I can understand your surprise, but keep in mind that proper terminology was appropriated from us by the LGBT movement, so that they could "normalize" cross-dressing fetishes and other activities that are not related to transsexualism. So today we have this weird alphabet soup, where transgender can mean anything. The whole "cis" thing never came from us either.
It's also why more and more of us are telling the gays to kindly f*ck off. It's really annoying when they show up in discussions among transsexuals, trying to tell us how we feel, what we really are, and what we should do. They just won't park their "gay privilege". The latest example was 2 days ago.
So this gay guy comes into the discussion and stirs a whole mess up - completely off topic. Repeatedly dead-naming Caitlyn Jenner (the use of someone's previous name) and referring to her as a "he." Didn't matter that we all told him he was a total asshole to do that, he insisted that it was the right thing to do, and his right. Even though every woman in the group was telling him that this is the great taboo (well, that and outing someone). After all, as a gay man he knows better than us. Same as a gay cross-dresser who called us all men in dresses a week or two earlier (while claiming to be one of us - I outed the bastard- when you pull that sort of crap, the gloves kind of have to come off). Same as yet another one who thought that we should be thankful for their including drag queens in pride floats.
That's not a unique attitude, btw. Many of those who claim to speak for us hold us in not-so-secret contempt. It's like they think we're really just extreme cross-dressers. They also have no problem throwing us under the bus when it comes to legislation that would be held up if transsexuals were included, while putting out press releases about the injustices done to us when they want attention and MONEY.
So no, I'm not going to use a made-up term by a group that does not have my best interests at heart. I told him to check his f*cking gay privilege. And to f*ck off. And that was one of the more polite responses he got from us.
The purpose of words is to communicate. Using made-up terms that aren't even accurate to describe the reality is like the jargon that computer folks use - it creates a wall, a barrier of understanding. I tried using "cis-gendered" once, and drew a total blank to the people I was explaining things to. I'd rather communicate than obfuscate.:-)
There is NO scientific proof that rape is about power. There is proof (from psychologists questioning the rapists themselves) that it's all about sex. Just as it's not about power when a dog humps your leg - they're just horny dogs.
Some college kid puts roofies in someone else's drink, it's not about "power". It's about sex. Someone rapes and then flees - what "power" have they gained? None - just sex.
And people wonder why feminism is almost dead, and why women want to be perceived as individuals, not actors in gender wars.
You were arguing that they only did a points match. You were wrong. The real issue here today is why you're trying to divert discussion of that after arguing about it so long when you would have known the truth if you had read the article I linked to. Is it really that hard to say "okay, I was wrong - I should have read the link"?
Your claim that " All I did was point out that there are plenty of jobs around the country, so anybody who wants to leave SF right now can already do so" is both false and irrelevant/
False, because as I pointed out, handicapped people require a support system in place, and they won't immediately have that at the new place. Not the family, not friends. So, how is a visually handicapped person supposed to look for a place to live by themselves? Their dog can't tell them that there's mold and rust in the bathtub. This really happens - it happened to me, and it was only because someone warned me after I signed, so off to court for fraudulent misrepsentation.
Irrelevant, because the question we are arguing about is basic income, which is not specific to San Francisco.
And false because it's obvious that other places don't have 100% employment either.
So keep on, troll... keep on... you just make yourself look stupider all the time.
The whole abuse of the term 'cis' has always been awkward as all heck. Set it down to SJWs being overly PC who don't want to say "normal people" and "transsexuals".
And so what? It's going to be wiped one way or another at one point. Also, there's no reason that non-microsoft anti-malware software can't be updated.
No, the three people who made the false positive did NOT use AFIS. Read the damn article and get the facts. And they did not use points of identification. The prints only matched because the cops wanted them to match, even though a casual inspection shows they don't.
Combining all the means-tested and needs-tested programs and junking them will help everyone who falls through the cracks, as well as eliminate a lot of the bureaucracy. Why would you be against that, hmm?
Or to cite your quote right back at you, "Are you really as stupid as you seem to be, or are you just a troll?"
Still can't admit that your claim that they did not check the actual fingerprints, just the "points of match", can you? You were wrong. Sucks to be wrong, but there it is. It's on you, and you should stop acting like a coward and own up to it. (yes, I'm cranky today after dealing with a bunch of haters elsewhere).
You're thinking of the donut hole effect. Unfortunately, that doesn't work when the decline of the city is so bad that the burbs go into decline as well.
It's not the notifications, it's the constant pinging of their servers that chews it up. Cut out the backgrounds stuff and data usage drops by at least 80%, maybe more.
one of my close friends has 500 apps on her iPhone.
I'm fairly certain you don't use all your apps if you have more than, say, 20. You might use them once a month. Maybe. But your "surfing waves calculator" or "ski report" probably isn't used year round.
Let it live in the cloud. Set it free.
No games on my phone. Just the standard apps and some news apps, simply slashdot, kijiji, facebook (don't start - how else am I supposed to keep up with the kids), a bus schedule utility, a backup tool for sms messages, ghostery, firefox, and skype. In all, including the phone app, chrome, sms, and camera, that's 26 apps. No 300 meg games.
It's the tech industry's fault, but I thought the Internet was going to change all that. Guess the tech industry doesn't want to eat their own dog food.
We don't need to provide people with a "basic income". If you're willing to move and willing to work, there are plenty of places in the country where you can get by just fine in some job.
Tell that to someone who is handicapped and their support system (family, friends, etc) doesn't want to move with them. They may be willing to move, but it takes more than sheer force of will.
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I can understand your surprise, but keep in mind that proper terminology was appropriated from us by the LGBT movement, so that they could "normalize" cross-dressing fetishes and other activities that are not related to transsexualism. So today we have this weird alphabet soup, where transgender can mean anything. The whole "cis" thing never came from us either.
It's also why more and more of us are telling the gays to kindly f*ck off. It's really annoying when they show up in discussions among transsexuals, trying to tell us how we feel, what we really are, and what we should do. They just won't park their "gay privilege". The latest example was 2 days ago.
So this gay guy comes into the discussion and stirs a whole mess up - completely off topic. Repeatedly dead-naming Caitlyn Jenner (the use of someone's previous name) and referring to her as a "he." Didn't matter that we all told him he was a total asshole to do that, he insisted that it was the right thing to do, and his right. Even though every woman in the group was telling him that this is the great taboo (well, that and outing someone). After all, as a gay man he knows better than us. Same as a gay cross-dresser who called us all men in dresses a week or two earlier (while claiming to be one of us - I outed the bastard- when you pull that sort of crap, the gloves kind of have to come off). Same as yet another one who thought that we should be thankful for their including drag queens in pride floats.
That's not a unique attitude, btw. Many of those who claim to speak for us hold us in not-so-secret contempt. It's like they think we're really just extreme cross-dressers. They also have no problem throwing us under the bus when it comes to legislation that would be held up if transsexuals were included, while putting out press releases about the injustices done to us when they want attention and MONEY.
So no, I'm not going to use a made-up term by a group that does not have my best interests at heart. I told him to check his f*cking gay privilege. And to f*ck off. And that was one of the more polite responses he got from us.
The purpose of words is to communicate. Using made-up terms that aren't even accurate to describe the reality is like the jargon that computer folks use - it creates a wall, a barrier of understanding. I tried using "cis-gendered" once, and drew a total blank to the people I was explaining things to. I'd rather communicate than obfuscate. :-)
If they get desperate, they can always boost the dismal uptake of windows 10 by including Minecraft for free.
I'd just make a game called "Windows" if I were IBM, and let Microsoft sweat it.
Try telling that to the PC brigade ... :-)
There is NO scientific proof that rape is about power. There is proof (from psychologists questioning the rapists themselves) that it's all about sex. Just as it's not about power when a dog humps your leg - they're just horny dogs.
Some college kid puts roofies in someone else's drink, it's not about "power". It's about sex. Someone rapes and then flees - what "power" have they gained? None - just sex.
And people wonder why feminism is almost dead, and why women want to be perceived as individuals, not actors in gender wars.
You were arguing that they only did a points match. You were wrong. The real issue here today is why you're trying to divert discussion of that after arguing about it so long when you would have known the truth if you had read the article I linked to. Is it really that hard to say "okay, I was wrong - I should have read the link"?
Your claim that " All I did was point out that there are plenty of jobs around the country, so anybody who wants to leave SF right now can already do so" is both false and irrelevant/
False, because as I pointed out, handicapped people require a support system in place, and they won't immediately have that at the new place. Not the family, not friends. So, how is a visually handicapped person supposed to look for a place to live by themselves? Their dog can't tell them that there's mold and rust in the bathtub. This really happens - it happened to me, and it was only because someone warned me after I signed, so off to court for fraudulent misrepsentation.
Irrelevant, because the question we are arguing about is basic income, which is not specific to San Francisco.
And false because it's obvious that other places don't have 100% employment either.
So keep on, troll ... keep on ... you just make yourself look stupider all the time.
The whole abuse of the term 'cis' has always been awkward as all heck. Set it down to SJWs being overly PC who don't want to say "normal people" and "transsexuals".
I think it's been so long ago, they've forgotten about the moon walks. Just goes to show what happens when you lose institutional memory, I guess.
And so what? It's going to be wiped one way or another at one point. Also, there's no reason that non-microsoft anti-malware software can't be updated.
No, the three people who made the false positive did NOT use AFIS. Read the damn article and get the facts. And they did not use points of identification. The prints only matched because the cops wanted them to match, even though a casual inspection shows they don't.
Combining all the means-tested and needs-tested programs and junking them will help everyone who falls through the cracks, as well as eliminate a lot of the bureaucracy. Why would you be against that, hmm?
Or to cite your quote right back at you, "Are you really as stupid as you seem to be, or are you just a troll?"
Changes like this means that we no longer will trust Microsoft and disabling Windows Update may be the only reliable option.
Now that's a change I can get behind.
Still can't admit that your claim that they did not check the actual fingerprints, just the "points of match", can you? You were wrong. Sucks to be wrong, but there it is. It's on you, and you should stop acting like a coward and own up to it. (yes, I'm cranky today after dealing with a bunch of haters elsewhere).
True, but sometimes I think that having everyone under one roof just drives people nuts :-)
Let me beat your anecdote with real life. Before I disabled background activity, Facebook was chewing 500 meg. Disabled it, dropped by more than half.
Why? Obviously they have enough storage,or they wouldn't have "a lot more apps".
You claimed that we don't need to provide people with a basic income. Tell that the the 60% of visually handicapped people who can't get a job.
In rare circumstances? It was systematic.Read the links.
You're thinking of the donut hole effect. Unfortunately, that doesn't work when the decline of the city is so bad that the burbs go into decline as well.
It's not the notifications, it's the constant pinging of their servers that chews it up. Cut out the backgrounds stuff and data usage drops by at least 80%, maybe more.
one of my close friends has 500 apps on her iPhone.
I'm fairly certain you don't use all your apps if you have more than, say, 20. You might use them once a month. Maybe. But your "surfing waves calculator" or "ski report" probably isn't used year round.
Let it live in the cloud. Set it free.
No games on my phone. Just the standard apps and some news apps, simply slashdot, kijiji, facebook (don't start - how else am I supposed to keep up with the kids), a bus schedule utility, a backup tool for sms messages, ghostery, firefox, and skype. In all, including the phone app, chrome, sms, and camera, that's 26 apps. No 300 meg games.
It's the tech industry's fault, but I thought the Internet was going to change all that. Guess the tech industry doesn't want to eat their own dog food.
We don't need to provide people with a "basic income". If you're willing to move and willing to work, there are plenty of places in the country where you can get by just fine in some job.
Tell that to someone who is handicapped and their support system (family, friends, etc) doesn't want to move with them. They may be willing to move, but it takes more than sheer force of will.
If they're working at Starbucks, there's a good chance they're one paycheck away from being homeless to begin with.