No, that was a racist and sexist Slashdoter claiming that claiming reverse discrimination isn't discrimination is racist and sexist.

That wasn't their argument. Their claim was that the web page should not be altered before it is rendered in the browser. Sort of like saying your TV remote control shouldn't have the capability to mute the sound during a commercial.

I thought only mad dogs and Englishmen went out in the mid day sun?

The engineers (a.k.a. "the workers") are backed by one of the most powerful unions in the country. They are are not weak by any definition.

The point of the camera is to help establish what happened. If the engineer screwed up then he should face the consequences; if he did nothing wrong then the camera would verify that he did everything right.

You gloss over the "if they could get away with raising prices" part. The reason they can't get away with it is competition; if Amazon and all of it's competitors have to pay an additional X% of their revenue in taxes there is no competitive pressure to stay at the lower price - prices will go up X%

Of course it depends on when and how the tax is added to what the consumer pays. In most retail you pay a certain price plus the tax. In that case then yes, the price won't change when the tax goes up. On the other hand if the tax is already included in the price that the consumer pays then the price will indeed go up. Ether way the effect is the same, the consumer pays more.

No kidding. Convicts who decided to change their life - changed their life. Those who went right back to their old neighborhood and fellow ex-cons went right back to their old life. Who woulda thunk it?.

Incarceration is an admission that the convicted person is a threat to society and needs to be removed. We don't know how to rehabilitate felons, but we do know how to lock them up so they can't hurt people, at least for a while.