You mean like Academi/Xe/Blackwater?

Companies have demonstrated how careful and responsible they are with the DMCA takedowns, so it's only logical that we allow them to go further and actively attack the evil-doers out there.

You're ignoring the fact that much of the top 1% gain wealth in forms that don't show up as income. Being paid with shares of stock rather than cash is one of the most obvious of the many, many ways that the wealthy use to increase their wealth without having to list it as income and pay taxes.

I even benefit from that, in fact, as I get shares in the company I work for equal to about 20% of my salary per year. Until I sell those shares, which I won't be doing until I'm retired, I won't pay a cent in taxes on that increase in my wealth.

And yes, I realize it's a bit hypocritical that I take advantage of the very tax dodges that I'm saying shouldn't exist. That doesn't change the fact that the wealthy don't need more tax breaks on top of the metric buttload that they already have.

That top 1% owns 40% of the wealth in the country. Only a fool would argue that they shouldn't be paying 40% of the taxes.

Let me guess, you're a card-carrying member of the Republican party and you really believe that Fox News is fair and balanced.

The wind and rain from the Atlantic isn't really a factor in how clean a house is unless there's something very wrong with the roof and/or windows.

I think you've confused a statement made to a reporter as part of a PR effort with lobbying the government.

The Koch brothers actively lobby for corporate-friendly legislation that includes those tax credits and spend millions backing the Republican party which has spent the last three decades doing everything they can to cut taxes on the wealthy.

Maxim 29: The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less.

There is debate about whether Cro-Magnon should be classed as a separate species or as a subspecies of Homo sapiens. The interbreeding is part of that debate. It increasingly looks like they will end up classed as a subspecies, but who knows. Classifications change as new information is discovered.

The wheel? The ramp? The lever? The wedge?

All these technologies were developed before written history, so we have no way of knowing which was first. My guess would be the wedge since those are useful for killing and dismantling animals prior to eating them.

The anonymous coward is suggesting that everyone should have to provide their DNA in order to prove that they aren't a bot before posting on the internet?

I think my irony meter just blew a circuit.

Humanity can't be further subdivided. Subspecies is the only recognized taxonomic level below species and the most important trait of a subspecies is that, while they are capable of interbreeding with and producing fertile offspring, they do not interbreed in nature.

While there are racists who fervently wish it wasn't so, we're long past the days when interracial relationships weren't common. While the racists in the world whine and cry about racial purity, the rest of the human race is happily fucking its way toward homogeneity

You could, but that's too simple. The point of that post wasn't to provide the simplest means of accomplishing the goal. It was to let the poster try to impress other people with his/her superiority. For that, a simple solution won't do and a complex, difficult to implement solution has to be presented.

My programming is usually just XXX.

Translation: The status quo doesn't stay the status quo for long, but here's all the reasons why I think it should!

Let's look at a recent survey:

* More than half of girls (53 percent) ages 16 to 24 feel they lacked the confidence to do whatever they wanted to do after puberty.
* Almost all girls (89 percent) feel there is pressure to conform to the way they're supposed to feel and act.
* Sixty percent of girls believe that society's expectations have a negative impact on their life.
* Girls are almost twice as likely as boys to say they did not feel comfortable doing an activity in school because of their gender.

Why can't she decide for herself? Because society is filled with arrogant assholes who insist that women must conform to the traditional roles that women have always been confined to. Any woman who dares to stand up and make a different choice is harassed, abused, derided and shoved back down.

This is about trying to remove the social pressures that force women to conform to traditional roles, not forcing them to become engineers. You don't like that idea, so you're trying very hard to make a straw man work, but it's just making you sound like an arrogant asshole who wants to keep the status quo in place.