The trouble is that there isn ' t really any accepted standard data interchange format between various scale vendors and even within some vendors , so your software needs to be able to directly send and receive properlyformatted commands over serial . In most cases the USB cable is simply a USBtoserial interface and as such carries with it the same requirement for direct software protocol support for your scale . <| sep |> If that ' s the case , what ' s stopped Mike Pence from saying that when he was talking about Changing their sexual behaviour that he was talking about providing sex education and counselling to address the prevalence of risky sexual behaviour and drug use in gay communities ? With just a few words , he could easily dispel this preconception . But until he says that , it looks like he ' s talking about gay conversion therapy . It ' s about reading between the lines . Mike Pence has , as governor of Indiana , supported laws that would make discrimination against gay people legal . That meshes up quite well with the man who supports conversion therapy , the man who feels like homosexuality isn ' t legitimate that it ' s a flaw and can be treated . unless you ' re suggesting that gay sex is inherently less safe than straight sex and that gay people are inherently less safe in the bedroom , which is massively homophobic and above all , wrong .