I love that phrase. "Say you trust, but don't trust."

Why would you want to get there at 120 MPH if you were not stuck behind the wheel on the way? You can use that time for yourself, catching up on some reading or sleep, watching TV or posting on /.. Going that fast shaves a little time off but costs you an awful lot more in fuel and maintenance costs.

I can see the commute becoming a golden time for many people. No family, no distractions.

A couple of days ago Soylent News implemented Unicode support. Considering the far greater resources that Dice have and how few Soylent needed to get it done, you would think real features like that would be coming thick and fast. Instead they wasted all the effort on a cosmetic make-over that most people seem to hate and which isn't even functionally as good as the classic site.

Unfortunately I think Slashdot's problems go far deeper than can be fixed with a bit of CSS.

Because companies are not perfectly rational actors. They are made up of people, and at management level the majority are men. They tend to hire and promote and give wages rises to people like them, i.e. other men.

Often the pay gap is due to the jobs being functionally identical but with different titles, so men and women are doing the same work to the same standard but one gets paid more.

I seem to recall it wasn't a-OK actually. There were a lot of articles, comments and blog posts about how it wasn't a-OK, much of it in mainstream media.

Having said that, it is a-OK because his beliefs were a choice he made, an opinion he held. Being gay is not a choice and can't be changed, so it's not okay to blame people for being gay. A person has to accept the consequences of their choices and stated opinions, but cannot be held accountable for the way they were born.

The key difference that we always come back to is that homosexuality harms no-one else, where as paedophilia does. Gay people marrying does not harm you, so you should tolerate it even if you don't like it. Paedophilia harms children so you should not tolerate it.

Tolerance is accepting and not discriminating against people who you may disagree but who do not harm you. Tolerance does not require you to tolerate people attacking you, trying to take away your rights and happiness.

The rule is very simple. If the position is over something that the person has no control over, like race, skin colour, height, hair colour, gender, sexual orientation etc. then society at large will probably shun you for it. If it isn't illegal to discriminate on those grounds already it probably should be.

On the other hand any kind of choice is a valid target for criticism. Political views, religious views, that sort of thing.

He needed to apologise. No less.

What he did harmed other people. Gay people who wanted to marry, who wanted equal rights and equal treatment under the law to straight people, where directly harmed by his actions. Having bigoted beliefs is one thing, but it's quite another when a person starts acting on them to the detriment of others.

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.

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.

Can you name some?