The bigger problem with the more bespoke emoji are that they don't have standard representations even if they have a standard code point. The images are different enough from my iPhone to my Girlfriends MotoX that its not really possible to use much outside the basic smiles and expect the other person to get the same idea. Is that a cake? or a birthday cake?
IANAL but I don't thing. "Then we sent it to *some people* at the FBI where they did *some stuff* to it and sent it back." will fly in most criminal cases.
Take healthcare, and the criteria for the perfect market :
Large number of buyers and sellers : will concede that this may be possible. Definitely large number of buyers.
There would be more sellers if the barriers to entry were lower. Many of those barriers are artificial.
Perfect information - only a small fraction of patients have the medical education required to make appropriate buying decisions
Does not matter, the information just has to be available, if people need help interpeting it there will be a market for that as well and providers. See examples like Angie's List.
Homogenous products - no way, medical care varies widely in quality because of human elements
Might be a problem, but the perfect information part should help control for services that are not what they appear to be. A diverse array of product offerings isn't a problem for a perfect market either.
No barriers to entry or exit - ginormous barriers, huge amounts of capital required, long training periods for staff, etc
Again artificial barriers created by government interference. There are lots of things only a doctor can currently do that a typical nurse would be more than capable of doing. We used to allow the town barber to operate. There isn't inherently anything wrong with that. Want better higher skilled care, pay for it.
Every participant is a price taker - again, untrue, e.g. pharmaceuticals which are monopoly products with set prices
Because of excessive extension to patent and other intellectual property laws. A purely government created problem if ever there was one. Perhaps these laws did encourage more aggressive spending and productivity in R&D. We can argue about the relative merit of that. I would argue that when 1/6th of your economy is the healthcare space you probably have a dangerous distortion. We invest to much as a society in healthcare. People live too long for our current level of wealth.
Perfect factor mobility - factors of production e.g. doctors are not mobile, need licenses to practice, etc
Again licensing is government interference in the market place, you can't blame the idea of lassie-fair capitalism for our societies failure in implementation of preservation of it.
Rational Buyers - no-one is rational about healthcare, because you will pay what you need to
This is a lie, I have know lots of people who forgo healthcare because they would rather allocate their personal wealth differently. A friend of mine could sink a few thousand dollars into a simple surgery that would eliminate his wrist pain, but he would rather drive a nice car. I could get my eyes done but I'd rather take a trip and just keep wearing my glasses. Many elderly people decide they would rather work on their bucket lists than pursue the most aggressive cancer treatments available. People are rational about most medical care.
No externalities - plenty of counter examples - e.g. prevention saves money in the long run, but private players not going to fund it
Again untrue, all those corporate wellness programs exist for a reason, lots of medical insurance policies do require a checkup at some frequency or did before the AFCA. If this is a problem its largely a failure of education ( an other government near monopoly ). Finally the whole private insurance mess is a result of government intervention in the labor markets with aggressive taxation. The idea of employer based medical benefits came about as a way to work around maximum wage laws and various forms of taxation.
The president needs for his job a big mama plain full of secrete service agents, weapons, long range fuel tanks, advisors, cabinet members, etc. So a 747 is fine with any sensible environment minded person in this specific case.
Yes he need to carry lots of people, he does not need all the amenities, I have seen lots of pictures that thing is a party barge. There would be room to efficiently pack a smaller plane, the VP traveled on a DC9 until quite recently.
Its not a ridiculous way of thinking. Concern is concern. Either we should be free to do whatever we like or if we have to give up freedom/natural rights we should do so as whole society where everyone sacrifices. Being a member of the political class isn't supposed to make you a special person in the USofA, this isn't soviet Russia and if the politicians want collective cooperation they should start leading by example. Obama and his family should be the FIRST to sacrifice their safety and comfort not the last, if he is going to push this agenda. Otherwise I'll have my wife and kids ridding around in the heaviest stolid steel safety frame I can afford thank you very much.
Well lets consider history for a moment. When the IPhone first came out there was no provision for third party native apps. The idea was it was all going to be essentially HTML5 + JS + [some custom Apple extensions]. Sure 'Apps' might run locally and be sourced from local storage but clearly the reason behind a design choice like that was to stage a move further in the direction this guys is proposing where apps are more cloud based. Guess what it turned out developers did not like and neither did consumers.
There was a lot to like about the iphone in terms of hardware compared to what came before. Honestly it survived on the strength if its large, easy to use touch screen. Had it not been for that it would have flopped hard and iPhone would not even be a thing today. Apple saw the problem though and quickly and correctly did an about face, allowing developers to deliver fast, high functioning ObjC apps.
This will be DOA because its not going to come with cool hardware we did not have before.
I simply wanted to get across the relationship between the test conditions and observed real world conditions don't have to track perfectly. Its very difficult to construct an accurate simulation of driving conditions in a lab, because there are so many inputs and variables.
Its important to capture the variables that have the greatest impact and control for those, in a test. Its also important to eliminate as many of the other variables as possible so you can measure incremental improvement and make comparisons accurately.
When the elites start leading by example I'll get on board not before. Until then it reeks of "some animals are a little more equal." I am solidly convinced that reducing carbon emissions globally would be a good thing. You don't even need to buy into climate change to accept that, after all it can't be good manipulate the carbon cycle in closed system upon which we all depend that we barely understand.
Its a simple fact that flying first or business class has a terribly higher carbon foot print. If Obama cares so much about climate change he would set an example the new airforce one would have been a 737ER with all coach seats! Set up that way there would be plenty of room for his entourage and the press core, it would just be way less comfortable. Ah but you see sacrifices are for the rest of us to make.
The part that is almost all of it before massive amounts of water were diverted there by man made projects, which had devastating ecological consequences for the places the water was redirected from.
The meaningful questions are does improvement on the lap test predict improvement under real word conditions?
It does not have to mirror real work conditions to be useful.
If the answer to the first question is yes does meeting the lab test standards mean a vehicle will have a meaningfully improved pollution profile as compared to if we did not bother setting standards and testing?
Again the point here is to reduce the output of harmful airborne pollutants. Are we doing that or not, is really all the matters. If the real world effect is.01% than we are wasting effort and resources if its %10 percent in the lab but %7 on the road its still probably a win. Again we need to compare with equipment in common use before standards were enacted.
Is there a more predictive test design that could be implemented?
Saddam was an enemy. We destroyed an enemy. Was it a good idea to not have a post invasion plan when we went in, no. We were getting things together there, they asked us to leave before they were ready. It was their fault.
I am not to sure about that. If they really dumped 750B in face value ( I am not sure the Saudis have the wherewithal to do that ) it might cause a depression. Consider that is most of fiscal years worth of bond sales. We know the government runs for ~5 months or so when the debt ceiling get bumped up against.
I think its fairy predictable what would happen. The money that wants US bonds would chase the Saudi assets being both discounted and having a nearer maturity date. If the Saudis are willing to keep selling as the price continues to drop than the Treasury's own sales will fail. At that point there are three possibilities:
1) The interest rate on offer would keep going up until buyers are found. Outcome, long term structural finance problems. All that business about you are okay until debt is %200 percent of GDP goes out the window. Taxes would have to go up, or budgets actually would have to be cut not just restricted from growth. At the same time commercial lending rates would rise, without bond rates to hold them down. Credit would seize, and we would likely see a repeat of '08 with regard to down stream effects. The government would not be in a position to do stimulus as before, austerity would be the only choice.
2) Bonds would have to be heavily discounted leading to needing to sell much more face value. The outcome would be hitting the debt ceiling much sooner than the pols anticipated. Leading to new fights. The downstream effects are less clear because we don't know how the fights would shake out or what the fiscal conservatives demand would be but they likely look a lot like option 1.
3) The fed starts making direct loans. With the prime rate still at near 0% and with little recourse toward raising that which the market will tolerate, its almost certain to be highly inflationary. We are still in a period of limited wage growth. It will be a nasty demand destroying squeeze on middle America. The outcome would probably be sending the auto industry back into the tank, given much of the hang over demand from the '08 - 10 years has been satisfied already. Retail would probably be not far behind in terms of suffering. Any of the (overstated) job growth gains we have seen will come to a screeching halt. Growing the number of the long term unemployed even more. Which will brings us back to long term structural problems.
This is the other of the I think two thing Trump has said that I kind of agree with. Team America World Police is a very very expensive proposition. Its a huge expenditure of our resources.
The counter argument is and will be that we get a great deal of influence and good will in exchange for that. Which I would agree has been true in the past, but that influence seems to be on the wane.
Trump has suggested we send some of our protection clients the bill and or negotiate (extort, I believe we should tell it like it is) some tit for tat. I think he might be right about that. I think it might be instructive for various groups around the world to see what happens when America pulls up the tent stakes and goes home. See what happens to the House of Saud when we leave. We should have let ISIS have Iraq, its not our fight anymore. We should have allowed that to be the lesson for everyone else in the region about what happens to you when we don't get the status of forces agreement we want.
Yes but the president has nearly unilateral power to declassify documents. There is a process but largely within the executive branch. Congress could take active steps to interfere, riders on bills that 'require documents to remain classified' they have not done that in this case and I am not aware of many others.
Call them obstructionist if you like but this is a case where Obama and his people actually clearly are allowed to act without resorting to any really imaginative interpretations of the law and they have not done. Obama is and has always been self interested liar, like a lot of them. People need to disabuse themselves of this notion that he is somehow different. Obama has been Bush Lite.
Millions of people drink instance coffee. Millions buy it pre-ground in large containers that take weeks or months to consume the contents of. That does not mean either of these practices is a good way to make a great cup of coffee it means people like things easy.
The K-cup is the ultimate level of lazy that still results in coffee slightly better than instant. For the most part the top draw K-cup stuff is inferior in terms of results to mid grade beans you grind at home. Anyone serious about coffee will agree with that. It easy easy though.
All that may be true but it does not alter the fact the government has had a great deal of new personal information placed in its hands thru operation of the exchanges and thru information sharing between insurers and the IRS.
While I think there are stronger criticisms to be made, the argument about information risk it poses is a perfectly valid one.
What time of do are you going to the theater that matters a lot? Matinee showings probably skew older. That isn't where they make their money though.
The real money for most theaters is actually in concessions which sell better at night. Certainly anytime I have gone to an evening show recently the audience has been mostly high school and college age people.
Remember those - the people who paid off their crippling student debts and have disposable income?
Here is a little demographic note for you:
Nielsen takes a look at annual moviegoer trends as awards season continues. According to Nielsen NRGâ(TM)s (National Research Groupâ(TM)s) 2012 American Moviegoing report, 70 percent of Americans ages 12 and older reported seeing one or more movies at a theater in the last 12 months, which is in line with moviegoing in the year prior. The demographic makeup of the moviegoing audience has remained relatively consistent over the last couple of years, but the proportion of younger moviegoers (12-24) and oldest moviegoers (65-74) has grown gradually at the expense of middle-aged moviegoers (25-54).
So the long store short is that, you are not growth portion of the market. middle aged people also don't have more disposable income than college kids. Probably because most them that have kids are using their disposable income to send them to either college or the movies:-P.
So even though you and I might not like it, business savvy theater owners will cater to their audience which happens to be 22 years who won't turn off their phones.
I have been waiting to hear a clear statement from CDC on this as well. Its highly relevant information for a lot of people considering traveling.
At least until the virus becomes more active in the Southern US, which it likely will anywhere. The carrier mosquito is present. Its also an STD but given how it presents no different than a cold in adults it would be pretty much impossible to try and prevent infected individuals form traveling here.
If the risk isn't mostly gone post removing from the infection, I would think it would demand a much more aggressive response in terms of pesticide use.
I am still waiting for some information on why the Zika virus causes these defects. So far all that has been established is that they are linked. That isn't good enough to prove a vaccine is even the correct answer. I am not virologist or a neuroscientist or immunologist, or even a medical professional. Still for all the information I have got on it could be that an elevated presence of Zika anti-bodies causes birth defects!
While a vaccine is 'likely' to be the right solution and therefore should be worked on its entirely possible that all the issues are actually auto-immune triggered by Zika. If that proved to be the case given Zika is harmless most of the time to adults, a vaccination campaign might be exactly the wrong public health move.
If you had been born with different genitals, but were 100% the same in every other aspect, do you think you'd identify with the gender that matches your sex?
Yes I do because I am not in the habit of trying to deny the reality of what I see before me or reflected in the mirror for that matter. Had I had the opposite genitals I would also assume from birth on I would have had very different experiences and developed very differently psychology as well as physically.
sex reassignment is hardly cosmetic surgery. It has major major impacts on the endocrine system and the rest of the body. We are not talking about a tummy tuck here. I would say its use in all but the rarest of cases such as intersex individuals and identified genetic abnormality the doctors who don't try everything else the can first are being incredibly irresponsible.
Even if true and that research show that to exist in a vanishing small part of even the population that say they are trans, it does not mean that sex ( we both used gender before, not the correct term ) reassignment is the only treatment that is effective just a treatment that is effective.
Where anyone other medical condition is concerned doctors generally resist the idea of removing healthy functioning organs. This has the appearance of being treated differently because 1) sex is involved, 2) its politicized.
This is what I was imagining the cell phone will send its location data as part of the application protocol somewhere. Sure you can get some location data from the phone number but my experience is like yours. If you go by the area code on my mobile you'll have me several states away.
Facebook and the sites that use this though don't want area code resolution data, they want street level anyway. Logon to facebook see ads for the restaurant down the block.
Slashdot Mirror
The bigger problem with the more bespoke emoji are that they don't have standard representations even if they have a standard code point. The images are different enough from my iPhone to my Girlfriends MotoX that its not really possible to use much outside the basic smiles and expect the other person to get the same idea. Is that a cake? or a birthday cake?
So its all kinda pointless.
Chain of custody probably.
IANAL but I don't thing. "Then we sent it to *some people* at the FBI where they did *some stuff* to it and sent it back." will fly in most criminal cases.
Well that isn't a problem in this case, they won't be taking a deceased perpetrator to court anyway.
Take healthcare, and the criteria for the perfect market :
Large number of buyers and sellers : will concede that this may be possible. Definitely large number of buyers.
There would be more sellers if the barriers to entry were lower. Many of those barriers are artificial.
Perfect information - only a small fraction of patients have the medical education required to make appropriate buying decisions
Does not matter, the information just has to be available, if people need help interpeting it there will be a market for that as well and providers. See examples like Angie's List.
Homogenous products - no way, medical care varies widely in quality because of human elements
Might be a problem, but the perfect information part should help control for services that are not what they appear to be. A diverse array of product offerings isn't a problem for a perfect market either.
No barriers to entry or exit - ginormous barriers, huge amounts of capital required, long training periods for staff, etc
Again artificial barriers created by government interference. There are lots of things only a doctor can currently do that a typical nurse would be more than capable of doing. We used to allow the town barber to operate. There isn't inherently anything wrong with that. Want better higher skilled care, pay for it.
Every participant is a price taker - again, untrue, e.g. pharmaceuticals which are monopoly products with set prices
Because of excessive extension to patent and other intellectual property laws. A purely government created problem if ever there was one. Perhaps these laws did encourage more aggressive spending and productivity in R&D. We can argue about the relative merit of that. I would argue that when 1/6th of your economy is the healthcare space you probably have a dangerous distortion. We invest to much as a society in healthcare. People live too long for our current level of wealth.
Perfect factor mobility - factors of production e.g. doctors are not mobile, need licenses to practice, etc
Again licensing is government interference in the market place, you can't blame the idea of lassie-fair capitalism for our societies failure in implementation of preservation of it.
Rational Buyers - no-one is rational about healthcare, because you will pay what you need to
This is a lie, I have know lots of people who forgo healthcare because they would rather allocate their personal wealth differently. A friend of mine could sink a few thousand dollars into a simple surgery that would eliminate his wrist pain, but he would rather drive a nice car. I could get my eyes done but I'd rather take a trip and just keep wearing my glasses. Many elderly people decide they would rather work on their bucket lists than pursue the most aggressive cancer treatments available. People are rational about most medical care.
No externalities - plenty of counter examples - e.g. prevention saves money in the long run, but private players not going to fund it
Again untrue, all those corporate wellness programs exist for a reason, lots of medical insurance policies do require a checkup at some frequency or did before the AFCA. If this is a problem its largely a failure of education ( an other government near monopoly ). Finally the whole private insurance mess is a result of government intervention in the labor markets with aggressive taxation. The idea of employer based medical benefits came about as a way to work around maximum wage laws and various forms of taxation.
The president needs for his job a big mama plain full of secrete service agents, weapons, long range fuel tanks, advisors, cabinet members, etc. So a 747 is fine with any sensible environment minded person in this specific case.
Yes he need to carry lots of people, he does not need all the amenities, I have seen lots of pictures that thing is a party barge. There would be room to efficiently pack a smaller plane, the VP traveled on a DC9 until quite recently.
Its not a ridiculous way of thinking. Concern is concern. Either we should be free to do whatever we like or if we have to give up freedom/natural rights we should do so as whole society where everyone sacrifices. Being a member of the political class isn't supposed to make you a special person in the USofA, this isn't soviet Russia and if the politicians want collective cooperation they should start leading by example. Obama and his family should be the FIRST to sacrifice their safety and comfort not the last, if he is going to push this agenda. Otherwise I'll have my wife and kids ridding around in the heaviest stolid steel safety frame I can afford thank you very much.
Well lets consider history for a moment. When the IPhone first came out there was no provision for third party native apps. The idea was it was all going to be essentially HTML5 + JS + [some custom Apple extensions]. Sure 'Apps' might run locally and be sourced from local storage but clearly the reason behind a design choice like that was to stage a move further in the direction this guys is proposing where apps are more cloud based. Guess what it turned out developers did not like and neither did consumers.
There was a lot to like about the iphone in terms of hardware compared to what came before. Honestly it survived on the strength if its large, easy to use touch screen. Had it not been for that it would have flopped hard and iPhone would not even be a thing today. Apple saw the problem though and quickly and correctly did an about face, allowing developers to deliver fast, high functioning ObjC apps.
This will be DOA because its not going to come with cool hardware we did not have before.
I simply wanted to get across the relationship between the test conditions and observed real world conditions don't have to track perfectly. Its very difficult to construct an accurate simulation of driving conditions in a lab, because there are so many inputs and variables.
Its important to capture the variables that have the greatest impact and control for those, in a test. Its also important to eliminate as many of the other variables as possible so you can measure incremental improvement and make comparisons accurately.
When the elites start leading by example I'll get on board not before. Until then it reeks of "some animals are a little more equal." I am solidly convinced that reducing carbon emissions globally would be a good thing. You don't even need to buy into climate change to accept that, after all it can't be good manipulate the carbon cycle in closed system upon which we all depend that we barely understand.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
Its a simple fact that flying first or business class has a terribly higher carbon foot print. If Obama cares so much about climate change he would set an example the new airforce one would have been a 737ER with all coach seats! Set up that way there would be plenty of room for his entourage and the press core, it would just be way less comfortable. Ah but you see sacrifices are for the rest of us to make.
The part that is almost all of it before massive amounts of water were diverted there by man made projects, which had devastating ecological consequences for the places the water was redirected from.
My reaction to this though is "so what?"
The meaningful questions are does improvement on the lap test predict improvement under real word conditions?
It does not have to mirror real work conditions to be useful.
If the answer to the first question is yes does meeting the lab test standards mean a vehicle will have a meaningfully improved pollution profile as compared to if we did not bother setting standards and testing?
Again the point here is to reduce the output of harmful airborne pollutants. Are we doing that or not, is really all the matters. If the real world effect is .01% than we are wasting effort and resources if its %10 percent in the lab but %7 on the road its still probably a win. Again we need to compare with equipment in common use before standards were enacted.
Is there a more predictive test design that could be implemented?
Read up on Traci Lords.
Saddam was an enemy. We destroyed an enemy. Was it a good idea to not have a post invasion plan when we went in, no. We were getting things together there, they asked us to leave before they were ready. It was their fault.
I am not to sure about that. If they really dumped 750B in face value ( I am not sure the Saudis have the wherewithal to do that ) it might cause a depression. Consider that is most of fiscal years worth of bond sales. We know the government runs for ~5 months or so when the debt ceiling get bumped up against.
I think its fairy predictable what would happen. The money that wants US bonds would chase the Saudi assets being both discounted and having a nearer maturity date. If the Saudis are willing to keep selling as the price continues to drop than the Treasury's own sales will fail. At that point there are three possibilities:
1) The interest rate on offer would keep going up until buyers are found. Outcome, long term structural finance problems. All that business about you are okay until debt is %200 percent of GDP goes out the window. Taxes would have to go up, or budgets actually would have to be cut not just restricted from growth. At the same time commercial lending rates would rise, without bond rates to hold them down. Credit would seize, and we would likely see a repeat of '08 with regard to down stream effects. The government would not be in a position to do stimulus as before, austerity would be the only choice.
2) Bonds would have to be heavily discounted leading to needing to sell much more face value. The outcome would be hitting the debt ceiling much sooner than the pols anticipated. Leading to new fights. The downstream effects are less clear because we don't know how the fights would shake out or what the fiscal conservatives demand would be but they likely look a lot like option 1.
3) The fed starts making direct loans. With the prime rate still at near 0% and with little recourse toward raising that which the market will tolerate, its almost certain to be highly inflationary. We are still in a period of limited wage growth. It will be a nasty demand destroying squeeze on middle America. The outcome would probably be sending the auto industry back into the tank, given much of the hang over demand from the '08 - 10 years has been satisfied already. Retail would probably be not far behind in terms of suffering. Any of the (overstated) job growth gains we have seen will come to a screeching halt. Growing the number of the long term unemployed even more. Which will brings us back to long term structural problems.
This is the other of the I think two thing Trump has said that I kind of agree with. Team America World Police is a very very expensive proposition. Its a huge expenditure of our resources.
The counter argument is and will be that we get a great deal of influence and good will in exchange for that. Which I would agree has been true in the past, but that influence seems to be on the wane.
Trump has suggested we send some of our protection clients the bill and or negotiate (extort, I believe we should tell it like it is) some tit for tat. I think he might be right about that. I think it might be instructive for various groups around the world to see what happens when America pulls up the tent stakes and goes home. See what happens to the House of Saud when we leave. We should have let ISIS have Iraq, its not our fight anymore. We should have allowed that to be the lesson for everyone else in the region about what happens to you when we don't get the status of forces agreement we want.
Yes but the president has nearly unilateral power to declassify documents. There is a process but largely within the executive branch. Congress could take active steps to interfere, riders on bills that 'require documents to remain classified' they have not done that in this case and I am not aware of many others.
Call them obstructionist if you like but this is a case where Obama and his people actually clearly are allowed to act without resorting to any really imaginative interpretations of the law and they have not done. Obama is and has always been self interested liar, like a lot of them. People need to disabuse themselves of this notion that he is somehow different. Obama has been Bush Lite.
Millions of people drink instance coffee. Millions buy it pre-ground in large containers that take weeks or months to consume the contents of. That does not mean either of these practices is a good way to make a great cup of coffee it means people like things easy.
The K-cup is the ultimate level of lazy that still results in coffee slightly better than instant. For the most part the top draw K-cup stuff is inferior in terms of results to mid grade beans you grind at home. Anyone serious about coffee will agree with that. It easy easy though.
All that may be true but it does not alter the fact the government has had a great deal of new personal information placed in its hands thru operation of the exchanges and thru information sharing between insurers and the IRS.
While I think there are stronger criticisms to be made, the argument about information risk it poses is a perfectly valid one.
What time of do are you going to the theater that matters a lot? Matinee showings probably skew older. That isn't where they make their money though.
The real money for most theaters is actually in concessions which sell better at night. Certainly anytime I have gone to an evening show recently the audience has been mostly high school and college age people.
Remember those - the people who paid off their crippling student debts and have disposable income?
Here is a little demographic note for you:
So the long store short is that, you are not growth portion of the market. middle aged people also don't have more disposable income than college kids. Probably because most them that have kids are using their disposable income to send them to either college or the movies :-P.
So even though you and I might not like it, business savvy theater owners will cater to their audience which happens to be 22 years who won't turn off their phones.
Replying to my own post!
They have updated the page.
http://www.cdc.gov/zika/pregna...
According to the last Q:A after the virus has cleared from the blood you appear to not be at elevated risk for birth defects.
I have been waiting to hear a clear statement from CDC on this as well. Its highly relevant information for a lot of people considering traveling.
At least until the virus becomes more active in the Southern US, which it likely will anywhere. The carrier mosquito is present. Its also an STD but given how it presents no different than a cold in adults it would be pretty much impossible to try and prevent infected individuals form traveling here.
If the risk isn't mostly gone post removing from the infection, I would think it would demand a much more aggressive response in terms of pesticide use.
I am still waiting for some information on why the Zika virus causes these defects. So far all that has been established is that they are linked. That isn't good enough to prove a vaccine is even the correct answer. I am not virologist or a neuroscientist or immunologist, or even a medical professional. Still for all the information I have got on it could be that an elevated presence of Zika anti-bodies causes birth defects!
While a vaccine is 'likely' to be the right solution and therefore should be worked on its entirely possible that all the issues are actually auto-immune triggered by Zika. If that proved to be the case given Zika is harmless most of the time to adults, a vaccination campaign might be exactly the wrong public health move.
Caution is needed here.
If you had been born with different genitals, but were 100% the same in every other aspect, do you think you'd identify with the gender that matches your sex?
Yes I do because I am not in the habit of trying to deny the reality of what I see before me or reflected in the mirror for that matter. Had I had the opposite genitals I would also assume from birth on I would have had very different experiences and developed very differently psychology as well as physically.
sex reassignment is hardly cosmetic surgery. It has major major impacts on the endocrine system and the rest of the body. We are not talking about a tummy tuck here. I would say its use in all but the rarest of cases such as intersex individuals and identified genetic abnormality the doctors who don't try everything else the can first are being incredibly irresponsible.
Even if true and that research show that to exist in a vanishing small part of even the population that say they are trans, it does not mean that sex ( we both used gender before, not the correct term ) reassignment is the only treatment that is effective just a treatment that is effective.
Where anyone other medical condition is concerned doctors generally resist the idea of removing healthy functioning organs. This has the appearance of being treated differently because 1) sex is involved, 2) its politicized.
This is what I was imagining the cell phone will send its location data as part of the application protocol somewhere. Sure you can get some location data from the phone number but my experience is like yours. If you go by the area code on my mobile you'll have me several states away.
Facebook and the sites that use this though don't want area code resolution data, they want street level anyway. Logon to facebook see ads for the restaurant down the block.