my smart TV can play it too, but I've never had a reason to check...
While you're definitely sacrificing disk space, the argument about fewer devices being able to play it is certainly not as true as it used to be. I still carry most of my music around in FLAC format, and just buy a bigger SD card for the phone, and choose some albums I don't want to carry around.
That bounty would have to be pretty high to have any chance of succeeding. 7 figures at least, I would think... Stealing cars, especially high end cars with no damage at all, can be extremely profitable.
The car alarm will still go off for any of those, except for hacking the remote entry system, and the immobilizer will prevent the car from going anywhere.
Clearly, on reading this, I will continue to only use cars that have RFID transponders in the key itself and won't go anywhere without the key in the ignition.... I may have to stop leaving the expensive sunglasses in the car, is all.
It's a fight brand they set up so they could go after the same market segment that smaller players like Fido and Virgin were going after without gutting their core market/pricing, actually... This was before Chart (Rogers), Wind, and Mobilicity entered the market, and before Bell bought Virgin.
Ultimately, as long as I get the service I want at a price I feel is worth it, I don't really care who the corporate overlords are.
So does Telus, and Koodo... with Koodo, it's both voice and data, and you can opt to continue paying the full price. It banks in your "tab" towards the purchase of your next phone... with a full bank, you can get double the normal subsidy on a new phone: $300, instead of $150 (and that's a carrier which has already been following every rule set out in the code of conduct for at least as long as I've been with them).
The remake of Total Recall was closer to We Can Remember It For You, Wholesale than the original film, but they found other ways to shit on the story (like answering the question of whether it was all a dream, which was one of the things that made the original such a good film).
Generally speaking, it's exceedingly rare for any film adaptation to remain faithful to the original source material. That has nothing to do with Dick's stories in particular, that's just a rule of Hollywood: about the only film adaptations that ever come close to capturing the magic of the book are ones where they have the author of the book doing the screen treatment as well. In the case of Dick, that ship has sailed.
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Yes. Because this is the one film they'll make this year and flops like The Interns aren't at all a problem for the industry.
The Interns wasn't that *bad* a movie, really... I saw it yesterday with a friend. If you're expecting high brow intellectual humour, you're going to find it sorely lacking, and it's slow to start, but if you can sit through the whole thing it's entertaining. I'd wait for it on Netflix, though. With the amount of product placement in the film, I'm a bit surprised they had the gall to charge a ticket price in the first place.
I had a few good laughs at parts of the movie that weren't even supposed to be funny though, like one scene where they were having a discussion about whether vi or emacs would be a better code editing environment, and they had a bar graph showing usage statistics up on the wall, which showed vi and emacs about even, and nano a distant third....
What do you think decides which way that feeling points?
I don't know. It's probably a combination of outside societal pressures, and internal pressures as well, but I don't think I'm qualified to explain what those pressures are. All I know is that I come into contact with trans people on a regular basis and am good friends with many of them (I do community outreach through the local LGBT center), and every single one of them has always considered themselves to be their identified gender, not their physical sex.
It's a fair point... but you are not in the majority with your approach to life. The world would be a better place if more people viewed the "other" the way you do.
Then again, it's probably also got something to do with geography... I'm in Canada, and while Canada isn't anywhere near as bad as the US, it's still not as forward-thinking and liberal-minded as Europe or Australia on subjects like this.
it doesn't seem to be a reliable cure for the distress
Actually, it is very reliable. It's got the best success rate of any treatment in psychiatry, which is one of the main reasons that they're considering de-listing gender dysphoria as a mental illness in the new version of the DSM : If there's a single treatment which is near 100% effective, and which removes the need for further psychiatric assistance, then it's an acute medical problem and not a mental illness. Mental illness usually implies that there's ongoing life-long problems associated with it, which will require continued treatment.
Try to understand... there's a handful of doctors in the world who are licensed to perform gender reassignment surgery, and between them, there's maybe 100-200 people every week who have the surgery, and many more who don't bother to go through with the surgery either because they can't afford it, or because simply living as their identified gender and taking HRT is good enough. While it's a vanishingly small percentage compared against the world's 7 billion population, the 1 or 2 every several years who claims it was a mistake to go through with the surgery is a vanishingly small percentage of the people who transition. Meanwhile, there's a near 50% suicide rate among transgendered people who don't have treatment, and the rate among those who do have treatment is less than the national average. The reason you don't hear about it is that most trans folk just want to get on with their lives, and are not attention-seeking publicity whores. It's actually very rare to find somebody who's willing to publicly out themselves and try to do something about educating the masses.
Further, the state of the art is really good. You could be dealing with transfolk on a daily basis and not know about it: a surprisingly large number of male-to-female transgendered people are able to slip under the radar, as it were, and never need to disclose their past to anybody other than their doctor (and, depending on their ethics, their lovers). As for female-to-male transgenders, it's even easier for them to go unnoticed because the hormones cause voice deepening, muscle growth, and facial hair. For them, it's near 100% that are able to go "stealth".
If you're doing any selective marketing or sales campaigns or you show them any form of targeted advertising or you're selling customer lists then it does matter or at least it has value. Statistically speaking males and females of same age have vastly different interests, so they're not going to stop collecting that information.
The information is bad to begin with. If an organization sends out a coupon for tickets to some sporting event, but only to men on their list, then they're going to annoy a lot of men, and miss a lot of sales opportunities from women. (and yes, I'm using an obvious/stereotypical example). The list of products that men never buy (but women do buy), and which women never buy (but men do buy) is exceedingly short: I can't actually think of a single product on the list. If a marketing company is using that identifier as a way to target advertising, they are completely missing the point of collecting data in the first place.
I was curious about whether you tried testosterone therapy and it didn't work? I can't tell if that's what you're saying or if you feel like you were abused by yourself for producing testosterone.
Most of the transwomen that I know view the body's natural production of testosterone to be the body slowly poisoning itself, in a circumstance where they have a hard time convincing a doctor to give them a treatment which can stop it. This is one of the major reasons why transgendered people have a very high suicide rate among those who haven't had treatment.
I'm curious about this statement too.. you're saying your heart may tell you you're a woman. What does that mean? Is there some feeling that all women have that men aren't supposed to feel?
Self identification. You think of yourself as a man (I assume). The GP identifies herself as a woman. The difference is that you (assuming you're male) have the dangly bits to go with it, so there's no discord between your identified gender and your physical sex. For a transgendered person, their physical sex does not match their identified gender, and that clash can cause serious body image issues, severe depression, and suicidal behaviour. Usually, the only effective treatment for somebody in that situation is to start living as their perceived gender, and almost universally, once a transperson starts their real life experience (long before they get any kind of surgery), the depression and other mental issues disappear very quickly.
I know it's difficult to wrap your head around... usually the only way to understand it is to go through such a change yourself or (in some cases) to know people before/after their transition and see for yourself the positive difference it makes in their life, but there is a distinction between a person's physical sex and their gender identity. These are two distinct and separate variables that go into the definition of "you", and when the two do not have the same value, it causes problems. Since there isn't really a way to change one (gender), the only effective treatment is to look at the other.
Thank you. I was trying to find a good way to tell that person he was quoting idiots, but I don't think I can do it any more eloquently than you.
There's a particularly insidious branch of feminism (and I use that word because that's how they identify, not because I consider them feminists) which seems to think that you are only female if you were born that way, and that you're only male if you're born that way. One of the most obvious examples of this would be the kerfluffle that blew up over the last few years with Dianic Wicca, but that opens up an entirely different can of worms on this forum, and isn't really germane to the discussion.... the point I'm making is that these people claim to be feminists, but the ideas they espouse are the antithesis of feminism. These are the people who believe that it's not possible for men to be feminists, either, which is utterly wrong. Real feminism is inclusive, both of men who want to do more to help women be treated as equals, and of transwomen who should be accepted as women, without the need for the "trans" identifier. (and the same for transmen)
Now, I fully expect that some people are shitheads, and will probably find a way to give you flak for what you've written. For that, you have my sympathy. But you do have allies here, and out there, and I wanted you to know that.
You raise a good point, but sometimes it's not as easy as you seem to think... In some jurisdictions, all you need is a letter from your doctor and they'll change the sex on your driver's license. In some, they won't change it at all, even after you've had reassignment surgery. Without more information, we have no way of knowing whether the person in question chose not to update her driver's license.
Yes. I know several. I work with one on a regular basis at the local LGBT center.
Actually, it's a heavily politicized issue in most of the world... there's *very* few countries in the world where gender reassignment surgery is covered by public health care, and it's usually a very politically charged argument over whether it should be covered.
Such political impetus is usually the main reason that trans people in some areas have a really hard time getting databases updated, and in others it's really easy, too. In this neck of the woods, it's simply a question of getting a letter from your doctor, and they'll update your health card, your driver's license, your birth certificate, and your passport. Don't even need to have surgery.
For those not familiar, go look up "epigenetics". I've been pointed to some studies in which there are identical twins who grow into adulthood -- one is gay (for example, pick your LGBTQ?) and the other is not. This being evidence that it's not "genetic" per se, but is epigenetic
The counterpoint to this being that even though there's examples where one's gay and the other isn't, the statistical probability that both twins are gay is several orders of magnitude higher than it is for non-twin siblings, suggesting that there is probably still a genetic correlation.
The counter-counterpoint is that there's also a statistically significant probability that later children will be gay (a woman's 1st son has X percentage chance, her 5th son has X+Y percentage), which suggests that homosexuality may actually be a biological response to overpopulation, and that there's hormonal triggers in utero which can cause it.
Likely, as the GP says, there's a very large number of factors, and people are making mistakes by trying to single out an individual factor as the cause. This also goes for transgenderism, which, as the GP says, should be treated on basis of "they're human, they deserve equal treatment", not "they're different, they deserve equal treatment".
Okay. As the sibling points out, counselling is necessary for surgery. I have a friend who is trans* who complained quite a bit about how absurd the counselling requirements are and how he had to essentially lie to the psychologist to be the textbook perfect "good trans* person" in order to be allowed to get surgery.
Depends where you are, but yes, that's a story I've heard a lot as well, from several trans friends. I do community outreach through the local LGBT center, and deal with trans folk on a regular basis because of it....
That being said, things are changing in most places. The US is still batshit insane, but I know a transwoman who went through the folks in Toronto last year, and didn't have to pretend to be anything she wasn't. She even blatantly told the psychiatrist that she was a lesbian and had no intention of ever being with a guy, and still got the surgery... something that even 5 years ago wouldn't have been possible because it wasn't "textbook".
... you go to Amazon to find the best price on an Alienware?
http://www.dell.com/us/p/alienware-x51-r2/pd.aspx
$699 to start.That gets you an i3-3220, 6GB of RAM, a 1GB NVIDIA GTX 645, and a 1TB spinny platter drive.
I absolutely text at a stop light...ONLY at a stop light and ONLY when I have a friend to tell me if the light is green.
Why on earth wouldn't you just have the friend read the text for you, and then type out the reply? I have a hard time imagining a situation where you need to send a text while driving *that* badly, and where the content of said text is questionable enough that you'd be worried about the friend knowing what's in it....
It'd be interesting to see the numbers on my own system, I suppose... I have an i5-2500k (sandy bridge) that I bought right when ivy bridge came out, which I have clocked at 4.8GHz. That's running with a Cooler Master Hyper 212+, and doesn't exceed 65'C even when transcoding blu-ray/dvd videos to h.264... I've kept it pegged at 100% CPU for 6 days straight without exceeding that temperature....
I'd be surprised if that heatsink could provide >200W of cooling, given that it's a big radiator with a fan. To be fair the case has a *ton* of airflow (Antec Eleven Hundred), but I'm still doubtful that it's capable of providing *that* much cooling... Cooler Master's own specs say it can only handle about 180W of TDP....
Windows 8... That answers everything. Remember a year ago, when the browser creators were complaining, because Windows 8 wouldn't let them run their renderer natively, so they had to either take a CPU hit to run interpreted code, or use the Trident rendering engine?
I'd like to see the same test done on Windows 7...
Dell, HP, IBM, and BCE are all windows shops, or at least were when I worked for them, and all of them have *well* over 10,000 employees. I still work for BCE. We've got 65,000 employees in Canada, and they're all on Windows. (well, some of the field repair technicians are being switched to Android, but that's still *well* over 10,000 Windows licenses).
Who actually plays media directly on a car stereo any more? :P
If I'm in the car, I'm usually listening to the radio, which works perfectly well. If I want to play stuff from my music collection, I play it via bluetooth from the cell phone, which we've already discussed. :) This usually only happens when I'm on a long distance road trip in the boonies where there's no radio stations (as recently as 2 weeks ago... you know it's rural when you see a sign that reads "isolated route, next turn 223km, next gas 240km", which happens in some parts of northern Canada.
With MP3 of course you are losing fidelity, and with FLAC you are using more disk space and limiting the devices on which your audio data can be played back.
My cell phone (which doubles as the portable music player) can play FLAC, as can my computer and my network-connected home theater receiver. I think my smart TV can play it too, but I've never had a reason to check...
While you're definitely sacrificing disk space, the argument about fewer devices being able to play it is certainly not as true as it used to be. I still carry most of my music around in FLAC format, and just buy a bigger SD card for the phone, and choose some albums I don't want to carry around.
That bounty would have to be pretty high to have any chance of succeeding. 7 figures at least, I would think... Stealing cars, especially high end cars with no damage at all, can be extremely profitable.
The car alarm will still go off for any of those, except for hacking the remote entry system, and the immobilizer will prevent the car from going anywhere.
Clearly, on reading this, I will continue to only use cars that have RFID transponders in the key itself and won't go anywhere without the key in the ignition.... I may have to stop leaving the expensive sunglasses in the car, is all.
It's a fight brand they set up so they could go after the same market segment that smaller players like Fido and Virgin were going after without gutting their core market/pricing, actually... This was before Chart (Rogers), Wind, and Mobilicity entered the market, and before Bell bought Virgin.
Ultimately, as long as I get the service I want at a price I feel is worth it, I don't really care who the corporate overlords are.
Dos Equis is named for the blend... it contains the piss from two horses.....
(yes, I'm aware the Latin is spelled slightly differently...)
So does Telus, and Koodo... with Koodo, it's both voice and data, and you can opt to continue paying the full price. It banks in your "tab" towards the purchase of your next phone... with a full bank, you can get double the normal subsidy on a new phone: $300, instead of $150 (and that's a carrier which has already been following every rule set out in the code of conduct for at least as long as I've been with them).
The remake of Total Recall was closer to We Can Remember It For You, Wholesale than the original film, but they found other ways to shit on the story (like answering the question of whether it was all a dream, which was one of the things that made the original such a good film).
Generally speaking, it's exceedingly rare for any film adaptation to remain faithful to the original source material. That has nothing to do with Dick's stories in particular, that's just a rule of Hollywood: about the only film adaptations that ever come close to capturing the magic of the book are ones where they have the author of the book doing the screen treatment as well. In the case of Dick, that ship has sailed.