Very little because the recruitment agent only told me who you were 20 minutes ago. I stopped dealing with those recruitment agents - They were always hiding something.
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Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote:
In the case of children of abuse, I would say it's neither.
There is no evidence that child abuse causes anyone to become gay.
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Perhaps he is bisexual rather than homosexual so he has feelings towards male and female people? For me, it was never a choice. No matter how hard I tried for 20 years to make it a choice so I could be straight, in the end I stopped being in denial and accepted that I was gay.
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RyanDev wrote:
If nature were OK with it there wouldn't be AIDS and other STDs. Sure seems like nature has a problem with it.
By that logic: If nature were okay with people living in close proximity to each other there wouldn't be any airborne disease.
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The Russian law is so loosely worded that it means any information including safety information. As someone who spent 20 years in the closet because of lack of information and piling any homophobic comment on top of the last to suppress every last ounce of self, I really feel for Russian youth. It is a horrible position to be in. Here's a blog post I wrote about 4 years ago: Coming out of the closet[^] In retrospect, that blog post was very diplomatic considering the psychological damage I did to myself through fear of being found out and beaten up, etc. Luckily, I'm now out, and in a loving "civil partnership" (a second-class marriage basically - But Scotland gets fully marriage equality soon. It's passed through parliament, just waiting for it to come into force) and I've not encountered much in the way of homophobia from friends and family (one of my Uncles refers to my husband as "Colin's friend") and I only had to block one "friend" from Facebook. Russia is also turning a blind eye to vigilante attacks against gay people. It doesn't help that they conflate homosexuality (same sex attraction) with paedophilia (kiddie fiddling).
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That reminds me that the SatNav in my Android phone gets really excited in some parts of Dundee. While directing me along Cupar Angus Road it seemed to have multiple-orgasms. "At the next roundabout take the second exit to stay on Cupa-ah-AHr Angus Road"
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I also like this How German sounds compared to other languages[^]
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He also did a remarkable amount of good in his life in the face opposition from an apartheid government. Apartheid is the real villain in all of this. And today I am reminded also that the city I live in trolled the SA government in the mid-80s by renaming the street the South African consulate was on to Nelson Mandela Place. (I love Glasgow)
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You might want to format your question a bit better - some of that got lost when displayed.
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You have to watch it with Dundee. The Equality Network took the Marriage Equality debate there and the locals thought it was drugs they were selling. In the local accent equality is pronounced "EE-quality"
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I also note a lot of folks down south (Daily Mail types mostly) frothing at the mouth over Scotland wanting to retain a currency union. They want Scotland to either join the Euro or create their own currency. Be careful what you wish for. If Scotland were to leave Sterling, that would cause a massive single transaction sale of all of Scotland's assets into what ever currency Scotland was joining. What happens to any currency when more is sold than is bought? Would the rest of the UK be happy with Sterling sitting even closer to the €1 mark?
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Correction, the country was not broke. The nobility was broke. Hence Robert Burns poem that Scotland was "Bought and sold for English gold" The nobility, who were the only ones with a vote in Scotland's government at the time, had invested heavily in creating some form of colony in the New World. It wasn't the government that invested. Multiple factors, including the weather being totally unsuited to Scots, piracy, and hostility from the English Navy (if not outright, then at least passively). Remember also, that at this point in history Scotland and England shared a monarch after Elizabeth I of England died, her closest heir was James VI of Scotland, so it was an expectation that Scotland could call on its monarch for assistance. It was outright refused. This refusal engineered a situation where Scotland's nobility had no choice but to acquiesce should they wish to retain their status. Thus the union was forged.
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To be picky, UK does not have "statutory rape", but the Sexual Offences act does define various offences including something very similar. A child under 13 simply cannot give consent and it is always rape (although the law does not call it "statutory rape" - it is simply "rape"). Ages 13-15 and child consents then you are guilty of sexual activity with a child. Obviously, if they don't consent it is rape. Ages 16 and up consent can be given without penalty. And again, no consent given means it is rape. If, however, one of the participants is an adult in an authority position over the child the line moves from 16 to 18. e.g. a Teacher cannot have sex with a 17 year old pupil/student regardless if consent is given. So, if Max Clifford did have sex with a 14YO then it is a sexual offence, but not necessarily rape (or "statutory rape")
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ProgramFOX wrote:
Nothing is wrong. You can use the red cross to delete a file, it doesn't mean that there's something wrong with your files.
Yup, even I figured that out. :)
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When I was working in Spain I went out of the city from time-to-time. In France you have access to the TGV so you can travel quite extensively without leaving the ground. When I didn't leave the city, I spent a lot of time walking around it just randomly exploring. Or just sitting in the park reading.
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Yup, that sounds about right. It wasn't intentional but it worked for me. Unfortunately, I can still hear them across the office.
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I'm grand. Still organising the DDD Scotland[^] conference and Scottish Developers[^]. I'm hoping that NEBytes[^] want to run my talk on Parallelisation[^] which is down your way (if you've not moved). How about you?
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Okay - First thing is that your code is susceptible to a SQL Injection Attack. Here are a bunch of things I've blogged about SQL Injection Attacks[^] and I've also got an article about it here on Code Project here: SQL Injection Attacks and Some Tips on How to Prevent Them[^]
Justiin1265 wrote:
Anything I try to do gives me an error in my program.
What is the error you are getting?
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Oh dear God! Do questions like this still exist! :sigh:
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Thanks :)
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