Sorry, but there is scientific data that is much more convincing than an uninformed conclusion people wake up one morning and decided to become a member of the most vocally hated minority. It has nothing to do with tolerance.
You are correct in that there is no reason to know. But I have yet to meet many people like Jim Carrey's old In Living Color character that would walk up to people and go "Hi. I'm Gay" when introducing himself. Most of the time it comes from things like a slip of the tongue or doing normal things like putting up pictures of a loved one on the desk.
As for schools, there is no "promotion" of homosexuality because that implies that the recruitment theory is generally valid which it is not. What schools should be doing is teaching that being gay is not a 'disease' or 'amoral' and things to help these kids stop killing themselves. Or do gay teens and pre-teens deserve to die in your opinion?
And by the way, there is no "Gay Agenda". So drop the conspiracy theory bullshit.
You assume no hardware troubles will occur and so forth. While I am not familiar w/ Apple's warranty practices, I know that with a Dell or similar you get free replacement parts for a maximum of four years (and even then it can be extended).
Plus again you are not appealing to advantages of a lower price tag. I just went to Dell's site and config'd a Dimension 3000 with a 4year Warranty + Complete Care (covers accidental damage), 2.6 Celeron D, 512MB RAM, 40GB HD, 17" CRT. Total was just over $700.
I went to the Apple Store and config'd a Mac Mini w/ 1.25GHz G5, 40GB HD, 512MB RAM, Keyb/Mouse, Apple Care and the total came to just under $800. Now, go to CompUSA and what not and you add another $100 or so to that depending on what you want and what specials are running.
Assuming the machine will last the same amount of time on either side, the choice of Dell comes with free hardware replacement for 4 years regardless of what caused the damage (Apple's description of AppleCare does not specify that it covers accidental damage so it probably does not) and one would save $200. That is what Apple needs to work on.
People are not going to know that. Half the time my 1.5GHz Pentium M runs below 1GHz because I am not taxing my laptop all that much.
But it speaks to the longevity of the machine. Even though chips today are 8x faster, the only current application my Pentium II Xeon 400 system cannot run is the Windows XP Plus Pack which requires a 500MHz system. Windows itself only requires a 233MHz system base as of XP. The guy looking at that 3GHz Dell knows that he can keep that thing running for a few years. So spending $400 on something that will last 4-5 years is not a bad investment to him.
That has to do with Eisner, not because a bunch of so-called Christians boycotted them. It would have happened years ago because, if I remember correctly, the boycott started in the early 90's.
The problem with boycotts is is that they are now balanced on any level other than local. For example the Bus Boycotts in the 1960's worked because locally 'colored' people were the bulk of the business and thus the companies took a big hit. But something like these gas boycotts where we are not supposed to buy gas on a certain day are pointless because all it does is create a spike in sales the days leading up to it and after that balance it out. So for every one person who boycotts Disney, there people who will switch to Disney because of the boycott.
It cand be a double-edged sword because when the boycott becomes more and more public, the reasons behind it are well known. One of those so-called "family" groups called for a boycott of Proctor & Gamble based on the fact that there was an ad which never was even commissioned by P&G directly involving a supposed gay sex hook-up (P&G rejected that ad) and they advertise on shows like WIll & Grace. When I found out about it I switched to P&G products to spite boycott.
Sorry babe, but it has. Ever hear of Coretta Scott King? If not, she is the widow of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. so what she says on the civil rights movement carries a bit more weight than a bunch of screaming "Christians" engaging in a reaction formation.
And you failed to explain how gay rats being created from birth. It's a little hard for male rats to 'choose' to have a reflex only females have.
Agreed. One call to Disney would have proven that to him since the Southern Baptist Convention has had a boycott of Disney in place for years and it never hurt their bottom line.
Not to mention the fact that boycotting MS means that they have to either learn Linux proficiently to the point open source software can be used in place of MS software and run games on emulators or convert to Mac and pay to have all their software converted. Neither of which is going to happen on a grand scale.
The ironic thing in all of this is that discrimination towards homosexuality is based on the belief it is a choice which has strong evidence against it (i.e. the fact gay rats can literally be manufactured and there is data from WWII-era German births providing a link to the same phenomena in humans). They also somehow believe people wake up one morning and say "I want to be a member of the most vocally hated minority in the US." and such.
The ironic twist is that, assuming being gay is a choice, the same arguments against gay rights based on choice also negate civil rights based on religion. You choose to be Catholic/Protestant/Jewish/etc. so why should they get protection based on that then?
How did MS' marketing make Alias (formrly Alias|Wavefront), then owned by SGi itself, port PowerAnimator's successor off IRIX-only code? One would think SGi would have wanted to keep its power-house application tied to its hardware. But if their big customers are not willing to shell out $20k/workstation for SGi when an NT Workstation costs no more than $5k they have a problem.
If any company's marketing had anything to do with it, it would have been Autodesk since 3D Studio and 3ds max were making IA-32 a viable 3d platform.
And "hardware geeks" are not the only ones who care about price:performance ratio. Try the guy looking at a 3GHz Dell for $400 versus a $1000 iMac. Gamers, a rather large market share, come to mind too.
First of all gay rights are equivelent to racial rights rooted in the civil rights movement in the 1960's. That argument has already been settled.
So what you are saying is that corporations should just treat people like sources of income and care only about them when they are coughing up money? Pardon the Star Trek reference, but one does not think corporations will survive based on the Rules of Acquisition.
Also, you might look into the concept of Socially Responsible Investing where entities are given investors' money based on their social actions well. Plenty of mutual funds have come into existence based on this concept.
Actually, you're thinking of "Affirmative Action".
"We value diversity" is the phrase used when someone gets nailed by HR for using words like "nigger", "faggot", "cunt", etc. or similar situations.
So I guess if this were the 1960's Microsoft should have not supported legislation that ended racial discrimination too?
Just because "many people in America are opposed" to it does not make it wrong.
Because Apple Hardware Price:Performance ratio is still bad.
It's the same reason why Intel/AMD workstations have eaten away at SGi's 3D market when Maya (successor to PowerAnimator) and other apps were ported to IA-32 under WinNT.
It has probably been mentioned already somewhere amongst the hundreds of comments to this, but I will pose itjust in case.
What does this legislation cover that is not already covered by both pre-existing copyright law and the Computer Fraud/Abuse Act?
Sounds more like anoher welfare check for RIAA/MPAA.
It depends. Adobe may market them as lower end solutions. Kind of like the 'Elements' line.
Macromedia did not seem to be in trouble so I imagine Adobe wanted more than just Dreamweaver. Director and Authorware are two other power-house applications under Macromedia's belt. Not to mention Adobe now gets ColdFusion although that thing's fate is rather uncertain.
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I'm not bitching about them. I am merely commenting on how amusing they are. As are the Anonymous Cowards who are too chicken-shit to post using their identities.
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LOL. How utterly childish.
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That's fine. I just wish all these babies would stop pissing and moaning about the interspersed April Fools jokes.
It's not like these kind of articles on this day are new to/.
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It is amazing how much people are bitching about how the April Fools joke entries are a waste of time/space/money/etc. But what is funny/ironic is that these people are wasting even more time to post and bitch about it.
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Sorry, but there is scientific data that is much more convincing than an uninformed conclusion people wake up one morning and decided to become a member of the most vocally hated minority. It has nothing to do with tolerance.
You are correct in that there is no reason to know. But I have yet to meet many people like Jim Carrey's old In Living Color character that would walk up to people and go "Hi. I'm Gay" when introducing himself. Most of the time it comes from things like a slip of the tongue or doing normal things like putting up pictures of a loved one on the desk.
As for schools, there is no "promotion" of homosexuality because that implies that the recruitment theory is generally valid which it is not. What schools should be doing is teaching that being gay is not a 'disease' or 'amoral' and things to help these kids stop killing themselves. Or do gay teens and pre-teens deserve to die in your opinion?
And by the way, there is no "Gay Agenda". So drop the conspiracy theory bullshit.
You assume no hardware troubles will occur and so forth. While I am not familiar w/ Apple's warranty practices, I know that with a Dell or similar you get free replacement parts for a maximum of four years (and even then it can be extended).
Plus again you are not appealing to advantages of a lower price tag. I just went to Dell's site and config'd a Dimension 3000 with a 4year Warranty + Complete Care (covers accidental damage), 2.6 Celeron D, 512MB RAM, 40GB HD, 17" CRT. Total was just over $700.
I went to the Apple Store and config'd a Mac Mini w/ 1.25GHz G5, 40GB HD, 512MB RAM, Keyb/Mouse, Apple Care and the total came to just under $800. Now, go to CompUSA and what not and you add another $100 or so to that depending on what you want and what specials are running.
Assuming the machine will last the same amount of time on either side, the choice of Dell comes with free hardware replacement for 4 years regardless of what caused the damage (Apple's description of AppleCare does not specify that it covers accidental damage so it probably does not) and one would save $200. That is what Apple needs to work on.
Her being an authoritative source is moot since she was in the middle of the mess in the 1960s and can also make an empirical judgment.
People are not going to know that. Half the time my 1.5GHz Pentium M runs below 1GHz because I am not taxing my laptop all that much.
But it speaks to the longevity of the machine. Even though chips today are 8x faster, the only current application my Pentium II Xeon 400 system cannot run is the Windows XP Plus Pack which requires a 500MHz system. Windows itself only requires a 233MHz system base as of XP. The guy looking at that 3GHz Dell knows that he can keep that thing running for a few years. So spending $400 on something that will last 4-5 years is not a bad investment to him.
That has to do with Eisner, not because a bunch of so-called Christians boycotted them. It would have happened years ago because, if I remember correctly, the boycott started in the early 90's.
The problem with boycotts is is that they are now balanced on any level other than local. For example the Bus Boycotts in the 1960's worked because locally 'colored' people were the bulk of the business and thus the companies took a big hit. But something like these gas boycotts where we are not supposed to buy gas on a certain day are pointless because all it does is create a spike in sales the days leading up to it and after that balance it out. So for every one person who boycotts Disney, there people who will switch to Disney because of the boycott.
It cand be a double-edged sword because when the boycott becomes more and more public, the reasons behind it are well known. One of those so-called "family" groups called for a boycott of Proctor & Gamble based on the fact that there was an ad which never was even commissioned by P&G directly involving a supposed gay sex hook-up (P&G rejected that ad) and they advertise on shows like WIll & Grace. When I found out about it I switched to P&G products to spite boycott.
Sorry babe, but it has. Ever hear of Coretta Scott King? If not, she is the widow of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. so what she says on the civil rights movement carries a bit more weight than a bunch of screaming "Christians" engaging in a reaction formation.
And you failed to explain how gay rats being created from birth. It's a little hard for male rats to 'choose' to have a reflex only females have.
Nice try though. I'll give to a C- for effort.
Agreed. One call to Disney would have proven that to him since the Southern Baptist Convention has had a boycott of Disney in place for years and it never hurt their bottom line.
Not to mention the fact that boycotting MS means that they have to either learn Linux proficiently to the point open source software can be used in place of MS software and run games on emulators or convert to Mac and pay to have all their software converted. Neither of which is going to happen on a grand scale.
The ironic thing in all of this is that discrimination towards homosexuality is based on the belief it is a choice which has strong evidence against it (i.e. the fact gay rats can literally be manufactured and there is data from WWII-era German births providing a link to the same phenomena in humans). They also somehow believe people wake up one morning and say "I want to be a member of the most vocally hated minority in the US." and such.
The ironic twist is that, assuming being gay is a choice, the same arguments against gay rights based on choice also negate civil rights based on religion. You choose to be Catholic/Protestant/Jewish/etc. so why should they get protection based on that then?
How did MS' marketing make Alias (formrly Alias|Wavefront), then owned by SGi itself, port PowerAnimator's successor off IRIX-only code? One would think SGi would have wanted to keep its power-house application tied to its hardware. But if their big customers are not willing to shell out $20k/workstation for SGi when an NT Workstation costs no more than $5k they have a problem.
If any company's marketing had anything to do with it, it would have been Autodesk since 3D Studio and 3ds max were making IA-32 a viable 3d platform.
And "hardware geeks" are not the only ones who care about price:performance ratio. Try the guy looking at a 3GHz Dell for $400 versus a $1000 iMac. Gamers, a rather large market share, come to mind too.
First of all gay rights are equivelent to racial rights rooted in the civil rights movement in the 1960's. That argument has already been settled.
So what you are saying is that corporations should just treat people like sources of income and care only about them when they are coughing up money? Pardon the Star Trek reference, but one does not think corporations will survive based on the Rules of Acquisition.
Also, you might look into the concept of Socially Responsible Investing where entities are given investors' money based on their social actions well. Plenty of mutual funds have come into existence based on this concept.
Actually, you're thinking of "Affirmative Action". "We value diversity" is the phrase used when someone gets nailed by HR for using words like "nigger", "faggot", "cunt", etc. or similar situations.
So I guess if this were the 1960's Microsoft should have not supported legislation that ended racial discrimination too? Just because "many people in America are opposed" to it does not make it wrong.
Because Apple Hardware Price:Performance ratio is still bad. It's the same reason why Intel/AMD workstations have eaten away at SGi's 3D market when Maya (successor to PowerAnimator) and other apps were ported to IA-32 under WinNT.
"Hello, Pot? It's kettle. Guess what. You're black!"
Thank the gods Canada's only a hour's drive.
It has probably been mentioned already somewhere amongst the hundreds of comments to this, but I will pose itjust in case. What does this legislation cover that is not already covered by both pre-existing copyright law and the Computer Fraud/Abuse Act? Sounds more like anoher welfare check for RIAA/MPAA.
It depends. Adobe may market them as lower end solutions. Kind of like the 'Elements' line. Macromedia did not seem to be in trouble so I imagine Adobe wanted more than just Dreamweaver. Director and Authorware are two other power-house applications under Macromedia's belt. Not to mention Adobe now gets ColdFusion although that thing's fate is rather uncertain.
Listen to the song honey.
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I'm not bitching about them. I am merely commenting on how amusing they are. As are the Anonymous Cowards who are too chicken-shit to post using their identities.
LOL. How utterly childish.
That's fine. I just wish all these babies would stop pissing and moaning about the interspersed April Fools jokes. It's not like these kind of articles on this day are new to /.
It is amazing how much people are bitching about how the April Fools joke entries are a waste of time/space/money/etc. But what is funny/ironic is that these people are wasting even more time to post and bitch about it.
Just get over it already.
No, the "election" of GW Bush proved we live in Hell.