It's not as easy to sneak onto a military base (where, you know, base housing is located) as the TV/movies would have you believe. You do know that, right?
Grandparents included, I bet they don't all live on base. Aunts, uncles, cousins, nephews etc, you can't keep them all under armed guard all the time. Any relatives who live overseas get big giant targets painted on them. Oh and this info was all recently leaked. It shouldn't be too hard to find them.
Its ugly but thats how you have to fight against an opponent who acts like this. Its basic Sun Tzu; in response to an enemy who takes shelter in an impregnable position you attack something (outside of that position) they MUST defend.
Drone pilots are actually burning out due to extreme crisis of conscious issues. They work 9-5 killing people, then go home to their families; they're not living in a constructed fantasy of good versus evil fueled by the fact that other people are living in the same fantasy and mutually trying to kill you under the impression that you're the invader. They see themselves as terrible assassins, not righteous heroes fighting a murderous enemy.
Well good then because they are terrible assassins.
Drone pilots don't seem to have much of a conscience either. They are far removed from the action, the consequences, less involved.
If I were up against drones my first response would be infiltrators who would target the drone pilots families, the shops they go to, the people they owe money to, people who owe them money etc etc. Go Kaiser Sose on them. If they want to hide behind drones let them face the consequences.
If there are 4 of you, then there is no reason that one of you can't take a photo of the other 3, and for the all of you photo, call a bystander. This is if y'all are outdoors, maybe touring some place. If you are indoors, it's not all that difficult to set up the timer mode on the camera, and in 10 seconds, get the shot of all of you.
The only people for whom they're really useful is a single person, or a single person and his/her kid, w/ the kid too young to take a pic. But even then, using the timer mode, or holding it at arms length makes it easy, particularly since you can see how you look before clicking!
2 plus a baby, can we please use a selfie stick without being labelled narcissistic?
I think Disney will clarify their statement -- "You can still use a selfie stick, as long as it's bought from a country overseas at a cheaper price."
I was thinking more -- "You can still use a selfie stick as long as its a Disney branded one that you bought inside the theme park (at outrageously inflated prices)."
Selfie sticks are, at best, narcissistic nonsense, but the person who whipped one out on a rollercoaster was risking injury to himself and his fellow riders. How much of a grip can you have on a stick with a weight on the end while hurtling through twists and turns? And if you lose your grip, the best case scenario is that your phone falls and shatters below. Worst case scenario is it hits into someone and injures them. All because he "needed" to get a photo of himself.
Great work on Disney's part shuttig down the ride until that selfie stick was confiscated.
Selfie sticks are not always narcissistic nonsense. My mum loves to get photos of my wife our child and myself. Its not always practical to get some third person to take a photo of us as a group. Thats where the selfie stick comes in.
Half the world is intent on making rules for everything, just because "there ought to be a law" against anything remotely risky or unpleasant. And the other half lashes out by ignoring those rules an doing what the hell they want.
They are a global taxi service with centralized command and control. A taxi service which does not want to be treated as a taxi service. The only difference is they use a smart phone app as a dispatcher.
They lie about what they are and elicit sympathy for the 'little guy' to rip off the little guy. I will use the independents instead, thank you.
The only place I've known that has independent taxi drivers is Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia where literally anyone at any time can decide to be a taxi on the spot and pick someone up.
Is that what you mean by 'independents' or do you really mean 'taxi drivers who work for entrenched licence holders'?
If cisco didn't use interns and cheap H1B labor, maybe this wouldn't happen. Seriously, they need some experience, security minded people to manage and review these products before they ship.
If you think this is bad, try looking at the cisco ACE load balancers. They can't even do modern crypto and they refuse to update them.
Are you kidding? This was done for support reasons; to support the NSA.
Well that's exactly it. Isn't the argument that a person may feel as though their brain is a particular gender, and that the physical characteristics of their body represent the opposite gender. I can imagine, being quite comfortable with my own gender, that this would be something of a nightmare.
You're right, they cannot change their gender, for that is seated in their brain. And so they're changing their body, which certainly can be modified, to match.
Why is this a bad thing, if we accept the initial argument?
If their 'brain feels' a particular gender different from that of their body then isn't that by definition a delusion?
Gender isn't like ethnicity, where its driven by self identification. Its more like species.
Theres a similar continuity of species where membership of a species isn't black and white, much like I posit for gender. However, the point where an individual is on that continuum isn't something they can change by wearing different clothes or getting cosmetic surgery. Same with race.
Suppose I was part Asian, say my great grandfather was Asian, but the rest of my ancestors were European. So on the continuum of race I'm way over the European side but not all the way. But I 'feel like my brain is Asian'. To look at me you would think I was European. This makes me uncomfortable; I want people to look at me and think I'm the race that I 'feel in my brain'. So I get cosmetic surgery to make me look Asian such that if you were to look at me you'd go "Oh an Asian guy". But that wouldn't make me Asian, would it?
I have no problem with such a person, or a 'transgender' person, wanting to get cosmetic surgery to feel more comfortable in their body. I just hope it works out and they don't feel like a disgusting mess afterward and kill themselves because they can't really get their penis reconstructed.
Where I draw the line is the distortion of the concept of gender or race so that it becomes like something you can 'dress up like' and change. I think that this is where 'sex change' or 'gender reassignment' surgery is being misrepresented to the people to whom it is being offered. Its a fraud.
They feel pressured by society into making a choice, that they have to throw themselves completely into trying to be male XOR female. They can't be allowed to be a bit of both.
Sure. There are people like that, and no-one rational should prevent them from living their lives as they see fit. If someone wants to be a little bit girl and a little bit boy, then more power to them.
But that's not everyone is it? The fact is that there are people who feel trapped in the wrong-gendered body, and wish to change it. It's their body, and they should be free to modify it how they please. I don't believe that this is always the result of black-and-white girl-or-boy false dichotomies (if that's what they are, you get the idea). After all, gender modification is a serious undertaking, and takes years of surgery and medication. You're saying that everyone that undergoes that process is delusional, and should be happy with the bits that god gave them?
But the truth is that they can't change it. There is no way to change their gender. What they are being offered is cosmetic surgery to give the *appearance* of the other gender.
What's illegal about protesting illegal government actions? Uber is ILLEGAL in France but they continue to operate! Do you understand the concept of "protest"? The idle rich like you are SUPPOSED to be inconvenienced, it is the INTENTION that you get annoyed.
Wait, its legal for a mob to block public roads in France?
Does this mean that Oracle will be producing a Java plugin thats compatible with Chrome???
Aside from the issues of self-signed certificates and strict requirements on whitelisting this might actually make it possible for me to use Chrome to do my job (which involves connecting to remote KVM/iDRAC/ILO systems which require a Java client).
Otherwise, yeah no way Oracle, no one is going to install Java any more if they are using Chrome and don't really REALLY need Java (in which case they'll use a different browser).
In other words, if Oracle doesn't produce a non-NPAPI plugin, then client side Java will be in the wastebasket of history soon; its only a matter of time before its no longer supported in other browsers than Chrome.
The problem we are running into, what I'm calling a delusion, is caused not so much by the people who are going through that delusional process but by something in Western culture.
Western culture has a very black and white view of things, theres an insistence on things being one or the other, nothing in between.
So we have men growing up feeling not quite male yet not being female. They feel pressured by society into making a choice, that they have to throw themselves completely into trying to be male XOR female. They can't be allowed to be a bit of both.
So they go into this delusional state where they acquire this earnest belief that, with cosmetic surgery and hormones they can somehow transform themselves into the other gender.
There are other cultures which don't enforce this black or white approach to gender. Have a look at how things play out in these cultures for people growing up like this. It generally works out a lot better.
In some ways race might be playing out the same way in Western culture, where people must be either black or white or hispanic or asian. Yet there are people growing up who feel neither or a bit of both. Can these people become 'transracial' and get cosmetic surgery to choose a race? Or would it be better for their mental health for them to be allowed to be in between?
Also theres money to be made from delusional wackos, like the transgenders who'll pay for cosmetic surgery to help back up their delusion.
I'm not transgender, nor do I personally know any TG people so take my opinion with the grain of salt it deserves.
My thinking is that someone opting for gender-reassignment surgery is quite committed to living their lives as the gender they feel they really are. It's not a fad or a phase: they've likely lived a good portion of their adult lives in this manner. I imagine they hold their new gender in the same esteem as non-TG people hold their from-birth gender. With this in mind, is 'delusional' really the right word for a person in this mindset?
I can only imagine how horrible it might be to feel oneself to be in the wrong body. I'm a firm believer in Live And Let Live as a life philosophy and feel a little compassion might not go astray for an otherwise-normal person struggling with a serious personal situation. Labelling them as 'delusional' is about as fair as saying the same thing about homosexual people.
Except most of them end up trying to revert and/or killing themselves.
If I believed I was Napoleon do you think there'd be support for me getting cosmetic surgery to look more like the historical Napoleon or do you think people would call me delusional?
If I believed I was a tall black man and got cosmetic surgery to make me look like a tall black man, do you think I'd be good at basketball?
No.
Homosexuals are generally different; a gay man typically doesn't have the delusion that they are a woman.
I've had zero cosmetic surgery, but if you saw me, you'd think I was a "real" woman (whatever that means). As in, you'd hit on me, then piss your pants when you saw the M on my driver's license and blame your misconception that I was a "real" woman on me instead of your own stupidity. This even happens to me when I'm clearly dressed as a boy and making zero effort to "pass!" See also Pandora Boxx and Ru Paul, two cisgendered, heterosexual men who are famous for their drag performances. To the best of my knowledge, no surgery, no HRT. You've got me with Harisoo, but she was already in unicorn territory in the hot-crazy matrix before surgery just like yours truly.
Also, unlike these EM wackos, there is emerging evidence that men and women are different. Let me clarify since I assume you already knew that, but were too stupid to think critically about it. Evidence is slow to come, but apparently the brain is a gendered organ. If you're going to tell me that intersexed people don't exist, and that a person's mental gender couldn't possibly not match their legal gender, and that gender is this holy immutable always-matching thing, you're just as wacko as an EM wacko.
-- kurenai.tsubasa (why the fuck am I still coming here? don't worry, not clicking the SJW bait article about how American Women (AWs if you will) are too stupid to download a compiler after school, because EM wackos amuse me, while SJW/3rd wave feminist/gender lunatics make me want to puke)
Still delusional. Your appearance doesn't change that.
I'm trying to calculate just how much cheap moonshine you have to drink until a prompt where the computer asks if you want to reboot now, or not counts as "the OS decided to reboot all on its own".
Microsoft update WILL reboot on its own. It'll pester you for a few days then it literally reboots your computer without giving you a choice.
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I can't think of a greater coward in military service than a drone pilot. Except maybe an ICBM crew.
It's not as easy to sneak onto a military base (where, you know, base housing is located) as the TV/movies would have you believe. You do know that, right?
Grandparents included, I bet they don't all live on base. Aunts, uncles, cousins, nephews etc, you can't keep them all under armed guard all the time. Any relatives who live overseas get big giant targets painted on them. Oh and this info was all recently leaked. It shouldn't be too hard to find them.
Its ugly but thats how you have to fight against an opponent who acts like this. Its basic Sun Tzu; in response to an enemy who takes shelter in an impregnable position you attack something (outside of that position) they MUST defend.
Drone pilots are actually burning out due to extreme crisis of conscious issues. They work 9-5 killing people, then go home to their families; they're not living in a constructed fantasy of good versus evil fueled by the fact that other people are living in the same fantasy and mutually trying to kill you under the impression that you're the invader. They see themselves as terrible assassins, not righteous heroes fighting a murderous enemy.
Well good then because they are terrible assassins.
Drones with weapons aren't autonomous.
Drone pilots don't seem to have much of a conscience either. They are far removed from the action, the consequences, less involved.
If I were up against drones my first response would be infiltrators who would target the drone pilots families, the shops they go to, the people they owe money to, people who owe them money etc etc. Go Kaiser Sose on them. If they want to hide behind drones let them face the consequences.
Never heard of timers?
and carry a tripod?
oh so a tripod is less narcissistic than a monopod?
Your mom, your wife, your baby and you. Makes it 4, of which one of you can't take photos.
You aren't getting it. My mom is in another country, she hasn't met the baby and wants photos of us all as a group. Its nice for her. Understand now?
Not everyone who uses a selfie stick is using it to just get a narcissistic photo of *themselves*.
Yeah because you're always taking photos in secluded spots with no one around.....
Yes most of the time actually
If there are 4 of you, then there is no reason that one of you can't take a photo of the other 3, and for the all of you photo, call a bystander. This is if y'all are outdoors, maybe touring some place. If you are indoors, it's not all that difficult to set up the timer mode on the camera, and in 10 seconds, get the shot of all of you.
The only people for whom they're really useful is a single person, or a single person and his/her kid, w/ the kid too young to take a pic. But even then, using the timer mode, or holding it at arms length makes it easy, particularly since you can see how you look before clicking!
2 plus a baby, can we please use a selfie stick without being labelled narcissistic?
I think Disney will clarify their statement -- "You can still use a selfie stick, as long as it's bought from a country overseas at a cheaper price."
I was thinking more -- "You can still use a selfie stick as long as its a Disney branded one that you bought inside the theme park (at outrageously inflated prices)."
Selfie sticks are, at best, narcissistic nonsense, but the person who whipped one out on a rollercoaster was risking injury to himself and his fellow riders. How much of a grip can you have on a stick with a weight on the end while hurtling through twists and turns? And if you lose your grip, the best case scenario is that your phone falls and shatters below. Worst case scenario is it hits into someone and injures them. All because he "needed" to get a photo of himself.
Great work on Disney's part shuttig down the ride until that selfie stick was confiscated.
Selfie sticks are not always narcissistic nonsense. My mum loves to get photos of my wife our child and myself. Its not always practical to get some third person to take a photo of us as a group. Thats where the selfie stick comes in.
Half the world is intent on making rules for everything, just because "there ought to be a law" against anything remotely risky or unpleasant. And the other half lashes out by ignoring those rules an doing what the hell they want.
Everything not forbidden is compulsory!!
Congratulation, you just created a police state, where we have to put enforcement on every fucking thing because we can't expect people to be civil.
Welcome to the UK!
They are a global taxi service with centralized command and control. A taxi service which does not want to be treated as a taxi service. The only difference is they use a smart phone app as a dispatcher.
They lie about what they are and elicit sympathy for the 'little guy' to rip off the little guy. I will use the independents instead, thank you.
The only place I've known that has independent taxi drivers is Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia where literally anyone at any time can decide to be a taxi on the spot and pick someone up.
Is that what you mean by 'independents' or do you really mean 'taxi drivers who work for entrenched licence holders'?
Yeah, that's it, NSA wanted Cisco to do something so stupid it would take the Chinese 2 minutes to figure out how holey their boxes are.
I don't get the impression that the NSA really think things like this through to that extent.
If cisco didn't use interns and cheap H1B labor, maybe this wouldn't happen. Seriously, they need some experience, security minded people to manage and review these products before they ship.
If you think this is bad, try looking at the cisco ACE load balancers. They can't even do modern crypto and they refuse to update them.
Are you kidding? This was done for support reasons; to support the NSA.
Well that's exactly it. Isn't the argument that a person may feel as though their brain is a particular gender, and that the physical characteristics of their body represent the opposite gender. I can imagine, being quite comfortable with my own gender, that this would be something of a nightmare.
You're right, they cannot change their gender, for that is seated in their brain. And so they're changing their body, which certainly can be modified, to match.
Why is this a bad thing, if we accept the initial argument?
If their 'brain feels' a particular gender different from that of their body then isn't that by definition a delusion?
Gender isn't like ethnicity, where its driven by self identification. Its more like species.
Theres a similar continuity of species where membership of a species isn't black and white, much like I posit for gender. However, the point where an individual is on that continuum isn't something they can change by wearing different clothes or getting cosmetic surgery. Same with race.
Suppose I was part Asian, say my great grandfather was Asian, but the rest of my ancestors were European. So on the continuum of race I'm way over the European side but not all the way. But I 'feel like my brain is Asian'. To look at me you would think I was European. This makes me uncomfortable; I want people to look at me and think I'm the race that I 'feel in my brain'. So I get cosmetic surgery to make me look Asian such that if you were to look at me you'd go "Oh an Asian guy". But that wouldn't make me Asian, would it?
I have no problem with such a person, or a 'transgender' person, wanting to get cosmetic surgery to feel more comfortable in their body. I just hope it works out and they don't feel like a disgusting mess afterward and kill themselves because they can't really get their penis reconstructed.
Where I draw the line is the distortion of the concept of gender or race so that it becomes like something you can 'dress up like' and change. I think that this is where 'sex change' or 'gender reassignment' surgery is being misrepresented to the people to whom it is being offered. Its a fraud.
They feel pressured by society into making a choice, that they have to throw themselves completely into trying to be male XOR female. They can't be allowed to be a bit of both.
Sure. There are people like that, and no-one rational should prevent them from living their lives as they see fit. If someone wants to be a little bit girl and a little bit boy, then more power to them.
But that's not everyone is it? The fact is that there are people who feel trapped in the wrong-gendered body, and wish to change it. It's their body, and they should be free to modify it how they please. I don't believe that this is always the result of black-and-white girl-or-boy false dichotomies (if that's what they are, you get the idea). After all, gender modification is a serious undertaking, and takes years of surgery and medication. You're saying that everyone that undergoes that process is delusional, and should be happy with the bits that god gave them?
But the truth is that they can't change it. There is no way to change their gender. What they are being offered is cosmetic surgery to give the *appearance* of the other gender.
Cosmetic surgery cannot alter gender.
What's illegal about protesting illegal government actions? Uber is ILLEGAL in France but they continue to operate! Do you understand the concept of "protest"? The idle rich like you are SUPPOSED to be inconvenienced, it is the INTENTION that you get annoyed.
Wait, its legal for a mob to block public roads in France?
Does this mean that Oracle will be producing a Java plugin thats compatible with Chrome???
Aside from the issues of self-signed certificates and strict requirements on whitelisting this might actually make it possible for me to use Chrome to do my job (which involves connecting to remote KVM/iDRAC/ILO systems which require a Java client).
Otherwise, yeah no way Oracle, no one is going to install Java any more if they are using Chrome and don't really REALLY need Java (in which case they'll use a different browser).
In other words, if Oracle doesn't produce a non-NPAPI plugin, then client side Java will be in the wastebasket of history soon; its only a matter of time before its no longer supported in other browsers than Chrome.
The problem we are running into, what I'm calling a delusion, is caused not so much by the people who are going through that delusional process but by something in Western culture.
Western culture has a very black and white view of things, theres an insistence on things being one or the other, nothing in between.
So we have men growing up feeling not quite male yet not being female. They feel pressured by society into making a choice, that they have to throw themselves completely into trying to be male XOR female. They can't be allowed to be a bit of both.
So they go into this delusional state where they acquire this earnest belief that, with cosmetic surgery and hormones they can somehow transform themselves into the other gender.
There are other cultures which don't enforce this black or white approach to gender. Have a look at how things play out in these cultures for people growing up like this. It generally works out a lot better.
In some ways race might be playing out the same way in Western culture, where people must be either black or white or hispanic or asian. Yet there are people growing up who feel neither or a bit of both. Can these people become 'transracial' and get cosmetic surgery to choose a race? Or would it be better for their mental health for them to be allowed to be in between?
Also theres money to be made from delusional wackos, like the transgenders who'll pay for cosmetic surgery to help back up their delusion.
I'm not transgender, nor do I personally know any TG people so take my opinion with the grain of salt it deserves.
My thinking is that someone opting for gender-reassignment surgery is quite committed to living their lives as the gender they feel they really are. It's not a fad or a phase: they've likely lived a good portion of their adult lives in this manner. I imagine they hold their new gender in the same esteem as non-TG people hold their from-birth gender. With this in mind, is 'delusional' really the right word for a person in this mindset?
I can only imagine how horrible it might be to feel oneself to be in the wrong body. I'm a firm believer in Live And Let Live as a life philosophy and feel a little compassion might not go astray for an otherwise-normal person struggling with a serious personal situation. Labelling them as 'delusional' is about as fair as saying the same thing about homosexual people.
Except most of them end up trying to revert and/or killing themselves.
If I believed I was Napoleon do you think there'd be support for me getting cosmetic surgery to look more like the historical Napoleon or do you think people would call me delusional?
If I believed I was a tall black man and got cosmetic surgery to make me look like a tall black man, do you think I'd be good at basketball?
No.
Homosexuals are generally different; a gay man typically doesn't have the delusion that they are a woman.
I've had zero cosmetic surgery, but if you saw me, you'd think I was a "real" woman (whatever that means). As in, you'd hit on me, then piss your pants when you saw the M on my driver's license and blame your misconception that I was a "real" woman on me instead of your own stupidity. This even happens to me when I'm clearly dressed as a boy and making zero effort to "pass!" See also Pandora Boxx and Ru Paul, two cisgendered, heterosexual men who are famous for their drag performances. To the best of my knowledge, no surgery, no HRT. You've got me with Harisoo, but she was already in unicorn territory in the hot-crazy matrix before surgery just like yours truly.
Also, unlike these EM wackos, there is emerging evidence that men and women are different. Let me clarify since I assume you already knew that, but were too stupid to think critically about it. Evidence is slow to come, but apparently the brain is a gendered organ. If you're going to tell me that intersexed people don't exist, and that a person's mental gender couldn't possibly not match their legal gender, and that gender is this holy immutable always-matching thing, you're just as wacko as an EM wacko.
-- kurenai.tsubasa (why the fuck am I still coming here? don't worry, not clicking the SJW bait article about how American Women (AWs if you will) are too stupid to download a compiler after school, because EM wackos amuse me, while SJW/3rd wave feminist/gender lunatics make me want to puke)
Still delusional. Your appearance doesn't change that.
I'm trying to calculate just how much cheap moonshine you have to drink until a prompt where the computer asks if you want to reboot now, or not counts as "the OS decided to reboot all on its own".
Microsoft update WILL reboot on its own. It'll pester you for a few days then it literally reboots your computer without giving you a choice.
Enabling automatic updates is a greater security threat than not updating your OS at all.
The risk of data loss due to sudden unwanted restarts is far greater and more real than having an OS that is 2 days out of date
Strictly speaking risk of data loss due ti restarts is not itself a security threat.
Because mental disorders are taboo and nobody dares messing with those wackos.
Also theres money to be made from delusional wackos, like the transgenders who'll pay for cosmetic surgery to help back up their delusion.