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Sadly, civil unions are nothing more than "SEPARATE BUT VASTLY UNEQUAL".
It still denies gay couples over 14,000 rights and privileges that hetero married couples get in the US. This can also lead to tax issues, as the federal gov does not accept civil unions, so the tax benefits you get at state level will cause problems when you do your federal taxes.
Because some times it mistakenly reads torrents that are in queued mode as active.
If a file contains 5 'items' and 5 different downloaders each want a different item what does the client do? (No doubt someone will tell me I am wrong in this hypothosis.) This is based on one uploader.
From what I understand of Bit Torrent it will share its given information EQUALLY. Therefore it would take each downloader the same ammount of time to download their 'item' as it would if they had asked for all 5 items.
There are several issues that can cause some to be stuck, while others get a completed download, such as connection issues and cheater clients.
5 downloaders getting the same file goes faster than it 5 people are trying to get 5 completely different files. If a file is 10mb in size, the uploader can give 2mb to each of the 5 downloaders and in theory, he could stop uploading and the downloaders would end up with the whole file as long as each person got a different set of data. This is because the downloaders can now share their own 2mb of the file with each other until everyone has a complete copy.
If each of the downloaders wanted a separate file, then the uploader has to be there until everyone gets the whole thing, because there would be nothing for the downloaders to share between themselves.
I was thinking about this for a while now.
With the current forum set up, you can't move posts, threads easily. So it's either delete or lock the completed requests.
Locking won't solve the problem because still unanswered posts will still be buried.
I'm really waiting to get the new forum software installed, as that will solve most the forum issues I have as a moderator.
Yeah, I forget what it says exactly, but it's something about too many active torrents.
It's the same message everyone gets when they go over their active torrent limit for their user level.
Actually, the most anyone can have is 20 active torrents.
If you would like something added to the list, post it/them in the corresponding discussion thread.
Thank you
True.
It's still the same, you don't get the horrible fuzziness with avi files that you do with rmvb files.
Rmvb sucks. The quality is much lower than standard avi format.
If you want to be really disgusted, have a look at his websites;
hXXp://www.godhatesfags.com/
hXXp://www.godhatesamerica.com/
hXXp://www.godhatessweden.com/
hXXp://www.godhatescanada.com/
All but a few of the members of his church, are his own family members. Talk about inbreeding.
Record Label Battles Homophobe Preacher Over Song
by The Associated Press
Posted: May 18, 2007 - 11:00 am ET
(Topeka, Kansas) A church known nationally for picketing soldiers' funerals is being accused by a music company of violating copyright laws with an Internet video parody of the 1980s song, ``We Are the World.''
A lawyer for Topeka, Kan.-based Westboro Baptist church said Thursday the parody, ``God Hates the World,'' is protected under constitutional rights of freedom of speech and religious expression. She said the church will continue to post the video on its website.
Westboro Baptist pastor, Rev. Fred Phelps, has garnered attention in a campaign against homosexuality.
The church contends soldiers' deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan are God's punishment for a tolerance of homosexuality in the United States.
``It's all our effort to deliver a faithful message to this generation,'' said Shirley Phelps-Roper, church lawyer and daughter of the pastor.
But Warner/Chappel Music Inc. of Los Angeles said the video infringes on its copyright to ``We Are the World.'' The song raised money for famine relief the video featured some of U.S. music's biggest stars, including Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder and Bruce Springsteen.
``According to our records, no request has been made to use the Composition, no authorization has been granted nor has any license been issued for the use of the Composition on the website,'' Kelly Isenberg, the company's director of legal and business affairs wrote in a May 8 letter to the church.
Isenberg wasn't available for comment in her Los Angeles office and didn't return a telephone message.
The parody follows the We Are the World'' video's format of showing a group of singers - Westboro Baptist members - in front of a microphone. The rewritten lyrics include: You are all a part of the devil's family and the truth, you're all headed straight to hell!''
Westboro Baptist's picketing of soldiers' funerals led Congress and 34 states, including Kansas, to enact laws attempting to restrict such protests. It regularly protests at gay and HIV/AIDS events.
Thursday it said it would demonstrate at the funeral of Jerry Falwell.
365Gay.com 2007
Survey Shows Bush, Public Out Of Step On Gay Hate Bill
by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff
Posted: May 18, 2007 - 7:00 am ET
(Washington) Facing a threatened veto by President Bush legislation adding sexuality to a federal hate crime law has the support of more than two-thirds of the American public a new national poll shows.
The Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act passed the House earlier this month and is pending in the Senate. Shortly before the House vote the White House issued a statement that if the measure passes Congress the President's aides would recommend he veto it.
"The Administration favors strong criminal penalties for violent crime, including crime based on personal characteristics, such as race, color, religion, or national origin However, the Administration believes that H.R. 1592 is unnecessary and constitutionally questionable."
The veto threat followed an intense lobbying campaign by conservative Christian groups
But, the majority of Americans believe the legislation should become law the survey, conducted b Gallup between May 10 and 13 shows.
It found 68 percent of Americans support the bill, also called the Matthew Shepard Act. The support cuts across partisan, ideological and religious lines with a majority of each of those demographic groups supporting the legislation.
?This new national poll continues to reiterate how incredibly out of touch right wing organizations are with the will of the American people and underscores the need for the Senate to pass this bill,? said Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese.
?I hope President Bush will look at this poll and realize how unbelievably out of line a threatened veto of this critical crime fighting piece of legislation is with a majority of Americans."
Gallup found that the bill has the support of 75 percent of those who consider themselves Democrats, but also is supported by 60 percent of Republicans. Additionally, 65 percent of Protestants and 72 percent of Catholics believe the bill should be enacted.
The legislation would allow the Department of Justice to assist local authorities in investigating and prosecuting cases in which violence occurs against people based on their sexuality.
Federal hate crime legislation already covers people on the basis of race and religion.
FBI statistics show that one in six hate crimes is motivated by the victim?s sexual orientation.
The legislation has the support of LGBT civil rights groups and has been endorsed by more than 210 law enforcement, civil rights, civic and religious organizations, including: the National Sheriffs' Association, International Association of Chiefs of Police, U.S. Conference of Mayors, and the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association.
365Gay.com 2007
This shows you can treat gays like shit and still get into the EU.
So much for the claims that you must a good human rights record to join. :whistle:
Thousands Celebrate Warsaw's First Legal Pride
by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff
Posted: May 19, 2007 - 5:00 pm ET
(Warsaw) More than five-thousand people marched Saturday in the first legally sanctioned LGBT pride parade in the Polish capital.
The marchers carried rainbow flags and some held banners reading "Stop homophobia".
The parade wound its way through central Warsaw under a heavy police presence, but most bystanders cheered and waved back at marchers.
The ultra-nationalist Catholic Youth Movement and the militant far-right All-Polish Youth staged a small counter demonstration nearby. Protestors carried signs reading "Homo go home."
Both groups had called on Warsaw Mayor Hanna Gronkiewicz Walz to ban the parade. Friday she told Polish radio that she had no grounds for rejecting a parade permit application.
The Catholic Youth Movement had demanded the march be rejected because it promoted immorality.
Walz said the parade would pose no threat to morals and pointed to this month's ruling by the European Court of Human Rights that Warsaw's former Mayor Lech Kaczynski - now Poland's President - acted illegally and discriminatory in banning previous gay pride marches.
When he was mayor Kaczynski rejected parade applications from 2004 to 2006.
In 2005 dozens of militant youths were waiting as the marchers arrived at the Parliament buildings and pelted the crowd with eggs. Police struggled to try to regain order, but were vastly outnumbered.
Last year, the State Prosecutor's office issued a letter to prosecutors in the municipalities of Legnica, Wroclaw, Walbryzch, Opole and Jelenia Gora ordering in sweeping terms investigations into the conduct of "homosexuals" on unspecified allegations of "pedophilia."
Earlier this week Education Minister Roman Giertych unveiled draft legislation that would make it a criminal offence to "promote homosexual propaganda" in schools. (story)
If passed the measure would essentially censor all discussion of homosexuality in schools and other academic institutions. LGBT organizations would be barred from schools and "teachers who reveal their homosexuality will be fired from work."
Giertych's draft bill, however, does not say exactly would constitute promoting homosexuality.
Giertych defined it as "every action that is dependent on the public presentation of a certain belief with the intention of convincing others to that viewpoint." But critics say it is so vague it could lead to witch hunts.
365Gay.com 2007
wasn't able to find the 'upload' button at top of page associated with directions for uploading torrent
Are you referring to the upload button on the blue bar at the top of the every page?
On the next page , look at the 2nd to the last line and it says UPLOAD GUIDE and click on that.
The ratio limits are to encourage fair sharing vs hit and running. BT only works if everyone shares data.
We often get questions like; "How can I make sure I don't seed anymore than the minimum required ratio?" I tell them that that idea defeats the purpose of BT and that they should look for direct download sites instead.
Using Firefox will not help unless the problem is viewing media directly from the internet and have the the proper codecs and it's all set up properly.
While having the right codec helps, if the stuff you already has is corrupted, then it won't help.
Also, too many codec is a bad thing, just get what you need. Many times people go crazy and get conflicting codec and that causes the problem.
I installed Joost last week and there isn't much on it. 