My problem with the Oberton Window, and indeed with the right/left dichotomy, is that not everybody agrees on what is more or less freedom. Take the California measles outbreak. Let's say you have a kid with cancer, so they can't take the vaccine. Well, as long as everybody else in your school has it, you have the freedom to send your kid to school. What about EEOC? Some people think companies should have the freedom not to hire people of certain religions or ethnic groups. Others think you should have the freedom to work wherever you are qualified, regardless of race or creed. How about the right to privacy? Should you have the freedom to set up a camera constantly trained at your neighbor's bedroom window? What if I think I should have the freedom to walk around my house naked without worrying about pervy neighbors posting pics to the net. What about sound ordinances? Truth in advertising? Or getting back to the email topic, what about the freedom to search your gmail so that you can be advertised to? Should ISPs have the right to give information to the government without a warrant? In many of these cases, there is no more/less freedom. Only differences in whose freedom gets priority.

Sadly, I suspect you're right. Just like how when Obama said he was pro-vaccines you suddenly have all these Republicans sounding off about how they don't need the federal government sticking needles in our babies. I imagine if Obama said he thought it was wrong to rape puppies, you'd get Ron Paul ranting about how what a man does to his property is none of the federal government's business.

There isn't a section that explicitly says 'discourage white boys from signing up for class'.
But, like the zero tolerance policies that are mis-interpreted to include biting a pop-tart into a vague gun shape, pointing your fingers, and having a 1 in plastic molded machine gun for your GI Joes, what will happen is if you can't get enough of the underrepresented demographic students into the class as a percentage of the entire class, then there's going to be a kid that really wants to take the class told 'Sorry, that class is full' when there's only 8 people signed up.

All just to keep the % of underrepresented students at a certain level.

Why would this be a big deal at all? I get all my corporate Outlook email through my Samsung mail client without any problem. It even plays nice with contacts and calendar/reminders. It's way more stable than Outlook on my laptop, too. HATE Outlook 2013.

Why not just supply the guts of the ATM with a nitrogen blanket? Seems like that would keep the acetylene from exploding inside the ATM.

Yeah, I checked out the site, and sure enough most of the comments are this exact sentiment. It's amazing how many people are fucking stupid.

Funny how quickly people have forgotten the Atlanta "blizzard." That was less than a year ago! The mayor ignored warnings by NOAA and insisted on keeping the city running until it was far too late. That was only 3" of snow, but in a part of the country not accustomed to ever seeing any.

It was my understanding that the Arago spot worked best with light of a single wavelength. Also, rather than the alignment of the surface area, it's the circularity that matters. And it's not the deviation from a circle WRT the wavelength, it's the deviation WRT to the circle itself. A larger circle can have a larger absolute roughness and still produce the Arago spot. I haven't studied optics in about 15 years, though, so maybe I'm wrong.

WTF? GP didn't say that was a good thing. In fact, I'm pretty sure GP said "this is a bad thing." Literally. Right there. Next time try reading the entire comment before freaking out.

At those bargain basement prices, maybe we can do a kickstarter to buy our own politician!!

Pretty trivial workaround: TWC and Comcast would just take the money that they save by not lobbying and pay it to their CxOs. Of course there won't be any express expectation that they use the money for political speech.

Thanks for that. I didn't know it was illegal in CA. I'll have to check with our branch out there, because I'm pretty sure they still random test.

Back to the Disney thing, I would think that the character actors would fall under a "think of the children" sort of thing. Can you imagine, "Mommy, why does Mickey smell funny like Uncle Jack?" The funny thing is, I'm actually in favor of companies (or governments, for that matter) requiring immunizations, allowing for medical exemptions.

Are you sure that was bread? It might have been more chicken.