Are you not furious, righteous Republican homophobe? I bet you are. I bet you’re dialing your angriest, most confused buds right this moment to write letters, post barely punctuated rants to the hate forums on Free Republic, call in to Rush to demand a Tea Party-wide boycott of every single one of these sicko companies.
I mean, you can’t really call yourself a true American, a real Christian and still openly wear Nikes or Levi’s, use Microsoft or Google, or watch Warner Brothers movies, can you? If you really walk your anti-gay talk, well, every one of these companies should be banned from your life, right?
– Gay columnist Mark Moford in the San Francisco Chronicle delighting at all the companies bigots will have to boycott now that 70 U.S. corporations have expressed support for repealing the Defense of Marriage Act.
Mike in Asheville
Those are just the 70 companies that signed onto the Amicus brief. Per the brief itself, 94% or 470 of Fortune 500 Companies offer employee benefits for same-sex partners/spouses. The cost impact on the 70 companies who were party to the brief applies to all companies that offer benefits to their gay and lesbian employees.
Again, the the brief, the additional costs to employers in attempting to provide equal benefits for their gay/lesbian employees runs into the thousands of dollars per employee — money that would otherwise drop to the employers’ bottom lines. When more companies realize just how much money DOMA costs them, they too will be advocating the end of DOMA.
andreusz
The software that runs most of the Internet was designed by two openly gay men, Kirk McKusick and Eric Allen.
http://oreilly.com/catalog/opensourc…k/kirkmck.html
http://www.informationweek.com/share…leID=191901844
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sendmail
Every time you send an email or post to a forum, there is a 99% chance that at some point in its journey it will be processed by software designed by McKusick and Allen.
Anti-gay bigots should boycott the Internet. They should also boycott banks and other businesses that use the Internet.
dvlaries
Brilliant and sexy. Too bad he’s straight.
I absolutely love Morford. I don’t love that SF Gate cut him down from two days a week to one, but every Wednesday morning, I’m there. đ
Will
Umm.. you might want to fix that copy. Will is a wonderful STRAIGHT man. Not that he would care about the mix up. but pretty lazy of you, Queerty.
RichardSF
Yes QUEERTY, not that we have a problem mistakenly labeling Mark Morford as gay, and I’m sure he isn’t offended.
I hear his yoga classes are the bomb.
But you can see he describes himself on his own website as straight, which we believe he is. Not that there’s anything wrong with that….
http://markmorford.com/About.html
“His writing has been described as blasphemous, inspiring, lickable, transgressive and terribly verbose, self-aggrandizing bullshit — often all in the same sentence. He has almost been fired — twice — for the contents of his column. He has also won first place in the National Society of Newspaper Columnists’ annual contest — also twice, and been nominated for multiple GLAAD Media Awards for his outspoken support of gay rights, a fact for which he feels particularly grateful and blessed, considering how heâs relatively sure he is exceedingly straight. “
B
No. 2 · andreusz wrote, “The software that runs most of the Internet was designed by two openly gay men, Kirk McKusick and Eric Allen.”
Not true about “most of the Internet” – sendmail (and email software in general) does not run most of the Internet. It’s not a router or even a DNS server. Also sendmail (or email) does not account for most of the traffic. For example, if you post a comment to QUEERTY, you don’t use email at all – it’s transferred via HTTP.
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~brian/ICCNT2011-TCP-flow.pdf has a breakdown by TCP ports (which tell you the application as long as well-known port numbers are used). Well over half the traffic is HTTP or HTTPS, with email accounting for well under 10 percent of the total.