I used the word 'normal' because it was the word used by the person I was replying to. 'Normal' is, of course, a loaded word that should be used with care. It has over-tones of defining what is acceptable. It was this I was addressing.
Something that is unusual is by definition not normal.
I would prefer to say that something that is unusual is, by definition, not usual.
You are attempting to equate someone's gender identity with another's sexual practices. Two entirely different things approached entirely differently.
A book can be about a transgendered child (which is 'normal'. It sometimes happens, therefore it is normal) and not about surgery or administered hormones. I doubt very much that any of these children's books discuss these things at that level.
I'm unclear why reading about this unusual, but normal, state of affairs is going to traumatise a child. Or why having it in a book is considered 'forcing it on kids', any more than the subject matter of any other book they are obliged to read is 'forced' on them.
You are clueless about parody and the first amendment.
I suggest you go look up the terms "parody" and "satire". You clearly don't understand what they mean.
Hint: they don't mean "being funny, with someone else's copyrighted material" or "criticising something unrelated, with someone else's copyrighted material"
If eating the plastic doesn't harm the fish, and causes no harm to the people that eat the fish, then why is this in the "health and science" section of the Washington Post?
From the fine article:
But that doesn’t mean it’s not harmful for them. Some negative effects that scientists have discovered when fish consume plastic include reduced activity rates and weakened schooling behavior, as well as compromised liver function.
I know this was buried way deep into the article on the second paragraph, but obviously you didn't get that far.
"Caput's written them to a blank plastic card with a $120 magnetic-strip writing device available on Amazon, and found that most retailers accept his cards without questions."
This is the scary part. And obviously counterfeit gift card, but accepted without question because it could be swipped?
Would the retailer accept obviously counterfeit cash just because it said "Cash" on it?
Paying $99.99 to watch two large sweaty men punch each other for a while?
I'm finding it really hard to sympathise with these people.
Not only illegally gather data, but in an investigation of someone who has committed no crime.
One more every-day feature designed to heighten people's fear of something statistically very unlike to happen to them. I look forward to it being extended to an feature where every time you log in, it automatically messages all your Facebook 'friends' that you haven't been struck by a bus, fallen in a lake, choked on your sandwich or 101 other possible ways someone, somewhere may have died recently.
Hang on, it's been a full 10 minutes since I reassured everyone on Facebook I'm still living, and I hear someone fell off their bike in Australia. They need to know it wasn't me. Be right back....
Stay safe everyone. I worry about you and it's be a while.
Ignorant jackasses always have the time to share their thoughts, such as they are, on slashdot. This post was always going to be a train-wreck. The OP may as well have headed it "Females! Show yourself, so that a crowd of insecure jackasses can take some pot shots you."
It was never going to happen.
UnknownSoldier, proper noun, - a slashdotter who finds it necessary to have a directory of names to call people at the foot of his post. The irony of one of them complaining about Ad Hominem labels is apparently lost on him.
sad news for anyone who'd prefer to not have to lug around an entire phone to listen to music
That's right, because there are no other manufacturers of digital music players, and there aren't thousands of other players to choose from.
If you choose to lock yourself into the Apple ecosystem, you choose to limit how you do things.
Except the value of your BTC-Cash is entirely speculative. It could turn out to be entirely worthless. "Value" is only determined by how much others are interest in having your BTC-Cash. If no-one cares, then all you have is a heap of bits costing disk space.
Creating a new currency is easy and can be done by anyone using anything. Get a post-it off your desk, draw a smiley face and write the number 100 on it. There you go, you have ownership of a new currency. Open Notepad, type a few random words and save it with a file name of "1 million.cash". There you go, a new virtual currency. Value? Absolutely nothing. No-one cares.
Ultimately Bitcoin Cash could be no different.
And as soon as they attempted to, the value of them would plummet.
UNIX is hot. It's more than hot. It's steaming. It's quicksilver lightning with a laserbeam kicker. -- Michael Jay Tucker
