WONDERFUL! Two times zero is still zero (you're using open-source freeware, right?)
Accountant here. Just because the software doesn't have a license cost doesn't mean it is free (as in beer) to use. Still got to pay IT their salaries to install, support, train, and administer. I assure you they get justifiably cranky if you don't send them a paycheck regularly.
WHOOSH! Has./ degraded so much I must annotate when the intended sarcasm should have been apparent? Also, opensource freeware is released under a license (such as GPL or BSD
That's interesting. I've only read Portuguese (getting the gist of what is written); I wasn't aware the pronunciation is so different.
ti is pronounced "chee", di is pronounce "gee". The initial r and rr are almost pronounced like "h". Soft g (eg. ge and gi) and j almost sound French. ch makes the "sh" sound (except tch sounds like the English "ch"). S sounds like "z" between two vowels. C-cedilla (c with a comma) always makes the English "s" sound. X varies by context and region (x, s, z, or sh). Also, initial or terminating syllables can be dropped (many people say tá instead of está)
Once read about three paragraphs of Portuguese before I realized i wasn't reading a dialect of Spanish. If you already know Portuguese reasonably well, you can pick up Spanish easily.
I studied Spanish 4 years in high school and spent 2 years in Brazil (plus I married a brasileira). Portuguese and Spanish are roughly 80% cognates, but pronunciation greatly varies (especially Brazilian Portuguese). After living Brazilian Portuguese for 2 years, whenever I try to speak Spanish I end up with a Portunhol (Espangues?) dialect. You must be extremely careful of false cognates (eg. embaraçada and embarazada are not the same thing).
Most of the world speaks two or more languages fluently.
I'm fluent in English and conversational in Portuguese. Unfortunately most of the non-English channels available to me are in Spanish. I would love access to Brazilian channels.
the process itself shouldn't be any more encumbered legally than any other means of disposing a body.
TFS gives one reason why this isn't legal in most places. Some pathogens survive the composting process. Since we're talking dead humans, whatever pathogens they had are known to survive in humans, so any pathogens which survive could make their way into our food supply. During cremation the body is heated high enough to kill any possible pathogens (this also results in dust / ash instead of soil).
they got bought out by a Bain Capital style "Vulture" capitalist, Eddie Lampert.
Why bring up Bain Capital if they weren't involved (nor was Romney)? I think most readers on./ should understand Vulture capitalist. Just more negative political spin.
I would compare Canada rather than a third world country like Brazil to get a better equivalent scenario.
There are limitations even in Canada and they kinda do a funny thing about number of caregivers and specialists because in the end it is the Govt of Canada that pays them.
Perhaps, but I've actually been to Brazil, but never visited Canada.
USA here. I've never heard this military argument.
I'm also in the USA (born and raised), lean conservative, and never heard the cost of maintaining the military as an excuse of not funding better healthcare. My wife is Brazilian and tells me horror stories of the healthcare system. Public hospitals and clinics are free, but you are only allotted 2 visits per month (this includes follow-ups). I've heard of people waiting more than 6 hours to be seen in the E.R. There are so many patients that some are put in cots in the hallways. Private hospitals and clinics are a lot better, but outside the reach of most of the people.
It wasn't stupid. It was astute. It was a (maybe unwitting) call to restore net neutrality by showing what will happen without it. Again, we must demand they be put under common carrier rules, and that there be no priority in any particular content. We can do our own filtering, thank you.
The law requires ISPs to notify customers that there is filtering software. The law does not require that all customers use the same filtering software (or any filtering software at all). CenturyLink probably used this methodology because it's already a common practice (eg. force guests to read a ToS page before getting access to the rest of the net).
No ISP would be stupid enough to do this unless it was legally required - which it was by Utah law. Network neutrality as regulation will bring MORE insane interpretations of how an ISP should be have like this one - not fewer.
In short if you like ISP's cutting off access for idiotic messaging from the state, then my all means push for more regulation of the internet.
As a resident of Utah, I think you missed part of the summary (not to mention the actual law). ISPs are required to notify customers that filter software is available. My own ISP just notified me through my paper bill.
I think the moderation system is broken. I was being sarcastic--going for funny. The summary's grammar is vague, but if you read between the lines "burying them underground" refers to the greenhouse gasses.
That's how I read your comment, but maybe others' sense of sarcasm is off.
Different companies in different lines of business, but all of their bankruptcies have the same cause:
Massive debt, resulting from leveraged buyouts. Most of them led by Bain Capital (you may remember their former CEO, Mitt Romney).
Mitt Romney stopped being involved in day-to-day operations of Bain Capital in February 1999 so he could work on the SLC Winter Olympics. He officially left Bain Capital in early 2002.
Bain Capital's relationship with Toys-R-Us began in 2004 - 2 years after Mitt Romney left.
"On 20 July 2008, iHeartRadio "announced the completion of a merger with an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of CC Media holdings, Inc., a corporation formed by a private equity group co-lead by Bain Capital Partners, LLC and Thomas H. Lee Partners, L.P." source. Roughly 6 years after Romney officially left Bain.
In 2005 Vornado Realty Trust bought 7.5 million shares of Sears Canada. Vornado was also involved with Bain Capital in taking over Toys “R” Us, which took over KB Toys resulting in 3,400 jobs lost." source. Note this source is extremely anti-Romney and places the date of acquisition as 2005 - years after Romny left Bain.
The June 2008 issue of SF Guitar Tech includes the sentence: "Bain Capital, an equity fund that was founded by 3 people, including Mitt Romney (take that in whatever way you want), recently bought Guitar Center for 2.1 Billion dollars." Again, years after Romney left Bain.
A much simpler solution would be to always use static IP addresses. Using dynamic IP addresses is a hangover from dialup days and IPv4 limitations. You device has an identity so it can also have a fixed IP address. That is exactly why we have IPv6.
Actually, the switch to IPv6 was because there are more internet-connected devices than IPv4 addresses; static IP for every device was never the driving force behind IPv6. DHCP still exists for IPv6.
It will eliminate hate speech from the internet as we can finally identify and permanently ban all of the perpetrators.
Funny thing about "hate speech" is that most people define it as "speech I don't agree with". Most anything which speaks favorably of Republicans is falsely labeled as sexist, racist, or bigoted. I want a forum where I can post statements which are factually correct, even though politically incorrect, without getting threats in real life. I'm tired of living in a world where "all animals are created equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
For your second point; homeless people don't tend to travel far from where they live. Often they lack the means to. A large percent suffer from mental disorders (which is why they're homeless in the first place) and many become addict to drugs or alcohol as a crutch. They're not going to leave their suppliers.
I came here to say something similar. People confuse sex and gender.
They're not confusing sex and gender; they're just refusing to accept your newspeak redefinitions. It doesn't matter how many times you try and pretend that sex and gender are distinct and unrelated concepts, we just think you're retarded. Kinda like when other SJW nitwits say things like "black people can't be racist because racism requires power". No. You're just making shit up and redefining words to suit your politics. Fuck off.
I'm sorry, but the definitions I posted are the original ones; it's the vulgar society which has redefined terms. Sex and gender are distinct, but related, concepts. In over 99% of cases gender and sex line up. I was actually applauding the administration for reminding people that sex is bimodal in virtually every case.
I am offended by your use of the word "retarded" for anything with which you disagree. My uncle had Downs Syndrome. One nephew is severely autistic. A son suffers from sensory overload. To retard is to slow down. Flame retardant slows down flames.
Racism is racism regardless of the race of either party. As a cis heterosexual white male, I have been passed over for promotions or jobs because I don't fit into a perceived minority. As a white guy who grew up in Hawaii I've been on the receiving end of many race-driven threats. I'm an advocate for equality which means recognizing the positives and negatives everyone brings.
>we need to have 50 genders because birth defects exist
No, birth and genetic defects affect sex, not gender. Well over 99% of the population falls into either male or female for their sex, but it's impossible to enumerate all possible genders. Any form asking for gender would do well to include "other" and "prefer not to disclose".
The standard is, and has always been, your genetics.. XX = Female. XY = Male. End of story.
I'm sure some SJW is gonna accuse me of being a hater or some other bullshit.. But facts are facts..
I'm not a SJW, but need to correct you. Phenotype and external genitalia do not match up 100% of the time. There are extremely rare cases where an XX individual may have a penis. An XY individual may lack a penis. There are individuals with genetic defects which give them 3 chromosomes instead of 2 (Downs Syndrome being the most common). So-called "super males" are XYY.
Easy peasy.....we're talking a VERY small minority of people in the world that have these issues.....why should the majority get all bent out of shape for this insignificant number of people outside the norm?
You underestimate the number of people with such "issues". And why care about sex-segregated bathrooms at all? They're not even a fixture of classical Western society - they were mostly introduced post-Civil Rights era to keep the "good, noble" white women from being even potentially contaminated by contact with "black savages". Why not just have unisex bathrooms?
The company I work for is moving to unisex bathrooms. In practice, this turned into a row of single occupant restrooms (no urinals). Individuals do not need to declare their sex nor gender when waiting for an open restroom. A larger issue will come into play if / when the company decides to unify our locker rooms / changing rooms.
a) That's sex, not gender. Sex is biological, gender is a social construct. Consider the "third gender" seen in some Southeast Asian cultures. It was only "really easy" a decade ago if you ignored anything except traditional post-medieval Western gender norms.
b) Sex is a bimodal distribution, not a boolean. You can get all kinds of weird things - XX phenotypes that are morphologically male, for instance. Or a whole spectrum of intersex types - how would you classify someone with a semi-functional penis, no testes, and ovaries?
The fact that it makes bookkeeping easier doesn't mean it's an accurate model of reality. Otherwise, we'd all be using 64-bit unsigned integers instead of names.
I came here to say something similar. People confuse sex and gender. Over 99% of all individuals are sexually either male or female. Gender and gender identity are a never-ending spectrum. I don't know if sex should be defined based on phenotype or genitalia. Genitalia is generally obvious with zero cost to determine (whoever delivers the baby looks the genitals and declares boy or girl). Phenotype and genitalia normally agree, but not in 100% of cases. Gender not only isn't just a spectrum, it's fluid. A person who self-identifies one way today may self-identify differently in the future.
I hate to break it to you, but mulatto means part-Black; this term does not equate to rape per se (nor was mulatto reserved for those with a female Black ancestor).
Yes, thank you for disputing a claim that I never made.
But you strongly implied it. You said that since your ancestor was listed as "mulatto" it "meant at least one of [your] female ancestors was raped and impregnated by her owner." Your words, not mine.
A agree with you completely. Judging history through modern lenses is hard not to do, but a worthy effort in pursuit of true understanding.
I've also reviewed my ancestry, and it seems rape and slavery was the norm.
Wait - based on a singular event from thousands of years ago you are saying that raping of slaves was the norm? Maybe raptio (abduction / seizing) was considered normal, but where's the basis that sexual assault was the norm?
I have been able to trace my ancestry back to the mid 1800s. My great-grandfather's grandfather was born shortly after slavery ended.
Census records from 1870 through 1920 list that branch of my family as "mulatto". What this means is that at least one of my female ancestors was raped and impregnated by her owner. For me, this isn't a thought exercise or an academic question. It's a part of my family's history.
LK
I hate to break it to you, but mulatto means part-Black; this term does not equate to rape per se (nor was mulatto reserved for those with a female Black ancestor). I am not denying that some slave owners did rape their slaves; I'm just saying be careful with how broad a brush you paint.
My third great grandparents fled the United States because of religious persecution. Among their religious beliefs was the fact that all mankind are children of God, and thus slavery should be abolished. Can you imagine death threats and having homes and property destroyed for wanting to end slavery?
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WONDERFUL! Two times zero is still zero (you're using open-source freeware, right?)
Accountant here. Just because the software doesn't have a license cost doesn't mean it is free (as in beer) to use. Still got to pay IT their salaries to install, support, train, and administer. I assure you they get justifiably cranky if you don't send them a paycheck regularly.
WHOOSH! Has./ degraded so much I must annotate when the intended sarcasm should have been apparent? Also, opensource freeware is released under a license (such as GPL or BSD
"All modern systems have security holes" and they shouldn't. It's that simple. If that doubles the cost of software then so be it.
WONDERFUL! Two times zero is still zero (you're using open-source freeware, right?)
That's interesting. I've only read Portuguese (getting the gist of what is written); I wasn't aware the pronunciation is so different.
ti is pronounced "chee", di is pronounce "gee". The initial r and rr are almost pronounced like "h". Soft g (eg. ge and gi) and j almost sound French. ch makes the "sh" sound (except tch sounds like the English "ch"). S sounds like "z" between two vowels. C-cedilla (c with a comma) always makes the English "s" sound. X varies by context and region (x, s, z, or sh). Also, initial or terminating syllables can be dropped (many people say tá instead of está)
Once read about three paragraphs of Portuguese before I realized i wasn't reading a dialect of Spanish. If you already know Portuguese reasonably well, you can pick up Spanish easily.
I studied Spanish 4 years in high school and spent 2 years in Brazil (plus I married a brasileira). Portuguese and Spanish are roughly 80% cognates, but pronunciation greatly varies (especially Brazilian Portuguese). After living Brazilian Portuguese for 2 years, whenever I try to speak Spanish I end up with a Portunhol (Espangues?) dialect. You must be extremely careful of false cognates (eg. embaraçada and embarazada are not the same thing).
Why do you assume he's only a monoglot like you?
Most of the world speaks two or more languages fluently.
I'm fluent in English and conversational in Portuguese. Unfortunately most of the non-English channels available to me are in Spanish. I would love access to Brazilian channels.
the process itself shouldn't be any more encumbered legally than any other means of disposing a body.
TFS gives one reason why this isn't legal in most places. Some pathogens survive the composting process. Since we're talking dead humans, whatever pathogens they had are known to survive in humans, so any pathogens which survive could make their way into our food supply. During cremation the body is heated high enough to kill any possible pathogens (this also results in dust / ash instead of soil).
they got bought out by a Bain Capital style "Vulture" capitalist, Eddie Lampert.
Why bring up Bain Capital if they weren't involved (nor was Romney)? I think most readers on ./ should understand Vulture capitalist. Just more negative political spin.
I would compare Canada rather than a third world country like Brazil to get a better equivalent scenario.
There are limitations even in Canada and they kinda do a funny thing about number of caregivers and specialists because in the end it is the Govt of Canada that pays them.
Perhaps, but I've actually been to Brazil, but never visited Canada.
USA here. I've never heard this military argument.
I'm also in the USA (born and raised), lean conservative, and never heard the cost of maintaining the military as an excuse of not funding better healthcare. My wife is Brazilian and tells me horror stories of the healthcare system. Public hospitals and clinics are free, but you are only allotted 2 visits per month (this includes follow-ups). I've heard of people waiting more than 6 hours to be seen in the E.R. There are so many patients that some are put in cots in the hallways. Private hospitals and clinics are a lot better, but outside the reach of most of the people.
It wasn't stupid. It was astute. It was a (maybe unwitting) call to restore net neutrality by showing what will happen without it. Again, we must demand they be put under common carrier rules, and that there be no priority in any particular content. We can do our own filtering, thank you.
The law requires ISPs to notify customers that there is filtering software. The law does not require that all customers use the same filtering software (or any filtering software at all). CenturyLink probably used this methodology because it's already a common practice (eg. force guests to read a ToS page before getting access to the rest of the net).
No ISP would be stupid enough to do this unless it was legally required - which it was by Utah law. Network neutrality as regulation will bring MORE insane interpretations of how an ISP should be have like this one - not fewer.
In short if you like ISP's cutting off access for idiotic messaging from the state, then my all means push for more regulation of the internet.
As a resident of Utah, I think you missed part of the summary (not to mention the actual law). ISPs are required to notify customers that filter software is available. My own ISP just notified me through my paper bill.
I think the moderation system is broken. I was being sarcastic--going for funny. The summary's grammar is vague, but if you read between the lines "burying them underground" refers to the greenhouse gasses.
That's how I read your comment, but maybe others' sense of sarcasm is off.
Different companies in different lines of business, but all of their bankruptcies have the same cause:
Massive debt, resulting from leveraged buyouts. Most of them led by Bain Capital (you may remember their former CEO, Mitt Romney).
Mitt Romney stopped being involved in day-to-day operations of Bain Capital in February 1999 so he could work on the SLC Winter Olympics. He officially left Bain Capital in early 2002.
Bain Capital's relationship with Toys-R-Us began in 2004 - 2 years after Mitt Romney left.
"On 20 July 2008, iHeartRadio "announced the completion of a merger with an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of CC Media holdings, Inc., a corporation formed by a private equity group co-lead by Bain Capital Partners, LLC and Thomas H. Lee Partners, L.P." source. Roughly 6 years after Romney officially left Bain.
In 2005 Vornado Realty Trust bought 7.5 million shares of Sears Canada. Vornado was also involved with Bain Capital in taking over Toys “R” Us, which took over KB Toys resulting in 3,400 jobs lost." source. Note this source is extremely anti-Romney and places the date of acquisition as 2005 - years after Romny left Bain.
The June 2008 issue of SF Guitar Tech includes the sentence: "Bain Capital, an equity fund that was founded by 3 people, including Mitt Romney (take that in whatever way you want), recently bought Guitar Center for 2.1 Billion dollars." Again, years after Romney left Bain.
A much simpler solution would be to always use static IP addresses. Using dynamic IP addresses is a hangover from dialup days and IPv4 limitations. You device has an identity so it can also have a fixed IP address. That is exactly why we have IPv6.
Actually, the switch to IPv6 was because there are more internet-connected devices than IPv4 addresses; static IP for every device was never the driving force behind IPv6. DHCP still exists for IPv6.
It will eliminate hate speech from the internet as we can finally identify and permanently ban all of the perpetrators.
Funny thing about "hate speech" is that most people define it as "speech I don't agree with". Most anything which speaks favorably of Republicans is falsely labeled as sexist, racist, or bigoted. I want a forum where I can post statements which are factually correct, even though politically incorrect, without getting threats in real life. I'm tired of living in a world where "all animals are created equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
For your second point; homeless people don't tend to travel far from where they live. Often they lack the means to. A large percent suffer from mental disorders (which is why they're homeless in the first place) and many become addict to drugs or alcohol as a crutch. They're not going to leave their suppliers.
Bussed out: How America moves its homeless is an article from last year which shows how the homeless can end up thousands of miles away. Many cities offer 1-way tickets to the homeless based on the promise the homeless won't come back. A 2013 news article announced that Nevada Gets Sued For Dumping Homeless Patients With Mental Illnesses Onto Buses. A stark quote in that article claims that Nevada "may have systematically sent away as many as 1,500 patients over five years".
California is where great companies are born. Other states is where they go to die. It's been like this for decades.
Utah has been experiencing a tech boom for over a decade.
I came here to say something similar. People confuse sex and gender.
They're not confusing sex and gender; they're just refusing to accept your newspeak redefinitions. It doesn't matter how many times you try and pretend that sex and gender are distinct and unrelated concepts, we just think you're retarded. Kinda like when other SJW nitwits say things like "black people can't be racist because racism requires power". No. You're just making shit up and redefining words to suit your politics. Fuck off.
I'm sorry, but the definitions I posted are the original ones; it's the vulgar society which has redefined terms. Sex and gender are distinct, but related, concepts. In over 99% of cases gender and sex line up. I was actually applauding the administration for reminding people that sex is bimodal in virtually every case.
I am offended by your use of the word "retarded" for anything with which you disagree. My uncle had Downs Syndrome. One nephew is severely autistic. A son suffers from sensory overload. To retard is to slow down. Flame retardant slows down flames.
Racism is racism regardless of the race of either party. As a cis heterosexual white male, I have been passed over for promotions or jobs because I don't fit into a perceived minority. As a white guy who grew up in Hawaii I've been on the receiving end of many race-driven threats. I'm an advocate for equality which means recognizing the positives and negatives everyone brings.
>we need to have 50 genders because birth defects exist
No, birth and genetic defects affect sex, not gender. Well over 99% of the population falls into either male or female for their sex, but it's impossible to enumerate all possible genders. Any form asking for gender would do well to include "other" and "prefer not to disclose".
The standard is, and has always been, your genetics.. XX = Female. XY = Male. End of story.
I'm sure some SJW is gonna accuse me of being a hater or some other bullshit.. But facts are facts..
I'm not a SJW, but need to correct you. Phenotype and external genitalia do not match up 100% of the time. There are extremely rare cases where an XX individual may have a penis. An XY individual may lack a penis. There are individuals with genetic defects which give them 3 chromosomes instead of 2 (Downs Syndrome being the most common). So-called "super males" are XYY.
Easy peasy.....we're talking a VERY small minority of people in the world that have these issues.....why should the majority get all bent out of shape for this insignificant number of people outside the norm?
You underestimate the number of people with such "issues". And why care about sex-segregated bathrooms at all? They're not even a fixture of classical Western society - they were mostly introduced post-Civil Rights era to keep the "good, noble" white women from being even potentially contaminated by contact with "black savages". Why not just have unisex bathrooms?
The company I work for is moving to unisex bathrooms. In practice, this turned into a row of single occupant restrooms (no urinals). Individuals do not need to declare their sex nor gender when waiting for an open restroom. A larger issue will come into play if / when the company decides to unify our locker rooms / changing rooms.
a) That's sex, not gender. Sex is biological, gender is a social construct. Consider the "third gender" seen in some Southeast Asian cultures. It was only "really easy" a decade ago if you ignored anything except traditional post-medieval Western gender norms.
b) Sex is a bimodal distribution, not a boolean. You can get all kinds of weird things - XX phenotypes that are morphologically male, for instance. Or a whole spectrum of intersex types - how would you classify someone with a semi-functional penis, no testes, and ovaries?
The fact that it makes bookkeeping easier doesn't mean it's an accurate model of reality. Otherwise, we'd all be using 64-bit unsigned integers instead of names.
I came here to say something similar. People confuse sex and gender. Over 99% of all individuals are sexually either male or female. Gender and gender identity are a never-ending spectrum. I don't know if sex should be defined based on phenotype or genitalia. Genitalia is generally obvious with zero cost to determine (whoever delivers the baby looks the genitals and declares boy or girl). Phenotype and genitalia normally agree, but not in 100% of cases. Gender not only isn't just a spectrum, it's fluid. A person who self-identifies one way today may self-identify differently in the future.
I hate to break it to you, but mulatto means part-Black; this term does not equate to rape per se (nor was mulatto reserved for those with a female Black ancestor).
Yes, thank you for disputing a claim that I never made.
But you strongly implied it. You said that since your ancestor was listed as "mulatto" it "meant at least one of [your] female ancestors was raped and impregnated by her owner." Your words, not mine.
A agree with you completely. Judging history through modern lenses is hard not to do, but a worthy effort in pursuit of true understanding.
I've also reviewed my ancestry, and it seems rape and slavery was the norm.
Wait - based on a singular event from thousands of years ago you are saying that raping of slaves was the norm? Maybe raptio (abduction / seizing) was considered normal, but where's the basis that sexual assault was the norm?
I have been able to trace my ancestry back to the mid 1800s. My great-grandfather's grandfather was born shortly after slavery ended.
Census records from 1870 through 1920 list that branch of my family as "mulatto". What this means is that at least one of my female ancestors was raped and impregnated by her owner. For me, this isn't a thought exercise or an academic question. It's a part of my family's history.
LK
I hate to break it to you, but mulatto means part-Black; this term does not equate to rape per se (nor was mulatto reserved for those with a female Black ancestor). I am not denying that some slave owners did rape their slaves; I'm just saying be careful with how broad a brush you paint.
My third great grandparents fled the United States because of religious persecution. Among their religious beliefs was the fact that all mankind are children of God, and thus slavery should be abolished. Can you imagine death threats and having homes and property destroyed for wanting to end slavery?