Kim, while you are very much entitled to your opinion and I do not doubt for a second that you want it, there are some serious implications about what buying the iPad could mean - especially for Apple\'s future. I explained all of my reasons above and I really do hope that you give this a much more rational, level headed read over to see if this is something that you really want.

\"Truth\", while your weird accusation that I\'m ignorant because of my choice of operating system and your even weirder (and more telling) statement of how Windows 7 (at least, that\'s what I assume from your abbreviation, W7) is the \'present and future\'. However, I will make a few comments in response to your comment.

Firstly, I noticed that you used a fake e-mail address and didn\'t attach your name to your comments? Why is that? Are you ashamed of what you have to say? You also claim that you have been working on computers for 27 years. Well, here\'s the thing, for the first 23 years, that would not be possible unless you were building rigs with PowerPC architecture. The Hackintosh community gathered together once the capability was in the operating system and this happened when they started introducing Intel macs in early 2006.

Secondly, unless you know a business that specializes in it, you wouldn\'t order a Hackintosh from just any computer building store. People order Hackintoshes from Psystar because Psystar also wrote much of the BIOS and bootloader software that allows people to install Mac OS X on your computer. People who are generally interested in hackintoshes are uber-geeks that do not want to purchase an Apple-made rig but rather, want some level of customization. To have this desire is indicative of more knowledge about computers than the average user has.

As for running datacentres, I know something about that. I am currently working on a project with a few friends of mine to make the best totally Mac-based hosting company around. We are also contemplating having some of our systems configed to run Windows and Linux to create a gaming server hosting company like the defunct Insomnia 365 (which I used to work with back when I was playing male) but we are talking about how this will compromise our Mac-only stance and maybe putting it off or possibly structuring it into it\'s own, separate company.

Macintosh isn\'t bullshit. Apple a la Steve Jobs is. Microsoft is. Windows is. But I believe in the power of the Mac community and the Macintosh platform.
.-= Jessica Sideways´s last blog ..Dear Donald =-.

Heart, it isn\'t just YOUR gender, it\'s OUR gender. How does my femininity threaten you or your experience of gender?
.-= Jessica Sideways´s last blog ..Dear Donald =-.

I have been looking up stuff about Dahn Yoga since posting this article and Rak is right, Dahn is from Korea. There are also a number of other things about Dahn that are quite unsavory and make Dahn Yoga look more and more like a cult.

If only Scientology were as unsuccessful.

Yeah, but I tried a relationship with two other t-girls.

Meredith wanted to take it too slow and that made me really uncomfortable.

Samara wanted to take it too fast and turned me off of dating other t-women for at least 10 years and thousands of hours of therapy due to the traumatic nature of our relationship. That and the fact that I am straight is why I can\'t date another t-girl or female, period. Trust me, I know that my life would be SO much easier if I were bi or lesbian but the sad truth is that I am not.

I remember couchsurfing (or futonsurfing, if you are obsessed with accuracy) in Houston with an acquaintance that I met when I lived there. I remember meeting her girlfriend who was also trans and this seemed like a very loving, copacetic relationship. I guess I was envious of Melissa and wanted to create that in my own life but picked possibly the worst possible partner to do so with.
.-= Jessica Sideways´s last blog ..Why Being a Straight Transsexual Woman Sucks! =-.

First Unitarian Society of Denver, Alison.

Yes, I actually did watch the episode and honestly, I found it as fucking disgusting as anyone trying to trivialize Matthew Shepherd. The father acting with disgust towards \'Auntie Momma\' because she\'s trans echos an all too true reality for transwomen in the dating scene, pre- or post- op. This angers me because it is inspired by the homophobia and ignorance of our society that is ingrained in too many people at birth.

In essence, Seth McFarlane\'s promotion of ignorance about and hatred/disgust towards transsexual women is fucking with my dating pool...
.-= Jessica Sideways´s last blog ..How the Pokemon Company Just Sold Me a Nintendo DS =-.

The Sanctity of marriage? If you had any interest at all about protecting the \"sanctity of marriage\", then why is it that you allow Britney Spears to have her 48-hour just for fun marriage? Why is it that we raffle off weddings and marriages on game shows and arrange marriages in some religions and cultures? Were Christians protecting the \"Sanctity of Marriage\" thirty years ago when they were trying to bar people from marrying someone of a different race? Sure, the fight is to \"protect\" marriage from homosexuals now but would you have chosen to \"protect\" marriage from those \"crazy\" people who wanted to marry someone of a different colour of skin thirty years ago?

Yes, I am angry but that is because when you vote to ban me from marrying someone that I love, you immediately start shoving your beliefs down my throat, disrespecting my beliefs all together. That\'s what the Mormon church is all about with their homophobic actions coming out of the desert, that\'s what the Christian religion is all about. They cannot respect other\'s rights and freedoms, which is why they try to force their beliefs on to us. Yes, that does make me angry, it makes me very angry when someone tries to shove their beliefs down my throat, especially when they are homophobic and historically racist. When you say that marriage should be only between a man and a woman and use any sort of fairy tale (the Bible, Book of Mormon, the Avesta, Koran, etc) to justify it, you rob me of my religious freedom. I not only have the freedom of religion but I have freedom from religion and that is a beautiful thing.

I do still believe that religion should be done away with but that does not mean that marriage will be done away with. Marriage is a big issue but it\'s not a religious issue to everyone, as there are many people who do not believe and some people who have religions that do not offer services or ceremonies for the rite of marriage. However, these people are still able to get married civilly, even if they are of a religion that I stated just now (i.e. Shinto, Buddhism). In Japan, marriage is solely a civil issue in the eyes of the government and no officiant is required to provide the rite like they are here in the United States.

Why can\'t I be happy with a civil union... Because it does not have the cultural connotations of marriage and because it is the Christian\'s way of having there be segregation, even in this day. It is like asking \"why can\'t a black person be happy with the black water fountain?\" or \"why can\'t a black person be happy with black lavatories?\". When you say that you indicate your SUPPORT of segregation in our government, that shows that you do not care about the rights of others and their ability to obtain the \"life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness\" as defined in the Constitution of the United States.

I do believe religion is going to back paddle on it\'s hatred of gay people just like it back paddled on it\'s denial of interracial couple\'s Constitutional rights to marry. I do believe that once the people see that when they allow gay marriage, that our country is made a much safer and more equal place, that the Christian denominations will be revealed for their hate much like the Ku Klux Klan is today. The Ku Klux Klan is a Christian group and they follow the Bible closer than any other group that I know of. This is proof of why Christianity should be abolished, because it inspires the worst in people and the worst in our society.

What I expect of you, as an American who is living in post-MLK days and the post-Jim Crow laws days to think for yourself and think about the marriage issue, seriously. Don\'t let the church think for you, think for yourself and investigate the claims honestly before you start denying people their rights that you treat so cavalierly. You are right about this though, I want acceptance for equal rights but I do not want acceptance for groups that would try to take those rights away from others. I do not accept the Mormon church just as I do not accept Westboro Baptist Church or the Southern Baptist Convention or the Ku Klux Klan. I do not support the Nazi Party either even though they operate on \"Christian values\".

The church has been racist and they could have chosen the path of enlightenment and knowledge but instead, they chose the path of racism by saying that black people were the servants of Satan. That if a black person is sufficiently righteous, he can become white (i.e. Michael Jackson). You cannot try to justify racism to me, Debbie.

If you have gay friends, Debbie, you must be doing a grave disservice to them by denying them equal rights. You must be showing them how much you hate them by denying them the right that you and your husband most assuredly take for granted. You have gay friends, yet you elect to not take that into consideration when you vote - you do not think of their rights and their trials because of what you are endorsing, essentially mandatory discrimination against gay and lesbian couples. I would never do anything like that to my friends and loved ones. Of course, that is likely because I know what love is.
.-= Jessica Sideways´s last blog ..How the Pokemon Company Just Sold Me a Nintendo DS =-.

Debbie,

I do not attack the Book of Mormon more than I attack the Christian Bible or Scientology\'s Dianetics or Science of Survival. It\'s all rampant bullshit written for the purpose of bilking people out of money. Unfortunately, the Mormon enterprise (yes, it is an enterprise, like every other religion and I am not going to grant it kindness it does not deserve) goes further than just selling people a fairy tale. It encourages it\'s members to deny people who do not fit into their narrow beliefs equal rights.

I am not a hypocrite just because I choose to judge the LDS cult based on it\'s merits and works. If you are opposed to what I am saying, write a letter to President Monson letting him know that what he did with Proposition 8 is wrong. Speak out during a church service about what he has done wrong. But for fuck\'s sake, do NOT act like one of the sheeples of Joseph Smith and call me a hypocrite. The Mormons believe in some really crazy shit, are historically racist and are an extremist group.

And furthermore, being transsexual is not a lifestyle. GOLFING is a lifestyle. ANTIQUING is a lifestyle. PLAYING BRIDGE is a lifestyle. Transsexuality is a medical condition. Grow a brain, Debbie and come out of the Mormon cult.
.-= Jessica Sideways´s last blog ..How the Pokemon Company Just Sold Me a Nintendo DS =-.

A Christian that is also a lesbian? I could understand the heteronormative gay man being a Christian while ignoring the homophobia in the Bible but a lesbian not only has to ignore the homophobia in the Bible but also the misogyny in the Bible. But, that\'s Christianity for you - you ignore everything you can just so you can be like all the straights, despite the human cost of what you support. I am sorry but that is something I cannot applaud, and hypocrisy never has been.

I would highly recommend you throw away all this Christ nonsense and grow up. The gay rights and women\'s rights movements will be glad to have you back!
.-= Jessica Sideways´s last blog ..Introducing the Parade of Exes! =-.