Sexual predators dressed as men can walk RIGHT INTO women's bathrooms and assault them. Nothing is preventing it. As such your idea is stupid and you should feel stupid.

Your theory would make sense if the majority or even a significant number of bathrooms had some kind of controls over who could enter them based on apparent gender. But for the vast majority of bathrooms in the world, or in the US, or in fact in any place you can name, there are no such controls.

As such, the idea that not letting people with penises [claim to*] be women and use women's bathrooms protects women from being sexually assaulted is, frankly, spectacularly stupid. Men dressed as men can just walk into them and rape women. In fact, it happens dramatically more frequently than a chick with a dick doing it.

* It doesn't matter which for the purposes of this argument, and I'm not interested in having that debate in this thread

"This comment reflects what many people have been too afraid to voice."

Uh, no.

They are not afraid to voice it at all. We know this because they won't shut the fuck up about it. They're worse than vegans.

"The suffix "phobic" suggests people are afraid. They are not; They are disgusted."

They are disgusted because they are afraid of things they don't understand.

The root is still fear.

You prefer to be ignorant? On brand.

Either way the artists usually get fucked. They get roughly dick from album sales too.

If you want them to get money, download their music, then go see them in concert. If you can find a show at a venue where Ticketmaster isn't eating it all, that is.

OK, but what about the authentically shoddy Cisco equipment?

You think your kids are going to care for you when you're old? I doubt they can stand to be around you at any age.

It makes you think that intelligent people like intelligent birds?

Vulkan works fine on Windows 7 with Nvidia, up to a certain version anyway when they stopped support. There is no technological reason why it couldn't continue working, only logistical.

This is interesting. I've noticed that most of my parrot's senses seem duller than mine (unlike with, say, dogs) - not as picky with taste (except staleness), no meaningful signs of a significant sense of smell, has trouble seeing things that are right near him sometimes, etc - but he seems more atuned to having rapid reactions to anything unusual than I am. Like, at my old place, whenever a chunk of ice would break off the roof and crash down to the ground below, he'd be reacting before my senses even registered the event. I wonder if the "high framerate" thing is in general a "fast communication with the senses" in parrots. Certainly there's a very short distance between most of their sensory organs and the brain. And it's certainly useful for a prey animal to be able to react to sudden events (like, say, a striking snake, or a diving hawk glinting through the branches)

That isn't what's happening. They're deciding what purposes the software is fit for. They aren't doing anything to actually prevent them doing it — They're not Apple — but they are stating that doing so is a violation of the license and therefore they can wash their hands of the liability.

China shined on WTO rules in nationalistically anticompetitive ways from day one. If you won't stand for it from Apple, why would you support it from China?

"I'm here live . I'm not a parrot." ;)

They're intelligent social animals. Even just a change in eye contact from me alters my Amazon's behavior. He's incredibly attuned to my posture, tone of voice, mannerisms, etc, to clue in whether he's going to e.g. be getting a treat or scolded for misbehavior or whatnot. I can't imagine that a video without that back-and-forth would stimulate him.

I don't watch TV anymore, but he used to just tune it out. Rather, he'd tune into *me*. He'd laugh at the funny parts of shows and the like, not because he understood the humour, but because he was paying attention to me, and I was laughing, so he wanted to join in. And then I'd react amusedly to his taking part, he'd get attention, and getting attention was in turn a reward to him. They like getting reactions to the things they do. A video won't do that.

And yeah, he understands what screens are - same as mirrors. Some smaller psittacines are known to strongly interact with mirrors as if they're other birds, but in my experience, the larger ones don't do that; they quickly learn it's their reflection and stop caring. As a side note, I actually tried the mirror test with my Amazon twice, but each time I got a null result. You're supposed to put an unusual mark or lightweight object on their head where they can't see it, put them in front of a mirror, and if they interact with the mirror like it's another animal, they don't recognize it's their reflection; while if they use it to try to preen the hidden mark/object, it's a sign of recognition. But my Amazon didn't give a rat's arse. I might as well have put him in front of a wall for all it mattered; he gave the mark zero attention. Didn't care about the reflection of a bird. Didn't care about the mark on his head. Just sat there waiting for me to put him back on his cage :P I couldn't get him to interact with the reflection at all. Nor does he react to birds on TV. By contrast, he'll VERY MUCH interact with a real bird (he hates them all... he's very antisocial with nonhumans).