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Pixeleen
9y ago
You are both right. If there was a transsexual exception to this field, I just KNOW that some criminals would abuse it, to the detriment of those of us who actually need this protection.
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9y ago
Sounds like moving goalposts, however: If you're talking about a pre-operative trans woman, whose body is still riddled with testosterone, I would agree with you.
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9y ago
Actually, it was only once with a cop in recent memory, and yes it was for a traffic violation. I am a frequent international traveller as well. In neither circumstance should what the computer has about my previous genitals come into play.
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9y ago
There is a field in state IDs and US passport files for previous names. It is ostensibly there for maiden names or fraudsters. Countless times it has outed me as a transsexual, and causes me to face harassment from cops or ICE agents.
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9y ago
After building up a mental image of a vomitorium, that wiki page is a real letdown.
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9y ago
These days there are more posts from employers who want somebody with a home office, but resides in the region in order to be available for meetings and such. I think that is good, especially for reducing traffic and energy consumption. How
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9y ago
Lexis sells access to everything although some of the databases are pricey. I have not heard of a ChexSystems breach yet. They are integrated with most banks. Even with normal use and no breaches, all these cross-referenced databases are he
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9y ago
ChexSystems does not have salary information. They contain information on bank accounts that have been overdrawn, bad checks, and checkbook orders. They also contain information on accounts in good standing, and the usual information like a
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As well as ChexSystems which contains just as must personal data about deposit accounts instead of credit accounts. Also Lexis which collects from a wide range of private sources and has exclusive special arrangements with public sources.
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9y ago
Every postmodern retail shop in the US already does this. Have you been to a Lush, Rituals, matress sales, or any clothing boutique lately? Their peppy, pseudo-personal sales staff has a perfectly crafted script and they know it cold. They&
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10y ago
I used a commercial variant of Plan9 called Transit in the 2000s. It ran on nCUBE n4 computers and had a CLI. It was built for high-performance video streaming. There were interfaces for machine interconnection in a hypercube configuration,
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I'm a transgender US citizen. My previous name shows up in my file like anybody, and it immediately outs me. You otherwise couldn't tell. When I enter here, I get immigration officers who scan my passport, exclaim "oh",
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10y ago
The moving walkway pictured in the article is the same one, and it worked two years ago. It was a rush to glide past even the regular moving walkways. A futuristic treat after a long flight and grouchy border guards.
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10y ago
I applied to CoreOS when they posted here a few months ago. Their recruiter called me and we had a nice talk. He said that he wanted to move me to the next step and meet with their technical lead. They never scheduled that phone call, and w