We can't change the brain (and if we could it would be unethical, because the person would not be the same person), so we change the body, which is also a lot safer, works, and leaves the persona intact.
Your equating a mismatch of gender and somatic sex as a "hallucination" has been abandoned except for the lunatic religious fringe, who see it as an offense to their God. Unfortunately, this does include a few doctors who let their religious beliefs dictate what they see and don't see.
I never said it was a "vactrain." Also, you don't want any physical contact with the walls, and the best way to do that (and supply boost at the beginning and regenerative braking at the end) is with electromagnetic fields. All this is more than a half-century old.
Why would Elon Musk open-source an idea this valuable, while also leaving the door open to step in himself?
Because the idea has been in the public domain for decades, including the whole depressurized tubes bit, maglev, and electric propulsion via external coils.
For now Elon Musk, it seems, is calling his invention home to see what it’s become.
Doesn't work that way, same as you can still talk in a supersonic jet. Increasing the pressure enough to have the effect you propose in the pod will just kill the occupants (nitrogen narcosis, and the bends when you reduce the pressure). Reducing the pressure in the tubes, on the other hand (which is right there in the summary)...
In the 1990s, scientists began to compare these sexually dimorphic regions in the brains of transsexuals and the rest of humanity. Early work in this area required the examination of brains postmortem; recent studies use images of the living brain.
The results show that when individuals of Sex A—despite having the chromosomes, gonads and sex hormones of that sex—insist that they're really Sex B, the gender-affected parts of the brain typically more closely resemble what's usually seen with Sex B.
Consider an obscure brain region called the forceps minor (part of the corpus callosum, a mass of fibers that connect the brain's two hemispheres). On average, among nontranssexuals, the forceps minor of males contains parallel nerve fibers of higher density than in females. But the density in female-to-male transsexuals is equivalent to that in typical males.
As another example, the hypothalamus, a hormone-producing part of the brain, is activated in nontranssexual men by the scent of estrogen, but in women—and male-to-female transsexuals—by the scent of androgens, male-associated hormones.
A moon base would be by far the biggest boondoggle in the history of this nation: Trillions of dollars sunk into a make-work social program for space nutters.
Come on, surely you can do better than that. The bank bailouts, the wars knowingly started on false premises, the wars started on "regime change"...
50 kilometers above the surface the temperature and pressure are earth-normal. Huge dirigibles using oxygen and nitrogen would float in the denser co2 atmosphere.
Code Page 437 (the original DOS) handles the accented e just fine (hold down the alt key and type 130 on the number pad if you don't have an international keyboard. Still works on Windows to this day. é
The idea behind code pages was to be able to express every character concisely in one byte. Unicode is a total failure at this. Worse, since character entities take up a variable amount of space, it makes it easier for programmers to not allocate enough buffer space to store unicode strings.
You must be kidding. ASCII isn't even sufficient to write English, let alone the many other languages which genuinely benefit from being typeable.
Strange, I never had a problem with it, and the abc's taught in English classes are a subset of it. Also, you didn't seem to have a problem expressing your thoughts in English, without unicode:-)
Code pages were a much simpler solution that worked.
It's not just people posting insults in the internet who are trolls. On the other hand, maybe they're just trolling us?
It's s stupid idea. There's enough crap floating around on the internet - there's no need to add to the visual blight on the landscape, in what will surely turn into a contest to see who can get their stuff featured on a billboard. In other words, they need to read up on the law of unintended consequences. Or talk to Barbra Streisand...:-)
You're welcome. The full answer is much more complex, involves going into a lot of details, etc... I'll probably do a journal entry on it at some point.:-)
So you would enslave me to free others? Troll, troll, troll.
As I pointed out, the bsd code that a derivative is based on is available to everyone. No reason why someone who wants to release a GPL'd version derived from that same source code. Any other argument is freetarded.
What part of "the original binary" didn't you understand? Your comparisons to slavery are so over the line that they don't merit consideration (bad troll!)
Really? So you find nothing wrong with Paul telling slaves that if they can't win their freedom, they should be content? Nonsense - owning someone is not an expression of love or kindness.
To look down on someone living as gay is in conflict w/His teachings. Two entirely different things. Someone behaving gay cannot be a Christian anymore than a murderer or rapist can. However if they repent
Then there are a lot of non-christian priests and pastors and deacons out there. Also, where do you draw the line beyond which someone "cannot be a Christian?" If you don't allow minor sins, nobody can be a christian, because nobody can even know all the little sins they commit.
So where are you going to put transsexuals like me? Who, if anyone, would I be allowed to marry without "sinning?" Remember, "the Word" is silent on this topic.
I have no problem with gays, lesbians, bisexuals, drag queens, whatever - except that their attitude towards us is like a useless appendage - handy to drag out when it gains "the community" something, but otherwise ignored, or worse, blurring the line between cross-dressers, etc., and transsexuals, helping perpetuate the myth that transsexuals are really gay men in dresses.
Toxic? You betcha! "Chuck you Farley Brown! I don't need you to tell me what I am or how to live my life" is probably a pretty muted response.
Gays, Lesbians, and Bisexuals are about sexual practices. Transgendered is a bastardized term that includes cross-dressers and drag queens, which is a sexual fetish (not that I'm criticizing this, to each their own, etc). Unfortunately, even in the LGBT, many people think that transsexuals are really just gay cross-dressers. This attitude comes from the top down, as many of the influential LGBT organizations are directed exclusively by gay white men.
They don't get that transsexuals are different - live brain scans have proven that our brains resemble our target gender both in sexually dimorphic areas, and in the overall networking. Even the general public is often more enlightened,,, sheesh! When they argue that they've helped transsexuals by having drag queens on their floats, it's way past time to take them seriously.
Not that I ever had contact with any LGBT groups - didn't need to deal with their crap in addition to my own:-) But I see others buying into the whole "you need to let us keep you safe in our gay ghetto because it's a safe space where we all can live authentic lives" bullcrap. Sure, I've known a few gays and lesbians, but that doesn't mean that I need their weird brand of withdraw-from-the-world protection - I leave that to the cults.
We achieved social acceptance long before gays came out of the closet - Christine Jorgensen is a good example of early fame and fortune. We got this reception because the vast majority of people are curious. It was only when the gay rights movement came out and started rioting that we got caught in the back-splash of religious intolerance. So, in a way, they've been riding our coat-tails to a certain extent. After all, we could marry in our target gender without enabling legislation, they couldn't.
The worst part is, if you say any of this, "you're harming the community." My message to them is "You're not my community. My community is family, friends, neighbors, acquaintances... without respect to color, ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender, physical or mental illness, etc...." Rather than hiding in a gay ghetto because I need protection to live an authentic life (btw - how the heck do you live an authentic life when you're so paranoid about the rest of the world???) I help shape the world around me to be my "safe space" - for everyone.
I also don't like the bogus "self-affirming" games that transsexuals in the LGBT movement play... the latest one was "this year we should all wear purple to mark the Transgender Day of Remembrance." A pretty safe thing to do because nobody outside their little group even knows what it signifies... and if it ever gets to the point where people do, will they be pressured to out themselves by cooperating? This is slacktivism. Why not wear a T-shirt that says "Yes, I am a transsexual. Any questions for me?" and a big smiley face to invite discussion. I'd wear it to the mall... but them? "Oh noes!" "Too dangerous!" They wouldn't dare take any action to pay it forward in memory of those who fought for our rights before us. No wonder they feel they have to hide in the gay ghetto to have their "safe spaces" and lead their circumscribed "authentic lives." Deep down, they are ashamed.
If you create a closed-source derivative of bsd-licenced software AND DISTRIBUTE IT, the derivative is not as free as the original.
Users of the derivative are being deprived of freedoms that existed in the original.
They dont have the ability to modify the original parts of the derivative once its binary only.
And be honest with yourself, if you create a closed source derivative of BSD licensed software would you be doing it mostly for the benefit of yourself or for others ?
Absolute freedom is a fantasy, absolute freedom permits people to take away other peoples freedom (to have power over them), once that happens freedom is no longer absolute.
The distributed binary is just as free as the original binary. And they DO have the EXACT SAME freedom I have - to develop their own derivative from the same source I used. Not my problem if they don't have the talent - they can always hire someone else to do it. What they don't have is the right to tell me what I have to do.
If I create a closed-source bsd-licensed derivative, OR my own completely original or derivative BSD-licensed code, that is MY choice. The people who have hired me to work on software, either as an employee or as a contractor, didn't give out the source code, and that is why they could afford to pay me. Same with almost everyone who works in the software biz. Open source is not a obligatory, nor is it desirable in many cases (like when you want to eat).
However, closed source does NOT limit other people's freedoms - they are, as I pointed out, free to use the same original source to make their own derivative. And they're free to release the source or not when they distribute binaries, as they wish, unlike the GPL.
There is nothing preventing users of the derivative to develop their own version using their own skills to create their own derivative from the same source I use, so users have the same freedoms I have. If they don't have the skills, sucks to be them but I don't owe it to them to give them my source. They have other options, such as paying someone else to develop their own derivative.
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We can't change the brain (and if we could it would be unethical, because the person would not be the same person), so we change the body, which is also a lot safer, works, and leaves the persona intact.
Your equating a mismatch of gender and somatic sex as a "hallucination" has been abandoned except for the lunatic religious fringe, who see it as an offense to their God. Unfortunately, this does include a few doctors who let their religious beliefs dictate what they see and don't see.
I never said it was a "vactrain." Also, you don't want any physical contact with the walls, and the best way to do that (and supply boost at the beginning and regenerative braking at the end) is with electromagnetic fields. All this is more than a half-century old.
Why would Elon Musk open-source an idea this valuable, while also leaving the door open to step in himself?
Because the idea has been in the public domain for decades, including the whole depressurized tubes bit, maglev, and electric propulsion via external coils.
For now Elon Musk, it seems, is calling his invention home to see what it’s become.
Not his invention ...
Doesn't work that way, same as you can still talk in a supersonic jet. Increasing the pressure enough to have the effect you propose in the pod will just kill the occupants (nitrogen narcosis, and the bends when you reduce the pressure). Reducing the pressure in the tubes, on the other hand (which is right there in the summary) ...
I don't think anyone is born 5'10".
And fraud. And extortion. But it's only a crime when the plebes do it.
So stay ignorant ... not my problem that you're anti-science ...
It's a lot cheaper to ship from the moon than from earth's gravity well. An electric rail gun launcher should be able to do the job.
Extended ASCII is 8 bit :-)
Easy solution - don't use Windows :-)
Not a problem if you're moving in the same direction and speed as the wind - and why would you want to do otherwise?
In the 1990s, scientists began to compare these sexually dimorphic regions in the brains of transsexuals and the rest of humanity. Early work in this area required the examination of brains postmortem; recent studies use images of the living brain.
The results show that when individuals of Sex A—despite having the chromosomes, gonads and sex hormones of that sex—insist that they're really Sex B, the gender-affected parts of the brain typically more closely resemble what's usually seen with Sex B.
Consider an obscure brain region called the forceps minor (part of the corpus callosum, a mass of fibers that connect the brain's two hemispheres). On average, among nontranssexuals, the forceps minor of males contains parallel nerve fibers of higher density than in females. But the density in female-to-male transsexuals is equivalent to that in typical males.
As another example, the hypothalamus, a hormone-producing part of the brain, is activated in nontranssexual men by the scent of estrogen, but in women—and male-to-female transsexuals—by the scent of androgens, male-associated hormones.
A moon base would be by far the biggest boondoggle in the history of this nation: Trillions of dollars sunk into a make-work social program for space nutters.
Come on, surely you can do better than that. The bank bailouts, the wars knowingly started on false premises, the wars started on "regime change" ...
50 kilometers above the surface the temperature and pressure are earth-normal. Huge dirigibles using oxygen and nitrogen would float in the denser co2 atmosphere.
Code Page 437 (the original DOS) handles the accented e just fine (hold down the alt key and type 130 on the number pad if you don't have an international keyboard. Still works on Windows to this day. é
The idea behind code pages was to be able to express every character concisely in one byte. Unicode is a total failure at this. Worse, since character entities take up a variable amount of space, it makes it easier for programmers to not allocate enough buffer space to store unicode strings.
You must be kidding. ASCII isn't even sufficient to write English, let alone the many other languages which genuinely benefit from being typeable.
Strange, I never had a problem with it, and the abc's taught in English classes are a subset of it. Also, you didn't seem to have a problem expressing your thoughts in English, without unicode :-)
Code pages were a much simpler solution that worked.
It's not just people posting insults in the internet who are trolls. On the other hand, maybe they're just trolling us?
It's s stupid idea. There's enough crap floating around on the internet - there's no need to add to the visual blight on the landscape, in what will surely turn into a contest to see who can get their stuff featured on a billboard. In other words, they need to read up on the law of unintended consequences. Or talk to Barbra Streisand ... :-)
You're welcome. The full answer is much more complex, involves going into a lot of details, etc ... I'll probably do a journal entry on it at some point. :-)
More of an argument for going back in time to plain ascii for most of us.
So you would enslave me to free others? Troll, troll, troll.
As I pointed out, the bsd code that a derivative is based on is available to everyone. No reason why someone who wants to release a GPL'd version derived from that same source code. Any other argument is freetarded.
What part of "the original binary" didn't you understand? Your comparisons to slavery are so over the line that they don't merit consideration (bad troll!)
Really? So you find nothing wrong with Paul telling slaves that if they can't win their freedom, they should be content? Nonsense - owning someone is not an expression of love or kindness.
To look down on someone living as gay is in conflict w/His teachings. Two entirely different things. Someone behaving gay cannot be a Christian anymore than a murderer or rapist can. However if they repent
Then there are a lot of non-christian priests and pastors and deacons out there. Also, where do you draw the line beyond which someone "cannot be a Christian?" If you don't allow minor sins, nobody can be a christian, because nobody can even know all the little sins they commit.
So where are you going to put transsexuals like me? Who, if anyone, would I be allowed to marry without "sinning?" Remember, "the Word" is silent on this topic.
I have no problem with gays, lesbians, bisexuals, drag queens, whatever - except that their attitude towards us is like a useless appendage - handy to drag out when it gains "the community" something, but otherwise ignored, or worse, blurring the line between cross-dressers, etc., and transsexuals, helping perpetuate the myth that transsexuals are really gay men in dresses.
Toxic? You betcha! "Chuck you Farley Brown! I don't need you to tell me what I am or how to live my life" is probably a pretty muted response.
Gays, Lesbians, and Bisexuals are about sexual practices. Transgendered is a bastardized term that includes cross-dressers and drag queens, which is a sexual fetish (not that I'm criticizing this, to each their own, etc). Unfortunately, even in the LGBT, many people think that transsexuals are really just gay cross-dressers. This attitude comes from the top down, as many of the influential LGBT organizations are directed exclusively by gay white men.
They don't get that transsexuals are different - live brain scans have proven that our brains resemble our target gender both in sexually dimorphic areas, and in the overall networking. Even the general public is often more enlightened ,,, sheesh! When they argue that they've helped transsexuals by having drag queens on their floats, it's way past time to take them seriously.
Not that I ever had contact with any LGBT groups - didn't need to deal with their crap in addition to my own :-) But I see others buying into the whole "you need to let us keep you safe in our gay ghetto because it's a safe space where we all can live authentic lives" bullcrap. Sure, I've known a few gays and lesbians, but that doesn't mean that I need their weird brand of withdraw-from-the-world protection - I leave that to the cults.
We achieved social acceptance long before gays came out of the closet - Christine Jorgensen is a good example of early fame and fortune. We got this reception because the vast majority of people are curious. It was only when the gay rights movement came out and started rioting that we got caught in the back-splash of religious intolerance. So, in a way, they've been riding our coat-tails to a certain extent. After all, we could marry in our target gender without enabling legislation, they couldn't.
The worst part is, if you say any of this, "you're harming the community." My message to them is "You're not my community. My community is family, friends, neighbors, acquaintances ... without respect to color, ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender, physical or mental illness, etc ...." Rather than hiding in a gay ghetto because I need protection to live an authentic life (btw - how the heck do you live an authentic life when you're so paranoid about the rest of the world???) I help shape the world around me to be my "safe space" - for everyone.
I also don't like the bogus "self-affirming" games that transsexuals in the LGBT movement play ... the latest one was "this year we should all wear purple to mark the Transgender Day of Remembrance." A pretty safe thing to do because nobody outside their little group even knows what it signifies ... and if it ever gets to the point where people do, will they be pressured to out themselves by cooperating? This is slacktivism. Why not wear a T-shirt that says "Yes, I am a transsexual. Any questions for me?" and a big smiley face to invite discussion. I'd wear it to the mall ... but them? "Oh noes!" "Too dangerous!" They wouldn't dare take any action to pay it forward in memory of those who fought for our rights before us. No wonder they feel they have to hide in the gay ghetto to have their "safe spaces" and lead their circumscribed "authentic lives." Deep down, they are ashamed.
Stockholm Syndrome is what it is.
If you create a closed-source derivative of bsd-licenced software AND DISTRIBUTE IT, the derivative is not as free as the original. Users of the derivative are being deprived of freedoms that existed in the original. They dont have the ability to modify the original parts of the derivative once its binary only.
And be honest with yourself, if you create a closed source derivative of BSD licensed software would you be doing it mostly for the benefit of yourself or for others ?
Absolute freedom is a fantasy, absolute freedom permits people to take away other peoples freedom (to have power over them), once that happens freedom is no longer absolute.
The distributed binary is just as free as the original binary. And they DO have the EXACT SAME freedom I have - to develop their own derivative from the same source I used. Not my problem if they don't have the talent - they can always hire someone else to do it. What they don't have is the right to tell me what I have to do.
If I create a closed-source bsd-licensed derivative, OR my own completely original or derivative BSD-licensed code, that is MY choice. The people who have hired me to work on software, either as an employee or as a contractor, didn't give out the source code, and that is why they could afford to pay me. Same with almost everyone who works in the software biz. Open source is not a obligatory, nor is it desirable in many cases (like when you want to eat).
However, closed source does NOT limit other people's freedoms - they are, as I pointed out, free to use the same original source to make their own derivative. And they're free to release the source or not when they distribute binaries, as they wish, unlike the GPL.
There is nothing preventing users of the derivative to develop their own version using their own skills to create their own derivative from the same source I use, so users have the same freedoms I have. If they don't have the skills, sucks to be them but I don't owe it to them to give them my source. They have other options, such as paying someone else to develop their own derivative.