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Microsoft Abandons Gay Rights Bill
andrewagill writes "Microsoft has withdrawn support from a bill that would "protect gays and lesbians from discrimination in employment, housing, banking, insurance, and other matters by adding sexual orientation to a state law which already bars discrimination" of the other usual suspects. Odd, given their previous accolades from the GLBT community, and their prior public support for the bill."
And I don't mean in the homosexual way... but in the bad at sports way.
Anyone else read this as Microsoft Abandons Gay Bill?
Windows is still gay.
...Mac OS X as a threat (rightly, in my opinion), so they are now attacking the problem at the source.
What bothers me is that one corporate entity seemingly has so much influence over the legislative process. Specifically, a law that is totally unrelated to their industry.
I understand the RIAA/MPAA and Copyright legislation, but Microsoft and Gay Rights? WTF?
Now, instead of "Write Your Congressman!" are we supposed to call MS Tech Support?
-Charles
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
I guess Bill was pissed about all those rainbow Apple stickers from the 80's showing up on his car.
Bill Bails on Gay Bill.
Of course. They're worried about competition from lesbian linux.
To listen to the commentary here, the gay community is entirely using Apple computers.
My God, it's Full of Source!
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You take that back! You take that back right now! How DARE you insult homosexuals like that!
Boobies never hurt anyone. - Sherry Glaser.
Guy + Guy = Bad Girl + Guy = Normal Girl + Girl = good (its perfectly natural) Cant they just make guy on guy luvin illegal?
No I didnt spell check this post...
So you are saying:
they are whores with no principles.
I agree.
You truly are nuts if you took what I said to be anything other than blantant sarcasm.
Girl + Guy + Girl = (as my lesbian hippy friend says) "Dreamy"
I mod down so you can mod up. Your welcome.
100 posts in, and you still haven't given the obvious answer to this!
What does he have on Bill? Well, when the head of MS starts desperately following bizarre orders from Evangelicals, you realize he's gotta be looking for allies. My guess is, his contract is expiring soon, and he's looking for a loophole.
Now, we know Satan's contracts are even tighter than MS's, so Bill's trying to get some extra-judicial help. That's all.
--LWM
wow, for a moment there i swore you were saying 2 guys equals a bad girl..
**shiver**
I, for one, champion the rights of 3M1C (three men and a cat) marriages! In this day and age, the artificial limits we impose on sexuality vis-a-vis marriage should be done away with completely. However, I will say that there should be strict laws regarding Republicans and Libertarians. They should be restricted to non-sexual cohabitation rights with members of the same sex only. This will eventually eliminate them from the gene pool. Thank you very much.
Man am I thirsty!
-"...bad old ideas look confusingly fresh when they are packaged as technology" - Jaron Lanier (Digital Maoism on Edge.o
Thank god. I for one can't go anywhere without certainly gay people peering at me in the most odd way.
I've installed locks on all my doors and windows so those goddamned gays can't sneak in and get up to no good. One look at those pillows, your curtains and you know you've been hit by the gays.
I've tried to do my part in my community by trying to keep tabs on them. I've taken some surveillance at the local YMCA. I've swept the mall and tried on some red swimware. Yet gay people keep decidedly peering at me in the most peculiar way.
We must stop the gay conspiracy and the gay media conspiracy, with their forced-redecoration squads running amok, frightening children and installing remarkably tasteful yet a little too frilly curtain vestments on every doorway and awning in this whole country. They want to take away our rights, to have our own curtains. The gay media conspiracy keeps a lid on it, however.
I urge you to ban gay marriage/civil unions in your state or your curtains may be next!
You care about how your parents have sex?! You're one sick bastard!
...micro and soft becomes an expert in sexuality?
Who would really want thousands of Evangelical Christians switching over to Linux anyways? I don't want to use a mail client called "Creationism."
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Yes Francis, the world has gone crazy.
It'll be curtains for you, see? Nyaaa see!? NYYAAAAAAH!
By now you should have guessed...I'm your magic negro.
Did anyone read this like a tabloid line: Microsoft abandons Bill Gates because hes pro-gay-rights?
I think most of Europe has gay-rights discrimination laws but we're just a bunch of stoners and drunks...
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As long as there is a straight guy in the room with them running the video camera......and they're both good looking...
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
Here you say::
Homosexuality is neither a choice (that's long ago been proven scientifically), nor is it particularly a disability.
Therefore homosexuality is genetic.
And yet here you say::
There is no reason that discrimination on the basis of sexual preference should be permissable.
Therefore homosexuality is a preference. But wait! Didn't you just say it was scientifically proven to be genetic? Get your story straight and come back to me later.
Behold, another webcomic!
I mean, it's not like the Evangelical Church is going to suddenly switch to FreeBSD, what with it's Devil mascot and all!
I have a helluva lot of female friends who think so anyway. Girl-on-girl is hot to many guys, but a lot of girls (that I know at least) are just as turned on by guy-on-guy as guys are by girl-on-girl.
Most of the girls I know think that that's a waste of 2 perfectly good guys attention that could be focussed on them instead. Preferably at the same time ;)
Obligatory Daily Show quote: "Just because it happens in nature, does not make it natural, buster!"
HTH, HAND
If you're queer, you buy a Mac. It's all about color coordination.
Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Teach him to fish and he'll wipe out the species.
Be careful turning to nature for guidance as to what is morally acceptable, lest you be cornered into defending nonstop drake-on-drake necrophilia. Better to just say "I'm cool with that" than to turn to avian examples.
Deserved what? To live to a ripe old age and die of natural causes and be mourned by a quarter of the planet's population when he was gone? Hell, I'll take a helping of that too, please.
Federal law assignes some 1,080 benefits to married couples.
If they're willing to put up with years and years of misery just for some so-called federal benefits, I say let 'em. They have just as much a right to be unhappy as the rest of us.
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Most of the girls I know think that that's a waste of 2 perfectly good guys attention that could be focussed on them instead. Preferably at the same time ;)You're referring to the girls you see on a daily basis -- the ones in the dirty movies -- aren't you?
Maybe millions of GLBT and GLBT-friendly computer users will boycott Microsoft and start buying Macs?
Bruce
At the aquarium... we have... penguins. It's really cool.
I would hope so. Penguins are a polar species. "Really cool" is what their natural environment is all about.
"I'm not impatient. I just hate waiting." - My Dad
"The gay/lesbian market is a hell of a lot more computer literate than the zombies in the Religious Right" Proof? Of course not.
Unless this preacher is able to get his followers to switch to Macs or spend a few months learning to run GNU/Linux, then he has no real clout on this issue.
Gott mit SuSE. (Sorry, I couldn't help but recall some recent celebrations or resist the straight line - double groaner.)
And just look at what's happened to Canada! Total chaos! Two dollar coins, people speaking in French, and decriminalized marijuana! I hear there are even places where polar bears roam the streets at will- is THAT the kind of cesspool of degeneracy we want America to become? Tastefully decorated, perhaps, but at the cost of being overrun by polar bears and stoned French separatists?
Well, lets see... (1) Apple Computer had a rainbow striped logo for years, (2) they are based just outside of San Francisco, (3) they have suspiciously good taste, almost as if the OS and every piece of hardware was designed by interior decorators.
Something tells me that if the Christian fundamentalists get up in arms about Teletubbies and Spongebob being in cahoots with the homosexual conspiracy, they might have a little trouble accepting Apple. Plus, the company name is an allusion to Eve and the serpent, so they're obviously in league with Satan as well.
No no no no no...2 girls == less women for us men. We need to encourage male homosexuality and discourage female homosexuality to ensure that us true heteros have our share of women
Microsoft is a bit of a passion fingers. Maybe they want a bill which endorses anal rape between non-consenting (and often underage) companies? With whips, broken glass and upside down in a tub.
Got time? Spend some of it coding or testing
At the aquarium where I work we have a gay domestic couple of penguins.
Which is the real reason Microsoft withdrew their support for gay rights.
I am Sartre of the Borg. Existence is futile.
a) microsoft retracts its support for an antidiscrimination bill regarding homosexuals
b)penguins, on the other hand have TEH GAY and, as if this wasn't enough, are whoring and pimping sons-of-a-bitches.
Now, folks, the penguin is a common symbol, not to say heraldic animal for what? That's right, folks, we're talking bout linux here.
Am I the only one seeing the potential for new, unprecedented trolling and flaming? Ahhh, how I love the smell of napalm in the morning....
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