Just because it's always been done doesn't mean it's the fair thing to do. Basically, defining marriage as between a man and a woman denies access to certain men to equal recognition by the state. Some states require in their constitutions that men and women are treated equally, denying access to a certain class of people based on their gender and the gender to which they're attracted is unfair.
Basically it's an issue of civil rights because men and women are supposed to equal in the eyes of the law. A fair comparison would be miscegnation laws of years past - races were not allowed to intermarry.. but why not? Because of tradition (racism, in this case). Different rights is not equal rights.
We could define (again) that marriage should only be between people of the same race. That's the equivalent of the constitutional amendment being proposed by the republican leadership.
I have one of the older alphasmarts and love it. It's used for writing and that's about it. It's durable, not quite light but lighter than a laptop, but cheap enough at $200 that we don't have to worry about it getting destroyed or lost. The full-sized keyboard means that typing in a vehicle is a non-issue. Battery life is just no comparison to anything you've used before - especially when traveling away from electricty. And it emulates a keyboard to type in/uploads your documents into any computer (I wonder if the Dana does that) - even a web cafe - without any additional software.
I did extensive comparison shopping for such a machine for writing while traveling and the Alphasmart won out over everything else, and if you look around you'll hear constant praise for the Alphasmart from teachers to writers to the New York Times.
The only thing that I'd say could be improved over the older model is that the screen display is too small at only 4 lines of text. The Dana addresses this. It's a bit pricey but an obvious evolution - if they can get the price down for bulk orders (and they probably can) and get something to protect the screen from scratches then they'll find plenty of professional writers eager to get this new machine.
The dark horizontal line you sometimes see on a Trinitron are caused not by multiple electron guns, but by a thin horizontal wire which helps to stabilize Sony's proprietary shadowmask.
The line was visible on my old Apple 13" trinitron monitor, for example.
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There are plenty of people in the world with one name. It's unusual here in the west, perhaps, but not elsewhere in the world.
Just because it's always been done doesn't mean it's the fair thing to do. Basically, defining marriage as between a man and a woman denies access to certain men to equal recognition by the state. Some states require in their constitutions that men and women are treated equally, denying access to a certain class of people based on their gender and the gender to which they're attracted is unfair. Basically it's an issue of civil rights because men and women are supposed to equal in the eyes of the law. A fair comparison would be miscegnation laws of years past - races were not allowed to intermarry.. but why not? Because of tradition (racism, in this case). Different rights is not equal rights. We could define (again) that marriage should only be between people of the same race. That's the equivalent of the constitutional amendment being proposed by the republican leadership.
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I have one of the older alphasmarts and love it. It's used for writing and that's about it. It's durable, not quite light but lighter than a laptop, but cheap enough at $200 that we don't have to worry about it getting destroyed or lost. The full-sized keyboard means that typing in a vehicle is a non-issue. Battery life is just no comparison to anything you've used before - especially when traveling away from electricty. And it emulates a keyboard to type in/uploads your documents into any computer (I wonder if the Dana does that) - even a web cafe - without any additional software. I did extensive comparison shopping for such a machine for writing while traveling and the Alphasmart won out over everything else, and if you look around you'll hear constant praise for the Alphasmart from teachers to writers to the New York Times. The only thing that I'd say could be improved over the older model is that the screen display is too small at only 4 lines of text. The Dana addresses this. It's a bit pricey but an obvious evolution - if they can get the price down for bulk orders (and they probably can) and get something to protect the screen from scratches then they'll find plenty of professional writers eager to get this new machine.
The dark horizontal line you sometimes see on a Trinitron are caused not by multiple electron guns, but by a thin horizontal wire which helps to stabilize Sony's proprietary shadowmask. The line was visible on my old Apple 13" trinitron monitor, for example.