One of the interesting properties is that around the freezing point, ice expands, making it less dense than liquid water. This prevents the seas from freezing solid right down to the bottom. Water's also a pretty good solvent. And the expansion of water in cracks helps break rocks into little pieces. All this has benefits for life.
Firefox Phone, the only phone less popular than Windows Phone.
So unpopular, even Firefox abandoned it! Mozilla's problem is that they went from innovation to copying everything in sight. Chrome looks a certain way - gotta copy it. Everyone else is coming out with their own OS - Mozilla needs it's own as well. Others are inventing languages - we gotta do that too.
Seriously, routers? Not gonna happen - too much competition, and Firefox would have to farm out the design and manufacturing anyway. Keyboard Raspberry Pi? Niche product at best, with no margins. Firestick? Why? Just another solution to an already solved problem.
The only reason they're doing all this is to justify all those non-tech salaries. The people inside pushing this won't abandon it because it's against their personal financial interests, even though when they're sober they know it's just a money loser and their own goal is to be a leach for as long as possible.
Marriage equality has won at the Supreme Court, but the fight over gay marriage is far from over. Now we enter the Republican temper tantrum phase.
Even before the Supreme Court’s ruling, several prominent Republicans had pledged to disobey any high court ruling in favor of marriage equality—and had called on their fellow Republican leaders to do the same.
For instance, Republican presidential candidates Rick Santorum and Mike Huckabee have both signed a pledge that reads, “We will not honor any decision by the Supreme Court which will force us to violate a clear biblical understanding of marriage as solely the union of one man and one woman.”
Huckabee also challenged the authority of our nation’s highest court when he said, “The Supreme Court can’t overrule God.”
Republican Senator Ted Cruz and Representative Steve King also called for Congress and any future Republican president to flagrantly ignore such a Supreme Court ruling.
Let’s be clear: These are current and former officeholders, who have taken an oath to uphold the laws of our nation, literally pledging to violate those laws as interpreted by the Supreme Court.
In any reasonable political environment, this should be a disqualifier for elected office. Certainly, measures should be considered to charge those of them who hold office with violating their oath.
Apparently a large percentage of republican politicians and republican voters haven't got a clue either.
The odds are much lower than that. Anything near the galactic center is sterile (and that's where most stars are). Anything in an old galaxy has probably already been baked by at least one nearby star going bang. Anything from a first-generation galaxy isn't going to have much in the way of heavy elements. Anything around a star that is too big or too small isn't going to cut it. Anything that doesn't have sufficient liquid water to allow for plate tectonics (high-pressure steam lubricates the junctions of the plates, same as fracking does) isn't going to be able to take significant chunks of CO2 and turn them into limestone (CaCO3) so you'll get an atmosphere like Venus. Same problem with planets that are too cold for ice to melt. The "Goldilocks orbit" eliminates binaries, etc. Any planets with intelligent life on them either have already, or are in the process of, destroying themselves. It's far more likely that their descendants will be the same as ours will be - intelligent machines. So future survival will depend on who has the best battle bots.
Since ubuntu was derived from Debian, looks like Debian has more users. Stupid argument is stupid - the only difference being that , unlike Kirkland, I know my argument is nonsense.
Cagey guy
That Nicholas Cage
Two point one million
For a comic book they paid
He's returning the dinosaur
skull today
'Cus the Ghost Rider one is
Way cooler, they say.
Multiple users have a wired phone line are going to be cheesed off. They'll have to maintain the old user name and password system, especially since this doesn't work if you change phone numbers or are out of your service area.
Certainly the accountants are both in the best position to do it and the best position to cover it up. Plus they have the dirt on those "business expenses" claims.
Your current republican party candidates for president say otherwise. Everyone is looking forward to the latest screw-up, and they never fail to deliver. In the nature of the christmas season, they are truly the gift that keeps on giving.
Let's try looking at this another way. What you're saying is:
Wage discrimination is based on sex is a problem
Wage discrimination is based on looks, not qualifications
Wage discrimination is based on health and social status.
Seems the whole "don't judge a book by its cover" thing just doesn't work, and employers are missing out on many applicants, including those who are more qualified than the ones they eventually hire.
Now to deal with your "piece de resistance", or more appropriately "piece de merdre":
M2F is usually not done well. You can't really take a 6'4 230 guy and make him a cute girl - certainly not without a budget much bigger than most trans have. Everyone is going to see an ugly woman who is trying to "trick" the instincts we are evolved to have as mammals.
According to the CDC, the average height of males is 5'9". A 95 percentile height is 6'1. 97th percentile height is 6'2. Your 6'4" example is under 1% of the male population.
The "ideal heights" for both sexes, according to the opposite sex, women want men at 5''11, and men want women at 5'6. That 5'6 is a couple of inches higher than the average woman. Now throw in the range that men find acceptable in a woman:
a partner becomes too short at 4’11” and too tall at 6’.
The vast majority of male-to-female transsexuals meet those criteria easily when we start transitioning. Now throw in the effects of hormone replacement therapy over a few years, which can result in a loss of height and smaller foot size. For example, I started out as just under 5'9", and I'm now 5'6". My shoe size went from a men's size 9 to a woman's size 8.5 to 9, depending on the shoe, which is equivalent to a men's size 7 to 7-1/2. That's a difference of 4 cm or more.
Heck, after a few years on hormones, I stopped using makeup because I no longer needed it. It's called "passing privilege", so most of us will not be, in your words, " an ugly woman who is trying to "trick" the instincts we are evolved to have as mammals." You've almost certainly run unto us without knowing it.
In other words, the discrimination against trans women is at least partially due to a combination of being a woman and, in many cases, either not being able to use our former job history and qualifications without outing ourselves, or documentation that hasn't had the gender marker updated, because of transphobia among potential employers and co-workers.
How do you think you would do if you couldn't point to your previous work experience and credentials?
If America is the only country where poor people end up testing at the lower end of the IQ range, that means that, in the aggregate, the poor will pull down the country's average IQ. That, of course, explains Fox News, Honey BooBoo, and the current Republican candidates for president.
While the authors speculate that inequalities in educational and medical access in the US may beef up poverty’s effects, Turkheimer thinks school environments in particular may be to blame. He plans to follow up on the findings in his own work.
You might want to stop screwing around with your schools, teaching to the test, and replace the patchwork of medical coverage with universal single-payer for your own good.
The reason I would suggest GGP talk to a psychologist is because somehow GGP has the delusion that there's anybody who would rather have a trans woman as an employee.
Employers actively discriminate against male-to-female transsexuals. Female-to-male transsexuals reported no loss of earnings, and increased respect.
You might expect that anybody who has had a sex change, or even just cross-dresses on occasion, would suffer a wage cut because of social stigmatization. Wrong, or at least partly wrong. Turns out it depends on the direction of the change: the study found that earnings for male-to-female transgender workers fell by nearly one-third after their gender transitions, but earnings for female-to-male transgender workers increased slightly.
and
Ben Barres, a female-to-male transgender neuroscientist at Stanford, found that his work was more highly valued after his gender transition. “Ben Barres gave a great seminar today,” a colleague of his reportedly said, “but then his work is much better than his sister’s.”
Dr. Barres, of course, doesn’t have a sister in academia.
3) Poverty is a massive problem in the trans community.
Transgender respondents were nearly four times more likely to have a household income of less than $10,000, compared to the general population, Injustice at Every Turn found. They were unemployed at twice the rate of the general population, or roughly between 10 percent and 14 percent throughout 2008, the year the survey was conducted.
In one of its most striking findings, MAP and CAP report that trans people are nearly four times more likely to have a yearly household income below $10,000 (15 percent vs. 4 percent of the nontrans population). The numbers go up if a trans individual is a person of color, with Asian American/Pacific Islander and Latino trans folks nearly six times as likely to be living in poverty as their API or Latino cisgender counterparts.
Maybe they see us as a threat because many of us are forced to either work for (much) lower wages or work the streets.
BTW, while it is legal to use video surveillance, it's not legal to distribute the photo along with criminal accusations to others except the police. They may be protected from defamation lawsuits, the merchant isn't. Every mistake using this system is going to be VERY costly.
You sem to be under the mistaken impression that facial recognition couldn't be used to identify employees who are fired because they are thieves, and share that information with other businesses in the area. So no, employee theft (including by outside people involved in delivery and pick-up in the loading docks) is certainly relevant.:-)
Employee theft, while only accounting for 0.7% of crimes overall, was the third largest type of crime by value. While it was the only one of the key offences that dropped in terms of volume and value from the previous year, it remained at its second highest level for nine years.
In other words, the average haul of an employee stealing is much higher than other types of incidents. Makes sense when an employee can arrange to have a skid or a whole truckload of goods disappear.
Fact is that the majority of store thefts are inside jobs. Compared to that the roma are a minor nuisance. As for the middle east having an Islamic terrorism problem, what it has in reality is a "regime change didn't work so well the last few times we tried it, and now we have to clean up the mess we made, so let's do the whole regime change thing again because it's the thing we have the most experience with.
If they're going to keep it accurate, they're going to have women whose breasts are larger in the lower gravity (fluid doesn't accumulate so much in the lower body) and don't have to deal with Cooper's Droop. So for once they can have big-breasted women in a sci-fi. Sub-plot: Man meets woman on the moon, they get it on, get married, then come to earth and not only do her breasts shrink and sag, but with normal G sex is too much work to be worth it, so they re-up for another tour of duty at Luna City (yes, it's a bit of a rip-off of a sci-fi story about a Lunar couple who can't wait to get back to earth, then find out it isn't what they remembered it like)..
I'm really, really hoping that there will never be a time when everything significant in life is based on a Philip K. Dick story. That man wrote some depressing stuff.
A lot of life IS depressing. The dystopian future as depicted in Blade Runner still makes for a great background for telling a love story.
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One of the interesting properties is that around the freezing point, ice expands, making it less dense than liquid water. This prevents the seas from freezing solid right down to the bottom. Water's also a pretty good solvent. And the expansion of water in cracks helps break rocks into little pieces. All this has benefits for life.
Firefox Phone, the only phone less popular than Windows Phone.
So unpopular, even Firefox abandoned it! Mozilla's problem is that they went from innovation to copying everything in sight. Chrome looks a certain way - gotta copy it. Everyone else is coming out with their own OS - Mozilla needs it's own as well. Others are inventing languages - we gotta do that too.
Seriously, routers? Not gonna happen - too much competition, and Firefox would have to farm out the design and manufacturing anyway. Keyboard Raspberry Pi? Niche product at best, with no margins. Firestick? Why? Just another solution to an already solved problem.
The only reason they're doing all this is to justify all those non-tech salaries. The people inside pushing this won't abandon it because it's against their personal financial interests, even though when they're sober they know it's just a money loser and their own goal is to be a leach for as long as possible.
Marriage equality has won at the Supreme Court, but the fight over gay marriage is far from over. Now we enter the Republican temper tantrum phase.
Even before the Supreme Court’s ruling, several prominent Republicans had pledged to disobey any high court ruling in favor of marriage equality—and had called on their fellow Republican leaders to do the same.
For instance, Republican presidential candidates Rick Santorum and Mike Huckabee have both signed a pledge that reads, “We will not honor any decision by the Supreme Court which will force us to violate a clear biblical understanding of marriage as solely the union of one man and one woman.”
Huckabee also challenged the authority of our nation’s highest court when he said, “The Supreme Court can’t overrule God.”
Republican Senator Ted Cruz and Representative Steve King also called for Congress and any future Republican president to flagrantly ignore such a Supreme Court ruling.
Let’s be clear: These are current and former officeholders, who have taken an oath to uphold the laws of our nation, literally pledging to violate those laws as interpreted by the Supreme Court.
In any reasonable political environment, this should be a disqualifier for elected office. Certainly, measures should be considered to charge those of them who hold office with violating their oath.
Apparently a large percentage of republican politicians and republican voters haven't got a clue either.
Makes me wonder - how many people lock their phone? If you have it on you all the time, what's the point? I never locked mine ...
The odds are much lower than that. Anything near the galactic center is sterile (and that's where most stars are). Anything in an old galaxy has probably already been baked by at least one nearby star going bang. Anything from a first-generation galaxy isn't going to have much in the way of heavy elements. Anything around a star that is too big or too small isn't going to cut it. Anything that doesn't have sufficient liquid water to allow for plate tectonics (high-pressure steam lubricates the junctions of the plates, same as fracking does) isn't going to be able to take significant chunks of CO2 and turn them into limestone (CaCO3) so you'll get an atmosphere like Venus. Same problem with planets that are too cold for ice to melt. The "Goldilocks orbit" eliminates binaries, etc. Any planets with intelligent life on them either have already, or are in the process of, destroying themselves. It's far more likely that their descendants will be the same as ours will be - intelligent machines. So future survival will depend on who has the best battle bots.
Since ubuntu was derived from Debian, looks like Debian has more users. Stupid argument is stupid - the only difference being that , unlike Kirkland, I know my argument is nonsense.
That Nicholas Cage
Two point one million
For a comic book they paid
He's returning the dinosaur
skull today
'Cus the Ghost Rider one is
Way cooler, they say.
Burma Sahve
Multiple users have a wired phone line are going to be cheesed off. They'll have to maintain the old user name and password system, especially since this doesn't work if you change phone numbers or are out of your service area.
I guess you're running for inclusion in the lower-end-of-the-iq-spectrum the article talks about. Consider your last post as "Achievement Unlocked."
Certainly the accountants are both in the best position to do it and the best position to cover it up. Plus they have the dirt on those "business expenses" claims.
Your current republican party candidates for president say otherwise. Everyone is looking forward to the latest screw-up, and they never fail to deliver. In the nature of the christmas season, they are truly the gift that keeps on giving.
Let's try looking at this another way. What you're saying is:
Seems the whole "don't judge a book by its cover" thing just doesn't work, and employers are missing out on many applicants, including those who are more qualified than the ones they eventually hire.
Now to deal with your "piece de resistance", or more appropriately "piece de merdre":
M2F is usually not done well. You can't really take a 6'4 230 guy and make him a cute girl - certainly not without a budget much bigger than most trans have. Everyone is going to see an ugly woman who is trying to "trick" the instincts we are evolved to have as mammals.
According to the CDC, the average height of males is 5'9". A 95 percentile height is 6'1. 97th percentile height is 6'2. Your 6'4" example is under 1% of the male population.
The "ideal heights" for both sexes, according to the opposite sex, women want men at 5''11, and men want women at 5'6. That 5'6 is a couple of inches higher than the average woman. Now throw in the range that men find acceptable in a woman:
a partner becomes too short at 4’11” and too tall at 6’.
The vast majority of male-to-female transsexuals meet those criteria easily when we start transitioning. Now throw in the effects of hormone replacement therapy over a few years, which can result in a loss of height and smaller foot size. For example, I started out as just under 5'9", and I'm now 5'6". My shoe size went from a men's size 9 to a woman's size 8.5 to 9, depending on the shoe, which is equivalent to a men's size 7 to 7-1/2. That's a difference of 4 cm or more.
Heck, after a few years on hormones, I stopped using makeup because I no longer needed it. It's called "passing privilege", so most of us will not be, in your words, " an ugly woman who is trying to "trick" the instincts we are evolved to have as mammals." You've almost certainly run unto us without knowing it.
In other words, the discrimination against trans women is at least partially due to a combination of being a woman and, in many cases, either not being able to use our former job history and qualifications without outing ourselves, or documentation that hasn't had the gender marker updated, because of transphobia among potential employers and co-workers.
How do you think you would do if you couldn't point to your previous work experience and credentials?
Then why don't blacks in the other countries pull down the averages in those other countries? Oh, right, because "Murikah, f*ck yeah!"
If America is the only country where poor people end up testing at the lower end of the IQ range, that means that, in the aggregate, the poor will pull down the country's average IQ. That, of course, explains Fox News, Honey BooBoo, and the current Republican candidates for president.
While the authors speculate that inequalities in educational and medical access in the US may beef up poverty’s effects, Turkheimer thinks school environments in particular may be to blame. He plans to follow up on the findings in his own work.
You might want to stop screwing around with your schools, teaching to the test, and replace the patchwork of medical coverage with universal single-payer for your own good.
The reason I would suggest GGP talk to a psychologist is because somehow GGP has the delusion that there's anybody who would rather have a trans woman as an employee.
Employers actively discriminate against male-to-female transsexuals. Female-to-male transsexuals reported no loss of earnings, and increased respect.
Before that sex change think about your next paycheck
You might expect that anybody who has had a sex change, or even just cross-dresses on occasion, would suffer a wage cut because of social stigmatization. Wrong, or at least partly wrong. Turns out it depends on the direction of the change: the study found that earnings for male-to-female transgender workers fell by nearly one-third after their gender transitions, but earnings for female-to-male transgender workers increased slightly.
and
Ben Barres, a female-to-male transgender neuroscientist at Stanford, found that his work was more highly valued after his gender transition. “Ben Barres gave a great seminar today,” a colleague of his reportedly said, “but then his work is much better than his sister’s.”
Dr. Barres, of course, doesn’t have a sister in academia.
poverty, etc
3) Poverty is a massive problem in the trans community.
Transgender respondents were nearly four times more likely to have a household income of less than $10,000, compared to the general population, Injustice at Every Turn found. They were unemployed at twice the rate of the general population, or roughly between 10 percent and 14 percent throughout 2008, the year the survey was conducted.
Trans Americans 4 times more likely to be living in poverty
In one of its most striking findings, MAP and CAP report that trans people are nearly four times more likely to have a yearly household income below $10,000 (15 percent vs. 4 percent of the nontrans population). The numbers go up if a trans individual is a person of color, with Asian American/Pacific Islander and Latino trans folks nearly six times as likely to be living in poverty as their API or Latino cisgender counterparts.
Maybe they see us as a threat because many of us are forced to either work for (much) lower wages or work the streets.
Sneak into your co-workers computers and you'll see how many transfans there are out there.
<bad pun>If you're not careful, some of them can be a real pain in the ...</bad pun>
BTW, while it is legal to use video surveillance, it's not legal to distribute the photo along with criminal accusations to others except the police. They may be protected from defamation lawsuits, the merchant isn't. Every mistake using this system is going to be VERY costly.
You sem to be under the mistaken impression that facial recognition couldn't be used to identify employees who are fired because they are thieves, and share that information with other businesses in the area. So no, employee theft (including by outside people involved in delivery and pick-up in the loading docks) is certainly relevant. :-)
Employee theft in England and Wales
Also, thefts by employees are only reported 30% of the time scroll down to section 6.2.
Or here
Employee theft, while only accounting for 0.7% of crimes overall, was the third largest type of crime by value. While it was the only one of the key offences that dropped in terms of volume and value from the previous year, it remained at its second highest level for nine years.
In other words, the average haul of an employee stealing is much higher than other types of incidents. Makes sense when an employee can arrange to have a skid or a whole truckload of goods disappear.
Bingo! I've got it in one of my anthologies, and despite the passage of time, most of his stories are still worth reading.
Fact is that the majority of store thefts are inside jobs. Compared to that the roma are a minor nuisance. As for the middle east having an Islamic terrorism problem, what it has in reality is a "regime change didn't work so well the last few times we tried it, and now we have to clean up the mess we made, so let's do the whole regime change thing again because it's the thing we have the most experience with.
If they're going to keep it accurate, they're going to have women whose breasts are larger in the lower gravity (fluid doesn't accumulate so much in the lower body) and don't have to deal with Cooper's Droop. So for once they can have big-breasted women in a sci-fi. Sub-plot: Man meets woman on the moon, they get it on, get married, then come to earth and not only do her breasts shrink and sag, but with normal G sex is too much work to be worth it, so they re-up for another tour of duty at Luna City (yes, it's a bit of a rip-off of a sci-fi story about a Lunar couple who can't wait to get back to earth, then find out it isn't what they remembered it like)..
Code.org must die!
Preferably in a fire!
It's all politics
And graft for the supplier
Don't let your kids
Be sucked into it
Because their "curriculum"
Is really just sh*t.
Burma Shave
(yes, I know it's not Tuesday yet, but it will be ...)
AGGH! It's the battery from HELL!!!
I'm really, really hoping that there will never be a time when everything significant in life is based on a Philip K. Dick story. That man wrote some depressing stuff.
A lot of life IS depressing. The dystopian future as depicted in Blade Runner still makes for a great background for telling a love story.