It evidently wasn't all that obvious, since you made the statement that you did.
Homophobes believe that homosexuality is harmful and morally wrong. You can't confront such an argument merely by saying "it makes me happy - how could it be wrong?" - that doesn't work, nor should it. Instead, you have to address the erroneous belief that there is something wrong with being gay.
If someone's happiness depends on practicing homosexuality (the case for all gay people), then what can be wrong with it?
If someone's happiness depended upon murdering somebody every morning just after getting up, it would still be wrong. Happiness isn't sufficient justification. However, happiness combined with absence of harm should be good enough for anybody without some other agenda. Homosexuality, in itself, cannot and does not cause harm. This is irrefutable.
homophobia : noun : irrational fear of, aversion to, or discrimination against homosexuality or homosexuals
You will note that it uses the word "or", which means that a homophobe need not be afraid of homosexuals. I think it is quite clear that you are "in favor of discrimination against" homosexuals.
I don't think anybody believes that you "fear" homosexuals, but I and others believe that you do not give sustainable arguments in support of your position that homosexuals should not raise children. You say that you have met children raised by same-sex parents. Was something uniformly wrong with them? Something that you can prove was due to having same-sex parents? Please explain.
You say that you have seen studies and experiences that support your position, but then go on to vaguely condemn most studies as inherently biased and unreliable. Do you or do you not cite studies as evidence?
In your initial post, you use words like "probably" and "perhaps" and "might" to advocate a severe restriction that can and does cause serious harm, emotional and otherwise, to those it affects. I submit that you need much stronger ammunition than "maybe" before you can justify the prevention of loving, motivated caregivers from being allowed to bestow that love and care upon those most in need of it. Did you really take the time to read the response by Loundry above? Why do you believe that such a person should be prevented from adopting?
All of which have been phased out. That is to say, _Apple no longer uses these technologies in their products.
So the challenge stands: name one piece of Apple hardware that is proprietary.
Aqua is not hard-wired to Carbon either
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Apple engineers have stated that Aqua is implemented as a Mac OS Appearance Manager theme. This means that it will be replacable under Carbon as well as Aqua, provided that either 1) Apple releases the format for theme description files, or 2) somebody reverse engineers said format, or 3) the developers of Kaleidoscope successfully port it to Mac OS X/Carbon. I believe that 3) is likely, 1) and 2) less so.
Although the Hubble telescope was indeed forced to sit in storage for years longer than planned, this delay was not the source of the mirror problems. The mirror was flawed because it had been manufactured incorrectly. Many fundamental flaws in the testing procedures were identified during the subsequent investigation.
...(of which only a very few were made in the 1970s) but rather a drastically modified 747-200. In other words, it doesn't have a shortened fuselage. Also, there are TWO of them, identically outfitted.
The logo nameplate on the original Apple II and the Apple II Plus used "][" for the roman numeral II. The Apple IIe and IIc used "//" instead. The Apple III used "///" It was a logo and industrial design style decision.
The only steroid-ish aspect of the eMate was its mini-notebook form factor. It still ran a very slow version of the ARM processor (25Mhz or so). The real "Newton on steroids" was the 2000/2100, which had a nearly 200Mhz processor. What a loss to have it cancelled.
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They still sell the Enquirer? I haven't actually SEEN a copy in ages. Do you still find them in the checkout lane at the supermarket?
Laugh if you must, but they may actually be up for a Pulitzer for uncovering the John Edwards scandal.
"Macintosh" was a code name.
...and rumored coding insecurities and backdoors, not the user interface.
Never assume...
Apple no longer includes internal FireWire connectors in their current hardware.
Homophobes believe that homosexuality is harmful and morally wrong. You can't confront such an argument merely by saying "it makes me happy - how could it be wrong?" - that doesn't work, nor should it. Instead, you have to address the erroneous belief that there is something wrong with being gay.
We now resume your regularly scheduled argument
I don't think anybody believes that you "fear" homosexuals, but I and others believe that you do not give sustainable arguments in support of your position that homosexuals should not raise children. You say that you have met children raised by same-sex parents. Was something uniformly wrong with them? Something that you can prove was due to having same-sex parents? Please explain.
You say that you have seen studies and experiences that support your position, but then go on to vaguely condemn most studies as inherently biased and unreliable. Do you or do you not cite studies as evidence?
In your initial post, you use words like "probably" and "perhaps" and "might" to advocate a severe restriction that can and does cause serious harm, emotional and otherwise, to those it affects. I submit that you need much stronger ammunition than "maybe" before you can justify the prevention of loving, motivated caregivers from being allowed to bestow that love and care upon those most in need of it. Did you really take the time to read the response by Loundry above? Why do you believe that such a person should be prevented from adopting?
>Try ADB, Localtalk, NuBus.
All of which have been phased out. That is to say, _Apple no longer uses these technologies in their products.
So the challenge stands: name one piece of Apple hardware that is proprietary.
Apple engineers have stated that Aqua is implemented as a Mac OS Appearance Manager theme. This means that it will be replacable under Carbon as well as Aqua, provided that either 1) Apple releases the format for theme description files, or 2) somebody reverse engineers said format, or 3) the developers of Kaleidoscope successfully port it to Mac OS X/Carbon. I believe that 3) is likely, 1) and 2) less so.
Although the Hubble telescope was indeed forced to sit in storage for years longer than planned, this delay was not the source of the mirror problems. The mirror was flawed because it had been manufactured incorrectly. Many fundamental flaws in the testing procedures were identified during the subsequent investigation.
...(of which only a very few were made in the 1970s) but rather a drastically modified 747-200. In other words, it doesn't have a shortened fuselage. Also, there are TWO of them, identically outfitted.
FYI.
The logo nameplate on the original Apple II and the Apple II Plus used "][" for the roman numeral II. The Apple IIe and IIc used "//" instead. The Apple III used "///" It was a logo and industrial design style decision.
The only steroid-ish aspect of the eMate was its mini-notebook form factor. It still ran a very slow version of the ARM processor (25Mhz or so).
The real "Newton on steroids" was the 2000/2100, which had a nearly 200Mhz processor. What a loss to have it cancelled.
...was used in the Tandy 2000 computer in the mid-80s.