Still have not answered the question. What "touchy feely crap" and why was the story they had not adequate? Be specific.
Your argument is unfortunately typical of people who just want to hate something but have no real criticism of it, maybe have not even seen it. Someone else said the acting was bad... But didn't give a single example of where it was bad or how it could have been better.
The problem with allowing the kind of UI altering extensions that Firefox does is that it's an insane security risk and a massive performance issue.
Add-ons run in the global browser context, with access to everything. All tabs, the UI, all the internal browser data... And interact with every random web page you visit, and every random bit of Javascript and broken HTML on them. It should be obvious that letting Javascript interact with Javascript without a proper sandbox and with access to basically everything is a terrible idea, a security nightmare.
It also blocked them from stopping everything running globally and using threads for each tab and various background processes.
The problem they have now is that no enough add-on developers care about Firefox for them to get all the existing add-ons ported. Even if they add API extensions to support some of the lost functionality, they still need the developers to do the work. I can tell you that I'm not going to bother updating my decade old add-on.
Twitter is great because it enforced brevity... Or at least it used to.
Follow a few interesting people and the signal to noise ratio will vastly improve. Mark Hamill is a good place to start. If you are interested in a topic then follow some of the biggest people in that field, and then look to see who they retweet or like to find less well known but interesting accounts.
The other really useful feature of Twitter is that because corporations have accounts you can do support in public with them. Have a problem with a crappy product? Tweet at them, using their own marketing hashtags, then it's not just a front line support problem they can ignore, it's a public relations disaster that they need to solve.
The problem is that it's like asking someone who considered homosexuality to be a test sent by god and a sin what it's like being gay. Their religious beliefs strongly influence their feelings and they don't represent the majority of gay people.
Do you even know what gender reassignment surgery is? It's not about cutting bits off, they get remodelled into other bits. How do you think they create the desired genitalia?
It's kind of sad that you have become such a sensitive snowflake when it comes to anything political or social related that your enjoyment of Star Trek is ruined now.
I can only assume you have somehow managed to block out all the political and social commentary in every other Trek series. Given time, perhaps you will be able to do the same with Discovery. Maybe someone will make a special censored edit for sensitive types like yourself.
PCIe lane starvation is a big problem now, and Intel is failing to solve it.
Now we have NVMe SSDs all wanting 4 lanes, and USB 3.1 needs a couple of lanes per port to give maximum bandwidth, standard desktop CPUs don't have enough for today's needs, let along room for expansion. If you want that system to last 5+ years you want some free lanes to add expansion cards later.
Threadripper finally delivers plenty of PCIe lanes. And ECC RAM support. And a software TPM. And it's a lot cheaper. And it runs cooler.
There are other advantages to AMD parts too. More PCIe lanes, better chipsets especially if you want to do virtualization with IOMMU pass-through, longer expected lifespan of the socket and motherboard, and a less terrible secret backdoor system.
It's much simpler than that. Conservatives like the way things are, because even if they are unfair it benefits them or suits their "traditional" beliefs. The left finds that they can't get married or get an abortion, or at least cares enough that someone else can't, and see that it's because of some fairy tale or tradition or simple bigotry and wants to change it.
I'm not sure where you get the "at any cost" bit from.
Yeah, fuck off Trump, Brexit is nothing to do with you. Stop trying to influence our votes with fake promises of golden trade deals that we know will turn to shit the moment we fall for your trap...
Such a wasteful business plan. To companies like Facebook and Google you are both the customer AND the product. They sell you services, even hardware, while at the same time selling to advertisers. Much more profitable.
Children learn that some genders are good or bad, appropriate or inappropriate, and then take that idea and run with it to an illogical conclusion: that it is better to undergo drastic surgery and at minimum have to take sex hormones forever (if there are not other complications, as there often are with surgery) in order to pretend to be something they are not, because they're not happy with the way they were born.
Do you have some evidence of that? It doesn't sound like the way we understand children think about gender.
People somehow get the idea that there's something wrong with them because they don't feel the way they are told that someone of their gender should feel.
I'm not trans so I can only tell you what trans people say they feel, and that's not it. I do see your point - I'd be the first to reject the traditional notions of what a man or a women is or should feel, but that's not how people experiencing it describe it and I'm curious to know what you base the claim on.
What is wrong with the Tammy Lobel case? It appears that she said she was a girl, her parents thought maybe she just made a mistake but she insisted. They sought medical advice, and eventually she started wearing girl's clothing, upon which:
"As soon as we let him put on a dress, his personality changed from a very sad kid who sat still, didn't do much of anything to a very happy little girl who was thrilled to be alive," Moreno said.
How exactly is that her parents pushing her into anything, when they initially tried to discourage her?
As for your link, did you read it? There is a 2 year waiting list, that doesn't sound like "front of the queue" or priority over cancer patients. In fact the story doesn't imply that there is any priority given at all, it's about who is allowed to make referrals.
The "conscious self" says one thing, the physical body is saying something else.
From the very first sentence from your link:
Gender dysphoriaÂoccurs when there is a persistent senseÂofÂmismatch between oneâ(TM)s experiencedÂgender and assigned gender.
It doesn't imply that the mismatch is between a purely mental perception and a purely physical one. There are a huge range of conditions that cause parts of the body to more masculine or more feminine than other parts, including parts of the brain.
When people say it is a mental illness, they usually want to imply that it can be cured by talking therapies and the like, rather than by changing the person's gender. Most medical experts view that in the same light as "gay conversion" therapy.
The science officer takes inspiration from classic sci-fi like Larry Niven's Known Space, specifically the Puppeteers who were similarly risk averse. His species is something new and interesting for Star Trek, which has its fair share of war-like and enlightened races but none who are just naturally adverse to danger.
The other officers are not going to be part of the main cast, so naturally didn't get much development. It's the first two episodes, what do you want?
Your evaluation of the captain is weird. When was she gullible? When was she emotional? She seemed quite calculating and calm, and was a strong and stable leader when the ship was in crisis. She was actually the most interesting character for me, it's a real shame they didn't keep her for the main series.
The camera work was a bit off... As you say, a little dark, although at least not blinding like the reboot movies, and some random use of Dutch angles for no apparent reason. Still, it's the first two episodes.
I worry that Tesla doesn't even seem to have enough engineering resources to make the rain sensor work.
It's the kind of thing a kid could knock up with an Arduino. A sensor with a pulse output, a simple hysteresis pulse counting system, and a CAN bus interface. If they can't get that working... Is it really a good idea to be selling cars with "full autonomous driving" that they will add via software update to it later, when it's already rusting on the scrap heap?
Do we really want cars to become like video games, with 50GB day 1 patches that only make them barely derivable and a promise to deliver all the advertised features later? Especially when those features seem to be safety critical.
Yet I can find plenty of examples of children under the age of 10 with parents pushing this on their kids as well. So can you, pick a search engine.
Finding examples of "parents pushing [gender transition] on their kids" with a search engine is problematic to say the least. You are talking about something that is a crime in most places, and which proving would require a detailed investigation that is likely to be beyond what a journalist could do on their own. It would need medical expert opinions at the very least.
All you get when you use a search engine is blogs making wild, unsubstantiated claims and some disreputable media sources that are little better.
Can you provide just one single example of a confirmed case of this happening?
That those same kids who apparently "know they're the wrong gender" are legally unable to know the difference from right or wrong at the age of 10.
It depends on the jurisdiction, but actually most places do try to involve children in medical decisions even when they are that young, or younger. I wasn't much older than that when I had to sign medical consent forms for surgery, and refusal would have resulted in my death (or legal intervention).
In our lovely socialized countries, a trans individual is being bumped to the top of the line for priority treatment while that person suffering from cancer is waiting a 1/3 of a year for treatment.
That's the "non-essential" argument I asked if you were making. You seem to be saying that cancer patients should get priority, and if that means diverting money from other treatments then so be it because cancer is life-threatening and represents a greater need.
However, no sane healthcare system works that way. I'm also going to have to ask for a citation that there is a line and transgender people at at the front of it.
When young children say they are trans, they are supported to live as their correct gender but there is no medication or surgery. That only starts when they hit puberty, after they have been living as that gender for some years, and even then it takes many years of living as their correct gender and sticking to the hormone medication before surgery begins.
It's not something a person can simply decide one day because it's "trendy", it's something you have to commit to living with for years. And when they are only 10, living with it for 5 years is half their life.
Is it really so surprising that state healthcare covers well established medical conditions? Are you also outraged that it covers "non-essential" stuff like prosthetics for men who had testicular cancer? Or is it just that you think it's not a real condition, in which case why do you disagree with the majority of medical experts?
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I've asked this like five times now, but fuck it let's try again: What SPECIFICALLY about these two episodes was "SJW bullshit"?
Don't give me some vague answer about "touchy feely crap", give me specific examples of scenes or dialogue that you think are "SJW bullshit".
Attacks on popular add-ons: https://arstechnica.co.uk/info...
Paper discussing the problem: https://www.exploit-db.com/doc...
Still have not answered the question. What "touchy feely crap" and why was the story they had not adequate? Be specific.
Your argument is unfortunately typical of people who just want to hate something but have no real criticism of it, maybe have not even seen it. Someone else said the acting was bad... But didn't give a single example of where it was bad or how it could have been better.
The problem with allowing the kind of UI altering extensions that Firefox does is that it's an insane security risk and a massive performance issue.
Add-ons run in the global browser context, with access to everything. All tabs, the UI, all the internal browser data... And interact with every random web page you visit, and every random bit of Javascript and broken HTML on them. It should be obvious that letting Javascript interact with Javascript without a proper sandbox and with access to basically everything is a terrible idea, a security nightmare.
It also blocked them from stopping everything running globally and using threads for each tab and various background processes.
The problem they have now is that no enough add-on developers care about Firefox for them to get all the existing add-ons ported. Even if they add API extensions to support some of the lost functionality, they still need the developers to do the work. I can tell you that I'm not going to bother updating my decade old add-on.
Twitter is great because it enforced brevity... Or at least it used to.
Follow a few interesting people and the signal to noise ratio will vastly improve. Mark Hamill is a good place to start. If you are interested in a topic then follow some of the biggest people in that field, and then look to see who they retweet or like to find less well known but interesting accounts.
The other really useful feature of Twitter is that because corporations have accounts you can do support in public with them. Have a problem with a crappy product? Tweet at them, using their own marketing hashtags, then it's not just a front line support problem they can ignore, it's a public relations disaster that they need to solve.
The problem is that it's like asking someone who considered homosexuality to be a test sent by god and a sin what it's like being gay. Their religious beliefs strongly influence their feelings and they don't represent the majority of gay people.
I wonder how this would affect Trump.
He is ether a master of trolling in 140 characters, or unable to be diplomatic due to the limit.
Are you really citing "Catholic Authenticity" as a source for claims about how people experience being transgender?
Perhaps you might try a published, peer reviewed study instead.
I dunno man... After the first few hours I went catatonic and passed out, then it was back and I could breathe again
Do you even know what gender reassignment surgery is? It's not about cutting bits off, they get remodelled into other bits. How do you think they create the desired genitalia?
Wait... You paid for an on-demand streaming service... And there were commercials!?!
Fuck that, it needs to die in a fire.
It's kind of sad that you have become such a sensitive snowflake when it comes to anything political or social related that your enjoyment of Star Trek is ruined now.
I can only assume you have somehow managed to block out all the political and social commentary in every other Trek series. Given time, perhaps you will be able to do the same with Discovery. Maybe someone will make a special censored edit for sensitive types like yourself.
PCIe lane starvation is a big problem now, and Intel is failing to solve it.
Now we have NVMe SSDs all wanting 4 lanes, and USB 3.1 needs a couple of lanes per port to give maximum bandwidth, standard desktop CPUs don't have enough for today's needs, let along room for expansion. If you want that system to last 5+ years you want some free lanes to add expansion cards later.
Threadripper finally delivers plenty of PCIe lanes. And ECC RAM support. And a software TPM. And it's a lot cheaper. And it runs cooler.
There are other advantages to AMD parts too. More PCIe lanes, better chipsets especially if you want to do virtualization with IOMMU pass-through, longer expected lifespan of the socket and motherboard, and a less terrible secret backdoor system.
It's much simpler than that. Conservatives like the way things are, because even if they are unfair it benefits them or suits their "traditional" beliefs. The left finds that they can't get married or get an abortion, or at least cares enough that someone else can't, and see that it's because of some fairy tale or tradition or simple bigotry and wants to change it.
I'm not sure where you get the "at any cost" bit from.
Yeah, fuck off Trump, Brexit is nothing to do with you. Stop trying to influence our votes with fake promises of golden trade deals that we know will turn to shit the moment we fall for your trap...
Oh, wait... Fuck.
Such a wasteful business plan. To companies like Facebook and Google you are both the customer AND the product. They sell you services, even hardware, while at the same time selling to advertisers. Much more profitable.
Children learn that some genders are good or bad, appropriate or inappropriate, and then take that idea and run with it to an illogical conclusion: that it is better to undergo drastic surgery and at minimum have to take sex hormones forever (if there are not other complications, as there often are with surgery) in order to pretend to be something they are not, because they're not happy with the way they were born.
Do you have some evidence of that? It doesn't sound like the way we understand children think about gender.
People somehow get the idea that there's something wrong with them because they don't feel the way they are told that someone of their gender should feel.
I'm not trans so I can only tell you what trans people say they feel, and that's not it. I do see your point - I'd be the first to reject the traditional notions of what a man or a women is or should feel, but that's not how people experiencing it describe it and I'm curious to know what you base the claim on.
What is wrong with the Tammy Lobel case? It appears that she said she was a girl, her parents thought maybe she just made a mistake but she insisted. They sought medical advice, and eventually she started wearing girl's clothing, upon which:
"As soon as we let him put on a dress, his personality changed from a very sad kid who sat still, didn't do much of anything to a very happy little girl who was thrilled to be alive," Moreno said.
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/09...
How exactly is that her parents pushing her into anything, when they initially tried to discourage her?
As for your link, did you read it? There is a 2 year waiting list, that doesn't sound like "front of the queue" or priority over cancer patients. In fact the story doesn't imply that there is any priority given at all, it's about who is allowed to make referrals.
The "conscious self" says one thing, the physical body is saying something else.
From the very first sentence from your link:
Gender dysphoriaÂoccurs when there is a persistent senseÂofÂmismatch between oneâ(TM)s experiencedÂgender and assigned gender.
It doesn't imply that the mismatch is between a purely mental perception and a purely physical one. There are a huge range of conditions that cause parts of the body to more masculine or more feminine than other parts, including parts of the brain.
When people say it is a mental illness, they usually want to imply that it can be cured by talking therapies and the like, rather than by changing the person's gender. Most medical experts view that in the same light as "gay conversion" therapy.
The science officer takes inspiration from classic sci-fi like Larry Niven's Known Space, specifically the Puppeteers who were similarly risk averse. His species is something new and interesting for Star Trek, which has its fair share of war-like and enlightened races but none who are just naturally adverse to danger.
The other officers are not going to be part of the main cast, so naturally didn't get much development. It's the first two episodes, what do you want?
Your evaluation of the captain is weird. When was she gullible? When was she emotional? She seemed quite calculating and calm, and was a strong and stable leader when the ship was in crisis. She was actually the most interesting character for me, it's a real shame they didn't keep her for the main series.
The camera work was a bit off... As you say, a little dark, although at least not blinding like the reboot movies, and some random use of Dutch angles for no apparent reason. Still, it's the first two episodes.
I worry that Tesla doesn't even seem to have enough engineering resources to make the rain sensor work.
It's the kind of thing a kid could knock up with an Arduino. A sensor with a pulse output, a simple hysteresis pulse counting system, and a CAN bus interface. If they can't get that working... Is it really a good idea to be selling cars with "full autonomous driving" that they will add via software update to it later, when it's already rusting on the scrap heap?
Do we really want cars to become like video games, with 50GB day 1 patches that only make them barely derivable and a promise to deliver all the advertised features later? Especially when those features seem to be safety critical.
What is your objection? That people shouldn't tow trailers with something smaller than a SUV/truck, or with an EV, or with towing in general?
Yet I can find plenty of examples of children under the age of 10 with parents pushing this on their kids as well. So can you, pick a search engine.
Finding examples of "parents pushing [gender transition] on their kids" with a search engine is problematic to say the least. You are talking about something that is a crime in most places, and which proving would require a detailed investigation that is likely to be beyond what a journalist could do on their own. It would need medical expert opinions at the very least.
All you get when you use a search engine is blogs making wild, unsubstantiated claims and some disreputable media sources that are little better.
Can you provide just one single example of a confirmed case of this happening?
That those same kids who apparently "know they're the wrong gender" are legally unable to know the difference from right or wrong at the age of 10.
It depends on the jurisdiction, but actually most places do try to involve children in medical decisions even when they are that young, or younger. I wasn't much older than that when I had to sign medical consent forms for surgery, and refusal would have resulted in my death (or legal intervention).
In our lovely socialized countries, a trans individual is being bumped to the top of the line for priority treatment while that person suffering from cancer is waiting a 1/3 of a year for treatment.
That's the "non-essential" argument I asked if you were making. You seem to be saying that cancer patients should get priority, and if that means diverting money from other treatments then so be it because cancer is life-threatening and represents a greater need.
However, no sane healthcare system works that way. I'm also going to have to ask for a citation that there is a line and transgender people at at the front of it.
You seem to know nothing.
When young children say they are trans, they are supported to live as their correct gender but there is no medication or surgery. That only starts when they hit puberty, after they have been living as that gender for some years, and even then it takes many years of living as their correct gender and sticking to the hormone medication before surgery begins.
It's not something a person can simply decide one day because it's "trendy", it's something you have to commit to living with for years. And when they are only 10, living with it for 5 years is half their life.
Is it really so surprising that state healthcare covers well established medical conditions? Are you also outraged that it covers "non-essential" stuff like prosthetics for men who had testicular cancer? Or is it just that you think it's not a real condition, in which case why do you disagree with the majority of medical experts?