I would *still* be willing to sit down for a morning of road runner, bugs bunny and crew, daffy duck, foghorn leghorn, jetsons, flintstones, pepe le pew, and so on. I would have encouraged my kids to watch.
A lot of those cartoons (particularly the road runner ones) entered an era of self-censorship (OMG we can't show the coyote getting blasted to smithereens) that if you hadn't seen the original, the re-runs are confusing.
That was an age of innocence that we just can't seem to re-create.
No, it means that you're too lazy to bother reading what's out there about this person - who admits, even glorifies, in targeting a specific community - members of the LGBT community.
Why do the police target criminals? It's SO UNFAIR!!!
Oh, wait, he targets the people who are violating the TOS.
Deal with it.
It's been dealt with - facebook has decided that this was not, in fact, a violation of their TOS. People are allowed to use the name they are commonly known to the world by. So everyone who knows Billy-Bob and Mary-Ann from high school doesn't have to search for William Robert and Maria Anastasia.
Can you understand the chilling effect this would have on people who are following their doctor's orders, who have told friends and family that they're getting a sex change, but who, because of a mis-application of facebook's policy, would still have to use their old, gender-inappropriate name?
No, because I can't understand what kind of horrible doctor would order anyone to do something that insane.
What? Order someone to live for a year in their target gender before getting a sex change? It gives time to create a supportive environment with our job, friends, family, before doing anything permanent. And finding out who our real friends are, time to adapt to the hormonal changes and the emotional changes they can trigger, and being able to have a job after surgery, because just walking into work without giving everyone a heads-up in advance will create problems. Or, if work doesn't accept the situation, get a new job in our new gender right from the get-go.
Or if you think that the whole idea of transsexuals getting a sex change is horrible, well, we'll just have to disagree on that, for obvious reasons:-)
Perhaps you will think differently when you became disabled?
I very much doubt it.
Maybe, maybe not, but that's not germane to the point at hand. Most of us would agree with you. I've told my relatives "take me out behind the barn, shoot me, and harvest anything that can be of use to someone else" if there's not enough functioning brain to continue to "be me". Or if the quality of life got so low that you wouldn't let a dog suffer that much.
But there's no evidence that a womb transplant will result in people who are unable to care for themselves less than anyone else after they reach adulthood. After all, this is the first successful birth. We won't have the answer for a while... and just one result isn't statistically significant anyway.
So, if I saw it on TV, I didn't see it? Come on. It might have worked that way in Nixon's world, but reality is a bit different.
From many accounts, Nixon was a troubled, insecure man. Miniscule differences like this would have been magnified out of all proportion both in his mind, and the minds of his supporters, to make him look better than his enemies (remember his "enemies list"?) He was so desperate to have an "important" presidency that it led him to break laws, throw those close to him under the bus... he actually believed that he was above the law and didn't have to answer to the courts.
This is not news and it certainly isn't news for nerds.
The abusing of an online social network to target individuals of a particular type is not news, especially for nerds? There were flaws in the reporting process. If each report about a fake name from person "A" was forwarded to the same handler, the pattern would have been apparent within hours. So, one flaw in the process, with a solution that all sites could implement.
If that's not practical, then have a method so that, when a new report is made, the reviewer sees the reporter's history. 200 reports within 3 days, all the same? Houston, we have a problem!
So, another summary could be "person exploited flaws in a social media site to target a specific group." Definitely news for nerds.
It seems that the individual who reported the aliases (non-real names) to Facebook was only reporting people who violated the TOS from Facebook users.
That, without a lot more information, does not qualify this person as "an asshole", "a dickhead" or "a pathetic jerk". It does seem to qualify you as those three, though.
No, it means that you're too lazy to bother reading what's out there about this person - who admits, even glorifies, in targeting a specific community - members of the LGBT community. In one tweet, they even call transvestites sodomites, even though the vast majority of cross-dressers are heterosexual males. Then when all hell broke loose, they went after people with accounts for their pets, probably to make it look less like they had been targeting a specific group based on their sexual or gender expression.
There was a time when I was transitioning when I didn't have the necessary documentation to back up my new identity. Can you understand the chilling effect this would have on people who are following their doctor's orders, who have told friends and family that they're getting a sex change, but who, because of a mis-application of facebook's policy, would still have to use their old, gender-inappropriate name? Or would just drop out of sight entirely at the time when they are most in need of their network of friends?
This person needs to either get a life or get help.
If the article is a reflection of the book, count me out.
Nixon was the first U.S. President to see a human space launch (Apollo 12).
Someone forgot Project Mercury.
President Kennedy - Jan 20 1961 to Nov 22 1963
Freedom 7 (May 5 1961), Liberty Bell 7 (July 21, 1961), Friendship 7 (February 20, 1962), Aurora 7 (May 24, 1962), Sigman 7 (October 3, 1962), and Faith 7 (May 15, 1963). Kennedy, as president, saw ALL the manned Mercury spaceflights. Here's a pic of Kennedy watching the Shepherd launch on TV in the White House, same as millions of other people.
And Project Gemini.
President Johnson - Nov 22 1963 to Jan 20 1969
Gemini 3 (23 Mar 1965) through 12 (11-15 Nov 1966), all manned. Apollo 1 (fatal fire), Apollo 7 (11 October 1968), Apollo 8 (21 December 1968) - the "around the moon mission". Here's a pic of Johnson watching the launch of Gemini 3
And there were the other flights, Apollo 9 through 11 - the first moon landing, all observed by Nixon as president.
You can be sure that if aliens who taste like chicken or lasagna attack us and are bent on wiping us out, we'll be lining up to find out, intelligence be damned.
Actually, they have changed their breeding habits in response to human intervention in the environment. They used to just breed, then die. Now some females live long enough to shepherd their young, passing on information to the next generation. Speculation is that humans have altered their environment sufficiently that this is now an evolutionary advantage, rather than putting all their energy into breeding tons of the next generation, which was the previous optimal survival strategy.
Lab experiments have shown that they can measure things, and that they can learn by watching another octopus do something ONCE (gee, wish we were as good).
Does this mean that they're too intelligent to eat? Perhaps the solution is to cross them with chickens - then everyone gets a drumstick.
The problem is that there are a *lot* of charlatans and hatemongers who are pushing crap in any organized movement. "cleaning house" could also be seen by many as highly political, suppressing views opposed by the leadership. It's one of those "damned if you do, damned if you don't" things. Sure, I'll say that people who attack others the way they have is moronic, but who am I?
Which is actually possibly the key to the whole thing - when diverse women who are not part of any feminist movement say "hey, this is wrong", it means more because there's no hidden agenda.
I've been through (a lot) worse, and I'm still around, so what the heck. The more they do, the better - it will make it that much easier to expose them. Sounds like a very pale imitation of the tactics of people like the Synanon organization
On March 20, 1978, a former member of Synanon was severely beaten (for being a "splittee") during his honeymoon when he took his bride to show her where he had once lived at the Walker Creek Ranch.[citation needed]
Synanon is heavily implicated in the late-1972 or early-1973 disappearance of Rose Lena Cole, who was ordered by a court to enroll in Synanon before she disappeared. She has not been seen or heard from since.[14]
During the summer of 1978, the NBC Nightly News produced a news segment on the controversies surrounding Synanon. Following this broadcast, several executives of the NBC network and its corporate chairman allegedly received hundreds of threats from Synanon members and supporters.[15] However, NBC continued with a series of reports on the Synanon situation on the NBC Nightly News.
On September 21, 1978, ex-Synanon member Phil Ritter was severely beaten by two Synanon members, which fractured his skull and caused him to fall into a coma with a near-fatal case of bacterial meningitis.[16]
Several weeks later, on October 11, 1978, two Synanon members placed a de-rattled rattlesnake in the mailbox of attorney Paul Morantz of Pacific Palisades, California.[17] Morantz had successfully brought suit on behalf of a woman abducted by Synanon. The snake bit and almost killed him[citation needed].
Six weeks later, the Los Angeles Police Department performed a search of the ranch in Badger that found a recorded speech by Dederich in which he said, "We're not going to mess with the old-time, turn-the-other-cheek religious postures...our religious posture is: Don't mess with us. You can get killed dead, literally dead...these are real threats," he snarled. "They are draining life's blood from us, and expecting us to play by their silly rules. We will make the rules. I see nothing frightening about it...I am quite willing to break some lawyer's legs, and next break his wife's legs, and threaten to cut their child's arm off. That is the end of that lawyer. That is a very satisfactory, humane way of transmitting information. I really do want an ear in a glass of alcohol on my desk."[16]
Dederich was arrested while drunk on December 2, 1978. The two other Synanon residents, one of whom was Lance Kenton, the son of the musician Stan Kenton, pleaded "no contest" to charges of assault, and also conspiracy to commit murder. While his associates went to jail, Dederich himself avoided imprisonment by formally stepping down as the chairman of Synanon.
Much of the violence by Synanon had been carried out by a group within Synanon called the "Imperial Marines."[18]
The Point Reyes Light, a small-circulation weekly newspaper in Marin County, received the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 1979 in recognition of its coverage of Synanon when other news agencies avoided reporting on it.
Synanon struggled to survive without its leader, and also with a severely tarnished reputation. The Internal Revenue Service sued for $17 million in back taxes, and all of its properties were confiscated and sold.[when?] Synanon formally dissolved in 1991.[19]
Mailing syringes, doxxing, hacking accounts - these are the acts of someone so chicken that they have to do their crap at a distance. They can easily get my address from my name - let them send me a few open syringes. They'll probably be stopped at the border (I'm in Kanukistan, pronounced "Ka-na-dah") and trigger an investigation.
The will to prepare to succeed is more important than the will to succeed. The GP poster took the time to prepare. These opportunities don't just fall in your lap because "I should get it because I have the will to succeed." That sort of magical thinking doesn't work on shark tank or dragon's den either.
Yes, it's hard to get out of poverty - but what's worse now is how easy it is to slide right back into it compared to past generations. Economic mobility - the ability to change your place on the income scale - is at a low that is crippling our economies, as nobody wants to leave any "meat on the bone" for anyone else lest they too fall off the social and economic ladder/
The suicide's mantra - "Nobody understands my problems." Bullshit. Almost everyone has had dire thoughts and stresses. It's no one's fault suicides can't quit focusing on any solution other than offing themselves.
People don't commit suicide when they're happy. They do it when they're depressed. Those who have "made the decision" will appear happy to outsiders because they have "found their solution." That's a very dangerous spot to be in. They look like they're coming out of the dumps instead of heading for the dumpster.
The additional problem is, once you've been through a major depression, you're more liable to go through another one. Depression, like happiness, is a chemical state of the brain. Look around you. People are self-medicating with booze, drugs, etc. There's plenty of schizophrenics who smoke because of the effect nicotine has on their brains.
It doesn't help that there's a huge stigma surrounding depression - "Just pull yourself out of it" - that prevents people from getting the very help that they need.
The "vaccine cultured in simian livers" has been pretty much the accepted story for a couple of decades. No conspiracy theories necessary - just a desire to culture as much vaccine as possible in the shortest time possible without adequate funds to take (in retrospect) every reasonable precaution in an under-developed country.
Whining is complaining about something without offering a solution, or at least an idea of some sort.
I think you misunderstand. Getting people to talk about something by saying "I have a related issue" to someone born without a womb helps advance the discussion, and maybe leads to a solution. But do you think that, after opening up, they're going to engage in a discussion where they're basically told "quit yer whining?"
I've talked to plenty of people who sought me out because they *didn't* have a solution. If they had one, they wouldn't be seeking someone else's advice. I don't necessarily have a solution either, but at least by talking about it, brainstorming, sharing, maybe we can shake something loose.
When I went for professional help for ptsd, it was because I was out of coping mechanisms. I realized where I was headed, that I couldn't do it on my own any more, and didn't have a clue as to what to do next except make my problem known and say "I need help."
I'm not implying that you're acting like a dick or anything like that - just that some problems are very hard to discuss even on a pseudo-anonymous forum, and most people who haven't gone through "that sort of thing" in one way or another naturally have a harder time relating. That's part of the discussion, which is why I, for one, welcome the chance to have this dialog with you and others. Having an answer is only part of the solution. Changing attitudes is often the biggest hurdle, which is why more of us are completely "out". Society imposes an incredible burden of shame on those who are different, and we pick up on it and, unfortunately, internalize it. It's not logical, but we're only human.
Microsoft makes a phone? I have not seen one in the wild. Maybe they're just pretending to make a phone so they can ship billions of dollars to tax havens off-shore?
Okay, yes, Microsoft is still in the phone market - but the tax dodge is very real, as is the lack of sales.
You need to read up on your biology. The first same-sex offspring will be from 2 males, not 2 females, although a female egg (not necessarily human) will be needed to produce it.
On August 2, 2007, after much independent investigation, it was revealed that discredited South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-Suk unknowingly produced the first human embryos resulting from parthenogenesis. Initially, Hwang claimed he and his team had extracted stem cells from cloned human embryos, a result later found to be fabricated. Further examination of the chromosomes of these cells show indicators of parthenogenesis in those extracted stem cells, similar to those found in the mice created by Tokyo scientists in 2004. Although Hwang deceived the world about being the first to create artificially cloned human embryos, he did contribute a major breakthrough to stem cell research by creating human embryos using parthenogenesis.[82] The truth was discovered in 2007, long after the embryos were created by him and his team in February 2004. This made Hwang the first, unknowingly, to successfully perform the process of parthenogenesis to create a human embryon and, ultimately, a human parthenogenetic stem cell line.
So, it's been done (though by accident), and they were female because parthenogenesis in mammals always results in females. And that concludes today's lesson on single-sex reproduction. Try the fish:-)
And yet it's still routine for doctors and parents to decide what gender an IS baby or young child should be, without the patient's knowledge or consent.. And the summary makes a point of saying that since 1950, this practice has become systemic. So, while the attitude may have changed, the practice hasn't.
Posting all this on a slashdot article about an artifical womb is the wrong way to go about things.
The article is about increasing reproductive options for people who were born without a womb. How is that *not* on topic for those who are intersexed, where some of the reproductive organs are either not present, not developed fully, or have been mutilated? It's certainly more on-topic than all those jokes about "hand-me-down wombs" and stuff elsewhere in the thread.
Look, I get it. It's not something everyone deals with on a daily basis - but for those who do have to deal with it, why not let them bring their perspective to the table, and give them at least a bit of credit for having the courage to open up about it. The original post may not have made the point that I'm making - that it is definitely on topic - but the point has now been made, and it wouldn't have been without their original post wrt the intersexed. So, instead of criticizing them for "whining", why not discuss the real issue - that this is a reproductive option society is going to have to come to grips with, the same as we did with both artificial insemination and "test tube babies," and discuss how it impacts the various members of our society differently?:-)
I bought the TR1 spec in hardcover when it came out. Read it three times in an attempt to like it, and unfortunately, in the final analysis, the bad outweighs the good, at least for me. YMMV.
Vectors can be implemented so many different ways in c, tailored to each use case. Ditto in c++, in java, in any language. To each their own.
You have a valid point. The problem is that many of us, seeing this for the first time, have absolutely no clue as to the history of this mess. But now that it's more out in the open as to what the heck is going on behind the scenes, people will see them for what they are. If Intel has pulled their ads, can others be far behind?
But they have only so much time, and if every potential target says "hey, bring it on", what are they going to do? As for doxxing me, I'm already completely out, both on and off the net. And others are purposefully "outing" themselves to help educate the masses as to what effects their attitudes have on us, and to fight the culture of shame.
See "Houston, Houston, Do You Read...?" by Alice Sheldon, pen name James Tiptree Jr. The wikipedia summary fails to capture the true feeling of the story. Definitely a must read for any sci-fi fan.
It is related to the topic at hand. This procedure possibly allows some of those who are intersexed and whose reproductive organs are not sufficiently developed for either sex, or whose reproductive options were removed without their knowledge or consent when they were young, to carry a child.
Now what most women want to see is the replication of the situation in John Brunner's "Stand on Zanzibar", where men are complaining about back pain, morning sickness, job impact, etc., because it's "their turn" to carry the baby to term.
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I would *still* be willing to sit down for a morning of road runner, bugs bunny and crew, daffy duck, foghorn leghorn, jetsons, flintstones, pepe le pew, and so on. I would have encouraged my kids to watch.
A lot of those cartoons (particularly the road runner ones) entered an era of self-censorship (OMG we can't show the coyote getting blasted to smithereens) that if you hadn't seen the original, the re-runs are confusing.
That was an age of innocence that we just can't seem to re-create.
No, it means that you're too lazy to bother reading what's out there about this person - who admits, even glorifies, in targeting a specific community - members of the LGBT community.
Why do the police target criminals? It's SO UNFAIR!!!
Oh, wait, he targets the people who are violating the TOS.
Deal with it.
It's been dealt with - facebook has decided that this was not, in fact, a violation of their TOS. People are allowed to use the name they are commonly known to the world by. So everyone who knows Billy-Bob and Mary-Ann from high school doesn't have to search for William Robert and Maria Anastasia.
Can you understand the chilling effect this would have on people who are following their doctor's orders, who have told friends and family that they're getting a sex change, but who, because of a mis-application of facebook's policy, would still have to use their old, gender-inappropriate name?
No, because I can't understand what kind of horrible doctor would order anyone to do something that insane.
What? Order someone to live for a year in their target gender before getting a sex change? It gives time to create a supportive environment with our job, friends, family, before doing anything permanent. And finding out who our real friends are, time to adapt to the hormonal changes and the emotional changes they can trigger, and being able to have a job after surgery, because just walking into work without giving everyone a heads-up in advance will create problems. Or, if work doesn't accept the situation, get a new job in our new gender right from the get-go.
Or if you think that the whole idea of transsexuals getting a sex change is horrible, well, we'll just have to disagree on that, for obvious reasons :-)
The source of the womb has nothing to do with the genetic material in either the egg or the sperm.
You say that like it's a bad thing :-)
Perhaps you will think differently when you became disabled?
I very much doubt it.
Maybe, maybe not, but that's not germane to the point at hand. Most of us would agree with you. I've told my relatives "take me out behind the barn, shoot me, and harvest anything that can be of use to someone else" if there's not enough functioning brain to continue to "be me". Or if the quality of life got so low that you wouldn't let a dog suffer that much.
But there's no evidence that a womb transplant will result in people who are unable to care for themselves less than anyone else after they reach adulthood. After all, this is the first successful birth. We won't have the answer for a while ... and just one result isn't statistically significant anyway.
So, if I saw it on TV, I didn't see it? Come on. It might have worked that way in Nixon's world, but reality is a bit different.
From many accounts, Nixon was a troubled, insecure man. Miniscule differences like this would have been magnified out of all proportion both in his mind, and the minds of his supporters, to make him look better than his enemies (remember his "enemies list"?) He was so desperate to have an "important" presidency that it led him to break laws, throw those close to him under the bus ... he actually believed that he was above the law and didn't have to answer to the courts.
This is not news and it certainly isn't news for nerds.
The abusing of an online social network to target individuals of a particular type is not news, especially for nerds? There were flaws in the reporting process. If each report about a fake name from person "A" was forwarded to the same handler, the pattern would have been apparent within hours. So, one flaw in the process, with a solution that all sites could implement.
If that's not practical, then have a method so that, when a new report is made, the reviewer sees the reporter's history. 200 reports within 3 days, all the same? Houston, we have a problem!
So, another summary could be "person exploited flaws in a social media site to target a specific group." Definitely news for nerds.
It seems that the individual who reported the aliases (non-real names) to Facebook was only reporting people who violated the TOS from Facebook users.
That, without a lot more information, does not qualify this person as "an asshole", "a dickhead" or "a pathetic jerk". It does seem to qualify you as those three, though.
No, it means that you're too lazy to bother reading what's out there about this person - who admits, even glorifies, in targeting a specific community - members of the LGBT community. In one tweet, they even call transvestites sodomites, even though the vast majority of cross-dressers are heterosexual males. Then when all hell broke loose, they went after people with accounts for their pets, probably to make it look less like they had been targeting a specific group based on their sexual or gender expression.
There was a time when I was transitioning when I didn't have the necessary documentation to back up my new identity. Can you understand the chilling effect this would have on people who are following their doctor's orders, who have told friends and family that they're getting a sex change, but who, because of a mis-application of facebook's policy, would still have to use their old, gender-inappropriate name? Or would just drop out of sight entirely at the time when they are most in need of their network of friends?
This person needs to either get a life or get help.
Nixon was the first U.S. President to see a human space launch (Apollo 12).
Someone forgot Project Mercury.
President Kennedy - Jan 20 1961 to Nov 22 1963
Freedom 7 (May 5 1961), Liberty Bell 7 (July 21, 1961), Friendship 7 (February 20, 1962), Aurora 7 (May 24, 1962), Sigman 7 (October 3, 1962), and Faith 7 (May 15, 1963). Kennedy, as president, saw ALL the manned Mercury spaceflights. Here's a pic of Kennedy watching the Shepherd launch on TV in the White House, same as millions of other people.
And Project Gemini.
President Johnson - Nov 22 1963 to Jan 20 1969
Gemini 3 (23 Mar 1965) through 12 (11-15 Nov 1966), all manned. Apollo 1 (fatal fire), Apollo 7 (11 October 1968), Apollo 8 (21 December 1968) - the "around the moon mission". Here's a pic of Johnson watching the launch of Gemini 3
And there were the other flights, Apollo 9 through 11 - the first moon landing, all observed by Nixon as president.
... how does smart taste?
You can be sure that if aliens who taste like chicken or lasagna attack us and are bent on wiping us out, we'll be lining up to find out, intelligence be damned.
Lab experiments have shown that they can measure things, and that they can learn by watching another octopus do something ONCE (gee, wish we were as good).
Does this mean that they're too intelligent to eat? Perhaps the solution is to cross them with chickens - then everyone gets a drumstick.
The problem is that there are a *lot* of charlatans and hatemongers who are pushing crap in any organized movement. "cleaning house" could also be seen by many as highly political, suppressing views opposed by the leadership. It's one of those "damned if you do, damned if you don't" things. Sure, I'll say that people who attack others the way they have is moronic, but who am I?
Which is actually possibly the key to the whole thing - when diverse women who are not part of any feminist movement say "hey, this is wrong", it means more because there's no hidden agenda.
On March 20, 1978, a former member of Synanon was severely beaten (for being a "splittee") during his honeymoon when he took his bride to show her where he had once lived at the Walker Creek Ranch.[citation needed]
Synanon is heavily implicated in the late-1972 or early-1973 disappearance of Rose Lena Cole, who was ordered by a court to enroll in Synanon before she disappeared. She has not been seen or heard from since.[14]
During the summer of 1978, the NBC Nightly News produced a news segment on the controversies surrounding Synanon. Following this broadcast, several executives of the NBC network and its corporate chairman allegedly received hundreds of threats from Synanon members and supporters.[15] However, NBC continued with a series of reports on the Synanon situation on the NBC Nightly News.
On September 21, 1978, ex-Synanon member Phil Ritter was severely beaten by two Synanon members, which fractured his skull and caused him to fall into a coma with a near-fatal case of bacterial meningitis.[16]
Several weeks later, on October 11, 1978, two Synanon members placed a de-rattled rattlesnake in the mailbox of attorney Paul Morantz of Pacific Palisades, California.[17] Morantz had successfully brought suit on behalf of a woman abducted by Synanon. The snake bit and almost killed him[citation needed].
Six weeks later, the Los Angeles Police Department performed a search of the ranch in Badger that found a recorded speech by Dederich in which he said, "We're not going to mess with the old-time, turn-the-other-cheek religious postures...our religious posture is: Don't mess with us. You can get killed dead, literally dead...these are real threats," he snarled. "They are draining life's blood from us, and expecting us to play by their silly rules. We will make the rules. I see nothing frightening about it...I am quite willing to break some lawyer's legs, and next break his wife's legs, and threaten to cut their child's arm off. That is the end of that lawyer. That is a very satisfactory, humane way of transmitting information. I really do want an ear in a glass of alcohol on my desk."[16]
Dederich was arrested while drunk on December 2, 1978. The two other Synanon residents, one of whom was Lance Kenton, the son of the musician Stan Kenton, pleaded "no contest" to charges of assault, and also conspiracy to commit murder. While his associates went to jail, Dederich himself avoided imprisonment by formally stepping down as the chairman of Synanon.
Much of the violence by Synanon had been carried out by a group within Synanon called the "Imperial Marines."[18]
The Point Reyes Light, a small-circulation weekly newspaper in Marin County, received the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 1979 in recognition of its coverage of Synanon when other news agencies avoided reporting on it.
Synanon struggled to survive without its leader, and also with a severely tarnished reputation. The Internal Revenue Service sued for $17 million in back taxes, and all of its properties were confiscated and sold.[when?] Synanon formally dissolved in 1991.[19]
Mailing syringes, doxxing, hacking accounts - these are the acts of someone so chicken that they have to do their crap at a distance. They can easily get my address from my name - let them send me a few open syringes. They'll probably be stopped at the border (I'm in Kanukistan, pronounced "Ka-na-dah") and trigger an investigation.
The will to prepare to succeed is more important than the will to succeed. The GP poster took the time to prepare. These opportunities don't just fall in your lap because "I should get it because I have the will to succeed." That sort of magical thinking doesn't work on shark tank or dragon's den either.
Yes, it's hard to get out of poverty - but what's worse now is how easy it is to slide right back into it compared to past generations. Economic mobility - the ability to change your place on the income scale - is at a low that is crippling our economies, as nobody wants to leave any "meat on the bone" for anyone else lest they too fall off the social and economic ladder/
The suicide's mantra - "Nobody understands my problems." Bullshit. Almost everyone has had dire thoughts and stresses. It's no one's fault suicides can't quit focusing on any solution other than offing themselves.
People don't commit suicide when they're happy. They do it when they're depressed. Those who have "made the decision" will appear happy to outsiders because they have "found their solution." That's a very dangerous spot to be in. They look like they're coming out of the dumps instead of heading for the dumpster.
The additional problem is, once you've been through a major depression, you're more liable to go through another one. Depression, like happiness, is a chemical state of the brain. Look around you. People are self-medicating with booze, drugs, etc. There's plenty of schizophrenics who smoke because of the effect nicotine has on their brains.
It doesn't help that there's a huge stigma surrounding depression - "Just pull yourself out of it" - that prevents people from getting the very help that they need.
but unless people were having sex with chimps,
... and ...
Truth is nearly always stranger than fiction.
Oh my ...
The "vaccine cultured in simian livers" has been pretty much the accepted story for a couple of decades. No conspiracy theories necessary - just a desire to culture as much vaccine as possible in the shortest time possible without adequate funds to take (in retrospect) every reasonable precaution in an under-developed country.
Whining is complaining about something without offering a solution, or at least an idea of some sort.
I think you misunderstand. Getting people to talk about something by saying "I have a related issue" to someone born without a womb helps advance the discussion, and maybe leads to a solution. But do you think that, after opening up, they're going to engage in a discussion where they're basically told "quit yer whining?"
I've talked to plenty of people who sought me out because they *didn't* have a solution. If they had one, they wouldn't be seeking someone else's advice. I don't necessarily have a solution either, but at least by talking about it, brainstorming, sharing, maybe we can shake something loose.
When I went for professional help for ptsd, it was because I was out of coping mechanisms. I realized where I was headed, that I couldn't do it on my own any more, and didn't have a clue as to what to do next except make my problem known and say "I need help."
I'm not implying that you're acting like a dick or anything like that - just that some problems are very hard to discuss even on a pseudo-anonymous forum, and most people who haven't gone through "that sort of thing" in one way or another naturally have a harder time relating. That's part of the discussion, which is why I, for one, welcome the chance to have this dialog with you and others. Having an answer is only part of the solution. Changing attitudes is often the biggest hurdle, which is why more of us are completely "out". Society imposes an incredible burden of shame on those who are different, and we pick up on it and, unfortunately, internalize it. It's not logical, but we're only human.
the reason that MS continues to make a phone
Microsoft makes a phone? I have not seen one in the wild. Maybe they're just pretending to make a phone so they can ship billions of dollars to tax havens off-shore?
Okay, yes, Microsoft is still in the phone market - but the tax dodge is very real, as is the lack of sales.
You need to read up on your biology. The first same-sex offspring will be from 2 males, not 2 females, although a female egg (not necessarily human) will be needed to produce it.
No, only one person needed. It's called parthenogenisis, and always results in a a female in mammals.
Parthenogenetic progeny of mammals would have two X chromosomes, and would therefore be female.
So, only one person needed, resulting in a female clone of the mother.
On August 2, 2007, after much independent investigation, it was revealed that discredited South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-Suk unknowingly produced the first human embryos resulting from parthenogenesis. Initially, Hwang claimed he and his team had extracted stem cells from cloned human embryos, a result later found to be fabricated. Further examination of the chromosomes of these cells show indicators of parthenogenesis in those extracted stem cells, similar to those found in the mice created by Tokyo scientists in 2004. Although Hwang deceived the world about being the first to create artificially cloned human embryos, he did contribute a major breakthrough to stem cell research by creating human embryos using parthenogenesis.[82] The truth was discovered in 2007, long after the embryos were created by him and his team in February 2004. This made Hwang the first, unknowingly, to successfully perform the process of parthenogenesis to create a human embryon and, ultimately, a human parthenogenetic stem cell line.
So, it's been done (though by accident), and they were female because parthenogenesis in mammals always results in females. And that concludes today's lesson on single-sex reproduction. Try the fish :-)
Posting all this on a slashdot article about an artifical womb is the wrong way to go about things.
The article is about increasing reproductive options for people who were born without a womb. How is that *not* on topic for those who are intersexed, where some of the reproductive organs are either not present, not developed fully, or have been mutilated? It's certainly more on-topic than all those jokes about "hand-me-down wombs" and stuff elsewhere in the thread.
Look, I get it. It's not something everyone deals with on a daily basis - but for those who do have to deal with it, why not let them bring their perspective to the table, and give them at least a bit of credit for having the courage to open up about it. The original post may not have made the point that I'm making - that it is definitely on topic - but the point has now been made, and it wouldn't have been without their original post wrt the intersexed. So, instead of criticizing them for "whining", why not discuss the real issue - that this is a reproductive option society is going to have to come to grips with, the same as we did with both artificial insemination and "test tube babies," and discuss how it impacts the various members of our society differently? :-)
I bought the TR1 spec in hardcover when it came out. Read it three times in an attempt to like it, and unfortunately, in the final analysis, the bad outweighs the good, at least for me. YMMV.
Vectors can be implemented so many different ways in c, tailored to each use case. Ditto in c++, in java, in any language. To each their own.
You have a valid point. The problem is that many of us, seeing this for the first time, have absolutely no clue as to the history of this mess. But now that it's more out in the open as to what the heck is going on behind the scenes, people will see them for what they are. If Intel has pulled their ads, can others be far behind?
But they have only so much time, and if every potential target says "hey, bring it on", what are they going to do? As for doxxing me, I'm already completely out, both on and off the net. And others are purposefully "outing" themselves to help educate the masses as to what effects their attitudes have on us, and to fight the culture of shame.
I already have one troll who regularly goes through my posting history and crap-floods after almost every post for days on end, but it doesn't bother me, and I really feel sorry for him. I replied often enough to get it all on the record, and now I just ignore him.
See "Houston, Houston, Do You Read ...?" by Alice Sheldon, pen name James Tiptree Jr. The wikipedia summary fails to capture the true feeling of the story. Definitely a must read for any sci-fi fan.
It is related to the topic at hand. This procedure possibly allows some of those who are intersexed and whose reproductive organs are not sufficiently developed for either sex, or whose reproductive options were removed without their knowledge or consent when they were young, to carry a child.
Now what most women want to see is the replication of the situation in John Brunner's "Stand on Zanzibar", where men are complaining about back pain, morning sickness, job impact, etc., because it's "their turn" to carry the baby to term.