Sorry, but you can't choose to become gay. If you were previously attracted to the opposite sex (in your pre-teen years, presumably, since you "chose" in your early teens) then you are in fact just bisexual but chose to live as a homosexual.

Sexuality isn't binary, there is a whole range between straight and gay. It is fixed though, and although you can choose within a certain range you can't force yourself to be something you fundamentally are not. People trying to convince you otherwise are just trying to drum up business for their "treatments".

I think you have to differentiate between "acceptable" and "legal". In the former case you might be shunned by much of society and face criticism, but it isn't illegal.

I interpreted the GP to mean that homophobia, or for that matter heterophobia, is not acceptable for most of society and if you express those views you can expect others to react. It isn't illegal to hate gay people for whatever reason you like of course. That's how free speech works. You are legally free to say what you like, but that doesn't mean you can expect others not to react as well.

C++ is C with classes. Templates didn't even come around until about after 1990.

Sheesh.

Did they make any changes in mammary allocation?

If you ask an Icelandic person to pronounce it I'll bet you find a few surprises.

Can you be specific exactly how things are worse for you because of demands for equality? I can't really imagine how you could be openly gay and openly discriminated against, yet still be better off than you are today.

The important point is that homosexuals marrying does not harm anyone in any real sense. Some people get upset by it, but that isn't nearly enough to justify banning it. On the other hand paedophiles do directly harm children, so their behaviour cannot be tolerated.

In the same way Eich's behaviour cannot be tolerated either. He tried to harm homosexuals by preventing them from marrying, and from having equal rights to heterosexuals.

Tolerance is accepting behaviour you dislike but which does not hurt anyone. Although some homophobic groups claim that homosexuality does harm children or homosexuals themselves, the majority of society does not agree and there is much evidence to suggest otherwise.

Green Dragon will save us!

Close.
It was named after the sound of the nearest resident bowels evacuating.

Groovy.
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COBOL is an excellent language for hat it was designed for. I can only assume your hate comes from ignorance.

It seems to me, your hate would be better directed at poor engineering and software engineering standards then the tools.

silicon isn't sand. It's found in sand and stone, among other places.

Can you name some?

Adam Corolla has a whole podcast network, and that is bigger then TWIT and Leo.

The problem with Patent troll is that anyone who has a claim is now called a troll.

When you create a nuclear wasteland, it's everyone's world suffers.

How is "just not liking a random 5% of the population because of who they are attracted to" a valid political position? If it were specifically "I don't like certain gay rights activists" that would be a political position, but simply disliking an entire group of people who have no common trails other than their sexuality is simple bigotry.

This is exactly what happens in every Slashdot debate. It turns into a debate over the meaning of terms, and I suspect many commentators deliberately try to confuse the issue. Do you really think that gay people want "equality of outcome" when they ask for the right to be married? Do you imagine they are demanding brides and husbands be allocated to them or something?

Gah, I'm getting sucked into the argument. The whole point is to divert people away from the actual issue.