Hehe, well I didn't mean any of my stuff as a direct thing against you. It just pisses me off when such groups like the BSA trot out such nonsense as if it justifies their bigotry. And then right afterwards they will demand that they get taxpayer money and access to government services to further propagate it.
As much as I am pro-gay rights, is a single man who wants to be a scoutmaster (which is obviously kind of weird and fishy to start with)worth the legal liability associated with making it that easy to go camping with young boys? I guess I missed the part where no married man has ever sexually abused their son or other boys.
Although the Scouts may largely discriminate against gay men in the name of God and Country, operationally it is a sound, if unpleasant decision. No it's not. It's no more a sound policy than saying that blacks shouldn't be security guards because they are going to be more likely to steal from the store they are protecting.
Are single men allowed to lead Girl Scout Troops? I see nothing from the national site about scout leaders that precludes single men.
The BSA isn't a government agency nor do they receive public monies, Sure they aren't a government agency but they very much do receive public money and government services. I'm not sure what rock you've been living under to not know about that.
As far as the homosexuality issue, this is a result of a basic moral code they ascribe to. This is their right. Efforts to discriminate aginst the Boyscouts Because of their moral beliefs sound strangly hollow when those who want their moral beliefs to be free of discrimination. Sure they have all the rights in the world to be as bigoted as they want. Doesn't mean that we don't also have the same right to criticize them for their views all we want. In the end the problem has to do with them demanding money and services from the government while trying to discriminate at the same time. You can't demand that the public funds your bigotry. I'm sorry, but it just doesn't work that way.
No-one says that Europeans do not have a right to criticize America. I'd qualify that by saying "No one rational" says that. I've seen plenty of jingoists talking about how Europe has no right to judge "Merika" based on [insert nonsensical excuse].
In my experience it's around 5 dollars a month more to run my computer all the time rather than shutting it down or putting it into hibernation at night.
But above you talked about how JIT compilers sucked. So if we go by the usual logic of X Java program sucks -> Java sucks, then clearly the language that the JIT compiler is written in must by extension also suck, no?
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Hehe, well I didn't mean any of my stuff as a direct thing against you. It just pisses me off when such groups like the BSA trot out such nonsense as if it justifies their bigotry. And then right afterwards they will demand that they get taxpayer money and access to government services to further propagate it.
[Groundskeeper Willy] He's got the Shinning! [/Groundskeeper Willy]
Don't forget about the horse he rode in on!
But then that wouldn't have cost 9000 dollars...
But can it run Linux? What about a Beowulf cluster of these?
And in walks Buzz Killington.
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In my experience it's around 5 dollars a month more to run my computer all the time rather than shutting it down or putting it into hibernation at night.
Why is this FUD moderated as informative? He couldn't be more wrong if he tried.
People actual play this game long enough to get a level 50 character?
But above you talked about how JIT compilers sucked. So if we go by the usual logic of X Java program sucks -> Java sucks, then clearly the language that the JIT compiler is written in must by extension also suck, no?