If you say so - but we disagree, and that's all I need to establish.

Quote:, I don't think your
interpretation is anything at all like mine.

Bingo. We've just dismissed "The Bible says..." as an argument against Gay marriage.

Quote:Seriously?

Yeah - that's why I gave citations.

But the Bible also says you should donate your daughter to be gang raped (Judges 19), God will rape your wife (Deuteronomy 28), all non-virgins will be killed by God (Numbers 31), you can keep slaves, that's fine (Leviticus 25), If you're taking morals from a literal reading of The Bible, you'll quickly end up in prison.

You also have to explain why your God is better than mine, when mine is so much older than yours, and half your stories are stolen from mine. Odin wasn't averse to a bit of gender bending now and again - though not to the degree of Loki who was omnisexual, transexual, and both fathered and mothered children. Why is it okay to ignore the All Father, but not Yahweh?

But mostly, why the hell is it anybody else's business?

Gay people are much better at marriage than straight people. The annual divorce rate for homosexual couples is half that of heterosexual marriage.

When you ask a question, you should generally ask for the experts opinion. In this case, the experts are married homosexuals.

So the real question is do married homosexuals support straight marriage?

Quote:I love like an albino. But I don’t want to get sunburned, so would you please pass the ketchup?

-- Jarod Kintz

I'm getting old now. When I was young, and I was in my day, my targets involved changing the world and such.

My target is more modest now: own a folder panama.

There is no one root cause. Child soliders take four paths - they become radicalised, they're rescued by charities, they're shot by the UN, or they escape via people traffickers - into another life of slavery. Sex workers from Eastern Europe - particularly Sibera - have no prospects, there's nothing there. They think they're becoming models before it takes a more sinister role, they're groomed before being trafficked. From Syria they're being bombed at home and shot in the streets. Nobody wants them, the only way out is through people trafickers.

The root cause, depending on how you look at it, is either desperation, or the inhumanity of man.

Human trafficking is the fault of small minded parochialism and national borders. If you didn't have laws that said "You can't come in here because my mum happened to be standing on one particular rock one night several decades ago, and your mum was stood on a slightly different bit of rock - possibly even the same rock, but a different bit of it - so you can't" you wouldn't have human trafficking, you'd have free movement of people.

Schengen was a good start, but then twenty five years after the Berlin wall fell, the rest of Europe decided it was a good model to copy, and started building their own.

Until the day our species stops being a bunch of parochialist, narrow minded, "them and us" touting arseholes, we'll have people trafficking.

When my friend David lost his ID, we just called him Dav.

davidbugs wrote: Android phone have lack of security.

Apple iPhone is secure.

That's just a steaming pile of fermented horseshit.

iPhone 6S on iOS: £483.10

Jiake JK760 on Android: £29.99

Quote:As far as I'm concerned, I would very much love to live in extreme cold places, for you have no idea how hot it gets in India. Cheers!

Yeah - I nearly moved to India until I discovered how hot it got.

I'm a descendant of two warrior races. On one side, a Dane, on the other, a Celt.

We are the barbarians of the frozen North. We do not fear the cold, the cold fears us.

I just wear cargo pants and fleece tops. No need for an iRon.

madeture has a good summary, but I wouldn't rank Apple, you can't really repair an Apple.

I'd also place Toshiba above Asus. Toshiba tend to break quicker than Asus, but it's the fan that goes (and then overheating breaks other things). If you can fix the fan, which is easy, well, Toshiba hardware lives longer than Toshiba drivers. All my Toshibas, some twenty years old, still work - I updated them because ATI dropped FGLRX support for them. (They'd probably still work on Windows, but on Linux there are some complicated dependencies for proprietary drivers and you kinda need the latest version if you update other things).

I'm a member of five sites (six, including Clixsense). Four are owned by companies who have been around since the 90's. One is owned by a friend.

At the peak of my activity, when I lived in a poor country where $1 was worth a lot, I was in about 120...

It's the nature of the beast - the good sites die because they're drowned out and tainted by the scams. The older sites aren't immune either, though they tend to die by failing to adapt. One well known one was paying steadily for about 15 years, then closed with no warning. I'm not sure it makes much difference if they're "scam" or just "failed", the result is the same.

Still snow on the peaks. Looks like the Easter Snow will be back for the first time since I was but a nipper.

Robot Hymns, you say?

Quote:Now the world has gone to bed,
Darkness won't engulf my head,
I can see by infrared,
How I hate the night.

Now I lay me down to sleep,
Try to count electric sheep,
Sweet dream wishes you can keep,
How I hate the night.

-- Marvin the Paranoid Android

Quote:There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.

-- P. G. Wodehouse