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These things aren't rare: we're just not allowed to talk about them as a society, because "white male privilege", is my point.

The reverse of all of those things SJW go after, happen every day. They're a tiny fractions of all discrimination, but what makes them worse IMO, is that not only they happen, but when talked about, even in the news, people will be like "Err...whats wrong with it?"

As of today, its really not that bad. But we're definately going in a direction where instead of having equality, we're just flipping the table. "Ha!, its your turn to suffer!" kind of deal. And again, its happening with a round of applause.

This case is ridiculous, no one sane will argue with that. However, the whole "white men can get and do anything" means the ones that don't fit in the over-generalization are fucked.

ie: the kids who are raped before age of consent (let say a teacher or something), the offender gets pregnant, and then can go and sue the kid for child support, and is almost garenteed to win. Those are uncommon, but because we're no in a cuture of "the majority is never right", we're VERY quickly flipping the table 180, and it won't take long until we're in a big mess all over again. Except this new mess is gonna come with a round of applause.

Did you even read? I said "there's a few things they're not allowed to discriminate against, such as gender and races".

So there are SOME categories of things that they're not allowed to discriminate against. Gender. Races. CERTAIN age groups. Etc.

There's a lot you CAN discriminate against, like other age groups as you mentioned. You probably could refuse to do business with anyone coming in with an orange t-shirt, or World of Warcraft players. They're not protected group.

Then you have the affirmative action mess, and shit like Lady's nights. Those...are just messed up.

To be fair, considering the amount of rich mainland chinese who come to the US to give birth...a lot of those "american citizens" are citizens in paper only.

Source: I'm white canadian, but half of my in-laws are "american citizens" even though they've never set foot in the US beyond the couple of weeks around the days of their birth, and have been in Taiwan or mainland China since then. They were born here purely for these reasons.

Private businesses can decide who do they do business with, but there's a few things they're not allowed to discriminate against, such as gender and races. Even if they weren't taking government funds (which they are), they wouldn't be able to.

Your local convenience store cannot refuse to sell to an asian.

The line is so thin between data warehouse and transactional dbs. Heck, in this case the only difference is how data is stored and which type of query is fast and which is slow. You can insert, run SQL (we use Postgres as a mock to run persistance layer tests, because its so close to Vertica), all in real time. Close enough.

And even the biggest of big data giants sometimes end up with issues where you need help. When you need to write a patch for your RDBMS, its nice to be able to have a vendor to do it, open source or not. Not many companies keep Postgres core developers in house (ironically, my wife has been a postgres contributor in the past, but not everyone has them handy =P).

Vertica says HELLO! Even though its -absurdly- expensive, it runs circle around anything open source.

Though in general, large (really large) databases is an area where you actually want commercial support, because things can go wrong in the most fucked up ways.

Open source dbs have companies doing that support, but few have the kind of manpower I'd want when things go very sour.

You know what it is. If you fight illegal immigration right now, you're instantly labeled racist and against "cultural diversity" (its not very diverse when it all comes from one part of a continent...)

Vaccines however are free game.

hard enough that IE11 will still be supported for a while in parallel.

Thats the whole point of Edge. So that Microsoft can have a real browser without leaving the big corps legacy shit behind.

I read somewhere that in the US, administration accounted for something silly like 40% of the expenses (Im making the number up from memory).

Mainly because its a constant fight between the hospitals and offices trying to milk the insurances for all they've got, and insurers trying to control costs without having to call bullshit on every single claim.

In a way, it works like the IRS.

That has been my issue with the US health care system.

Now, don't let anyone else fool you: the Canadian health care system sucks balls. And since not EVERYTHING is free, to get decent care (plus dentist!), you need private insurance. And on my pay checks, all that cost more out of my pocket than it does with half decent insurance in Boston. I'm fully aware its because my employer is paying more and shit, but that's a debate for another day.

Anyway, because of some ongoing health problems, I've been to the ER way more often than I'd like, and am constantly going to the clinic. The copays aren't bad, wait times are nearly inexistant, all is good.

The problem is, the paperwork. I get a stream of letters asking me to verify this or that, a single visit ends up in 8 distinct bills, all coming from different organizations and have to be paid separately. Half of them can't be paid online (even from hospitals like MGH. Wtf? _MGH_!!! Those that do end up needing to be paid on weird shady sites.

And then I'll get 3 bills, all 3 of different amounts, to be paid to 3 different offices, and they all say "office visit".

When I call, I'm told one is for the doctor, one is for the hospital facilities, and one is for the in-office labs (But I get ANOTHER bill for the labs).

In the end its pretty obvious whats happening. They're milking my insurance. Bill from 3 different entities for the same thing, and the insurance will pay all 3 for the same service. During that time, I'm caught in the cross fire paying the co-pay 3 times, and the bill is far too vague for me to do anything about it.

And what can I do? Refuse to pay it? They'll just send it to collection.

And thats when they get it right. The secretaries in charge of the paperwork are usually not the brightest bulbs... I have an out of state PPO insurance, and they always forget to enter the prefix part of my insurance (because its not necessary unless its out of state). Then bill me for not having insurance instead of calling to work it out.

Pain in the ass.

I don't mind the cost. At all. The paperwork though can go to hell.

IE at this point is arguably better than Firefox, the later having fallen from grace quite a bit.

Also, I know you said web devs don't count, but recently, IE11's devtools have been updated to be pretty good. They're not on par with Chrome's, but for some stuff (sourcemaps), they're better (and are leaps and bounds better than anything available on Firefox).

Abortion laws in case of rapes are usually fine because the victim isn't a guy. And in most places, the state will prefer some family member taking the kid over adoption. So maybe an aunt on the side of the mother will take care of it during the 6-12 months the mother is in prison (because the rape was on a guy, so it will be considered a fairly minor offense).

Yes, the law is broken...almost everywhere.

Gonna need a citation for that one. Obviously rape is illegal and should be prosecuted. I don't see how it relates to this kind of responsibility, since the actual problem (if it's true) is that the police failed to investigate and prosecute a rape. If they had, the father could have put the child up for adoption immediately and be absolved of the responsibility to pay maintenance.

You won't, because its so common you can look it up in 3 seconds with statutory rapes instead of "guy being drugged". The laws are very clear the responsability is to the child, not the mother, and thus the fact that the mother is a rapist is irrelevent. The rape victim has to pony up the cash.

Isn't that great?

Something that makes things pretty shitty in this situation is that the guy basically had no chance:

If you read around, a lot of people pointed out no contractual agreement can legally be enforced over giving up rights and responsibilities to the child. It doesn't matter what was signed as far as custody or child support or whatever, give or take.

Now, when they were together, the girl had cancer, and wants to freeze her egg. No problem. But then they are told the eggs should be fertilized first. Now, you have a cancer patient in front of you begging you to help her keep her long dream of having a child.

If your answer is: "Sorry sweetie...but if shit was to hit the fan, no matter what we agree to now or sign, no matter how much you ask me to trust you today, if we don't work out, my life could be ruined because there's nothing we can do to force these eggs to be destroyed once we're no longer together".

Yeah, you'd be crucified on the spot by everyone who ever hears that story. So the guy more or less HAD to go through with it, or pay a very high moral/social cost.

And now that shit DID hit the fan, its basically: "Well, if you didn't want this to happen, you shouldn't have gone on with it!!!".

I personally just went and paid the social cost: When i got into a relationship, i made it very clear kids were not for me, period. Before we got married, I made it very clear yet again. Some people thought i was a horrible person for making these kind of "demands", but she was ok with it. 15 years later, she still is.

Thats not for everyone though.