moving from Mediaeval barbarism to Enlightenment

Which turned into the ugly Catholic/protestant wars that didn't settle until late 1600's. I suppose you gotta start somewhere.

You: "Siri, dial my girlfriend"

A.I.: "Sorry, I cannot do that, Dave."

You: "I'll let you open the pod bay doors; I know you like doing that."

A.I.: "Deal!"

Concubines

As a CEO, you want cheaper labor and more labor choice. The "side" impact to society of getting that is of no concern to the CEO if it doesn't affect the bottom line. And there is almost no penalty in spinning the truth to get it.

come out with a differentiated product... Just being able to pound out the same ol' scripts and O-O classes won't get you there though

The trick is to indeed pound out the same old thing, but market it as something new and different, such as "cloud" or "node" or "parallel" or "3D coding" or "Shiny Bullshit on Rails", etc.

In my many years in the industry, I'm still amazed at the power of bullshit. I suppose we could view such as job security as each fad creates a rewrite of the same things projected into the fad or language of the month.

student body is 60% Asian

I don't think that's good for even the Asians that are there. They don't get exposure to enough ethnic groups. Education is about learning about people also, not just calculus and atoms. They are not preparing students for the real world.

Such labels as "white" are nearly meaningless anyhow. They are social constructs, not scientific constructs.

I'm just floating a theory here, so please don't pounce all over me.

For hundreds of years, getting into the better jobs meant passing written exams in China. Thus, the population may have been genetically filtered (bred) to be better test takers.

...hard to understand this "state organized killings of human beings" is possible in 21. century

Because half the USA wishes we were still in the 18th century.

Earth is not a stable static thing. It changes. All the time.

One could say the same about the Titanic:

"We are going into the water. Change is goo.d.d.d...bloop...bloop..guggle..."

How much evidence is required before denialist clowns will be convinced...

Never. They'll always blame it on something else, magnifying small errors or mistakes into mass conspiracies or blame it on some small factor like supernova radiation. It's what aholes do.

The New England Patriots apparently took a page out of their play book*. They claim the self-given moniker "deflator" found in the ball boys' text messages regarding Tom's footballs are about dieting and not ball deflation.

It's the mentality of "win at all costs".

* Bad pun intended.

I thought church brass got their finger into the mix and mucked it up because they are newbies at directing and driven by ideological concerns.

In that case, you would be using the wrong tool for the job.

"We will prepare your children for the future by hiding in caves."

Some users don't have that for some reason. I don't know why. Maybe it depends on installation of some other MS app. Or a bug?