not on voice chat you can't

Why isn't that the place? Why should gamers not be allowed to make that clear? One could want to make sure people who play with him would know that to avoid saying things like 'fag' or 'gay' casually, and to be able to not play with people who will use slurs against him or her.

Why not give users the choice to choose whether they will advertise it publicly and deal with the ramifications or not mention it and just play the game? Saying 'I am atheist' could cause a random bible basher to threaten the user or start a fight, but it isn't banned. Why this particular kind of speech--why is it banned?

Um, you missed the point--institutionalized discrimination is still discrimination, regardless of where it's from. If XBox live wanted to ban all provoking of idiots, they should maybe, you know, do that instead of targetting gay people.

Again, saying that being openly gay on an XBox profile is 'provoking' anyone is just stupid victim blaming.

Right, Rosa Parks shouldn't have tried to keep her bus seat-she could have provoked a fight!

Wait, victims of institutional and corporate discrimination annoy you? Holy crap you need help.

Do you understand the concept of 'victim blaming'? You're right, we could avoid the issue of people starting fights over other people's sexuality by banning the mention of other sexualities from people's profiles, but why should this policy be enforced across the board? Why can't users choose whether they'd like to closet themselves and avoid conflict or be open?

Also, being gay is not mutually exclusive with being a homophobe--I feel bad that you've convinced yourself that people who make *any mention at all* of their sexuality are giving other gay men and women a bad name.

...People still care what Doctorow has to say? He's still around?

For real?

He's licensing the software; not selling it. In this case they would not necessarily have the right to transfer the license to someone else as they see fit.

The velocity you'd need to move the bucket of water at in a circle with radius r with the force of gravity of 10.0m/s^2 is
v = sqrt (10.0r)
So for an arm radius of 2 feet, or 0.6 meters, you'd need to swing the bucket at about 2.5 m/s. I think.

Not a good troll, but a nice first attempt. You insult nerds with tron fanzines and Dungeons and Dragons websites, but you know what a CLI is and you know about compiling packages? Although, it was kind of cute.

Taxpayers aren't paying for this; the companies who participate in the auction for parts of the wireless spectrum are.

I think you've got your definition a little off; causation is a relationship observed from an experiment, correlation is a relationship observed from a study.

yep, there is nothing scientifically of note about cloning an animal that is extinct-nothing at all. This research is a waste of time until they can bring back an entire population of the species!!!

You must be a whole lot of fun at parties.

No, the funding has been allocated, but not used. There are may coupons that have not been used; the money for those coupons will be reused when the expire to issue new ones.