Fair enough. You never actually admitted you like thin, mannish women. You simply refuse to admit that flat-chested, narrow-hipped women look like members of the flat-chested, narrow-hipped male gender. I'm sure catching me in an unsupported inference will completely make up for being caught in an absurd contradiction yourself, at least in your petty mind.
The hardware isn't intended to function without a supporting OS. Putting the computer into sleep mode is done by the OS, not by the hardware, and designing it otherwise just to make it easy for tinkerers is a waste of Apple's time.
This, of course, takes the accusation at face value to begin with--my MacBook runs just fine with the lid closed, when I have an external display and keyboard attached. The Apple notebooks that don't run well that way aren't configured to wake up with the lid closed when you do that, as I've gathered. Whether the controlling system for that is in the firmware or the OS doesn't matter until you feel like replacing either--something that's possible with a Mac, but not something it's designed for.
Please post the exact quote where I state that I am attracted to masculine women
Of course you haven't said it in so many words--as I said you're trying to rationalize your way out of it. Please actually read my comments before replying to them and wasting my time further.
Some women do look like men. As you refuse to acknowledge, some defining biological differences between women and men (hip size, breasts, difference in gait, etc.) are related to physical appearance, and women who exhibit less sexual dimorphism than others, accordingly, look more like men. It doesn't disgust me, I just prefer feminine women. I also prefer masculine men, of course, but my sexuality is not the one in question--I am not the one who tries to rationalize his way out of being attracted to masculine women.
When did you ever get the idea I was advocating for the language used in the American bill of rights? I did read the rest of the thread. It isn't that simple--a written bill of rights allows the public to keep check of whether or not the judiciary is making a good-faith attempt at upholding those rights instead of just making it up as they go along. If your written bill of rights provides no real guarantee of rights, the judiciary can get away with never violating the words on the paper while ruling away each and every one of your supposed rights.
I'm saying it's better for your bill of rights to place actual restrictions on your government. If there are exceptions written into it, that's fine, but don't make them stupid exceptions like "protecting public morality" that totally compromise the freedom that's supposedly being guaranteed so that it's not guaranteed at all.
For that matter, I am confident that most of the "women" in Second Life are actually men, but I doubt that any significant portion of them are transvestites or transexuals.
I am actually a man, but for some time, I was a woman on Second Life. Your confidence is well-placed. That doesn't stop us from having hot lesbian sex though.
That's pretty much right, except a fuller translation would of course flesh out those words so they don't seem as clipped (unless the German seems just as clipped to a German speaker--I don't have a good enough feel for the language to tell).
What happens to that MacBook when you put in a wifi card it wasn't expecting to see?
Irrelevant. The MacBook already has WiFi, and no PCMCIA slot.
It's easy enough to turn the "Macintosh experience" into the "Linux experience". So given an arbitrary odd sort of hardware configuration MacOS doesn't have clear superiority over Linux. It might be better. It might not. It's not something you can simply take as a given.
We're talking about the configurations an actual user is likely to see, not the total set of configurations a Linux enthusiast with a point to prove could come up with in an afternoon.
Macs are sold as an integrated system, not as a set of independent components which just happen to work together. That integrated system works. If you, the user, install an OS that isn't designed to work with the computer (unlike the Boot Camp/Windows setup that Apple is developing and will release and begin to support with Leopard), that's your tinkering, and your fault if it makes your computer melt or burst into flames.
You must be pretty dumb, then. I was able to get Parallels to load a CD disk image, install Ubuntu on yet another disk image, and boot the Linux VM from that image several times.
As for boxing, yeah, it's a barbaric "sport" that really has no place in a civilized society. It's the modern-day equivalent of the Roman gladiators.
Except it's performed by consenting adults instead of conscripted prisoners and is specifically set up to avoid fatalities or permanent injuries instead of a fight to the death, you're exactly correct. Of course, being performed by consenting adults and not being set up specifically to have a death at the end are the defining features. By your logic, soccer should be illegal because it resembles ancient Aztec soccer, in which the losing team was sacrificed to the gods at the end.
And, considering that all the fighting, promotion, training, spectating, and betting is done by consenting adults, I'm not sure entirely how you intend to prevent it. I'm envisioning a team of riot police wading into an underground boxing match, tasers and nightsticks drawn, forcibly breaking it up for the sake of nonviolence. I'm sure the irony would be lost to them, though.
Except the opposite is entirely true. At least the guarantee of freedom of speech presented is true and valid insofar as it is written; namely, it is legally plausible for the judiciary of the EU to follow that law, every time, without fail.
"The Republic of Theoneandonlystan guarantees freedom of speech, thought, and action to all persons, except when it doesn't." Legally plausible to follow, but not a good guarantee of rights.
More to the point, it didn't happen in Seattle for either football or baseball--the Mariners and Seahawks both got new stadiums by tax support in recent years. Reluctance to build a new arena is caused as much by thus as anything.
Players' contracts? Not only do players have a union, but the salaries are immense. The restrictions (such as not riding motorcycles, being subject to suspension, etc.) are all based upon legitimate interests of the team and league and proportional to compensation. While their other practices may be questionable, you don't have much of a case with player and coach contracts.
When I see a fat girl (not chubby, but round) the first thing I think of is 'well if she doesnt care about herself enough to lose weight, why should I care about her?'
Of course, I suppose if she carried it off with enough confidence that you could tell she's just the way she wants to be, that wouldn't be the case?
That you think "looks like a man" when you see a thin woman?
How else would YOU describe someone with a flat chest, possibly narrowish hips, and not much of an ass? Seriously. Read up on sexual dimorphism--and recognize that individuals who don't exhibit dimorphic traits so much look more like the other gender.
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Fair enough. You never actually admitted you like thin, mannish women. You simply refuse to admit that flat-chested, narrow-hipped women look like members of the flat-chested, narrow-hipped male gender. I'm sure catching me in an unsupported inference will completely make up for being caught in an absurd contradiction yourself, at least in your petty mind.
The hardware isn't intended to function without a supporting OS. Putting the computer into sleep mode is done by the OS, not by the hardware, and designing it otherwise just to make it easy for tinkerers is a waste of Apple's time.
This, of course, takes the accusation at face value to begin with--my MacBook runs just fine with the lid closed, when I have an external display and keyboard attached. The Apple notebooks that don't run well that way aren't configured to wake up with the lid closed when you do that, as I've gathered. Whether the controlling system for that is in the firmware or the OS doesn't matter until you feel like replacing either--something that's possible with a Mac, but not something it's designed for.
Of course you haven't said it in so many words--as I said you're trying to rationalize your way out of it. Please actually read my comments before replying to them and wasting my time further.
Some women do look like men. As you refuse to acknowledge, some defining biological differences between women and men (hip size, breasts, difference in gait, etc.) are related to physical appearance, and women who exhibit less sexual dimorphism than others, accordingly, look more like men. It doesn't disgust me, I just prefer feminine women. I also prefer masculine men, of course, but my sexuality is not the one in question--I am not the one who tries to rationalize his way out of being attracted to masculine women.
Maybe. Probably better to call it a field goal instead of a touchdown.
When did you ever get the idea I was advocating for the language used in the American bill of rights? I did read the rest of the thread. It isn't that simple--a written bill of rights allows the public to keep check of whether or not the judiciary is making a good-faith attempt at upholding those rights instead of just making it up as they go along. If your written bill of rights provides no real guarantee of rights, the judiciary can get away with never violating the words on the paper while ruling away each and every one of your supposed rights.
Not really. If the plane just blows up, they don't get to hijack it and fly it into the World Trade Center.
I'm saying it's better for your bill of rights to place actual restrictions on your government. If there are exceptions written into it, that's fine, but don't make them stupid exceptions like "protecting public morality" that totally compromise the freedom that's supposedly being guaranteed so that it's not guaranteed at all.
The worst part of that is having to download 50 billion patches each time you have to check something, eh? I'm in a similar situation.
I am actually a man, but for some time, I was a woman on Second Life. Your confidence is well-placed. That doesn't stop us from having hot lesbian sex though.
That's pretty much right, except a fuller translation would of course flesh out those words so they don't seem as clipped (unless the German seems just as clipped to a German speaker--I don't have a good enough feel for the language to tell).
Irrelevant. The MacBook already has WiFi, and no PCMCIA slot.
It's easy enough to turn the "Macintosh experience" into the "Linux experience". So given an arbitrary odd sort of hardware configuration MacOS doesn't have clear superiority over Linux. It might be better. It might not. It's not something you can simply take as a given.We're talking about the configurations an actual user is likely to see, not the total set of configurations a Linux enthusiast with a point to prove could come up with in an afternoon.
Macs are sold as an integrated system, not as a set of independent components which just happen to work together. That integrated system works. If you, the user, install an OS that isn't designed to work with the computer (unlike the Boot Camp/Windows setup that Apple is developing and will release and begin to support with Leopard), that's your tinkering, and your fault if it makes your computer melt or burst into flames.
You must be pretty dumb, then. I was able to get Parallels to load a CD disk image, install Ubuntu on yet another disk image, and boot the Linux VM from that image several times.
Except it's performed by consenting adults instead of conscripted prisoners and is specifically set up to avoid fatalities or permanent injuries instead of a fight to the death, you're exactly correct. Of course, being performed by consenting adults and not being set up specifically to have a death at the end are the defining features. By your logic, soccer should be illegal because it resembles ancient Aztec soccer, in which the losing team was sacrificed to the gods at the end.
And, considering that all the fighting, promotion, training, spectating, and betting is done by consenting adults, I'm not sure entirely how you intend to prevent it. I'm envisioning a team of riot police wading into an underground boxing match, tasers and nightsticks drawn, forcibly breaking it up for the sake of nonviolence. I'm sure the irony would be lost to them, though.
"The Republic of Theoneandonlystan guarantees freedom of speech, thought, and action to all persons, except when it doesn't." Legally plausible to follow, but not a good guarantee of rights.
Soccer is as much of an NFL competitor as hockey--a completely different sport that Americans historically have no interest in.
More to the point, it didn't happen in Seattle for either football or baseball--the Mariners and Seahawks both got new stadiums by tax support in recent years. Reluctance to build a new arena is caused as much by thus as anything.
Players' contracts? Not only do players have a union, but the salaries are immense. The restrictions (such as not riding motorcycles, being subject to suspension, etc.) are all based upon legitimate interests of the team and league and proportional to compensation. While their other practices may be questionable, you don't have much of a case with player and coach contracts.
It's not my fault you're so defensive about proving you don't like masculine bodies. Sounds like someone's a homophobe!
Always a pleasure to deal with pricks like you.
How is that not the exact same thing as lab fees, except with different accounting categories?
Yes, but there are already lab fees to cover those costs. Differential pricing on top of that isn't necessary, at least in terms of lab costs.
Of course, I suppose if she carried it off with enough confidence that you could tell she's just the way she wants to be, that wouldn't be the case?
How else would YOU describe someone with a flat chest, possibly narrowish hips, and not much of an ass? Seriously. Read up on sexual dimorphism--and recognize that individuals who don't exhibit dimorphic traits so much look more like the other gender.