If you read the link, they were down for two hours, and it only affected deposits and withdrawals, not trading.
IT systems need periodic maintenance. It's a cost of doing business. There are shenanigans, but this is not that.
You're playing semantics. You said Russia is the only nation that flies there and them pulling out is a big deal, but the US flies there too so it's NOT SUCH A BIG DEAL NOW IS IT? Somehow it doesn't count because the US contracts it out to its citizens? You just can't stand someone pointing out that your post is frickin' retarded, and mocking my "reading comprehension" doesn't change the fact. Do grow up.
You know, you could teach courses on how to elevate a conversation and earn credibility. I can see why people take you so seriously.
By the way, my uncle is heterosexual and was married until he went to prison for diddling my prepubescent male cousins. So it kinda blows your theory out of the water.
Have a nice day!
Well I'll try to explain. Believe it or not, we have the same emotional framework that you have. You might fall in love with a woman - you like her personality, you like that she's soft and nurturing and kind, you like that she looks good to you. When you're making the life choice to be with her, you're not exactly focused on the mechanics and sloppy, messy biology of how you're going to rail her on your wedding night.
Same with us. Quality gay relationships are about emotional fulfillment just like straight ones are. Everything else is incidental. The only difference is that we can't form those relationships with women.
God gave us agency, we don't have to behave like animals. But consider the following scenario: You are told that you may no longer have sex with women; you must suppress your attraction to them; you must have romantic relationships with men; you must be sexually aroused by men.
The degree to which you are able to make that choice is the same degree to which your average gay man can choose not to be gay.
Well, I'm gay and I had a charmed childhood. As far as I know, only one man in my circle of gay friends was molested as a child.
How about considering that the people who ended up at recovery centers were often there because they had been molested? You can't extend your observation of that select group to the entire population.
Sexuality is a very complex attribute. I have no doubt you heard the stories you claim, and I have no doubt that some of those people embraced homosexuality as a coping mechanism, just as they embraced the substance abuse that landed them in recovery centers. But it is absolutely NOT anything close to universal.
It's also worth remembering that most abused boys are abused by STRAIGHT men. Abusing kids isn't about sexuality, it's about power, and the gender of the victim isn't particularly important to that goal. Pedophiles are generally opportunistic.
A gay man is attracted to MEN - and guess what? A boy looks a lot more like a girl than he does like a man.
But thank you for helping people, that's wonderful.
Why? Because he disagrees with your preconceived notions? People around here are supposed to be better than that.