News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:OkCupid urges users to abandon Firefox by davidgerard on Monday March 31, 2014 @06:13PM (#7504575)
"but I don't think he was working to make same-sex relationships illegal"

No, just marriage. His $1000 annulled existing gay marriages, and the situation didn't recover until 2013. You can't seriously expect that there won't be LOTS of people REALLY PISSED OFF ABOUT THAT. You can think they're wrong ... but those people are your prospective customers too.

Re:OkCupid urges users to abandon Firefox by chomp on Monday March 31, 2014 @06:18PM (#7504608)
But they still wouldn't be illegal. No one would go to jail for being married.

They just wouldn't be recognized by the state. That is way different than what OKCupid is trying to say.

Re:OkCupid urges users to abandon Firefox by silencio on Monday March 31, 2014 @06:48PM (#7504816)
> No one would go to jail for being married.

Well, Prop 8 specifically didn't try to do that, but that isn't unheard of in the US: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/07/10/indiana...

> They just wouldn't be recognized by the state.

Okcupid may have worded that badly, but the problem doesn't go away because it changed from "illegal" to "refusal to recognize/allow". It's still fundamentally terrible.

And yes, I recognize the difference between the two - I'm fully aware this country made interracial marriages like mine straight out illegal and not just unrecognized up until 50 years ago, and it's only been a week since I got married and I've already had to deal with thinly veiled racism.

Re:OkCupid urges users to abandon Firefox by michaelhoffman on Monday March 31, 2014 @06:44PM (#7504800)
"Illegal" is not the same thing as "criminal."
Re:OkCupid urges users to abandon Firefox by Houshalter on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @08:09AM (#7514917)
His $1,000 didn't do that, a majority of voters did.