> And after the indiana legislation, several businesses have refused to do business in indiana. How is one boycott bigotry, and the other isnt?

Who wants to go where they aren't welcome? Other busineses have to consider that their employees or their customers will be abused and made to feel unwelcome by the climate in Indiana.

It doesn't even matter if you are really gay or not. Some ignorant hayseed might decide you are gay for whatever strange reason and then suddenly decide not to serve you. It's not just RuPaul that has to worry here.

Now you're trying to conflate an actual religious institution with a mere business. These are not things that are treated the same. They never have been treated the same in this country. An actual religious organization will actually get MORE slack because genuine religious oppression is a sacred cow here.

This "religious freedom" law is nothing more than a sham that allows any bigot to scream "but religion" any time they want to justify their bigotry. It doesn't have to have ANY thing to do with whatever religion they practice. It could even be CONTRARY to the stated doctrine of their own religion.

The actual governing body of what ever religion these bigots practice might want to chime in here and confirm or deny that their doctrine supports (or demands) discrimination against any person or group.

So what part of Xian doctrine implores a seller of Pizza to act like ISIS exactly?

That's one of the interesting things that has come of all of this. You have had even religious voices doing a WTF. What brand of Xian actually supports this kind of exclusionary behavior? Beyond the Amish, I can't really think of any.

You see this in the Muslim world as well. It's not so much that certain "traditions" are a matter of religion. They're a matter of culture and religion is trotted out as an excuse.

Your argument is so ignorant it beggars belief.

This is a tech forum. The idea of "pretty much identical" should offend the basic sensibilities of any one here. It's much like saying that two programs are "pretty much identical". They simply aren't equal. They can't be casually assumed to be equal.

The law is no less subject to the problems of imprecision as computer programs. Even a single bit of punctuaiton matters.

Are you kidding? They have been doing that for decades already.

Corprate boot lickers are so funny when it comes to the kinds of excuses they will come up with when their pet corporation acts badly.

Apple has trampled trademarks for years. They are very much like Microsoft in this respect. A little bit of "rule of law" is long overdue.

...not even remotely close.

This is more like the difference between McDonalds and members of the Chaine.

The beef versus chicken sandwich analogy only works for the likes of Swatch and Timex.

In general Ewan seemed much more appropriate for the role of teenage Anakin than Hayden. Hayden was just cardboard. And no I have not been impressed by him in any other roles either. Whereas some of Ewan's earlier work are spot on for the kind of character Anakin needed to be in the prequels.

Bad acting due to bad direction and horrible writing aggravated by casting that was also bad.

The prequel had too much George in it.

Not only that but he upstaged anyone else that EVER played that role.

Jack Nicholson merely played The Joker. Heath WAS the Joker.

Walmart and McDonalds are most certainly hated for the products they provide. They're just big enough that they don't need to care. They can be viewed as crap by a large chunk of the population and still make money on what's left.

There are plenty of mindless bargain hunters and people with no taste.

The funny thing is that humans are "so good at it" that they don't really need the new fangled approaches with the higher risks. We have been doing "conventional" genetic manipulation for thousands of years. Compared to that, our relatively short experience with direct genetic manipulation really doesn't hold up.

The "conventional" approach just takes longer and confers no monopoly benefits to any herbicide mongers.

3.3 Billion base pairs (nibbles) is not quite that small in terms of raw data. It will fit onto a DVD though.

DNA is a complex language that we are barely beginning to understand. Unlike CRISPr, this kind of thing actually is "hacking the genome" in a clueless fashion. I think this is an area where clearly some corrolary of the Hypocratic Oath should be in effect.

If it's not broken, then don't try to fix it. Leave it alone. The best thing to do (barring any indications to the contrary) is nothing.

I suspect that we are still at the "don't know how much we don't know" stage of genetics at this point.

1870 is calling. It wants it's specious quasi-constitutional argument back.

What you are pining for hasn't been the case for a long time, likely since BEFORE YOU WERE BORN. We simply aren't that backwards as a nation anymore.

Your vision of Sharia law isn't any more tolerable than Jim Crow.

You and the state of Indiana need to stop watching Fox News.

That's easy. Follow the law. You know the law. That's the set of rules that's supposed to govern your conduct.

It's easy to avoid becoming involved with obviously illegal conduct. Death threats and pedophilia are easy and obvious exceptions to the straw man you're trying to build here.

You could even call your local city government or police to get their take on the situation.