For all the marketspeak and fancy looks they're still asking $140 for a 200 lumen light. That's about a half step above terrible. The light I use, which is pretty much the minimum brightness I would consider safe as a "see" and not a "be seen" light, is 900 lumens.

If they increased the price of something from 1 penny to 2 pennies that'd be a whole TWO HUNDRED PERCENT ZOMG. Nice use of percentages on a sub-dollar increase to try and make your argument sound scarier though.

You're demonstrably full of shit. McDonalds could DOUBLE their wages and completely pay for it by raising the price of a big mac less than 75 cents. There's also the issue of, yknow, literally every single other first world country on the face of the earth objectively disproving your bullshit claims.

You realise costco pays employees so well wallstreet analysts accuse them of "excessive benevolence" right?

Except for two things:

A) We've already tried it your way for 100 years until the Great Depression, and again recently, both times resulting in abject failure
and
B) Minimum wage USED to be over $10 an hour in today's money and we did just fine, along with having a ~91% top marginal tax rate for the rich.

Awww, how cute, you're trying to turn the very act of disagreeing with you into proof that you're right AND subtly include some ad hominem while you're at it.

Tell you what. I'll give you one chance to try again without axiomatically taking your claims as correct, without the ad hominem, and without the kafka trap that someone disagreeing with you is proof you're right. One try. Let's see if you can come up with a valid non-circular theory.

And just to make it more interesting here's a top female executive already calling out your argument as bullshit: http://www.forbes.com/sites/fo...

The numbers aren't perplexing at all if you actually care about facts and evidence enough to realise that google is already less white than everybody else, and that the people crying foul over this are dishonestly counting asians as "white" just for the sake of inventing oppression where there is none.

Why? Why do we need to "draw" women to IT? Why does everything need to change to suit women, instead of women changing to suit the field? If men drop out of an IT field people say they weren't cut out for the job. If women do it... suddenly we blame the job and not the women.

If you thought 4k was that impressive then you'll piss yourself when you see what my 12 year old CRT can do at an even higher resolution...

You "think" wrongly then. Republicans are pro-corporate welfare and anti-union. They're only talking big about being anti-bailout these days because it's just one more reactionary way to oppose the president on absolutely everything.

Socrates didn't actually say that, it was part of an ancient greek play spoofing him however.

I think the original latin name and it's english translation are a lot simpler and logically clear. Petitio Principii translates as "Assuming the Premise/Initial Point" which is exactly what kind of circular reasoning fallacy is being committed.

the word "let" originally meant "hinder, obstruct, or delay". Do you also throw a pissy fit whenever somebody uses it to mean "permit or allow"? If you don't you're a hypocrite and a troll.

They've got to choose between the "free market" and corporate profits and their aspirations to be big brother.

Let me ask you a really simple question: Why is it that when anyone else intends to join a new group they are expected to assimilate to that group's culture UNLESS they are a woman? Why do we expect men to alter their behavioral norms and culture to whatever women deem acceptable rather than the other way around? Why are women so infantilized and robbed of personal agency that they're not expected to be actors at all, but merely static pawns for everything else to rotate around?

In short, why do we blame men when women don't enter engineering, but completely ignore the fact that women staggeringly outweigh men in terms of overall college graduates? Why do we blame men for women being a small percentage of engineers, but not blame women for men being as little as less than 1/3rd of college graduates in the first place?