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(Athens) A Greek court has been asked to draw the line between the natives of the Aegean Sea island of Lesbos and the world's gay women. [I don't even know what to say about this.]
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(San Francisco, California) A motion by a Wells Fargo shareholder to remove protections for LGBT workers from the company's non-discrimination policy was defeated this week at its annual meeting.
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The mayor's spokesperson said a permit is being denied because of Russian society's opposition to the "gay lifestyle and philosophy." ...the government wanted to avoid what it assumed would be widespread violence as a reaction to the parade.
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A British mother and daughter have been sentenced after being found guilty of harassing a gay couple in the town of Kingston, Kent County.
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Brokeback Mountain director Ang Lee will make another gay-focused movie, this one about the gay man who helped make the 1969 Woodstock music festival a reality.
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A new study shows that many lesbian and gay youths, much like their heterosexual peers, expect to have long-term committed relationships and raise families in the future, according to an April 23 press release from Rockway Institute.
Microsoft's Rob Bennett is defending their decision to no longer issue DRM keys for people who purchased music from MSN Music. This will become effective August 31.
Microsoft closed the music store in November 2006. They have continued to offer DRM keys to people who purchased music and needed to move the tracks to new hardware. Now that they won't be able to obtain a new license, this means that the music will only last as long as the hardware it is loaded onto.
According to Bennett this is only going to affect a small number of people. He also feels that by backing up the music to CD and re-ripping in there will be little loss in fidelity.
The problem that I have had with that is tracks I've done that with had a lot of pops and hissing in them. I ended up having the purchase those songs again so I could get them without DRM.
I have not been a fan of DRM on music that I purchase. This just supports why trying to lock down legally purchased music doesn't work. When the company goes out of business you're stuck with music that will eventually need to be replaced. There is a place for DRM, just not on something that I've purchased.
Before getting my iPod, I had digital music players that supported subscriptions services. In my opinion that is the only acceptable use of DRM. I have payed at different times monthly fees to Napster, Yahoo Music, and Urge. I entered into those agreements with open eyes. I knew I would have unlimited downloads available to me for the month. If I wanted to continue listening to the music, I had to pay again next month. I also knew that if they shut up shop, the tracks would disappear. I was fully aware that I was only "renting" the music. If I wanted it permanently I would have to purchase it.
By using a subscription service, I got to listen to a lot of different artists. Some I liked and purchased their CDs. Some I couldn't delete fast enough. I looked at it as being no different that subscribing to a satellite radio service and discovering new music that way.
Thankfully the music industry is starting to wake up and realize that DRM is harmful to their business. Thanks to the rise of services like Amazon MP3
this problem will become a thing of the past. When you purchase an MP3, you can back it up in its original file format and transfer it without any restrictions between different computers and players. I know this doesn't help the MSM Music customers now, but hopefully they and others will get the word out about how their music became useless.
Microsoft closed the music store in November 2006. They have continued to offer DRM keys to people who purchased music and needed to move the tracks to new hardware. Now that they won't be able to obtain a new license, this means that the music will only last as long as the hardware it is loaded onto.
According to Bennett this is only going to affect a small number of people. He also feels that by backing up the music to CD and re-ripping in there will be little loss in fidelity.
The problem that I have had with that is tracks I've done that with had a lot of pops and hissing in them. I ended up having the purchase those songs again so I could get them without DRM.
I have not been a fan of DRM on music that I purchase. This just supports why trying to lock down legally purchased music doesn't work. When the company goes out of business you're stuck with music that will eventually need to be replaced. There is a place for DRM, just not on something that I've purchased.
Before getting my iPod, I had digital music players that supported subscriptions services. In my opinion that is the only acceptable use of DRM. I have payed at different times monthly fees to Napster, Yahoo Music, and Urge. I entered into those agreements with open eyes. I knew I would have unlimited downloads available to me for the month. If I wanted to continue listening to the music, I had to pay again next month. I also knew that if they shut up shop, the tracks would disappear. I was fully aware that I was only "renting" the music. If I wanted it permanently I would have to purchase it.
By using a subscription service, I got to listen to a lot of different artists. Some I liked and purchased their CDs. Some I couldn't delete fast enough. I looked at it as being no different that subscribing to a satellite radio service and discovering new music that way.
Thankfully the music industry is starting to wake up and realize that DRM is harmful to their business. Thanks to the rise of services like Amazon MP3
this problem will become a thing of the past. When you purchase an MP3, you can back it up in its original file format and transfer it without any restrictions between different computers and players. I know this doesn't help the MSM Music customers now, but hopefully they and others will get the word out about how their music became useless.Technorati Tags:
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A person can be convicted of theft, drug dealing, or a sex crime before joining the military; but still no gays. Does this make sense to anyone? It doesn't make sense to me.
What makes even less sense is that approximately two GLBT service members are released from the military every day. All of this due to the policy of don't ask, don't tell [DADT].
The information, released Monday by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, shows that the number of soldiers admitted to the Army with felony records jumped from 249 in 2006 to 511 in 2007. And the number of Marines with felonies rose from 208 to 350.Who would the average citizen want coming home from Afghanistan or Iraq, a law abiding gay man or a convicted violent offender? I don't even have to think about my answer. I would want any law abiding citizen coming home from war. The last thing we need is violent criminals coming home with more weapons knowledge than they had before joining the military.
What makes even less sense is that approximately two GLBT service members are released from the military every day. All of this due to the policy of don't ask, don't tell [DADT].
In the 10 years that DADT has been in force more than 10,000 personnel have been discharged as a result of the policy, including 800 with skills deemed 'mission critical,' such as pilots, combat engineers, and linguists.Where is the logic in kicking out people in mission critical positions? This is just another reason why DADT is not good for the military, or for the fight against the war on terror.
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Fuck it, I'll type it myself. You really learn to hate speech recognition when when your adult phone call goes awry.
Fuck it, I'll type it myself. You really learn to hate speech recognition when when your adult phone call goes awry.
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Proud Heritage is off to a good start of a three year project to create a national museum of GLBT history in the UK.
They've included a map showcasing GLBT establishments, and well as other sites that may be of interest to GLBT travelers.
via: [the chaser blog]
They've included a map showcasing GLBT establishments, and well as other sites that may be of interest to GLBT travelers.
via: [the chaser blog]
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While checking the local aviation blog to see what they had to say about my company, I found this amusing story about the Allied Pilots Association. The APA is the union that represents our pilots.
I find it ironic that the union headquarters was being picketed five days after the pilots picketed in Dallas, Chicago and London.
I find it ironic that the union headquarters was being picketed five days after the pilots picketed in Dallas, Chicago and London.
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The ruling said that to exclude same-sex partners would violate the principle of non-discrimination and human dignity as the expression of personal autonomy, protected by international law.
The next time you get ready to print a document you might want to think twice. Does it really need to be printed? If possible you might want to think about sending it digitally by e-mail.
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