StrangeSox

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 18, 2016 -> 10:44 AM) This doesn't need to be complicated. It's functional. You go to the bathroom with the equipment that best matches your own equipment. What you were before is irrelevant. No laws need to change. And let's be honest, the only reason the laws are being changed is bigotry. There is zero evidence of any likelihood of risk to people in this situation, and despite the fact that trans people have been doing exactly what I suggest for a long time, how many reports of issues have there been? These laws are a solution looking for a problem that doesn't exist. It's just another way for closed-minded people to lash out. Like the fights against gay marriage, after a while, these efforts will fade away or be struck down in court. What if you're transgendered and outwardly appear to be one sex, but you haven't undergone the surgery? Should a person with female genitalia who presents himself and looks very much like a man use the women's restrooms, or vice-versa? But as you said, these laws are looking for a problem that doesn't exist. If some man wanted to dress as a woman to enter women's restrooms to leer at other women, there's nothing stopping them from doing that now and this law changes nothing.

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Apr 18, 2016 -> 10:43 AM) I don't think engineers/planners would agree with you. They calculate the number of bathrooms that are necessary for the anticipated capacity of the building/floor/unit. Getting rid of 2 bathrooms for "other" messes with those plans. You're basically making a multi-use bathroom a single use bathroom. In some instances it would be an easy fix, but not in all cases. Do building codes require gendered bathrooms though? I don't see why you couldn't have every bathroom be non-gendered.

What do NC legislatures imagine should happen to someone who has completely undergone gender change therapy and surgery and lives and looks fully as their preferred gendered? NC's law would seem to require someone who's fully FtM transitioned to continue using facilities for women since that's the "birth gender."

Weird fact: Iran is actually very accepting of transgendered people. There are more sex change operations there than anywhere else in the world. Unfortunately, part of that is due to equally strong anti-gay ideology, so gay people are pressured into gender-changing operations rather than just being able to be gay.

Uc Davis has spent $175k to try to scrub the OWS pepper spray incident from the Internet http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/education...le71659992.html

Kasich is not a nice guy: http://twitter.com/bgittleson/status/72100...5747713/photo/1

What do you worry about re: $15?

I hate this answer. It puts everyone else in a s***ty position where now they've gotta be the guy who goes to complain about a kid being around the team 24/7, and now management's gotta do something about it. Players might feel like assholes for complaining about it until it really just gets out of hand, and then we all see what can happen when management has to deal with bulls*** problems that shouldn't even exist in the first place. Granted, they brought some of that on themselves, but it's still ridiculous for LaRoche to be that un-self-aware of the situation he was creating.

Okay, but see how important a catchy title is? Nobody even remembers that thread! Now this is how you title a thread.

What sort of equipment do you need to do that one? I'm about halfway through T-25 and I'll be looking for something to add weight again when I'm done.

QUOTE (CrimsonWeltall @ Apr 15, 2016 -> 08:14 AM) Is there any evidence showing that Democrats are going out to vote for Trump just so the GOP gets the worst candidate? No. It's not something that happens in appreciable amounts.

so how many more years will be the bulls be hot garbage? 5 minimum?

Reports are that Trump's campaign manager Lewandowski will not be prosecuted now Trump campaign manager will not be prosecuted, sources say

this is exactly the sort of reckless abuse of power we've come to expect under the bmags regime

Wow. Can't imagine this turns out well for the Rams long-term. That's a ton of picks to give up.

Cruz released his "postcard" IRS replacement tax plan: https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/72025031...src=twsrc%5Etfw 1. Writing your SSN on a postcard is a great idea! 2. How do you calculate line 4? Hmm, it's almost as if the typical wage-earner's tax form is straight-forward and it's calculating the deductions that makes things complicated! 3. On that note, isn't this just basically a reformatted 1040EZ with all of the instructions removed? 4. How is it a "flat tax" if you have itemized deductions? Also, tax brackets are not complicated and a "flat tax" is just another word for "massive upper class tax cut."

QUOTE (Reddy @ Apr 13, 2016 -> 12:00 AM) Even though it's usually GOP that use voter suppression? Come on. At least be consistent. QUOTE (Reddy @ Apr 11, 2016 -> 03:22 PM) Eh, I don't necessarily agree. Pure popular vote is the reason Trump is doing so well. There need to be checks and balances on the idiocy of the American public

Thread title suggestion : 2016 general election: Our long national nightmare is finally over continues.

We need a general election megathread eventually

Nebraska came up one vote short of switching their state to "winner-take-all" in the EC. Nebraska and Maine are the only two states that aren't WTA. https://twitter.com/fredmknapp/status/719984549975818240

QUOTE (shysocks @ Apr 12, 2016 -> 12:35 PM) Pretty amazing how many teams are gonna win 110 games when you think about it. What a year this'll be. lol

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 12, 2016 -> 01:35 PM) Sort of sad that a Utah congressman decides this is a good idea. When PR didn't even suggest it. He has a personal crusade with about 20 supporters in the House to sell off all federal public lands to private owners.

Utah Congressman Wants To Sell America’s 4th Most Popular Wildlife Refuge To Private Developers

QUOTE (Reddy @ Apr 11, 2016 -> 05:04 PM) Right... but they will still matter substantially LESS than their counterparts in California in a popular vote system, since the candidates will still not travel there, nor put money into those states. Their vote would matter just as much, and that's what actually would count, not time spent campaigning in a certain area. If you're concerned about that, the ec doesn't fix it. It's easy to imagine scenarios where the ec goes wrong. What if virtually every state was "safe" for one party or another? What if we had our population concentrated in a handful of states and a tiny number of voters in numerous small states controlled the election? What if a candidate won enough ev's in low turnout states but lost the National vote by a huge margin?