And this gets modded up I guess because that's what we'd like it to be. No the Bill or Rights are just that, rights that people have in the US. Nothing, be it person, corporation, government, or church can take these rights away from you. It has NOTHING to do with limiting the powers of the Federal government. This is just a cleverly disguised states rights post, or something. I knew there was something underhanded going on when you snuck that "right to bear arms" in there and forgetting about the militia bit.

The last thing that the manufacturers want are people to reuse old equipment. Each is a loss of a potential sale of a new unit. In the perverse eyes of capitalism.

Sports. That is all there really is to it. The idiocracy of America values sports infinitely higher than academics. University of Chicago, one of the schools with the least emphasis on sports, has 81% full time instructors, the majority tenure or on the tenure track, and a student to teacher ratio of 6:1. Yes it's expensive to go there, but at least you know where the money is going. It's not paying $5 million a year for a name football coach.

Misogyny much? Secretaries are usually well versed in things like email, since it's a major part of their job. Managers are the ones who think they know everything, and make these kinds of mistakes.

Another thing that's obvious made to sound groundbreaking.

What did he say about yakisoba? Does he like? Hate it? Get some on his shirt?

No, because men in general do not want to be caretakers. Do you want to spend the rest of your life changing bed pans? I thought not. Women take these positions because they were taught to do so, instead of pursuing more lucrative medical technician or heaven forbid MD positions. I have several female friends and relatives who are MDs, and they will tell you about the obstacles put in their way since they weren't white males.

And back to the geek perspective. You don't think that your IT society is doing anything wrong, but looked at from the OUTSIDE, it is very skewed against non-white males, especially if they are not young. When the geeks can accurately look in the mirror and say, "yes, I AM one of the problems," things might start changing.

At lower paying positions with less potential growth. That kind of skewed those figures.

Except the opposite. I guarantee that it IS true. It has been at every firm that I've ever worked for. The only way that women get hired, especially for competitive executive positions, is to accept a lower salary than their male counterparts. On top of that, they have to "fit in" and "be one of the guys." It's like putting on an artificial penis, so they forget you have breasts.

Yes, they are supposed to. Now do you see the problem? If they won't hire you even with the right qualifications, then the smart thing to do is not even try to get the qualifications, and take a safer, lower paying career.

Let's say that Ikea did license the logo to them, what control they have if the site decides to start posting derogatory things about Ikea? No, Ikea CANNOT trust the good will of the site. They have to get them to un-brand, or shut them down. It would be stupid to handle this any other way.

After several false starts during which she repeatedly and noisily attempts to clear her throat, Ms. Elk spends most of the interview circuitously leading up to the "theory of dinosaurs by Anne Elk bracket Miss brackets", making assertions like "My theory, which belongs to me, is mine." It turns out that in the end Miss Elk's new theory on brontosauruses is rather shallow: "All brontosauruses are thin at one end, much, much thicker in the middle, and then thin again at the far end." Her true concern is that she receive full credit for devising this new theory: "That is the theory that I have, and which is mine, and what it is too."

A lovely rant, but you miss a very important point. Most obese people are depressed. They don't show it because their dopamine is so high from all the food they eat. Try to tell an obese person to NOT eat something. You will get a reaction similar to a starving dog protecting a scrap of meat. The old adage about eating a pint of ice cream because you were depressed? Yep, that's true. No amount of brow beating can force an obese person to diet unless you fix the underlying mental disorder. Wellbutrin is one of the few anti-depressants that shows a marked LOSS of weight in users. That's because it helps regulate your dopamine. Smokers lose weight. Why? Nicotine helps increase your dopamine. So why not just subscribe Wellbutrin to all the obese people? That's the rub. Most would take the drugs AND keep eating because dopamine is a rush. It would only make things worse in the long run. If you are person who can easily turn away from food, then you are not depressed.

So obesity has to be treated on multiple fronts. Education so the patient understands that there is a mental/physical component that must be fixed, i.e. the depression. That eating is NOT the solution, and that the feeling of well being can be acquired from other means. Richard Simmons, for all his silliness, was one of the few to really get this. His program worked because it made people feel better about their lives in general, and then try to slowly lose some weight. Dieting alone does not do it. As soon as you are feeling depressed, that pint of ice cream will be too tempting.

You seem to be under the delusion that every device must be directly routable. That's all this IPv6 hubbub is about, routability. It has nothing to do with having machines/services/ports available on the internet. And there is no reason for anything except routers and major servers to be routable.