Not that you needed another reason to switch from the evil empire to a mac (incoherent demands for .ini and .dll files, virii, trojan horses, ugly GUIs, poor design, frequent system crashes, overpriced upgrades, and so on, ought to have been enough already), but now you do have one.
Go on -- make the switch! You know you want to. You've wanted to for a long time. And now's the perfect time. It's cheap, easy and thanks to Neooffice, it's possible to run a completely micro$oft-free machine (and don't you know how good that's gonna feel).
Do it for human rights and because America is not supposed to be a religious state.
UPDATE: Micro$oft is spending $20,000 a month to line the pockets of Georgia Lt. Gov. candidate and uber-conservative religious wingnut Ralph Reed. Is this why they keep raising the price of M$ Office?
Go on -- make the switch! You know you want to. You've wanted to for a long time. And now's the perfect time. It's cheap, easy and thanks to Neooffice, it's possible to run a completely micro$oft-free machine (and don't you know how good that's gonna feel).
Do it for human rights and because America is not supposed to be a religious state.
UPDATE: Micro$oft is spending $20,000 a month to line the pockets of Georgia Lt. Gov. candidate and uber-conservative religious wingnut Ralph Reed. Is this why they keep raising the price of M$ Office?
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I have been a 'Mac person' for years AND I think homosexuality is wrong. Does that mean I should be a 'Windows person' by your logic?
I'm not trying to start an argument, I just think this whole 'gay rights' drivel is a non-issue.
Look at nature. It's clear. Not hate, just reality.
Greg,
I don't think you should be a windows person because you're anti-gay, which is why I didn't say that. I said that if you're looking for yet another reason to dump windows, here it is. A lot of people find the anti-gay agenda to be an incredibly offensive political ploy used by cynical people who can't win with a positive message and micro$oft's recent apparent flip-flop might very well influence their future shopping habits.
By the way, Greg, if you're really not trying to start an argument, I suggest you use less incendiary language. Given the drivel that follows, your disclaimer comes off as disingenuous, at best.
Hey, Joe Shmoe:
Wendell and Cass, two penguins at the New York Aquarium in Coney Island, Brooklyn share a nest. Among the 22 male and 10 female African black-footed penguins in the aquarium's exhibit, tales of love, lust and betrayal are the norm. These birds mate for life. But given the disproportionate male-female ratio at the aquarium, some of the females flirt profusely and dump their partners for single males with better nests.
Wendell and Cass, however, take no part in these cunning schemes. They have been completely devoted to each other for the last eight years. In fact, neither one of them has ever been with anyone else, says their keeper, Stephanie Mitchell.
But the partnership of Wendell and Cass adds drama in another way. They're both male. That is to say, they're gay penguins.
This is not unusual. "There are a lot of animals that have same-sex relations, it's just that people don't know about it," Mitchell said. "I mean, Joe Schmoe on the street is not someone who's read all sorts of biology books."
Just as in humans, animals often form long-term same-sex relationships. In species in which this normally occurs in heterosexual couples, that shouldn't come as a great surprise, but it does come as a surprise in species where heterosexual pair-bonds don't normally form for long if at all. This is true of bottlenose dolphins, which are not known to form heterosexual pair bonds, but which do in fact form homosexual pair bonds, including sex, and often lasting for life.
In animals in which "bachelor groups" form, such as bison, gazelles, antelope, sage grouse and Guinean cocks-of-the-rock, it is not uncommon for same sex pair bonds to form and last until one or the other member of the pair departs the relationship and breeds. It is also not uncommon for homosexual preference to form among members of such bachelor groups; when offered the opportunity to breed unencumbered with members of the opposite sex or the same sex, they choose the same sex.
The human pattern of bisexuality also appears in animals. In some cases, animals prefer same sex at one point in their lives, and change preference later. They may even change back and forth. In some cases, animals may seek sex with partners of either sex at random.
In animals with a seasonal breeding pattern, homosexuality can even be seasonal. Male walruses, for example, often form homosexual pair bonds and have sex with each other outside of the breeding season, but will revert to a heterosexual pattern during the normal breeding season.
"The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose."
--J.B.S. Haldane, evolutionary biologist
I agree with most of the things you said in the article , there are some facts i don't agree with you, but anyway, great article . What about making an article about the Samoyed dog breed? I found it to be the most adorable dog breed. Thanks!
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