As for "gay rights", the church leadership supports homosexual civil unions, just not calling it marriage. In the same vein, you can believe me or not, but we don't sit around much and talk about gay marriage. A little, but not much.
I take issue with this. Your church should not be pushing its definition of marriage into law. If a gay couple can't be married at a Mormon church, that's fine with me. They can always leave. But that couple should be able to elope at a local courthouse. Civil unions do not provide the same rights, privileges and responsibilities under current law that marriage does.
The interesting part to me, if you browse to qq.com you'll see a logo that was clearly ripped off from the Google Chrome logo.
My interpretation is that the Chinese government is mocking Google's attempts to scorn them - hence, they are a bunch of whiners - QQ.
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That makes little sense, but I approve. In fact, as somebody who lives in Europe, I encourage every smart, qualified worker who doesn't feel welcome in the US to come over here. We'll get out of these economic problems by having smart people do innovative things. It doesn't really matter where they were born, but it does matter where they work.
I wish it were that easy. Where is this elusive "work" you speak of? From where I sit, there is no hiring growth in 1st world countries. Requirement #1 for hiring is "low cost geography".
We need someone who can balance the roles of both a CTO and CIO as described.
You can't get anything done in this country without compromising. Look at California proposition 1A. We'd finally build a high-speed rail line, but it isn't the most advanced technology - the plan is to use proven technology. If we had planned for a maglev line, it would have given the conservatives too much ammo to shoot it down as a "visionary fantasy".
All seems condemned in the long run to approximate a state akin to Gaussian noise. -- James Martin