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We need to return the government back to our regular multimillionaire democrats! They'll fight for the working man, not the businessman! Amirite??

Japan's Supreme Court upholds transgender sterilization requirement

Those who wish to change their gender on official documents must have their original reproductive organs removed, according to the 2004 law.

Japan’s Supreme Court has upheld a law that effectively requires transgender people to be sterilized before they can have their gender changed on official documents.

The court said the law is constitutional because it was meant to reduce confusion in families and society. But it acknowledged that it restricts freedom and could become out of step with changing social values.

[...] [Takakito] Usui, 45, had appealed to the top court after he unsuccessfully requested lower courts to grant him legal recognition as male without having his female reproductive glands surgically removed.

Despite the unanimous decision, presiding justice Mamoru Miura joined another justice in saying that while the law may not violate the constitution, “doubts are undeniably emerging,” according to Usui’s lawyer, Tomoyasu Oyama.

The two judges proposed regular reviews of the law and appropriate measures “from the viewpoint of respect for personality and individuality,” according to Japanese media reports.

[...] Japan does not legally recognize same-sex marriages. As LGBTQ rights awareness has gradually grown in recent years, some municipalities have begun issuing partnership certificates to ease problems in renting apartments and other areas, but they are not legally binding.

Possible 12-Core Third-Gen Ryzen 'Matisse' CPU Pops up in UserBenchmark Database

Exclusive: AMD 7nm Mobility Supported OEMs And Current Roadmap

Oh how easily we slip into tyranny! You are aware, are you not, that we Greeks had two different words for "king", depending on how they "got to be king, because I didn't vote for you." The two words are, Basileus (Greek: βασιλεύς), and Tyrant (Greek τύραννος, tyrannos). Basileus is a legitimate king, whether by birth or by election. Tyrants, um, come to power by other means.

So here we have it. Yet another aristarchus submission has met it's appointed fate, and highly unusual, the eds, (OK, Takyon) provided a justification, beyond the fact that it was, after all, an aristarchus submission.

We're sorry, your submission "MAGA hats are offensive and there’s nothing we can do about it" was declined for the following reason:
There’s nothing we can do about it -takyon

The editors felt it inappropriate for them to correct the issue themselves. Please feel free to correct the issue yourself and resubmit.

Yeah, right, resubmit. One thing about being the target of a programme of censorship, you learn to recognize sarcastic encouragement. Not bloody likely, as janrinock of olde would say. There was nothing they could do? How about doing your job, editors, like, editing something. Throwing back to me what I thought was a perfectly cromulent submission, and expecting me to divine from the fact that there was nothing you could do, that there is something that I could do? Boggles the mind, it does.

Point is, if you wear a MAGA hat, you hate American, you hate Native Americans, which includes the TMB, as lovely and native as he is, and you hate immigrants, which all but the Native Americans are, and you are probably a Catholic Prep School Douche, like Brett Kavanaugh. There. I said it. Catholic preps school boys are fun! And recruits for Opus Dei and the Alt-right. And Takyon seems to be in cahoots (just because I like to use the word "cahoots") with them. #freearistarchus!!!!

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Just watch it.

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The OPEN Government Data act recently became law.

The OPEN Government Data Act will ensure that the federal government releases valuable data sets, follows best practices in data management, and commits to making data available to the public in a non-proprietary and electronic format.

https://www.datainnovation.org/2019/01/open-government-data-act-signed-into-law-establishes-u-s-as-leader-in-open-data/

https://9to5mac.com/2019/01/15/open-government-data-act/

Boyfriend and girlfriend are out. ‘Partners’ are in. Here’s why more millennials are changing how they define their relationships.

There's smog and haze up there at cruising altitude, during the entire flight. There's that many damn planes in the air now? Maybe it's all the forest fires...

When is the last time you saw a clean, crisp horizon in your part of the world?

Yet another aristarchus submission has met it's appointed fate. Nothing surprising, but, there was a non-blank rationale field, highly unusual!

We're sorry, your submission "This online comic shows how pick-up artists morphed into the alt-right" was declined for the following reason:
All hail the Supreme Gentleman! -takyon

The editors felt it inappropriate for them to correct the issue themselves. Please feel free to correct the issue yourself and resubmit.

Of course, I think the entire point was that these are no Gentleman, and the Red Pillars need to get themselves over to The Art of Manliness website. And apparenty, this includes one of our more prolific editors? Cause for pause, Soylentils! What are we part of, here!

Microsoft to hold HoloLens 2 press event next month

Microsoft is holding a press event at Mobile World Congress next month, and it looks like we’ll get some details on HoloLens 2. The software giant will hold its event on Sunday February 24th at 5PM CET (11AM ET), and CEO Satya Nadella, Technical Fellow Alex Kipman, and CVP Julia White will all be in attendance. Kipman’s name indicates this will likely be a HoloLens 2 event, given his close involvement with this project.

[...] Microsoft has been working on its next-generation HoloLens headset for years. Codenamed Sydney, the headset is expected to include an improved field of view, and be a lot lighter and more comfortable to wear. HoloLens 2 will also include Microsoft’s latest generation of the Kinect sensor and a custom AI chip to improve performance. Microsoft is also rumored to be using Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 850 processor inside the HoloLens 2, making it an ARM-powered device.