"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.
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.
France can recover from Macron's missteps. Le Pen would be the end of liberté, égalité, and fraternité. I just don't think the French are willing to give up the France no matter how many sock-puppets Putin deploys.
Two million Americans are injured and over 30,000 are killed each year... The crash rate without hospitalization is even higher. What do you think happens to their cars?
There are a number of reasons why the crash rate is so much higher in the US than other countries but two big ones are that American road engineering standards are decades behind the rest of the world and traffic regulation's enforcement is largely not yet automated.
The Manhattan CBD, which has a much higher density of roads than any other place in America and in which millions work every day, has a carrying capacity of about 6,000 moving cars at any one time. If you lower the cost of keeping a car moving on the road even more then there will be more cars occupying that space.
There is a solution, we can charge a per minute fee for using the public road space. In the most dense areas $0.10/min on 10-25 mph streets, $0.15/min on 30-45mph roads, $0.20/min on 45-60mph roads, etc.
But we are all so used to being freeloaders that it is politically difficult to implement any kind of user fee for existing asphalt. Things will get much much worse before we put in place any sensible solution.
There are so many things that aren't well automated. In other countries I've seen how they employ low skilled workers building sidewalk extensions and doing the manual labor needed to help a pipelaying machine or a paving machine. We have so much end of life infrastructure in the ground and so many poorly engineered streets that we could find work for all the teens and other difficult to employ for decades just in this one sector already run by the government.
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.
We all like praise, but a hike in our pay is the best kind of ways.