Some like me prefer men, which actually means additional soul searching before beginning transition and weighing alternatives such as adopting a homosexual identity.
As opposed to a trans lesbian, who has to decide whether to adopt a cis-hetero role?:)
I think it's safe to say that all trans people would rather be "normal", as best as that can be defined. Some are lucky enough to live in a country where it is socially acceptable... I know several trans people who have not had trouble finding a partner at all. I also know several who've had a really hard go of it. Individual experiences will vary, but the overriding pattern I've seen in the trans folk I know is that the ones who have it easy are in Europe, Australia, and Canada....
Theoretically requires a Netflix subscription, so possibly not.
But to answer the question he asked more seriously... probably not going to get hormone therapy in a US prison. Can apply for special dispensation or house arrest, where such medical care would be possible, but, especially considering that Manning hasn't started taking HRT yet (so the current status quo doesn't pose a medical/health risk), it's very unlikely that Manning will be given that kind of treatment in the US penal system.
I can assure you Ottawa is not taking away habitat or nesting space from the geese... fuckers attack me every morning on my morning commute by bicycle as they've laid claim to the bike paths, and I pass several beaches (that are not open to the public for swimming) that are inundated with them.
Their product is not something that is going to get me ahead in any way, it's not something I have to have to survive, or to thrive. It's a source of entertainment. One among many. If they dont want my business I will spend my money elsewhere, simple as that.
It's something that makes cutting the cord and cancelling your cable/satellite TV subscription significantly easier. While that's not something that you *need*, it is something that's immensely useful to have.
Personally, I consider the $8/mo I pay for Netflix to be well worth it, especially when compared against the cost of a TV subscription. Your own economics may differ. But given the very wide array of devices I have where it works perfectly (including my cell phone, my tablet, and game consoles), I'm quite happy to keep the service, despite the DRM.
It'd be nice to be able to play it on my Linux-based laptop, and this allows that as well, but that is far from the only method I have to access the services. I am the target market for this app, not you.
The hospital was in an urban area , I wasn't. in fact if i had called an ambulance the earliest they would get out to where i was living was 20 minutes and pretty close to the same to reach the hospital.
You still should have waited for an ambulance for one very simple reason: if you come in with heart-attack symptoms and self-admit, you are treated as a lower priority for triage than somebody who called an ambulance. There have been cases of people dying in the emergency room waiting for triage because they got bumped by somebody else who came in by ambulance... additionally, the paramedics would have been able to administer oxygen as soon as they got there, where you may very well have had to wait for it at a hospital.
Three months later I had to return to the hospital, but this time i drove myself and with periods of crushing chest pains i got there and parked my car and walked the 400 or 500 yards to the A&E department - maybe the hardest walk of my life.
I was going to say no offense in prefix to this, but rethought it... offense intended....
Driving to the hospital when you think you're having a heart attack is one of the most monumentally stupid ideas I have ever heard of in my entire life, and that includes 6 years in the army and several more years working for the government as a civilian. If it's a medical emergency, call an ambulance. That is what they are there for.
And don't try to tell me it was rural so therefore no ambulance service: you yourself said that you had to walk a quarter mile to the front door of the hospital after parking, which suggests a large and mostly full parking lot. This suggests that you were in an urban area.
Yes, the ad-supported model isn't ideal, and has been exploited by bad people. But the reality is that you get free content where the percentage of pixels on a page devoted to ads is typically much less than the percentage minutes of ads on free OTA television, and less than the percentage of inches in a $4.95 magazine. Oh boo-hoo.
When the ads come up on OTA television, I can get up and go to the bathroom or mute the TV and have a conversation with the person sitting next to me.
As for the $4.95 magazine (or the pay TV for that matter), I choose not to pay for the privilege of being advertised at. Ignoring that point, however, the ads on the $4.95 magazine do not pop up and block my page until I tear it away. It also most especially doesn't dance around the page forcing me to chase it in order to find the corner I can tear off to get rid of it. Most of the time, it also doesn't play obnoxious music or video at me when I turn to the page it's on, nor does it play animated blinking clashing colours to try to get my attention. Additionally, the ad I'm looking at in Time Magazine does not know that I also bought a subscription to Popular Science.
Advertisers would have a *lot* more sympathy if they'd stop with that kind of shenanigan. While I understand that the Internet is largely supported by advertising, and that if you choose not to have ads you either need a paywall or to lose money (I have a self-hosted blog running from one of my colocated servers that doesn't have ads), I also understand that advertising as it is today detracts from the overall user experience on the Internet. I would be more amenable to advertising if they'd stop being shitheads.
Maybe they shouldn't have started using full screen flash ads that you have to click through in order to get rid of, or auto-playing noise.... if they'd stayed relatively innocuous, most Internet users probably wouldn't have bothered to find ways to get rid of them.
You may have an editic memory and use a unique 32-character true-random password for each of a hundred sites, and keep them all in your head, but the people who can do that are very rare indeed.
I do have an eidetic memory, and I still use lastpass. It's easier to share passwords (when needed) with people who don't have a good memory that way. It's also backup/security should I get hit by a bus tomorrow: my family only needs to know one password, which is included in a sealed envelope with my will.
It's perfectly safe as long as you don't use it for anything that has financial implications.
I'm no 'gun nut', but you seem to think it's self-evident that millions of armed citizens would pose no obstacle to a determined military force.
You seem to think it's self-evident that there actually would be millions of armed citizens to take up arms against the government....
A very large majority of the population is, by and large, satisfied with the job the government is doing, and while they may disagree with the party currently holding the power, they do not believe that armed resistance is necessary.
Also, since you seem to be American, I'll remind you that the phrase "well-regulated militia" implies that there's actual training involved. When you can download the plans to make a weapon from the Internet, and buy the ammunition for said weapon from Wal*Mart, that greatly reduces the chance that the people doing so will know what the hell they're doing.
For the record, as a former member of the military, I feel that gun control is a good thing. Weapons that are not being properly maintained, and with which you don't maintain proper proficiency are dangerous, to you and everybody around you. When the general population has the same requirements for recertification and the same penalties for not properly maintaining their weapon that I had when I was in the army, I will support them having the same access to weapons I had.
If it had decent quality bluetooth, that might actually be a good buy... but I don't see them gutting their sales like that. That'd be a replacement for tablet as well as phone... half the sales for them.
Because 90% of women carry purses. Most women's clothing don't have usable pockets, so they need the purses. A ban would unfairly affect women more than men, and would result in another lawsuit.
Most womens' clothing that is sensible to wear at work has enough pocket space to hold a small key for a locker, and even if it doesn't, most women are smart enough to remember a combination to a lock that they use every day.
There's a very easy solution to the problem, which has been suggested higher up the thread.:)
i know someone with a Lexus RX and galaxy s3. and getting it to play music over bluetooth was such a PITA, not worth the trouble
Possibly a question of user incompetence maybe?
I have a 2011 Subaru Impreza and an HTC One V, and no problem with that at all. I paired the phone to the car's bluetooth anyway, for use as a phone. The default setting for bluetooth pairing is to allow audio playback over bluetooth... All I have to do is switch the stereo to the Bluetooth input, and press play on the phone.
Works quite nicely when I pair it with google Navigate on the phone... the phone will lower the volume of the music to give a voice instruction, which comes through the car's stereo speakers.
Given that the HTC One V has the same version of Android on it as the S3, I'd be very surprised if the S3 was any harder to get working than my phone. While I've never bothered with programming Bluetooth on a Lexus stereo, they have the same supplier for their stereos as Subaru does (Clarion), so it should be pretty much the same, though possibly with a different UI. Just press the "talk" button on the steering wheel, say "Setup", and follow the prompts....
It depends on the path the electricity takes.... Generally, if it crosses the heart or the brain, you're in a bad way (still survivable, but much less chance of surviving). If it doesn't cross either, you have a pretty good chance of surviving, though it may cook you pretty well on its way through.
I told Chase that I didn't want the RFID on my replacement bank card. They sent the new card along with a nice pamphlet about how useful and convenient the included RFID was.
*shrugs* you need a new bank. I would have closed my account and gone to another bank if that was their response.
(Then they started charging for the "lifelong free checking" and we finally moved all our accounts to the credit union.)
You could also just ask your bank to give you cards that don't have RFID in them... My bank gave me no argument or pushback at all when I asked them to do that.
It's a very interesting statistic that's seen in many places where lead gasoline bans have gone into place, but it's still just an interesting coincidence. Medical ethics wouldn't allow the kind of study that'd be needed to prove it, because we already know lead to be toxic. (that's why it was banned in the first place).
Colour of skin not so much as jurisdiction... most of the areas where it'd matter if your skin is brown, black, or white are also the jurisdictions where they wouldn't be letting you off with a warning for drunk driving in the first place. Most of Ontario is like that, for example.
There are some areas which, historically, had a much more relaxed approach to DD... Parts of Newfoundland, for example, and parts of Quebec as well, but as far as I know it isn't like that any more. Most of the country seems to take a dim view of impaired driving.
Speed, on the other hand.... will put it this way: a couple of months ago while visiting somebody in Northern Quebec, I was driving through an isolated stretch of highway. By isolated, I mean 250km between turnoffs, with no cell coverage. Posted speed limit was 80km/h, I was going 120km/h, and I was getting passed by cops. (happened twice, once on the way there, once on the way home a week later).
Sometimes they do, sometimes they blissfully put up blinders and pretend that nothing's happening. When I told my mom I was a lesbian, her first words were "no you aren't", and it was 5 years and many girlfriends later that she finally acknowledged that I might be queer. To this day, she still hopes I'm going to find some guy and start popping out grandkids.
Agreed. In this situation, Turing doesn't need the pardon, the UK Government needs it for their crimes against humanity.
There isn't a country on the planet who hasn't, at some point in the past, committed acts that are now considered human rights violations and/or crimes against humanity. Not a one. Some of the so-called "western ideal" liberal/democracies were still committing these crimes against humanity while, at the same time, their heads of state were receiving Nobel prizes for forwarding human rights. (Yes, I'm looking at you, Canada, and more recently, the USA)
Absolving the past isn't what's important, nor is it a good idea. Acknowledging that wrongs were done and moving forward with that knowledge is the best that can be hoped for, and that's something that they're trying to do in the UK.
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure there's no such thing as "only one room infested with bed bugs" in a hotel. (Think about how they're serviced.)
There is such a thing as "didn't have bed bugs until his arrival" however, so could be quite interesting....
Some like me prefer men, which actually means additional soul searching before beginning transition and weighing alternatives such as adopting a homosexual identity.
As opposed to a trans lesbian, who has to decide whether to adopt a cis-hetero role? :)
I think it's safe to say that all trans people would rather be "normal", as best as that can be defined. Some are lucky enough to live in a country where it is socially acceptable... I know several trans people who have not had trouble finding a partner at all. I also know several who've had a really hard go of it. Individual experiences will vary, but the overriding pattern I've seen in the trans folk I know is that the ones who have it easy are in Europe, Australia, and Canada....
Theoretically requires a Netflix subscription, so possibly not.
But to answer the question he asked more seriously... probably not going to get hormone therapy in a US prison. Can apply for special dispensation or house arrest, where such medical care would be possible, but, especially considering that Manning hasn't started taking HRT yet (so the current status quo doesn't pose a medical/health risk), it's very unlikely that Manning will be given that kind of treatment in the US penal system.
I can assure you Ottawa is not taking away habitat or nesting space from the geese... fuckers attack me every morning on my morning commute by bicycle as they've laid claim to the bike paths, and I pass several beaches (that are not open to the public for swimming) that are inundated with them.
Their product is not something that is going to get me ahead in any way, it's not something I have to have to survive, or to thrive. It's a source of entertainment. One among many. If they dont want my business I will spend my money elsewhere, simple as that.
It's something that makes cutting the cord and cancelling your cable/satellite TV subscription significantly easier. While that's not something that you *need*, it is something that's immensely useful to have.
Personally, I consider the $8/mo I pay for Netflix to be well worth it, especially when compared against the cost of a TV subscription. Your own economics may differ. But given the very wide array of devices I have where it works perfectly (including my cell phone, my tablet, and game consoles), I'm quite happy to keep the service, despite the DRM.
It'd be nice to be able to play it on my Linux-based laptop, and this allows that as well, but that is far from the only method I have to access the services. I am the target market for this app, not you.
The hospital was in an urban area , I wasn't. in fact if i had called an ambulance the earliest they would get out to where i was living was 20 minutes and pretty close to the same to reach the hospital.
You still should have waited for an ambulance for one very simple reason: if you come in with heart-attack symptoms and self-admit, you are treated as a lower priority for triage than somebody who called an ambulance. There have been cases of people dying in the emergency room waiting for triage because they got bumped by somebody else who came in by ambulance... additionally, the paramedics would have been able to administer oxygen as soon as they got there, where you may very well have had to wait for it at a hospital.
Three months later I had to return to the hospital, but this time i drove myself and with periods of crushing chest pains i got there and parked my car and walked the 400 or 500 yards to the A&E department - maybe the hardest walk of my life.
I was going to say no offense in prefix to this, but rethought it... offense intended....
Driving to the hospital when you think you're having a heart attack is one of the most monumentally stupid ideas I have ever heard of in my entire life, and that includes 6 years in the army and several more years working for the government as a civilian. If it's a medical emergency, call an ambulance. That is what they are there for.
And don't try to tell me it was rural so therefore no ambulance service: you yourself said that you had to walk a quarter mile to the front door of the hospital after parking, which suggests a large and mostly full parking lot. This suggests that you were in an urban area.
Yes, the ad-supported model isn't ideal, and has been exploited by bad people. But the reality is that you get free content where the percentage of pixels on a page devoted to ads is typically much less than the percentage minutes of ads on free OTA television, and less than the percentage of inches in a $4.95 magazine. Oh boo-hoo.
When the ads come up on OTA television, I can get up and go to the bathroom or mute the TV and have a conversation with the person sitting next to me.
As for the $4.95 magazine (or the pay TV for that matter), I choose not to pay for the privilege of being advertised at. Ignoring that point, however, the ads on the $4.95 magazine do not pop up and block my page until I tear it away. It also most especially doesn't dance around the page forcing me to chase it in order to find the corner I can tear off to get rid of it. Most of the time, it also doesn't play obnoxious music or video at me when I turn to the page it's on, nor does it play animated blinking clashing colours to try to get my attention. Additionally, the ad I'm looking at in Time Magazine does not know that I also bought a subscription to Popular Science.
Advertisers would have a *lot* more sympathy if they'd stop with that kind of shenanigan. While I understand that the Internet is largely supported by advertising, and that if you choose not to have ads you either need a paywall or to lose money (I have a self-hosted blog running from one of my colocated servers that doesn't have ads), I also understand that advertising as it is today detracts from the overall user experience on the Internet. I would be more amenable to advertising if they'd stop being shitheads.
Awww... muffin....
Maybe they shouldn't have started using full screen flash ads that you have to click through in order to get rid of, or auto-playing noise.... if they'd stayed relatively innocuous, most Internet users probably wouldn't have bothered to find ways to get rid of them.
You may have an editic memory and use a unique 32-character true-random password for each of a hundred sites, and keep them all in your head, but the people who can do that are very rare indeed.
I do have an eidetic memory, and I still use lastpass. It's easier to share passwords (when needed) with people who don't have a good memory that way. It's also backup/security should I get hit by a bus tomorrow: my family only needs to know one password, which is included in a sealed envelope with my will.
It's perfectly safe as long as you don't use it for anything that has financial implications.
I'm no 'gun nut', but you seem to think it's self-evident that millions of armed citizens would pose no obstacle to a determined military force.
You seem to think it's self-evident that there actually would be millions of armed citizens to take up arms against the government....
A very large majority of the population is, by and large, satisfied with the job the government is doing, and while they may disagree with the party currently holding the power, they do not believe that armed resistance is necessary.
Also, since you seem to be American, I'll remind you that the phrase "well-regulated militia" implies that there's actual training involved. When you can download the plans to make a weapon from the Internet, and buy the ammunition for said weapon from Wal*Mart, that greatly reduces the chance that the people doing so will know what the hell they're doing.
For the record, as a former member of the military, I feel that gun control is a good thing. Weapons that are not being properly maintained, and with which you don't maintain proper proficiency are dangerous, to you and everybody around you. When the general population has the same requirements for recertification and the same penalties for not properly maintaining their weapon that I had when I was in the army, I will support them having the same access to weapons I had.
So... one of the core tenets of libertarianism is "don't be an asshole", and people actually expect that this would work in the real world?
That's almost as naive as the Marxists....
If it had decent quality bluetooth, that might actually be a good buy... but I don't see them gutting their sales like that. That'd be a replacement for tablet as well as phone... half the sales for them.
Because 90% of women carry purses. Most women's clothing don't have usable pockets, so they need the purses. A ban would unfairly affect women more than men, and would result in another lawsuit.
Most womens' clothing that is sensible to wear at work has enough pocket space to hold a small key for a locker, and even if it doesn't, most women are smart enough to remember a combination to a lock that they use every day.
There's a very easy solution to the problem, which has been suggested higher up the thread. :)
You do realize that the M16 and international variants are essentially .22, right?
5.56mm = .223 gauge. It's quite effective in rifles produced for NATO and allies.
i know someone with a Lexus RX and galaxy s3. and getting it to play music over bluetooth was such a PITA, not worth the trouble
Possibly a question of user incompetence maybe?
I have a 2011 Subaru Impreza and an HTC One V, and no problem with that at all. I paired the phone to the car's bluetooth anyway, for use as a phone. The default setting for bluetooth pairing is to allow audio playback over bluetooth... All I have to do is switch the stereo to the Bluetooth input, and press play on the phone.
Works quite nicely when I pair it with google Navigate on the phone... the phone will lower the volume of the music to give a voice instruction, which comes through the car's stereo speakers.
Given that the HTC One V has the same version of Android on it as the S3, I'd be very surprised if the S3 was any harder to get working than my phone. While I've never bothered with programming Bluetooth on a Lexus stereo, they have the same supplier for their stereos as Subaru does (Clarion), so it should be pretty much the same, though possibly with a different UI. Just press the "talk" button on the steering wheel, say "Setup", and follow the prompts....
It depends on the path the electricity takes.... Generally, if it crosses the heart or the brain, you're in a bad way (still survivable, but much less chance of surviving). If it doesn't cross either, you have a pretty good chance of surviving, though it may cook you pretty well on its way through.
I told Chase that I didn't want the RFID on my replacement bank card. They sent the new card along with a nice pamphlet about how useful and convenient the included RFID was.
*shrugs* you need a new bank. I would have closed my account and gone to another bank if that was their response.
(Then they started charging for the "lifelong free checking" and we finally moved all our accounts to the credit union.)
I also would have cancelled my account over that.
You could also just ask your bank to give you cards that don't have RFID in them... My bank gave me no argument or pushback at all when I asked them to do that.
Burn lots of calories carrying around the extra weight, too...
Hmm. I like your ideas and wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Correlation isn't causation.
It's a very interesting statistic that's seen in many places where lead gasoline bans have gone into place, but it's still just an interesting coincidence. Medical ethics wouldn't allow the kind of study that'd be needed to prove it, because we already know lead to be toxic. (that's why it was banned in the first place).
Colour of skin not so much as jurisdiction... most of the areas where it'd matter if your skin is brown, black, or white are also the jurisdictions where they wouldn't be letting you off with a warning for drunk driving in the first place. Most of Ontario is like that, for example.
There are some areas which, historically, had a much more relaxed approach to DD... Parts of Newfoundland, for example, and parts of Quebec as well, but as far as I know it isn't like that any more. Most of the country seems to take a dim view of impaired driving.
Speed, on the other hand.... will put it this way: a couple of months ago while visiting somebody in Northern Quebec, I was driving through an isolated stretch of highway. By isolated, I mean 250km between turnoffs, with no cell coverage. Posted speed limit was 80km/h, I was going 120km/h, and I was getting passed by cops. (happened twice, once on the way there, once on the way home a week later).
BOOM! A coup happens. (It's what happened with most Latin American countries, by the way.)
Most of the coups in Latin America happened with the help of the US government. Do you think the CIA is going to fund a coup in the USA?
Moms know.
Sometimes they do, sometimes they blissfully put up blinders and pretend that nothing's happening. When I told my mom I was a lesbian, her first words were "no you aren't", and it was 5 years and many girlfriends later that she finally acknowledged that I might be queer. To this day, she still hopes I'm going to find some guy and start popping out grandkids.
Agreed. In this situation, Turing doesn't need the pardon, the UK Government needs it for their crimes against humanity.
There isn't a country on the planet who hasn't, at some point in the past, committed acts that are now considered human rights violations and/or crimes against humanity. Not a one. Some of the so-called "western ideal" liberal/democracies were still committing these crimes against humanity while, at the same time, their heads of state were receiving Nobel prizes for forwarding human rights. (Yes, I'm looking at you, Canada, and more recently, the USA)
Absolving the past isn't what's important, nor is it a good idea. Acknowledging that wrongs were done and moving forward with that knowledge is the best that can be hoped for, and that's something that they're trying to do in the UK.