"We have whole boatloads of activists, who think it's cool and progressive to plaster people's private sexual problems all over...that's the reason for laws like the one in TFA

Oh, but the creator and sponsors of the bill will tell you that this has nothing at all to do with transgender people. This is really about protecting women in bathrooms, don't you see?

Transgender people, who would be LED OUT IN CUFFS if they followed your advice to "use the other restroom," are merely collateral damage in the battle against men sexually assaulting women in women's bathrooms (in a subset of government buildings).

So tell us, do you approve of this bill, and why?

Sorry for re-replying, cleaning up my formatting and adding more about why this Child Molesters will love this bill:
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Before the "Bathroom Bill" Molester: I love Texas! I can grope whoever I want and not go to jail!

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  After the "Bathroom Bill" Molester: Extremely feminine transgender women and 7-year-old boys are forced to use the men's room by themselves in a subset of government buildings!

No one has a job because every tech company pulled out of Texas, but...I'm applying for every government job I can! I'm still not on the sex offenders list!

Molester (kneels reverantly): Thanks to Jesus Christ and Dan Patrick!

This is not a rights issue or a bathroom issue.

A bill that dictates who can use the bathroom is not a rights issue or a bathroom issue?

What color is the sky in your world?

As a Texan, I've been reading about this bill for almost a year now. Here's some context around it:

1) Texas still has some of the most molester-friendly groping laws in the nation (anything short of penetration is a class C misdemeanor, you won't even go to jail for it). This bill does nothing to address it.

2)The driving force behind the bill is revenge on the federal government for dictating that transgender students can use the restroom of their identified gender (a policy that is strongly supported by local school districts). That's why the bill only applies to government buildings (and a subset of those, at that!).

3)The bill's author, Lt. Governor Dan Patrick (not the sportscaster) got his start as a bargain-bin Rush Limbaugh. He realizes that the "social conservatives" lost the fight against gays, and he's using this to target a smaller, even more vulnerable minority.

Before the "Bathroom Bill" Molester: I love Texas! I can grope whoever I want and not go to jail! --- After the "Bathroom Bill" Molester: Oh noes! Extremely feminine transgender women are forced to use the men's room in a subset of government buildings! No one has a job because every tech company pulled out of Texas, but...I can still grope whoever I want, short of penetration, and not go to jail! Molester (kneels reverantly): Thanks to Jesus Christ and Dan Patrick!

Can you point us to some statistics that show

a)there's an epidemic of men in women's bathrooms committing assaults?

b)making extremely feminine transgender women go into men's bathrooms will somehow reduce assaults?

c)a law that only applies to SOME GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS will have any effect on this "epidemic"?

To put it bluntly, you've been duped by Dan Patrick and his hate squad. Don't kid yourself-this law does nothing to protect women or any victims of sexual assault. Do you think that bush-league Rush Limbaugh gives a shit about whether or not women get sexually assaulted?

It's mainly an impotent revenge play on the federal government for dictating that transgender students can use the restroom of their identified gender (a policy that is strongly supported by local school districts). If it passes, it will do untold economic damage to Texas, and INCREASE sexual assaults.

If you are a Texan, make sure you know how your state lawmakers voted, and make sure you tell them they're getting VOTED OUT if they supported this petty, oppressive law that has no place in the freedom-loving state of Texas.

Straight men dressed as women commit rapes in women's bathrooms.

Not only do you need to prove that this is true (spoiler alert: it's not), you also need to prove that the law would do anything to change this.

The real context around this law is

1)"Social conservatives" lost the battle against the gays, so they are starting a new battle against a smaller, even more vulnerable minority.

2)"Small-government conservatives" resent the federal governments above, and local school districts below, having sane policies about transgender student bathroom use. Notice that the law ONLY APPLIES TO GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS (and even that has some expections). If there was an epidemic of cross-dressing rapists, wouldn't it make more sense to have this law apply to private businesses as well?

3)The author of the bill, Lt. Governor Dan Patrick, is a minor-league Rush Limbaugh that somehow got elected to high office. He's a grandstanding idiot that doesn't care how many transgender teens commit suicide, so long as he can rile up his base with this fake crisis.

Of course, OpenStack can't implement things which are needed by real people. Wake me up when they are able to get comparable functionality to vMotion, HA, fault tolerance, or just adding disks/RAM to an image without having to kill the VM and spin up a new one from an image.

FUD. OpenStack is not a hypervisor, it's an omnibus cloud application suite. There are at least 2 nova-compute compatible hypervisors that can "vmotion" (which is snapshotting RAM and storage to a network block device). If you can't figure out how to do "HA" and "fault tolerance" with MySQL then by all means, keep transferring your entire bank account to VMWare.

All in all, your rant makes about as much sense as someone complaining that Microsoft Office can't do spreadsheets.

OpenStack? Run Windows VMs?

Doesn't look like a problem for the world's largest OpenStack installation.

As for free ACID-compliant DBs, that's what Postgres is for...CAP theorem and all that.

Well shit, did you even need to mention your internally-developed CAD system? I mean, that's such a vital part of everyone's software needs, I thought it went without saying.

"Performance per watt" is a bullshit metric...until you have to pay the electric bill.

Cynicism is easy-both for you and the people that want to take your freedom away. What's difficult is getting off your ass and doing something about it.

It's interesting how, in a lot of ways, it's reversing worker specialization. In an economy where it's difficult to pick a field and stick with it because the job prospects are unreliable, enterprising workers are left with little choice but to sign up for various services that, essentially, offer them odd jobs of various kinds. Maybe you'll work as a Lyft driver for 3 hours today, do some freelance plumbing for an hour or so, write some website articles with the time between jobs, rent out part of your apartment on AirBnB so you can make the payment this month, etc. I suppose it's possible some people thrive on this sort of chaotic life, and more power to them if they do, but let's not pretend that eroding the work culture and especially the worker/employer relationship model that we developed over the 20th century is somehow a good thing for everyone. It overwhelmingly benefits employers who want to get paid and don't care one whit for what happens to the people doing the work.

I skimmed a lot of comments and didn't see one directly addressing the question posed in the summary.

Basically, 35% of Americans have debts in collection status because it's easy to have an account go to collections and then linger there forever. You can imagine people's "debt responsiveness" as being exponentially bound to the time since the last payment. A debt that recently had a payment made is almost certain to have its next payment made. A debt that's a few months late has a decent chance of getting a payment made soon. A debt that is 6 months (or more) late has a very low chance of ever being paid again. This is why debt collectors buy/pursue old debts. The original creditor will likely accept pennies on the dollar just to get something out of it, while the collector wants to obtain the whole amount. If they can even get half, they come out way ahead. It's a profitable business.

I used to work in this industry (wrote software) so I could tell you some things about it.

You throw it away because it's a sunk cost. You don't keep throwing good money after bad.