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Don't stop there: let's have a hurdle for ALL prospective parents, before anyone can have children. ^_^ <{POST_SNAPBACK}> We were talking about adoption, not what is considered "normal" conception. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I wasn't. ^_^

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Anyone heard of the game Dark Reign? Realtime combat apparently there is Online Community playing it still ... also Fury? Many thanks

Don't stop there: let's have a hurdle for ALL prospective parents, before anyone can have children. ^_^

Some comfort in the death of an evil man.

I don't think the Persians like him, so that's probably moot, too.

Roll on Autumn, rock on GPUs!

I am playing Hlaf-Life 2: Episode One, Tomb Raider (PSone) and Space Rangers 2.

... He never liked Iraq.

Ah, the prevalence of ladettes has reached Canadia. Maybe they should increase the alcoholic content of all drinks, to toxic levels?

That's okay, as long as I don't have to read it ... (j/k) :D

Could be ...

True, but race isn't really the crux of my argument. Non carcasian isn't the only minority. Should muslims have equal adoption rights? Is it fair to give the child to a family that will force it to pray 5x a day to a brick? Obviously not. Minorities aren't ideal candidates imho... it just makes life unnecessarily harder for the child. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> This attitude just entrenches bigotry, congratulations. Rather than change what's wrong with society, you would have the (innocent) individuals change their behaviour, because the majority don't agree with it (this is known as the tyraany of the majority). Remeber Ghandi's advice to the Hindu man who's son was killed by a Muslim lynch mob? Probably not, so I'll tell you: he said "Go and adopt a Muslim boy, and raise him as a Muslim." I wonder if you can work out why. Homosexuality exists in about 10% of populations, pretty constantly. This includes higher primates, whales, and (AFAICR) all mammals. The genetic information is not perfectly clear, either: there is no "gay gene", however there is indications that there might be a series of useful traits that, if all are active, may induce homosexuality. Of course, nothing is completely hereditary or purely environmental, and people smarter than me have been arguing about that longer than I have been alive with no result.

Optimism is good for you; pessimism kills.

No, absolutely not. This is a fair-minded forum.

Fixed. :D

They had Mcdonalds back then? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hey! Call fair trading! Price-fixing!

Steve, the point is that gay civil partnerships have only recently been recognised; therefore the judiciary are more inclined to take their previous de facto relationship as evidence of a stable partnership, rather than the legal definition that is written out for heterosexuals. I thought that was the Roman Catholic Church (and probably the Greek / Russian / Whatever Orthodoxes, as well).

Lioness was doing the gene pool a favour.

The price is dependent on the franchise; I remember we had three McDonalds restaurants within walking distance when I was young, and the prices were all different.

Currently, homosexual de facto relationships have more legal binding than heterosexual ones. Edit: What Jimmy ^ said.

One common misconception is that small businesses need small customers ... actually, most of the time spent in SME sales is finding which (potential) customers should never be engaged as they are TOO MUCH WORK for the revenue. It's only big corporations, like McDonalds, Walmart, etc, that have the resources to deal with the fiddly little tyre-kickers ... :D