Ok, Wells Fargo made an error. But it was the police who arrested the guy, instead of just knocking on the door at an appropriate time, and asking some questions.
What on earth was their justification for making an arrest first? Was he considered a flight risk?
There's a couple genes that cause childhood leukemia and if that can be edited out go for it.
You don't need gene editing for that, just embryonic screening, which is much easier. Gene editing is for adding new gene variants. It could be the great equaliser, allowing everyone to have smart, healthy babies. No longer will your children's achievement be limited by the quality of your own genes. This could be good, or lead to the collapse of civilisation.
Today's chicken, like most other industrially raised foods has LOST pretty much all flavor.
Then you are cooking it wrong. I do see in my supermarket, enormous lean chick breasts sold without even skin. So dry and flavourless. People must think it is "healthy". But cook a whole chicken well, or thighs with skin and bone, and they are so tasty. You need the fat, and the flavour from around the bones and connective tissue. Mmmm...
re the "hacked terminal" MITM, they could put an LCD display on the card so you can check the amount before authorising, but lets face it, nobody will bother reading.
This is just putting off the inevitable: a chip embedded *in* your hand. Its simple for the chip to detect if it has been removed from the person, but I'd really like to see some sensors so it knows when you are asleep (like fitness bands do).
simply walk down the high street with a terminal in a bag and wave it at people's pockets collecting hundreds of contactless payments.
Children went to school in pitch darkness and bitter cold, and people drove to work in the dark.
This makes no sense since DST does not apply in winter. Are you being sarcastic? Is DST somehow shifting the tilt of the earth's axis? You don't want to commute in darkness? Then move to a lower latitude. I lived in a far-north country once, and know how much long winter nights suck. A 1-hour shift in winter clock setting would only solve that problem for a narrow band of latitude anyway. Or get your local school system to adapt. How can you blame a summertime clock shift?
"Identifying" is the the same as believing. It is about powerful feelings that sometimes don't go away, even with therapy. Not all trans go for that PC "man trapped in a woman's body".
Take Catherine McGregor for example. Very sporty, ex-army, not especially effeminate, but always had a problem with gender identity. Saw psychiatrists. Very intelligent, articulate, and down to earth. I've not heard her describe herself as a "woman", always a "trans-woman". She is under no delusions. Jokes about her Adams apple.
This of course is very different to the hysterical sudden-late-onset gender dysphoria that seems to be plaguing alienated young adults on liberal arts campuses across America.
It is easy to be an arse on the internet, but think about it. In real life, if you meet a "man in a dress" - say a clerk in the post office - are you really going to abuse them and insist on calling them a man to the other staff? I mean WTF dude, however deluded you may think they are, that just ain't cool. Let live a little?
Gender self-identification, unlike say racial or political identity, has a genuine, well-documented biological basis
Does it? What's the biological basis?
You can see it in early childhood development. Children strongly identify as boy or girl, even before they really know what the difference is. And not because adults tell them. It is hard-wired.
Evolution has driven us to identify by sex, and adopt gendered roles in society. The modern idea of gender equality - all roles in society filled by both sexes - is going against millions of years of evolution.
I am not saying there is a "biological basis" to sudden late-onset gender dysphoria. We have a lot to learn in that area.
Not a She. His XY Chromosomes says he's a male. That is how science classifies him.
Actually not quite. Classification is based on external appearance at birth, which is determined by the effect of androgens during pregnancy. Even if a baby is known to be XY, phenotype trumps genotype.
Though somehow nowadays, we have people denying any biological basis to gender differences, and claiming things like occupation preference and aggression are purely cultural. So the logical conclusion is that you can be whatever sex you want.
This makes perfect sense if you believe sex is a social construct:-)
S/He could call themselves the Queen of England
NOT the same. Gender self-identification, unlike say racial or political identity, has a genuine, well-documented biological basis. Gender dysphoria in young children is a real thing, but usually resolves itself. In some cases it does not, and many people feel the best path is to live as the other sex.
Yes, a "she". It is a courtesy, like when people call you "sir" even though you are not of noble birth.
If she wants to join the soccer team, or get a female-only scholarship, then you complain about her not being a real woman. But if somebody wants to be addressed as a woman, its not that hard. For better or worse, it is a social norm.
Many banks require that you keep a minimum amount of cash
Many, or all? Don't you have free online banks?
We used to have ATM fees in Australia, but easily avoided by getting cash out with EFTPOS, e.g. with grocery shopping.
You can dispute fraudulent charges on a credit card, but many banks will not allow that on a debit card; that means that if somebody steals your debit card and uses it before you can cancel it, you've lost all of your money.
WTF!? That is bad. I know banks are evil, but don't you have any sort of regulation and consumer protection in the US?
What about PIN protection? Surely not still using signatures or magnetic stripes?
Here, no PIN is needed for contactless transactions below $100, but the banks had to agree to take the risk for that before it was allowed.
but good luck finding a bank for which none of those apply and it's located somewhere remotely close to you.
Not even a national online bank? Mine has no physical branches anywhere.
I understand lack of access to credit, and cost of prepaid, but what is the problem with debit cards attached to savings account? Do poor people not have savings accounts in the US?
In other countries, you need a savings account even to receive welfare payments, and there are zero-cost options, even though banks are hardly known for generosity. Cheques have faded into history like the fax machine and 1 cent coins.
That's a big part. If a road is not fenced to keep animals out, I consider it unsafe at those speeds! At dusk or night, much less. You may be a little more Mad Max in your level of acceptable risk.
Do you think the average person considers tyre speed rating?
The engineers do, so the first set of tyres at least. I needed a new set of low-profile tyres for a "sporty" car, and one shop tried to sell me some extremely expensive ones, because that is what the law demanded. The tyres I bought later for half the price, were technically illegal because rated only for 210km/hr instead of 240, or something like that. I doubt I ever exceeded 160. (overtaking road trains.)
The popular Ford Falcon in Australia was limited to 180km/hr also, as an easy "fix" to a tailshaft problem. (rear-wheel-drive 4-litre engine)
Of course, nobody cared, as there are no roads in Australia capable of that speed, even if you could afford the fuel bills. ] It saves money on tyres too, as they don't need to be rated as high.
The effects of increase of CO2 are also not uniform. That doesn't make removing CO2 any less important,
No kidding. Read it again: I said "counter". The point is that it is much better to not emit in the first place, than to try cooling by other means to offset.
for the thing that needs to be done - which is actually reducing the CO2 output.
Why? Because it will not address the issue, and will add further stress to the biosphere,
Nope. There is no evidence of any other ill effects of CO2 emission than increased greenhouse effect. The problem is that any effort to counter the CO2 greenhouse increase is not going to cancel it out evenly across the globe, and across the seasons. So while global warming can probably be reversed by foreseeable technology , local effects will remain.
Maybe destabilising the subcontinental monsoon, leading to drought, and India and Pakistan heading for war in a climate of mass starvation. Lets hope China and Russia do not get dragged in. Instability is bad.
The idea of messing with the weather on a planetary level scares the bejezzus out of me.
So it should. But the fact is that we are heading toward the point where it will be less risky than doing nothing. The time for relatively easy, safe solutions to global warming is rapidly passing, if it has not already. Even though we are just beginning to feel the consequences.
Climate engineering will be nasty for many, but it will probably mitigate the worst predictions for our grandchildren.
I dont know a single Asian person, or fraction thereof, that would ever refer to themselves as "Oriental"
You probably don't know a white guy who refers to himself as "Occidental" either. Does not mean it is offensive, just archaic.
Apparently in parts of America, Oriental and "half-black" are both offensive to snowflakes. But somehow, describing someone as half-Chinese or half-Scottish is perfectly OK.
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Ok, Wells Fargo made an error.
But it was the police who arrested the guy, instead of just knocking on the door at an appropriate time, and asking some questions.
What on earth was their justification for making an arrest first? Was he considered a flight risk?
There's a couple genes that cause childhood leukemia and if that can be edited out go for it.
You don't need gene editing for that, just embryonic screening, which is much easier.
Gene editing is for adding new gene variants. It could be the great equaliser, allowing everyone to have smart, healthy babies.
No longer will your children's achievement be limited by the quality of your own genes.
This could be good, or lead to the collapse of civilisation.
Yes, the risk is well known.
All interstellar spacecraft will have a storm shelter. Even the ISS, protected by the magnetosphere, has one.
Today's chicken, like most other industrially raised foods has LOST pretty much all flavor.
Then you are cooking it wrong.
I do see in my supermarket, enormous lean chick breasts sold without even skin. So dry and flavourless. People must think it is "healthy".
But cook a whole chicken well, or thighs with skin and bone, and they are so tasty. You need the fat, and the flavour from around the bones and connective tissue. Mmmm...
Everything is affected by gravity including light and other massless particles. That is how they first proved relativity.
What is surprising here?
And a sound wave is a movement in particles with mass, so I think relativity also says something about changing their mass.
re the "hacked terminal" MITM,
they could put an LCD display on the card so you can check the amount before authorising, but lets face it, nobody will bother reading.
This is just putting off the inevitable: a chip embedded *in* your hand.
Its simple for the chip to detect if it has been removed from the person, but I'd really like to see some sensors so it knows when you are asleep (like fitness bands do).
simply walk down the high street with a terminal in a bag and wave it at people's pockets collecting hundreds of contactless payments.
Not if it needs a fingerprint you fool.
This makes no sense since DST does not apply in winter.
Did you miss the part where he said "the last time the USA got rid of daylight-savings time"?
Nope.
Apparently this was a "summer time year round" situation.
Ah, I did miss that part. This would be the problem then, advancing the clock. No reason not to abolish DST.
Children went to school in pitch darkness and bitter cold, and people drove to work in the dark.
This makes no sense since DST does not apply in winter. Are you being sarcastic? Is DST somehow shifting the tilt of the earth's axis?
You don't want to commute in darkness? Then move to a lower latitude. I lived in a far-north country once, and know how much long winter nights suck.
A 1-hour shift in winter clock setting would only solve that problem for a narrow band of latitude anyway.
Or get your local school system to adapt. How can you blame a summertime clock shift?
"Identifying" is the the same as believing. It is about powerful feelings that sometimes don't go away, even with therapy.
Not all trans go for that PC "man trapped in a woman's body".
Take Catherine McGregor for example. Very sporty, ex-army, not especially effeminate, but always had a problem with gender identity. Saw psychiatrists.
Very intelligent, articulate, and down to earth.
I've not heard her describe herself as a "woman", always a "trans-woman". She is under no delusions. Jokes about her Adams apple.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
This of course is very different to the hysterical sudden-late-onset gender dysphoria that seems to be plaguing alienated young adults on liberal arts campuses across America.
It is easy to be an arse on the internet, but think about it.
In real life, if you meet a "man in a dress" - say a clerk in the post office - are you really going to abuse them and insist on calling them a man to the other staff?
I mean WTF dude, however deluded you may think they are, that just ain't cool. Let live a little?
Gender self-identification, unlike say racial or political identity, has a genuine, well-documented biological basis
Does it? What's the biological basis?
You can see it in early childhood development. Children strongly identify as boy or girl, even before they really know what the difference is. And not because adults tell them. It is hard-wired.
Evolution has driven us to identify by sex, and adopt gendered roles in society. The modern idea of gender equality - all roles in society filled by both sexes - is going against millions of years of evolution.
I am not saying there is a "biological basis" to sudden late-onset gender dysphoria. We have a lot to learn in that area.
Not a She. His XY Chromosomes says he's a male. That is how science classifies him.
Actually not quite. Classification is based on external appearance at birth, which is determined by the effect of androgens during pregnancy.
Even if a baby is known to be XY, phenotype trumps genotype.
Though somehow nowadays, we have people denying any biological basis to gender differences, and claiming things like occupation preference and aggression are purely cultural. So the logical conclusion is that you can be whatever sex you want. :-)
This makes perfect sense if you believe sex is a social construct
S/He could call themselves the Queen of England
NOT the same. Gender self-identification, unlike say racial or political identity, has a genuine, well-documented biological basis. Gender dysphoria in young children is a real thing, but usually resolves itself. In some cases it does not, and many people feel the best path is to live as the other sex.
Not a she. Just saying.
Yes, a "she". It is a courtesy, like when people call you "sir" even though you are not of noble birth.
If she wants to join the soccer team, or get a female-only scholarship, then you complain about her not being a real woman.
But if somebody wants to be addressed as a woman, its not that hard. For better or worse, it is a social norm.
First Tesla, now Amazon.
What do Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos know that we don't? What do they have in common? Are they getting ready to leave?
Many banks require that you keep a minimum amount of cash
Many, or all? Don't you have free online banks?
We used to have ATM fees in Australia, but easily avoided by getting cash out with EFTPOS, e.g. with grocery shopping.
You can dispute fraudulent charges on a credit card, but many banks will not allow that on a debit card; that means that if somebody steals your debit card and uses it before you can cancel it, you've lost all of your money.
WTF!? That is bad. I know banks are evil, but don't you have any sort of regulation and consumer protection in the US?
What about PIN protection? Surely not still using signatures or magnetic stripes?
Here, no PIN is needed for contactless transactions below $100, but the banks had to agree to take the risk for that before it was allowed.
but good luck finding a bank for which none of those apply and it's located somewhere remotely close to you.
Not even a national online bank? Mine has no physical branches anywhere.
I understand lack of access to credit, and cost of prepaid, but what is the problem with debit cards attached to savings account?
Do poor people not have savings accounts in the US?
In other countries, you need a savings account even to receive welfare payments, and there are zero-cost options, even though banks are hardly known for generosity. Cheques have faded into history like the fax machine and 1 cent coins.
the real danger is the roos or emus at that speed
That's a big part. If a road is not fenced to keep animals out, I consider it unsafe at those speeds!
At dusk or night, much less.
You may be a little more Mad Max in your level of acceptable risk.
Do you think the average person considers tyre speed rating?
The engineers do, so the first set of tyres at least.
I needed a new set of low-profile tyres for a "sporty" car, and one shop tried to sell me some extremely expensive ones, because that is what the law demanded.
The tyres I bought later for half the price, were technically illegal because rated only for 210km/hr instead of 240, or something like that. I doubt I ever exceeded 160. (overtaking road trains.)
The popular Ford Falcon in Australia was limited to 180km/hr also, as an easy "fix" to a tailshaft problem. (rear-wheel-drive 4-litre engine)
Of course, nobody cared, as there are no roads in Australia capable of that speed, even if you could afford the fuel bills. ]
It saves money on tyres too, as they don't need to be rated as high.
There is no evidence of any other ill effects of CO2 emission than increased greenhouse effect.
That you don't know something doesn't mean it isn't there.
Russell's teapot? https://www.google.com/search?...
The effects of increase of CO2 are also not uniform. That doesn't make removing CO2 any less important,
No kidding. Read it again: I said "counter". The point is that it is much better to not emit in the first place, than to try cooling by other means to offset.
for the thing that needs to be done - which is actually reducing the CO2 output.
Why? Because it will not address the issue, and will add further stress to the biosphere,
Nope. There is no evidence of any other ill effects of CO2 emission than increased greenhouse effect.
The problem is that any effort to counter the CO2 greenhouse increase is not going to cancel it out evenly across the globe, and across the seasons.
So while global warming can probably be reversed by foreseeable technology , local effects will remain.
Maybe destabilising the subcontinental monsoon, leading to drought, and India and Pakistan heading for war in a climate of mass starvation. Lets hope China and Russia do not get dragged in. Instability is bad.
The idea of messing with the weather on a planetary level scares the bejezzus out of me.
So it should. But the fact is that we are heading toward the point where it will be less risky than doing nothing.
The time for relatively easy, safe solutions to global warming is rapidly passing, if it has not already.
Even though we are just beginning to feel the consequences.
Climate engineering will be nasty for many, but it will probably mitigate the worst predictions for our grandchildren.
Does half-African trig them? Out of morbid curiosity.
I don't know. But most of the African immigrants I know are white, so it ain't the same thing here.
I dont know a single Asian person, or fraction thereof, that would ever refer to themselves as "Oriental"
You probably don't know a white guy who refers to himself as "Occidental" either. Does not mean it is offensive, just archaic.
Apparently in parts of America, Oriental and "half-black" are both offensive to snowflakes. But somehow, describing someone as half-Chinese or half-Scottish is perfectly OK.