So should we tax cars extra because of the cost of drive-by's or vehicular homicide? Should we tax gas extra to combat arsonists? Should we tax computers extra to combat hackers? Who even makes up the reported cost of these crimes?

We pay taxes so we have a system in place that could potentially prevent these crimes by having better (mental) health care, better school officials that take care of victims of bullying or a more efficient, less militarized police force or even by educating the public and the media that glorifying these shooters actually increases the likelihood of copycats.

This system costs a similar amount of money than having a good psychologist at each school which students could consult for free. This is just the investment cost, there will be recurring maintenance (probably at close to $1k anytime a student decides to disconnect one and $10k for a replacement device when a student decides to destroy one), insurance ($50k/year just in case it fails to do anything) and licensing costs (which you know this won't be less than $5k/device).

It was written in the 19th century, we're in the 21st, does any of his family even claim to remember who he was? Because I sure as hell don't know anyone who lived at the turn of the last century.

In the black community it is the ADULTS (parents, family etc) making these (ignorant) comments. It's not another kid calling them a geek or a nerd, it's their support network at home, in their communities, their parents, their grandparents, aunts and uncles, their pastors etc.

Even though your hick dad may give you a hard time once in a while for doing such a sissy job, most white parents (even ignorant ones) are glad and make a big deal of it with their drinking buddies when their kids get a better education or job than they themselves do. Black parents are frequently ashamed and ostracized for 'letting their kids act white' instead of contributing the money and time spent within their own (local) community (aka doing drugs and running shady businesses).

Disclaimer: I am the parent of a mixed (African-American and European) child and this is how the black side of the family and a large portion of the black community involved react to wanting a good education or a good job for the child.

a) Full User Data Encryption
b) Striping
c) Full Local Data Encryption

There will only be part of your data on any particular server/location and when the User encrypts his data, it's pretty much impossible to recover when you only have part of the data. When the provider then encrypts their systems as well, you'll have a hell of a time breaking all forms of encryption unless you can get access to all the keys and all the stripes.

Amazon is making a shitload of profit, they're just shifting the profits around by having their holdings that doesn't pay these taxes charge them a 'fee' to reduce the amount of profit they 'have'.

Instead of DIY, just go out and buy a commercial solution. Or go to Russia and go find an abandoned light house or submarine and take the nuclear battery.

The market tells you what is fair and what is not.

Let's say:
If I have 1 really large attic-room and 2 small bedrooms for rent, I could (locally) ask probably $350-450 per small room including utilities. For the large room even though it's 500sqft vs 150 sqft for the small bedroom, I can't ask >$600, because once you get closer to 800-1000, they may as well rent an entire house and sublet the bedrooms (although they would have to pay utilities).

The poorer person may want the bigger room because they also have dogs and work from home, the richer person may only need a place to crash while going to college. Both of them think they got a fair deal although per square footage, $400 is a heck of a lot of money for such a small room and $600 is very cheap for what amounts to a studio apartment (with a shared kitchen and bathroom). As the homeowner I pay $1000 between mortgage and utilities and thus it is objectively not "fair" for me to collect more than the amount I spend while living in the same house.

Yet that is what the market offers for the price points selected.

Continued funding for crime or drug reduction programs have nothing to do with their effectiveness (see MADD, DARE, 12 steps etc). ANY decrease for whatever reason (social, economic or other reasons) will cause the program to 'work' and therefore require more funding to increase their effectiveness, ANY increase for the same reasons will cause the program to be 'underfunded to work' and therefore require more funding to increase their effectiveness. They're just a boondoggle that work well to create political capital when you fund them or are political ammo for when you defund them.

In the mean time crime per capita has been going down at a steady rate across the board even in places without any such programs. The answer is not putting ads on billboards or putting more cops in cars or throwing up some roadblocks and violating the constitution, it's bettering the comparative economic status of everyone in society.

A box or container of postcards would cost you less (per postcard) than a single postcard. It also costs you the same amount of money to send 1 postcard or 5 within an envelope.

The UPU says that each country retains all money collected for international postage so it doesn't cost the Chinese anything to send stuff from China to anywhere in the world once it is beyond their borders.

The postal system in the US and most European countries is funded by the market instead of by the government. When I grew up in Europe, before the postal system became privatized in 2000, you could send a 50kg package across the world for the (inflation adjusted) equivalent of ~USD 15 (and we thought that was barely affordable). Today, sending the same package costs USD 325. There is very few stuff I receive directly from China and if I do, it's usually less than 2 kg in an envelope, they seem to have paid CNY 3.10 for my last package (USD 0.51).

Not even that, they make aftermarket versions of those. Not a single manufacturer makes devices with a Zalman cooler, only casemodders and those that put together their own computer do with the occasional repair or 'noise reduction' DIYer.

Yes but TCP 'fairness' algorithms shouldn't come into play there. Shaping should not prefer one user over the other (which is what Net Neutrality is ACTUALLY about) regardless whether that user uses technical, political or financial means for obtaining said preference. QoS or large numbers of connections (which is probably what you try to imply) should only affect traffic within the individual user's bucket.

Please explain where TCP implements fairness that can be exploited by customers on separated links?

You know that IS the whole point of a land mine (or any type of IED) right? Not to kill but to maim, slow down, drive up the expenses and bring down the morale of your enemy.

This is Kansas (or Kentucky or Texas), they are ALLOWED to ask for someone's religious and sexual orientations. The only reason they got revoked certain tax incentives (mind you, they did not get their tax-free status as a church revoked nor did they get revoked their state funding) is because that particular office or contract states that they cannot discriminate. The State still allows them to continue discriminating through any other funding.

NFC transponders in current CC still allow you to get names and full numbers similar to regular stripes. There is plenty of code for reading it online.