Category Archives: Technology and Society

Health, Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Science And Society, Social Commentary, Technology and Society

Treating The “Transgendered”

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Are they different than LGBs? It does seem like a different situation, in that there is no “treatment” required for LGBs. And the treatment seems to be extreme, and in the long run, perhaps not helpful, or it makes things worse.

And no, it’s not “bigoted” or “phobic” to ask the question.

[Thursday-morning update]

A plea for insanity.

[Bumped]

Business, Culinary, Economics, Health, Media Criticism, Science And Society, Social Commentary, Technology and Society

Treating The Obese Like Smokers?

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The worst thing about this piece is this:

Americans are fat because we eat large portions, and because we eat foods that are high in sugar and fat. Americans are fat because we eat large portions, and because we eat foods that are high in sugar and fat. Perhaps it’s time for the surgeon general to put scary warning labels on sugary and fatty foods.

That is a profoundly ignorant statement, nutrition wise. People don’t get fat from eating fat.

Business, Technology and Society

VirtualBox Problem

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I’m trying to set up Fedora as a virtual machine on a Windows 8.1 host. I want to attach the physical boot disk to the machine with a vdmk file. But when I try to add the drive, it tells me I have a permissions problem on the file. The file has full rights for System, Admin and user. Anyone know what the problem might be?

Political Commentary, Space, Technology and Society

Kickstarter Progress

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Well, that was a nice bump. John Walker just kicked in a grand. That puts me over 10% of the goal on the first full day. Not sure how many more of those I’ll get, though.

[Update a while later]

I’ve gotten a couple emails wondering if there’s some way to contribute anonymously. Unfortunately, I don’t think Kickstarter allows that. I can understand how there would be a lot of people who’d like to support it, but would suffer repercussions if they did so publicly. However, if I get funded, I’d be happy to take more money under the table for equivalent rewards, and just keep track of it myself, instead of Kickstarter. That would have the additional advantage of eliminating the take from the middle man (7-8%).