Recent content by MagunBFP

You're right about how it happened during Clinton and Bush's administrations... but neither of those shutdowns were pretty much right after the US economy had just imploded. The US is doing a lot better the it has been economically in the last few years and now the government is playing chicken...

Within an hour? Not bad, except the Xbox would be up and running and be completely updated within 1/4 - 1/3 of that time and even if we're not talking about how long it would take to get a PC out of the box and running a game, you still need to install whatever software you wanted to do instead...

You'd be making an excellent point, except for... the graphics updates that you do need to be downloading and installing to make your games run and look so much better then it does on a console, the fact that for so many games these days you do need to have Steam installed so you need to...

When was the last time you installed Windows on a PC? I'll tell you now there are a hell of alot of Windows Updates for Windows 7. Turns out consoles are just getting closer to being Towers for TVs, no doubt the next ones will come with a keyboard and mouse and have Office installed as well...

My bad, I wasn't as clear as I'd thought when I was saying what marriage was about. I was only speaking from a legally binding, married in the eyes of the law sense. That secular marriages are intended to symbolise love and commitment and joining to lives into a family is not something I was...

There are two factors in gay marriage, gays and marriage. I have no problem with homosexuality, my problem is with marriage, I think it's broken. It's been added to, changed, manipulated, co-opted by the state, claimed by religion and when we have as much diversity as we do today it's woefully...

I see, so swearing on a bible in court or having "In God We Trust" printed on currency or any other mention of god/religion enshrined in law is religious dominance? Saying that religion should have a place in law is hardly saying it should be a dominant force. It's not an idea I agree with...

I'm sure it was, it seems you're missing the point I was making. The fact is that we've changed and added to marriage repeatedly through it's history, it's barely even symbolically what it used to be. Rather then just keep adding to the patchwork of additions and addemdums that define marriage...

Or rather then adding another change because of the "flavour of the month" was missing from Marriage Version 24, we could scrap it and start from scratch with a completely secular definition that could be as all encompassing as we wanted. Leave marriage to the gods and start with secular life...

How is your "all inclusive" definition any better? Would it allow for plural marriages? Would it all hetro or home incestual marriages? Changing the status quo for no other reason then gay marriage is the current "flavour of the month" and not because you want to fix the discrimination of...

I see, so words can't be used incorrectly? If I said the elephant in the sky was burning brightly you'd just change the definition of elephant to include "a burning ball of gas illuminates the sky"? Definitions do change, but you know what else happens, new words are created as well. Also how...

Marriage is defined as between a man and a woman. To include gay relationships into Marriage would be changing marriage. Enforcing definitions is not discrinimation. If there was something that was exactly the same as marriage, except it was between two people of the same sex and called...

I'm deliberately not making concrete statements on my stance, but something that I do believe is that people do way too much bashing on opinions that aren't shared by the more vocal members of society. Just because an opinion has been around for a long time, or is currently popular doesn't make...

It doesn't make you a hypocrite at all, you're not saying that they can't have their opinion, all you're demonstrating is that you'd "abuse" any power you had to ensure the outcome of that situation favoured your opinion. You stand in excellant company, many people you approve of have done the...

100 years ago it was accepted that certain people (black people and women as examples) were only good for certain tasks so hiring them for other things, especially at the expense of a white male, was at that time very wrong and would have been considered to be an abuse of power These days in...