You're right, we need to involve the TSA. They can prevent Uber drivers from groping passengers.

Oh.. wait a minute.

There are assholes on both sides of the political spectrum, and many from both end up in court. It's not about what the assholes are up to. What matters is whether or not the law treats everyone fairly. Going to court sucks, but it's part of the process. A neighbor and I had to repeatedly contact law enforcement and code enforcement over something similar. The city threatened to take it to court, and that settled the matter. It'd be nice if it didn't go that far, but if someone thinks they're in the right, it can be difficult to persuade them otherwise.

An opposite of the equal treatment concept would be affirmative action. That is an example of laws that selectively benefit only certain groups of people, and it's not something that you can blame on "conservatives".

I think Comcast has prior art here. Such as the story the other day of a Comcast rep changing a customer's first name to "Asshole". The significance is that Comcast can get away with it. They're part of a monopoly or equally bad duopoly in many of the areas they serve. Uber is not. A company that denigrates its customers isn't going to be able to keep its customers, and that opens the door for another competitor to step in.

How are you defining an underrepresented group without using a quota?

You used an example that contradicts your own point. You're not very good at this.

So what if it took a court case? That's where grievances are heard. That's the whole point of having courts. What do you want to see happen? You want Judge Dredd to roll up and shoot the homeowner?

If he lost, then the law is treating both equally. Is it not?

Why do all demographics have to be represented equally?

Wait a minute.. what kind of cruel state still defines our little darlings as being either boy or girl? That's clearly not the type of progressive thinking we should be pushing for. Do they still have separate but equal bathrooms? The horror! Frankly, CS enrollments are the least of the problems in such backward thinking divisive environments. Won't somebody please think of the children?

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Would it? I imagine they're used to not having the things that people in other countries have. I get what you're saying, but if social media leaves, they're left with dangerous options such as meeting in person. Makes it easy for the government to deal with them.

Look at what's happening in Russia. The anti-blogger laws went into effect. Have the people done anything to stop it?

Devil's advocate..

If they pull out of Turkey, what impact on free speech does that have? Do the people living there have any equivalent means of mass communication? Social media can help foster change, but if the major social media offerings all leave an area in protest, what does that leave the people?

The public doesn't generally hold politicians accountable for accepting these bribes, so therefore it is culturally acceptable.

You can quite easily disable updates in Steam per game. Are you saying they push updates even after you've disabled them?

Yea, it's the Galaxy Nexus that Google was selling. No 4.4.

I have a Google Nexus. 4.3 is the last version supporting my phone. The phone does everything I need it to, so I don't want to waste money on a newer one. I think this is a blatant attempt to force people to buy newer phones. All their craplets get updated, but not the Android OS.