Thousands of Canadians are pressing the federal government to ban what is called “conversion therapy,” a controversial practice where LGBT youth are counselled or treated to become straight.
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Musk plan to privatize Tesla pushes $2.3 billion of debt above conversion price
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Filed under: Earnings/Financials,Green,Tesla,Green Culture,Electric The move may provide a little debt relief. Continue reading Musk plan to privatize Tesla pushes $ 2.3 billion of debt above conversion price Musk plan to privatize Tesla pushes $ 2.3 billion of debt above conversion price originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 07 Aug […]
From Win32 to Cocoa: A Windows user’s would-be conversion to Mac OS X, part III
So… Peter Bright’s new home for tech support, right? (credit: antxoa) Ten years ago around this very time—April through June 2008—our intrepid Microsoft guru Peter Bright evidently had an identity crisis. Could this lifelong PC user really have been pushed to the brink? Was he considering a switch to… Mac OS?!? While our staff hopefully […]
From Win32 to Cocoa: A Windows user’s would-be conversion to Mac OS, part II
Enlarge / How could Peter Bright ditch all this for the minimalism of MacOS? He loves the color purple far too much to do that, right? (credit: Ethan Miller / Getty Images) Ten years ago around this very time—April through June 2008—our intrepid Microsoft guru Peter Bright evidently had an identity crisis. Could this lifelong […]
From Win32 to Cocoa: A Windows user’s would-be conversion to Mac OS X
Enlarge / OK, technically this wouldn’t have even been possible at the time of this initial article, but here’s Win10, Win8, Windows XP, and Mac OS X (High Sierra) all together. Thanks Parallels. (credit: Parallels) Ten years ago around this very time—April through June 2008—our intrepid Microsoft guru Peter Bright evidently had an identity crisis. […]
Genovation GXE, electric Corvette Grand Sport conversion, coming to CES
Last year, Rockland, Maryland-based Genovation Cars announced the second generation of its electric sports car, the GXE – which stands for Genovation Extreme Electric. This week, the company announced the pre-production GXE will make a silent splash at next month’s Consumer Electronics Show. The first gen took the C6 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 as a donor […]
China must ban abusive gay ‘conversion therapy,’ rights group says
Hospitals and other medical facilities in China are subjecting LGBT people to ‘conversion therapy’ that in some cases has involved electroshock, involuntary confinement and forced medication, a human rights group says. CBC | Health News
Junkyard Gem: 1986 Toyota Van conversion
Toyota’s LiteAce van was sold in the United States as, simply, the Toyota Van. It was a small forward-control van with a sturdy-but-low-powered four-cylinder pushrod engine, and most American van/wagon shoppers didn’t quite know what to make of it. This one, unusually, has been given the conversion-van treatment; I photographed it in a Phoenix wrecking […]
The straight line from marketing analytics to conversion (VB Live)
VB LIVE: The amount of customer data marketers can get their hands on has exploded; we understand what they do, and when and where they do it, but now we can figure out what they want. And when you give it to them, you’ve got their loyalty for life. Find out how to use your […]
Piers Morgan goes absolutely BALLISTIC at gay conversion therapist: ‘You horrible BIGOT!'
The 54-year-old and his co-host Susanna Reid were embroiled in a particularly venomous row with Dr Mike Davidson, who claimed to have been “cured” from homosexuality by prayer. “I believe that people are not born gay,” he told the Good Morning Britain duo. “That they come into homosexual feelings, and that it is something that […]
