You must be pretty naive. Why do you think companies like Google are actively discriminating against boys by having programs targeted at girls? Because they are secretly misogynists?

1. Just because meritocracy is real doesn't mean changes happen instantly. GM and Chrysler WERE very good car companies at one time (and many people still think they are). If you think they aren't, that doesn't change history. It takes time to fall.

2. Maybe their meritocratic skill is in navigating politics and unions, not car making.

Um, whoosh???

IBM's involvement was well after Linux became popular and is not the reason. I'm sure they would have used BSD if it had won by that point.

Uh no, all Unixes at that time allowed over-allocating.

You should contact Elisabeth Rosenthal, the author, and let her know about this. It would definitely make for an interesting followup article.

Perhaps your doctor friend is paying the bill for the entire practice, including nurses and other staff, because he's the owner?

Or maybe it really is that high for just one person, but there are many other doctors paying much less to bring the average down.

Like this guy: http://truecostofhealthcare.or...

He pays about $5000/year it seems.

Yeah I stopped to think that. Then I realized, wait a minute, the Christians in Egypt didn't drop bombs on the Muslim Brotherhood, why are their churches being bombed?

The Yazidi didn't drop bombs on ISIS, why are they being killed, raped, enslaved?

The schoolgirls in Chibok didn't drop bombs on Boko Haram, why are they being killed, raped, enslaved?

I'm sure that dropping bombs on Muslim terrorists and soldiers and killing Muslim civilians angers Muslims, and some of them become terrorists. I don't think it plays a large part because it doesn't explain the vast majority of Islamic terrorism which is committed either against other Muslims or against already horrifically oppressed groups living in Muslim areas. It also doesn't explain why that seething anger has to wait until a benign event like an art show to activate.

Like "They've been dropping bombs on my family for years, and drones continue to kill innocent people every day. They've been kidnapping innocent people and torturing them. Their prisons are like torture chambers where they humiliate the prisoners. They've destabilized governments. They've propped up evil dictators who use chemical weapons against innocent people. But OMFG TOMORROW IN TEXAS THEY ARE DRAWING MOHAMMED!!!!! Finally I have the motivation needed!"

I mean come on, I have very little respect for terrorists but even I don't think they are that dumb and/or disconnected from reality.

Christians in the Middle East have been oppressed for a thousand years. Why don't we read about the Christian underwear bomber on an Etihad Airways flight? Why aren't Christian suicide bombers attacking the Kaaba and the crowds around it?

Yeah.. unfortunately something being "possible" isn't really useful to the conversation.

Something being "possible" with no evidence that it actually happened certainly isn't strong enough to draw an equivalence between different groups of zealots.

Google's lifetime plan only provides 5/1mbps, but the capacity for gigabit is still there. I wonder if they'll start selling that extra capacity to whoever wants it.. like if you sign up for Netflix, Netflix says "You can't stream our highest quality HD content, but for an extra $3.95/month we can enable that." Then they pay Google for 10mbps on your behalf just for use with their service.

Although I see problems with this I kind of doubt counterfeiting is going to be one. To successfully do this the driver/Uber would have to have access to a huge warehouse of counterfeit goods so they could exchange the real item (chosen by the customer, not the Uber driver) for a matching fake one. I just don't see that as a practical scheme for stealing goods.

if you and Wacom would embrace Bluetooth

So either the tablet is plugged into the wall or it is thick enough to contain a battery, or it has some thick part near the edge containing the battery? And I have to recharge it or replace the battery? Sorry I don't think so.

There are always worse things. Loss of privileges or even full isolation seem pretty effective even for people already in prison.

Wow I've never heard that one before!!! That's only like one of the most famous Supreme Court cases ever (and btw it's not Bolling v Sharpe).

False equivalence. Helping people where "they are behind" is not the goal. The area where boys are behind that the new school purports to help is not as conducive to good jobs as the girls school.

Like you said in another post, nobody's helping people get into the toilet cleaning industry, because that's not really a worthy goal.