No, I don't believe that correlation necessarily implies causation. I also don't think that IQ tests correlate with intelligence. If the IQ tests were designed by the Inuit, we'd mostly be classified as severely retarded.
The threat is to move to using another OSS project. Of course, that other project probably have maintainers working under the same constraints, so the problem won't go away magically. When someone threatens to do that, the proper response is "I'm good with that. Which one are you switching to?" They probably haven't done the research to evaluate other products, or, if they have, they haven't found something compelling enough to make the switch. Call their bluff. The only thing you have to lose is someone who thinks that making threats is the right way to ask someone a favor.
They know it will cost them money to switch. That's part of the cost of being a dick.
If they really wanted to educate kids, they would introduce anatomically-correct Ken and Barbie...Then you'd have to talk about abortion, lesbians, gays, bis, trans-everything.
Pretty sure you're thinking of the Mr & Ms. Potato Head, what with the interchangeable parts and all.
It isn't the device you use. You can buy a laptop for cash, it would be just as anonymous. Logging into your usually services is what will start slowly giving you away. Unless you don't want to do anything online that has any retention of your data.
Not if you create new accounts... which is really, really easy to do.
Let's see - another bible nut who criticizes another poster for making what you describe as A 'Flippant remark involving the violent execution of individuals," which clearly shows that even YOU can tell it's not to be taken seriously, you say " wish instead of oiling guns, people would read the Bible for once."
I guess you never read the bible, because it's full of genocide and slavery under God's orders, extremely misogynistic, homophobic, and a whole bunch more barbarism.
Come off it, I made it clear that "You can read a WSJ article that covers more ground in a simpler manner". And you completely ignored the other link on research published in the Oxford University Press, which was done by the following:
Andreas Hahn1, Georg S. Kranz1, Martin Küblböck2, Ulrike Kaufmann3, Sebastian Ganger1, Allan Hummer2, Rene Seiger1, Marie Spies1, Dietmar Winkler1, Siegfried Kasper1, Christian Windischberger2, Dick F. Swaab4 and Rupert Lanzenberger1
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Author Affiliations
1 Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
2 MR Center of Excellence, Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering
3 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
4 Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
They found the physical differences in the brain, but I can understand you not wanting to refer to it because it contradicts your claim that there is no
Address correspondence to R. Lanzenberger, Functional, Molecular and Translational Neuroimaging Lab, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical University of Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, 1090 Vienna, Austria.
You claimed:
The issue is with the brain, and I've never seen any evidence of any "Trans" person having a brain which is physically at odds with the body. The logical conclusion is that the dysphoria is primarily psychological in nature, not physiological
Well, now you've seen some, done by credible researchers. Or do you reject brain scans done by neuroscientists as evidence? And there's more out there if you look for it. The article has links to other studies. Or you can just google for it.
That can still be attributed to other factors. Show me the etiology, the genes that you just claim genetically defines prejudice against people with skin color. You claim they exist, so where are they already? Or, as you say, 'Waving your hands around and saying "that IS so" isn't proof either.
Never. No carpet to munch on, no vagina, she's frigid. If they really wanted to educate kids, they would introduce anatomically-correct Ken and Barbie so parents would actually have to explain gender, sex, stds, that the stork bringing the baby home was a lie, . But OH NOs! Then you'd have to talk about abortion, lesbians, gays, bis, trans-everything. Can't have that! Far better that kids end up having kids than tell them the facts of life.
Cut-and-paste of the above post by someone who is anonymous so that it will have a score of +2 instead of 0:
That's true of nearly all activists these days. People talk about "the 1%" but should really be concerning people is the new Outrage Class, the people who exist solely to be outraged. You're right, you can't appease an SJW, because they're literally unpleasable. Give in to every single one of their demands, and they'll just move the goal posts. I've watched it happen again and again. The most recent example is the SXSW debacle. SXSW should have just canceled the SJW panels and run. Trying to appease the SJWs just makes no one happy because they'll just move the goal posts of acceptable yet again and all SXSW will accomplish is pissing off their actual attendees. I've watched a conference do exactly that: add in more "diversity" and "women in tech" type panels, and now no one even talks about that conference any more, because no one bothers going to it. Not even the SJWs they were trying to appease, because they were never going to the show in the first place.
Much like in this case, the people bitching about Barbie were never going to buy them anyway. So now Mattel has wasted who knows how much time and money and the SJW crowd is still acting all outraged because that's literally all they live for. Anyone could have seen this coming.
All this will do is piss off their actual paying customers and fail to grow any new ones. Yet again. Every time.
SJWs and those who cater to them don't seem to understand the law of unintended consequences. Or of trying to meet the other side half-way.
The consensus is the SJWs are exploiting people (of both sexes) who like to live in a PC echo chamber, and everyone who dares to call them on their warped, aggressive, exclusionary raving is a misogynist. They are getting what THEY want (attention, power, money), not advancing the cause of women. TERFs like Gloria Steinem are well and truly past their best before date. Time to move beyond the manipulative BS. As Justin Trudeau said, "Because it's 2015."
We know that there are differences between the brains of the two sexes, so why should we expect equal outcomes when presented with equal opportunity to select from a variety of choices? As for coding, the barrier has never been lower. Anyone who has an interest can learn simple stuff on their own. Everyone has at least some contact with computers, and there are plenty of free ones just sitting in dumpsters that are far better than anything many of us learned on. If they don't have a net connection, they can always use the library, and *gasp* take out some books. Maybe download some tools onto a $5 USB key.
Neither of my daughters has ever shown the slightest interest in programming, ever, even though they had ample opportunity. I used to think "that's unfortunate." Seeing what the industry has become, they made the right choice. Intelligence and creativity can be better employed elsewhere.
Your arguments are flawed. There is no genetically defined prejudice against people with different skin color. There is a socially-inclined prejudice, but change the societal environment, and it disappears. Hint: we grew up too poor to afford the *luxury* of being racist. We had more important things to worry about than the color of our friends skin.
So, human skin color determines other characteristics? Guess that explains "Black is beautiful," "Once you go black you never go back," "White boys can't jump," etc. Too bad IQ tests are a poor indicator of overall intelligence. There is a negative correlation, though. The more faith you put in these tests, the dumber you are.
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Unfortunately, they now seem set to have a new weapon against users: TPP.
Saw it :-)
No, I don't believe that correlation necessarily implies causation. I also don't think that IQ tests correlate with intelligence. If the IQ tests were designed by the Inuit, we'd mostly be classified as severely retarded.
Good question
*thinks*
It's not like the two are mutually exclusive, even for the same statement. Rants can be both, can't they?
"six year old prodigy invents perpetual motion machine"
Six year olds ARE perpetual motion machines :-)
The threat is to move to using another OSS project. Of course, that other project probably have maintainers working under the same constraints, so the problem won't go away magically. When someone threatens to do that, the proper response is "I'm good with that. Which one are you switching to?" They probably haven't done the research to evaluate other products, or, if they have, they haven't found something compelling enough to make the switch. Call their bluff. The only thing you have to lose is someone who thinks that making threats is the right way to ask someone a favor.
They know it will cost them money to switch. That's part of the cost of being a dick.
If they really wanted to educate kids, they would introduce anatomically-correct Ken and Barbie...Then you'd have to talk about abortion, lesbians, gays, bis, trans-everything.
Pretty sure you're thinking of the Mr & Ms. Potato Head, what with the interchangeable parts and all.
Nice!
It isn't the device you use. You can buy a laptop for cash, it would be just as anonymous. Logging into your usually services is what will start slowly giving you away. Unless you don't want to do anything online that has any retention of your data.
Not if you create new accounts ... which is really, really easy to do.
The process may be longer, but you can automate it, so ...
You can legally lend, give or sell your copy of a physical book to someone else - no DRM.
Scantailor is garbage. It doesn't even do OCR, whereas the software for Czur does.
You do know that you can use the OCR software of your choice on the images, don't you?
Let's see - another bible nut who criticizes another poster for making what you describe as A 'Flippant remark involving the violent execution of individuals," which clearly shows that even YOU can tell it's not to be taken seriously, you say " wish instead of oiling guns, people would read the Bible for once."
I guess you never read the bible, because it's full of genocide and slavery under God's orders, extremely misogynistic, homophobic, and a whole bunch more barbarism.
If you wanted your opinion to mean anything you'd have stayed a man. Shut the fuck up, tranny.
I'll give you a +1 Funny :-)
Andreas Hahn1, Georg S. Kranz1, Martin Küblböck2, Ulrike Kaufmann3, Sebastian Ganger1, Allan Hummer2, Rene Seiger1, Marie Spies1, Dietmar Winkler1, Siegfried Kasper1, Christian Windischberger2, Dick F. Swaab4 and Rupert Lanzenberger1
- Author Affiliations
1 Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
2 MR Center of Excellence, Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering
3 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
4 Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
They found the physical differences in the brain, but I can understand you not wanting to refer to it because it contradicts your claim that there is no Address correspondence to R. Lanzenberger, Functional, Molecular and Translational Neuroimaging Lab, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical University of Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, 1090 Vienna, Austria.
You claimed:
The issue is with the brain, and I've never seen any evidence of any "Trans" person having a brain which is physically at odds with the body. The logical conclusion is that the dysphoria is primarily psychological in nature, not physiological
Well, now you've seen some, done by credible researchers. Or do you reject brain scans done by neuroscientists as evidence? And there's more out there if you look for it. The article has links to other studies. Or you can just google for it.
That can still be attributed to other factors. Show me the etiology, the genes that you just claim genetically defines prejudice against people with skin color. You claim they exist, so where are they already? Or, as you say, 'Waving your hands around and saying "that IS so" isn't proof either.
Never. No carpet to munch on, no vagina, she's frigid. If they really wanted to educate kids, they would introduce anatomically-correct Ken and Barbie so parents would actually have to explain gender, sex, stds, that the stork bringing the baby home was a lie, . But OH NOs! Then you'd have to talk about abortion, lesbians, gays, bis, trans-everything. Can't have that! Far better that kids end up having kids than tell them the facts of life.
Cut-and-paste of the above post by someone who is anonymous so that it will have a score of +2 instead of 0:
That's true of nearly all activists these days. People talk about "the 1%" but should really be concerning people is the new Outrage Class, the people who exist solely to be outraged. You're right, you can't appease an SJW, because they're literally unpleasable. Give in to every single one of their demands, and they'll just move the goal posts. I've watched it happen again and again. The most recent example is the SXSW debacle. SXSW should have just canceled the SJW panels and run. Trying to appease the SJWs just makes no one happy because they'll just move the goal posts of acceptable yet again and all SXSW will accomplish is pissing off their actual attendees. I've watched a conference do exactly that: add in more "diversity" and "women in tech" type panels, and now no one even talks about that conference any more, because no one bothers going to it. Not even the SJWs they were trying to appease, because they were never going to the show in the first place.
Much like in this case, the people bitching about Barbie were never going to buy them anyway. So now Mattel has wasted who knows how much time and money and the SJW crowd is still acting all outraged because that's literally all they live for. Anyone could have seen this coming.
All this will do is piss off their actual paying customers and fail to grow any new ones. Yet again. Every time.
SJWs and those who cater to them don't seem to understand the law of unintended consequences. Or of trying to meet the other side half-way.
The consensus is the SJWs are exploiting people (of both sexes) who like to live in a PC echo chamber, and everyone who dares to call them on their warped, aggressive, exclusionary raving is a misogynist. They are getting what THEY want (attention, power, money), not advancing the cause of women. TERFs like Gloria Steinem are well and truly past their best before date. Time to move beyond the manipulative BS. As Justin Trudeau said, "Because it's 2015."
We know that there are differences between the brains of the two sexes, so why should we expect equal outcomes when presented with equal opportunity to select from a variety of choices? As for coding, the barrier has never been lower. Anyone who has an interest can learn simple stuff on their own. Everyone has at least some contact with computers, and there are plenty of free ones just sitting in dumpsters that are far better than anything many of us learned on. If they don't have a net connection, they can always use the library, and *gasp* take out some books. Maybe download some tools onto a $5 USB key.
Neither of my daughters has ever shown the slightest interest in programming, ever, even though they had ample opportunity. I used to think "that's unfortunate." Seeing what the industry has become, they made the right choice. Intelligence and creativity can be better employed elsewhere.
Now you can get glucometers with BluTooth data sharing :-)
Your arguments are flawed. There is no genetically defined prejudice against people with different skin color. There is a socially-inclined prejudice, but change the societal environment, and it disappears. Hint: we grew up too poor to afford the *luxury* of being racist. We had more important things to worry about than the color of our friends skin.
4%? Big deal. You won't see any changes until the 1% have THEIR data swiped.
They would still have the data.
So, human skin color determines other characteristics? Guess that explains "Black is beautiful," "Once you go black you never go back," "White boys can't jump," etc. Too bad IQ tests are a poor indicator of overall intelligence. There is a negative correlation, though. The more faith you put in these tests, the dumber you are.
That's okay - the lack of basic hygiene will remove them from the gene pool. :-)
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